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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
6
More than thirty members and guests enjoyed a Monday evening in the church parlors with supper at six thirty. The program featured piano and vocal solos, hymns, and devotional exercises led by Mrs. Glendinning. Ten dollars was collected in mite boxes to support the missionary apportionment.
In the National League New York lost 2 to Brooklyn 6 while Philadelphia beat Boston 2 1 a rainout left Chicago St Louis and Pittsburgh with no game. American League Boston and Philadelphia tied and Washington defeated New York in 18 innings rain shortened the day with no other games played.
The railroad wage commission finished its recommendations for higher pay for railroad workers and will report to Director General McAdoo after his Liberty Loan tour. While the amount is not disclosed, it is said those earning the least will receive the largest raises and all employees may be covered under a sliding scale regardless of union affiliation.
The House approved a porkless rivers and harbors measure totaling 20 million dollars. It funds only projects specifically recommended by the War Department, authorizing few new initiatives. Key sites include Hellgate New York, Key West Florida, Charleston South Carolina, Norford Virginia, Los Angeles and Mississippi and Ohio river work. The vote stood 208 to 24.
Subscriptions to the third Liberty loan total 931,156,050 according to treasury reports. In the Minneapolis district the first day of campaigning netted about 25,000,000.
Iowa counties including Black Hawk Grundy Tama Butler and Wapello adopt a food purchase card system to track sugar and flour sales. Grocers and wholesalers issue cards recording purchases to keep accurate balanced records. The program, led by W F Parrott and state administrator Deems, aims to expand nationwide to ensure controlled distribution and reduce waste. Push for potato consumption follows a June 30 surplus forecast of 230 million bushels with calls to dry and process surplus potatoes. North Carolina traveling men assist Burlington enforcing wheatless rules as hotels ban wheat products on wheatless days. Conneaut Ohio forms a Wheat Savers Club rewarding housewives who abstain from wheat after the next harvest.
In Des Moines Iowa on April 1 1917 confusion erupts over the draft when farmers in rural counties seek deferment for those actively planting crops. Adjutant General Logan and General Crowder direct local boards to use best judgment to select farm hands while maintaining class 1 inductions. Local boards protest the burden of picking men and urge a decisive ruling to relieve the duty.
Only 300 of 10000 8x4 com presses remain for the April quota in the local Red Cross workroom. Mrs. David McLaughlin leads today with surgical dressings. Mrs. McCutley supervises tomorrow. tonight’s task is the 4x4 wipe under Mrs. Sigler. Isabelle Lemmon on behalf of YWCA girls requests a specific work day. Saturdays assigned. Washington girls praised for their substantial contributions amid early safeguarding efforts.
Cerdar Falls Iowa April 18. Prof Leslie J Reed secretary of the bureau of appointments at Teachers College reports salaries are rising in wartime though generally slower than wages. Women teachers gain more than men with about ten per cent average for grade teachers and five per cent for high school. Superintendents push higher pay but not as much percent wise. Rural schools hit hardest by teacher shortages as many rural teachers move to graded schools and into government service. Bonds for sixty Sioux City teachers entering government service in one month cited. Also note a submerged Russian forest found during river dredging yielding logs over 100 feet long.
The passage notes humanity’s strides in sea and air exploration, comparing submarines and airplanes to natural forms. It argues that creatures of the seas and skies have long existed, and that human designs imitate them, with evolving shapes and dispersing ecologies as protective measures.
The Andean people use alternating freezing and thawing to remove moisture from potatoes. The resulting product, called chuna, can be stored for months or years. It is pressed into bullet shaped pieces and widely sold in markets as a chief native food.
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