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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1918
Page
4
Civil War veterans show strong interest in the recently enacted federal pension law. The measure grants a monthly pension of 80 dollars to veterans who served at least 90 days or more, with reported adjustments to 72 dollars in some cases. The clause outlines qualification and monthly benefit details for eligible survivors.
A discussion of service term rates with a scale from six months at 32 dollars to two years or more at 40 dollars. The bill proposes reducing pensions for civil war veterans. It notes introduction and passage in the United States Senate by Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. It also contains an advertisement for Green's Austeuee Flower claiming fifty years of proven efficacy and a laxative claim.
Massena residents plan an auto party to Camp Dodge next Sunday to tour the camp and meet Father McDermott. The Des Moines papers note a marriage license in that city for Frank Cobb of Camp Dodge, 27, and Miss Bell Cassill of Massena, 26. Supervisor W. D. Bell and daughter return from an auto trip to Tekamah, Nebraska, to visit his son Wilbur farming there.
Generations of women in the country have used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to treat women's ailments. The ad claims the remedy is a standard, safe product made from roots and herbs under sanitary conditions. It emphasizes no narcotics and urges all women suffering from such ailments to try it.
The Atlantic Fourth of July committee met to plan a safe and sane celebration following the National Council of Defense program. The event will be held in the courthouse yard with a platform, evening program, no parade or fireworks, and participants from G A R Home Guard Boy Scouts and schoolchildren with T C Whitmore as speaker and C A Meredith reading the Declaration of Independence.
Baseball figures for Western League show Wichita Hutchinson Des Moines Joplin and Sioux City with records and percentages. Yesterday’s results include Wichita 6 Joplin 3 and Hutchinson 7 Oklahoma City 4. Games today feature Joplin at Wichita and Des Moines at Omaha among others.
William Shepperd of Oak Street IA receives a mimeographed camp paper from Guy Shepperd Co M 108th Infantry titled The Wild Rose. The 8 by 11 inch double sided issue includes poetry camp jokes and army affairs with an editorial The Spirit That Wing praising efforts to win the war and urging forward against surrender.
William Jennings Bryan, thrice presidential candidate and famed orator, will deliver an address at Elk Horn Iowa on June 29 as part of the Elk Horn chautauqua running June 29 to July 6. The program also features Capt Richard P Hobson and George E Pearson among other strong attractions in a special Bryan Lecture added to the regular lineup. Elk Horn says it is the only town in the season to host Mr Bryan.
Telegraphic items report a nationwide conspiracy between manufacturers and Washington agents to solicit illegal commissions from government contractors. Aviators Lieut Keller and Sergt Eugene of Park Field, Tennessee, died when their plane fell during a Memphis to Camp Shelby flight. Governor Burnquist leads Lindbergh two to one for the gubernatorial nomination. German food shortages, labor unions resisting rationing, a Lawrence tenement fire, and ships salvaged from 1915–1918 by Britain are noted. Federal agents investigate work or fight slackers, Iowa egg dealers to require federal licenses, Turner society of Des Moines disbands, Harding language order widely obeyed, and a California Junction auto collision with an Illinois Central train.
The American Shining Parlor at 510 Cheatnut Street caters to those particular about their appearance. Bill Cook, Mar.
Elk Horn June 18 The community mourns Clarence P Jacobsen a prominent farmer born in Denmark in 1868 who spent his life here He married Mary Jennen in 1890 The obituary notes his standing and long life in the area and mentions local business and draft enlistment updates context of the town’s notices
A two month old child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seymour died last Friday and was buried Saturday in the Brighton township cemetery. The infant had been ill since birth. Clarence E. Squires sold 208 acres to R. E. Poole of Harlan for 46000. Possession to be given March 1 next year. John Jepsen lost a horse and four head of cattle to lightning Thursday night. animals were insured in Mutual of Elk Horn. Maps of the western battle front, 265 seats, at the News Telegraph office.
Griswold Iowa hosted the Metcalf team from Council Bluffs and won 8 to 1 as Joe Smith pitched for Griswold. About 300 spectators watched the afternoon game. Earlier 150 Y M C A boys at Crystal Lake attended services at the M E Church. Mrs R G Mackrill hosted twelve ladies in honor of Mrs W L Robert of Clinton.
In Shenandoah Page county will unite in a July Fourth observance with emphasis on patriotic exercises. Local businesses will close for most of the day and proceeds from concessions will be donated to the Red Cross. Extra copies of the News- Telegraph will cost 6 cents to all.
Government takes over Lily Busch estate under alien property law after her return from Germany. Ownership includes breweries, stocks, real estate in New York and other cities. Believed to be worth many millions. appraisal not yet conducted.
The Franklin township teachers and Miss Jenniy Ward joined friends for a Friday picnic at Crystal Lake. A second gathering hosted by the H T L club at 604 Linn street entertained Mr and Mrs J E Allen of Long Beach California with Mrs R R Bell Mrs Milford Myers and Mrs Reed Love as hostesses. Roses decorated the scene as guests revisited old times while Miss Meredith played soda music and Miss Bell performed In the Wenal Way. A torch meal followed, enjoyed by all, as dancers and pianist Miss Driver provided music.
In a terse local note the News Telegraph seeks reporters or staffers for the Meredith bureau. Contact details are sparse but indicate a frontier assignment with opportunities in local coverage.
The agricultural extension department of Iowa State College and the U S Department of Agriculture Food Research Laboratories will explain why growing chicks contract disease stunted growth and fail to develop and how to select productive laying hens at a poultry meeting in Atlantic on June 20 in cooperation with the county farm bureau.
Wood and Bavery of Atlantic Iowa advertise farm loans at 5 percent 6 644? per cent. Call and see them for financing options.
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