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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1918
Page
5
Wellman Community News and Obituaries Reach Beyond
Extensive Wellman society notes report visits, gatherings, and family movements. The death of Mrs. Henry Mathess is noted with funeral details and tribute. Several locals enlist or depart for camps, while others host, travel, or host visitors across nearby towns and cities.
Titus Tituss Rural Notes Aplu Aug 1
Joe Nebergall delivered corn to John Griffith last week. Tom Carris and family and James Lemley with S D Carris attended Shrine Ceremonial in Des Moines and visited at Camp Dodge. Dr Downing vaccinated hogs for Cale Lemley Tuesday. Mrs Frank Norton family visited Grace Hill parents. Carpenters started a double corn crib for Mike Hollinger. Raymond Hutt works Titus area after harvest. Ivan Lemley threshing for Derwood Sowash this week. Mrs Emma McGahen and Mrs Jno Beatty helped Mrs Fred Watt feed threshers. Dr Stewart acted as professional ecal er in neighborhood Wednesday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Carris
James Lemley
S. D. Carris
Des Moines
Camp Dodge
Downing
Cale Lemley
Frank Norton
Grace Hill
Mike Hollinger
Raymond Hutt
Titus
Ivan Lemley
Emma McGahen
Jno. Beatty
Fred Watt
Dr. Stewart
Rural Route No 4 social notes from area families
Mrs. Sickles of Washington visits this week with daughter Mrs. Frank Kephart. Edna and Helen Bishop visit with Miss Daisy Kephart. Mrs Karl Kephart and children and Mrs. Laura Baker help at Howard Baker’s for threshers. Mrs. Susan Gardner visits Chas Kephart home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aue
Sickles
Washington
Frank Kephart
Edna
Helen Bishop
Daisy Kephart
Karl Kephart
Laura Baker
Howard Baker
Susan Gardner
Chas. Kephart
Mrs Minnie Hobaugh Visit and Local Threshing Week
Mrs Minnie Hobaugh of Olathe Colorado is visiting the J F Gowey home in Brighton. Ernest Arnold and Miss Irene Roberts are spending several days at Grant Center and near Keota respectively as threshing continues statewide this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Minnie Hobaugh
Olathe
Colo
J. F. Gowey
Ernest Arnold
Grant Center
Irene Roberts
Keota
Dublin Village Social Notes From River Life
Mr and Mrs J B McCaleb and Stanley Smith fished on the river yesterday. Mr and Mrs W E Augustine on Rubio business last evening. Mr and Mrs Clarence Hotle and children visited in Washington with Miss Berdie and Velma Hotle. Anna Mae and Will Conrad spent Sunday at Charlie Churchill home near Titus. Augustine visited Ed Swank in Richland Sunday. Dallas Hotle visited friends in Richland Sunday. The Reighard children visited an aunt near Rubio. Mrs W E Augustine aided sister Mrs E D Sowash with threshing work Tuesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin News
J. B. McCaleb
Stanley Smith
W. E. Augustine
Rubio
Clarence Hotle
Berdie
Velma Hotle
Washington
Anna Mae
Will Conrad
Charlie Churchill
Titus
Richland
Ed Swank
Dallas Hotle
Reighard
W. E Augustine
E. D. Sowash
Local Visitors And Moving Notices In Crawfordsville
Mrs C A Sprague and Mrs Sarah Davidson visited yesterday along with Mr and Mrs Will Anwyl and daughter Hazel. Dr N A Swickara of Mediapolis also visited. Henderson McCall and sister Miss Mary move into the Cummings house. household goods arrived. Mr and Mrs Fred Jarvis move into Harold Lamb’s vacated home. Rev P H Hayley and boy scouts toured Oakland Mills near Mt Pleasant for a two day trip. Mrs Warren An Honorary Corporal Maude Radford Warren of Chicago, famed magazine writer, received chevrons as YMCA canteen worker on the Alsace front, honored by a battalion for distributing “smokes” and “cats.” Read The Evening Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Jones
Arthur Jones
Jesse Longwell
Shirley Bidwell
Henry Lauser
Wilton
Robert
Richard Lauser
Suzanne Gardner
Killduff
L. L Carr
Washington, D. C
P. A. Ford
Iowa City
Ralph
Lewis Schroder
Williamsburg
Will Cride
A. J. Nichols
Hedrick
Jennie Lietz
Tipton
Nancy Nesmith
Irene Kirkpatrick
William, Jr
Marengo
Dave Kirkpatrick
Vera Longwell
Cedar Falls
W. B. Darnell
Miss Verry
Nlinois
Japan
Olive Elva White
Henry Mathess
Mt. Pleasant
Warren
Addison White
Mattie Sigler
F. X. Mellecker
Clay
George Berry
KB. N. Prentice
Camp Gordon
James Gardner
Austin
Texas
J. Smith
Grand Junction
Colo
FH Wiedline
Lieut. Wiedline
Des Moines
Everette Lewis
Camp Dodge
Jesse
T. D. Adams
J. M. Morrow
L. E. Maplethorpe
Washington
Ellen Gardner
Catherine England
June Williams
Lillian Carr
England
Ray Walton
Wm Embree
Rock Island Arsenal
Cal Murphy
Chicago
Rock Island
William Schroder
J. G. Wherle
J. A. Yoder
Cedar Rapids
J. W. Hunter
Jeanette
Helen
Frane Moon
Great Lakes
Frane
A. J Sanders
Strawberry Point
McGregor Heights
Alva Sanders
Minnneapolis
Henry Shulty
Wes Whetstine
Wellman
Whetstines
Mises Lila
U. S
Crawfordsville
C. A. Sprague
Sarah Davidson
Will Anwyl
John Anwyl
Miss Hazel
N A. Swickara
Mediapolis
Henderson McCall
Miss Mary
Cummings
Fred Jarvis
Harold Lamb
P. H Hayley
Oakland Mills
Maude Radford Warren
Y.M.C A
Alsace
Wheat substitutes demonstration drawn from Miss Olsen
Miss Olsen led a Wednesday afternoon gathering at Mrs. Jessie Bishop’s home to show wheat substitutes and recipes like gingerbread and oatmeal cookies. Over twenty ladies attended, learning about yeasts and chemical actions in baking while praising conservation as a wartime effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Olsen
