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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1918
Page
8
The Boy Scouts announce a city wide sanitary survey reporting open manure and ash piles rubbish and dirty alleys to the Board of Health. Scouts will inspect premises this week and submit findings for action while business committees plan alley cleanups to boost the campaign.
Local item listings show merchants promotions travel notes and household goods with brief updates on visiting relatives job openings and upcoming sales including shoes groceries silks and hair products. The notices mention Warren Cash Grocery New York Store Welworth and Wirthmor waists Parisian Sage and Brindley Grocery with various residents visiting or traveling.
L T Smith of Washington and Dee Work plan to attend the Lake Geneva military training school for teachers in June. Paul Putnam will join a boys school later. Donald McLaughlin of the 126th Machine Gun Battalion at Camp Cody is spending a ten day fur lough with his parents. An ad notes magazine subscriptions and solicits readers to call Journal or 59 Red and FE, Nita Belle McKoon.
Sergeant Charles Denison on furlough from Camp Funston spoke to McKee school pupils about the ambulance service in the army. County superintendent Miss Katherine Stichter reports two new standard rural schools in the county since Friday, Sunnyvale in Marion township and Walnut in Brighton township. Sunnyvale teachers are Miss Helen Martin and Verna Guy teaches Walnut. A picnic and short programs accompanied the Sunnyvale event.
An open competitive examination under the U S Civil Service Commission for clerk and carrier positions in the Washington Iowa post office will be held on Saturday May 11 at 9 a m Applications must be made on the prescribed form obtainable from Charles B Ragan secretary U S Civil Service Board at the Washington Iowa Post Office or from the undersigned Applicants must file blanks promptly and bring a recent photograph on exam day J M Shoemaker Secretary Civil Service Board St Paul Minnesota.
Frank Will, recognized as a top local automobile repair man, has been employed by the Willits Repair Station. He will add to a staff of five expert repair men and enhance Willits fares.
Word arrives of the death of Theodore Austin Fowler son of the Rev and Mrs Arthur Fowler at Vineland New Jersey where he was attending school He was formerly pastor of the local Baptist church and later lived in Base Orange New Jersey He had been ill for some time suffering scarlet fever and then bronchial pneumonia.
Mrs V U Sigler reports a lost gold handled umbrella with her monogram and offers a reward for its return to the Journal office. Oats V U Sigler travels from Wellman on business and plans to visit Los Angeles after meeting family in Des Moines. Miss Stella Palmer visits her brother A B Palmer in Wellman before his U S service deployment.
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