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Newspaper
Washington Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1900
Page
6
A stream of items lists people visiting relatives and traveling to Chicago St. Paul and Burlington. Local ads promote Maple City Soap and a price sale at Mies Lewis. Also noted are church events, a pantry of farm ads, a theft report of five dozen chickens, and a lightning strike damaging John Simpsons barn with livestock losses.
Five children emerged from box cars on Wednesday as the freight train arrived, begging lunch in town then hurrying back to catch the same train as it departed. John Scullivan delivered 76 hogs on Monday, averaging 240 pounds, sold to Jesse Marr as a packing lot of pigs.
Former Wellman pastor Rev Thomas Osborne, now a widely known platform orator, is secured to deliver the principal oration on July 4. Dr Henderson left Wellman Saturday amid declining health, regretting departure as the community wishes him a restorative rest.
Kalona, Wagner and Sons prepare a 24 by 60 foot cold storage building for their poultry and egg business. The structure will sit on the rear of the lot east of Boone’s hotel facing south along the alley. Also noted is a report on school matters as EF Hill, new Kalona principal, met with the board. Hill, Cedar Falls graduate, will spend summer at his Agency home. A humorous exchange about orange phrasing and legal writing is included, plus a local boy’s black eye incident and a quip about civilizing the boy next door.
A parade of personalities surfaces from the era: Frank W. Hackett, Harvard '41, named assistant secretary of the navy. Henry Clews lauds Mrs. Hetty Green as a business equal to Russell Sage. Arthur Sewall, Bryan’s 1896 VP pick, said to be in frail health and ordered abroad. E larmilee Prentice, engaged to Miss Rockefeller, will inherit a famed rare books collection. Police Judge Buckley of Louisville upholds a woman’s right to smoke on streets but laments lack of a law against it. G F Sever named superintendent of electrical exhibits at Buffalo exposition, an electrical authority with Columbia ties. Lady Wolseley, born Louisa Erskine, traces a long martial lineage and focuses on military matters post marriage. James R. Keene, Wall Street figure, is revealed as English-born, arriving at 18. his son Foxball remains in England. Winfield T. Durban, Indiana governor nominee, rises from schoolhouse to banker. Sympathy abroad for Charles Day Rose, once Montreal challenger for the America’s Cup. his two eldest sons killed in war, Adrian Rose newly gazetted and bound for South Africa. Ex-President Harrison, in Indianapolis, saves a runaway carriage by seizing the reins. Congressman Dolliver of Iowa enjoys fishing vacations, practicing old fashioned bait and early-morning outings on the Des Moines river.
Richard Mansfield gains rights to Tolstoi’s Ivan the Terrible. Junius Brutus Booth appears in New York vaudeville. Anthony Hope adapts Simon Dale for F. H. Sothern. Ezra Kendall’s 12 year old son shines as a public entertainer. Annie Russell born in Liverpool in 1865, not America. Jefferson’s New York run nets $45,000 over three weeks. New York produced 132 new plays this season. Emma Calve may play Zaza in Milan produced opera. Paris hosts international congress of theatrical art July 27 31 with English managers invited. Robert Hilliard’s son passes Annapolis Naval Academy exam, appointed by Congressman Muller.
A stream of aphorisms from Euripides to Johnson covers topics of immortality religion ignorance generosity and civility. The lines critique pride impudence and inaction while praising knowledge progress and self restraint.
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