Jessie Bishop
Frank Scott
Eunice Scott
Mary Phillips
Ruth Phillips
Nelle Benson
Bessie Love
Eva Mouser
Kline of
Ilinois
Mouser
Nelle Scott
Birdie Figgins
Melinsky
Fishburn
Noela Faulkner
Swanson
Sylvia Teets
Mant Thrasher
Martha Thrasher
Willing Workers Elect New Leader At Red Cross Meet
The Willing Workers met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Lizzie Corbin for Red Cross work. They reduced muslin bags to enclose Front Line Packets and held a business session in which the present chairman resigned and Mrs. James Swift was elected unanimously. Members present included Mesdames Geo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Corbin
Red Cross
James Swift
Nita
Margaret Corbin
Mesdames Geo
Le Foch Society Busy Meeting With Garment Work
Mrs Carl Olsen hosted Le Foch Society Wednesday afternoon with about twenty ladies and fifteen children present. Guests included Mrs Linus Wood and members listed. hospital garments were made while children played outdoors due to lack of materials. next meeting date and place to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Olsen
le Foch Societie
Summer colds relieved by Foley's Honey and Compound
Mrs Helen R Saunders of 626 2nd Ave West Palm Beach Florida reports a severe chest cold relieved by Foley's Honey and Compound. The ad touts the remedy for summer colds hay fever asthma and croup with Lemons Pharmacy as the source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen R. Saunders
2Nd Ave
W. Palm Beach
Fla
Foley
Lemmon
Negro barber longs for razor to use on Kaiser in comedy
A colored troupe performs a scene in To Hell With the Kaiser at Graham Friday and Saturday with a barber character joking about needing his razor to trim the Kaiser. The piece uses wartime satire and features a staged encounter with the German leader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
The
Graham
Michigan Housewife Reveals Vinci Strength Boost
Mrs Albert Rose of Bronson Michigan says Vinci transformed her weak run down condition and backache enabling her to keep up with housework for a family of three. The ad touts Vinci as a strong tonic with beef and cod liver peptones iron manganese peptonates and glycerophosphates sold by Sherman Bros and druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinci
Bronson Mich
Albert Rose
Sherman Bros
Advt
Widow Chooses Home Death Over Hospital Gallstone Warning
Widow recalls years of stomach trouble and refused hospital operation. A Mayr's Wonderful Remedy ad claims the product cured her, alleviating pain and restoring appetite after a year of use. Sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy and druggists everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayr
Lemmon
Adyt
Norman Hall Well Treated in Prison
Des Moines reports aviator Norman Hall of Colfax is in Saarbrucken prison camp hospital in Germany. He says life is dismal and he misses freedom though he is treated reasonably and has enough to eat to stay healthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Paul Ayres Rockwell
Chicago
Iowa
Norman Hall
Colfax
Rockwell
John Norman Hall
Saarbruken
Germany
YMC A Ships 365000 Toothpaste Tubes Overseas
In ten months 365000 tubes of toothpaste have been shipped by the Y M C A to soldiers overseas. Read the advertisements.
Candy Blocks His Marine Fight with Candy Teeth Fall Out
A man from Mason City Iowa, Richard Pasewater, could not enlist in the United States Marines after eating brown molasses candy. He bit the candy hard and two teeth fell out on the sidewalk before his physical exam. The physician said he would have passed otherwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuour
Richard Pasewater
Manson
Towa
United States Marines
Pasewater
Kaiser Bill
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Ralph Decing
Geo. Barrett
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Henry Matthess
A. L. White
Lexington
Wellman M. Br
C. E. Brown
Collet Sitler
Peter Sitler
Mariley
Mr. Sitler
Verdinand Kinzer
Navy
H. B. Knight
W. S. Heath
Colorado Springs
J. Carr
J. Willard DeVoe
Kansas City
R. B. Hull
Margery
Neilie Palmer
la Mont
Tyrone
Okla
Leslie Carr
Miss Forbes
N. H Messenger
Fred
Orville Messenger
Babe
Tom Moore
Fairbanks
Res Wade
New London
Lee Messenger
Thomas Messenger
Camp Cody
New Mexico
W. T Hamilton
Frank
Tekamah
Neb
William Webb
New Virginia
George Shields
John Parks
Clyde Parks
Muscatine
J. Huntsberger
W. F M.S
Ben Knott
Lottie Ludwig Stewart
Davenport
H. H. Willson
Park Hotel
ED. Miller
Ray Yoder
L. V. Creswell
Joe Nebergall
John Griffith
Dublin
Evening Journal
Palm Beach
Michigan
eSas Sesesese
Michigan Blvd
22Nd St
Colorado
Nebraska
Bix Hiera Basin
Wyoming
Big Horn Basin
Souroti
S. B. Howard
Q Building
Maha, Neb
Candy
United States
America
Washington National Bank
Washington County
John Alex Young
Charles C. Cunningham
Harvey S. Young
Donald C. Bell Louis Fifer
Robert Noonan
A. Cook
Jas
A. Harwood
Chas
J. Wilson
Federal Preserve System
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Weingarten Bros., Inc
New York
Army & Navy
U. S. Army & Navy Tablet CO
West Broadway, N.Y
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