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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1919
Page
8
Subscriptions and club arrangements offered. Call 59 Ned after 5 30 p m or write to the Journal care of Save a Moley by get a club Will send list if you care to look at the prices over Nite Belle Mc Koon authorized representative of
Uncle Eben speaks about the danger of potions and deceit, warning that some folk will use trickery no matter the outcome. He emphasizes caution and skepticism toward claims of remedies.
Telegrams from soldiers arriving in New York from France report several Company K members returning home. Names include Everette Griffith Maurice Swisher Arthur Dankwardt Sergeant Earl Limerman and Thomas Swift with others. Plans place Camp Upton then Camp Dodge and a two week window for final movement.
Notice states election by qualified voters of Washington Iowa ISD on a May Sunday in 1915 at the Old Methodist church building for a bond of fifty thousand six hundred dollars and sixty nine cents to complete and furnish the new high school, signed April 4 1919 by President D J Ross and Secretary R W Thompson.
Read the Evening Journal for bus calls and local updates. Several residents visit relatives, travel to Davenport, Burlington, Muscatine, New London, and Keota, with farm and town details. Advertisements note creams 67 cents and eggs 38 cents while Edison audio devices market.
Washington county reports its first sleeping sickness case at the county hospital. Pearl Robertson, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Robertson of Dutch Creek, was brought in after a day of illness and remains largely unarousable. Doctors hope for recovery though the illness is usually prolonged and unpredictable.
Notices place Deans as a dining spot with six oclock Sunday dinner for 75 cents. Reports list new Ford sedans owned by John Belville and J C Bridges and Fordson tractors owned by R E Peters and W L Shafer. Visitors include Miss Calvert of Pasadena visiting Mrs Eliza Beard, and Mr Mrs Coffey and Davis of West Chester in Washington. John S Wilson returns from army YMCA work in Texas camps. J F W Taylor sold property on East Van Buren to L Smith formerly Harrison Dodder. A baby girl Elizabeth Lane Dea born to Mr Mrs William J Dea in Dutch Creek township. Mrs R T McCall notes the death of Mrs Richard McKinney Hatken in Cheyenne Wyoming cremated at Colorado Springs.
A government report released in London states nearly five million deaths in British India and about one million more in native states from Spanish influenza. The affected area held 238,026,240 people with 4,890,725 deaths, about 206 per thousand. The outbreak began last autumn, overwhelming hospitals and leaving streets littered with corpses and the dying.
Rome reports great excitement in the chamber of deputies and the senate as lawmakers urge Italy to warn France and Britain that peace cannot be concluded without Italy under the allied treaty. Telegrams from cities trace demonstrations supporting the cabinet.
Miss Lena Phillips leads a movement to unite American business and professional women. She announces 11,900,000 women in gainful work and urges solidarity to boost conditions, with a national convention planned for St. Louis on July 14.
The W. D. Augustine family woke Friday to find Ralph, their son and a member of the 26th Division, asleep in the dining room. He left Washington September 21, 1917, went to Camp Dodge then Camp Cody, sailed for France in June 1918, and entered action July 26. He landed in Boston April 7 and reached Camp Dodge Tuesday evening as one of Dutch Creek township's first selections.
Victory Liberty Bond subscribers are urged by loan committees to settle at banks promptly. Banks hold subscription cards and seek early settlements. Money must reach Chicago by May 19, and all bank notes will be dated that day.
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