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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1918
Page
3
Albert Grooters reports from Camp Dodge describing quarantine lift, daily drills, ball games, and voting on Election Day. He notes a humorous incident with a soldier misled by a sick wife call and mentions a transfer to Headquarters Co 13 Depot Brigade. Also notes local births and Doon death of Abbe Feikema from influenza and pneumonia.
Jacob VerSluis Jr died of pneumonia following influenza at his parents home in Hull last Thursday and was buried Saturday. It is Hull’s first influenza related death since the epidemic began in the area. Omme Max Feldbaum left Hull Tuesday for Chicago to resume government work. Local residents visited county seats and shopped in Sheldon. Dora Vanden Brink resigned from the post office. Elizabeth Wagner was appointed to fill the vacancy. Case Westerink installed a new gasoline filling tank with an electric light above it. Hull now has its seventh service station.
Lieut. Coningsby Dawson urges mercy as munitions for the Y W C A and allied war campaign. Seven national groups will raise 170 500 000 during the week of November 11 to garrison support trenches behind the front lines. American and French aid figures illustrate the broad mobilization.
The American YWCA runs a hostess house in Brittany where Signal Corps women live and a nurses’ hut for rest and social time. Miss Mabel Warner from Salina Kansas recalls a tea with an odd mix of attendees including an admiral bishop Presbyterian minister Roman Catholic priest a doctor an ensign and herself.
A Western Union messenger boy donates five dollars to the United War Work Campaign in New York signaling the start of a drive to enlist a million boys and girls as Victory Boys and Victory Girls who will earn every dollar they give to support the war effort.
A Woburn farmer was fined 250 dollars after allowing a wheat stack to be damaged by rats. The case highlights enforcement of food regulations in England amid wartime crop concerns.
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