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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1910
Page
2
The county news itemizes local events and people including the Wednesday wedding of Miss Ethel Wheelan and Mr. Michael Mack of Rock Island. It notes visits, a shower, and various social happenings. The piece also covers harvests, a kiln collapse without injuries, a tile factory incident, a county baseball game, a colt show, and habitual visits among families.
Ek and spouse wed in Washington and Kalona residents. a large party celebrated with a chari vari party. Notable visitors include F X Freyder of Iowa City and California uncle Browner. Edmondson building window damage unresolved. Sommers estate auctioned with multiple parcels selling well. Kalona cattle sale planned with Shaver Deuker. Dog poisoning troubles persist. Crawfordsville notes travelers to Washington and local visitors from Chicago and Monmouth Illinois.
Sept 29 updates list movements and visits. Mrs Milo Klyen left for Wilmington to visit parents for two weeks. Marguerite Coffman of Brigh ton visited Eth el Peterson. G F Trotter traveled to Bennet t to visit brother J A and sister Mrs D Harding. Mrs J W Nichola went to Crawfordsville to see nephew Will White. Mrs D W Griffith went to Chicago to join husband for sightseeing. Birth announced a ten pound girl to Mrs W Trotter. Martin Stewart accompanied Mrs Trotter to Bennett. Mrs M A McGraw returned from Illinois where she visited her parents. Mrs Joseph Harding and Miss
Kalona residents learn the truth of a secret marriage dated August 8 between Lea Morgan and Joe Shaver. The rumor had circulated for some time before verification, with Mrs. Bell Hyatt and Lew Mar— referenced but their relation unclear.
Fifty years ago on September 29 a grand reception ball was opened by the Prince of Wales Lord Renfrew at Pike's Opera House in Cincinnati leading the dance with Mrs Samuel N Pike wife of the proprietor.
Twenty five years ago today Seattle labor men passed resolutions calling for the removal of Chinese labor from the territory. They urged all citizens to discharge immediately all Chinese in their employ, signaling a harsh anti Chinese action.
Georgie Hall shopped in Washington yesterday and Mrs. O D Chapel returned from Verdi last evening where she was visiting. Friday's Baptist association program includes devotional services led by Sanford Bray, reports, and a State Mission address by Dr E. E. Wilcox of Deg Moinec. President E F Bowers will open the meeting after dinner at 2 pm with topics of broad interest.
Mr and Mrs Frank McCaulley hosted a dinner yesterday for former soldiers and friends. Guests from Lebanon Kansas and Bel laire Kansas included Capt Harvey McCaulley Lieut J M Smiley and W P Mc Caulley with wives. Several were in Company K Thirteenth Iowa and had not dined together since 1865 in Davenport. Also reported is a quiet wedding at the George Brown home where Miss Bertha Brown married Lafe Stout with a four course luncheon. The piece notes Miss Nellie Bly Adams and Herman Wagner marrying in Waterloo with a small ceremony at 418 Walnut Street and a planned move to a new home on Kern Street.
Notior states that in the future there will be no Sunday electric service. It references 9212 Iowa Gas & Electric Co. to indicate the provider involved in the outage plan.
For sale a heating stove in good condition. Inquiries welcome at North Washington Iowa, care of T W Rowan.
Harper's Weekly notes that ambassadors enjoy distinct privileges not accorded to envoys. They may turn their backs when dismissed to show courtesy, or sidestep like a crab if a woman rules. They gain ushered entry through folding doors and can demand access at any hour. The sword, a short rapier, is a key symbol. jokes claim Russians used theirs to fire broken treaties, prolonging their blades.
Your kidney trouble may be long standing or acute or chronic. Foley's Kidney Remedy will aid you to get rid of it quickly and restore health and vigor. One bottle cured J Sibball of Grand View Wisconsin. Commence taking it now at Lemmon's Pharmacy, McElhinney Drug Co.
A humorous exchange between Gerald and Geraldine about pavement quality. Geraldine jokes that people walk over him, and Gerald claims he is not improved pavement, highlighting a witty street scene about urban surfaces.
A humorous collage from a vintage issue features quirky exchanges and undercurrents of small town life. It opens with a farmer's proud evasiveness about his son in college and threads through puns, a teashop quip, and playful dialog about literature, a dentist’s claim of painless service, a child’s doll connoisseurship, and sharp social banter at a dinner table.
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