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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
7
Brief news letters from Washington County report births and deaths, marriages and engagements, and community notices. Local personalities are named with dates and places. summaries cover small town events and social updates from multiple communities.
Mrs Lucy Whitacre and daughter Miss Henrietta of Dumont visit C W Porter home. Prody A Borkoski and sister Miss Clara plan to Wayland. Keith Burton returns from Grinnell after weeks with Laird Woodford. Gowey family enjoyed Sunday with Scott Dickinson. Mildred Savage stays held Ames visits. John Horton on sick list. A L Mayer and wife visited J E Hotle home. Parcell family from Fairfield spent Thursday with Ray Parcell.
Local residents host relatives from Kenwick Des Moines and Des Moines visitors return for illness and death in the area. A Wellman WCTU meeting votes to support Belgium clothing aid and lists its new officers. Other brief items note travel to Cedar Rapids Washington and notable visits in the north neighborhood plus a newborn birth and a safe arrival announced via card.
Mrs Ed Romine joins Methodist church July 27. Rev and Mrs Barker away on vacation at OsKaloosa and Brooklyn. No preaching at the church last Sunday nor this. Ralph Ford family visit Iowa City. Shaffer family to Excelsior Springs joined by daughter Helen Neil. Preparations for a fine chautauqua program. Mrs Ferdinand Kruger dies at 76, leaves husband and daughter Mary Griffith and son Paul. Several relatives visit Des Moines and Chicago, while others go to Exelsior Springs and Gordon Neb. George Struble arrives overseas. Cassius Crossett seeks hospital care in Davenport. Mrs Hetty Stutzman and children visit Kalona aunt Will Libe, and more social movement notes.
The Hon. James H. Wortendyke of California will speak at the M E Church in Ainsworth Friday at 8 30 p m on war and national prohibition and ratification. Admission is free with an offering to be received. People in the area are urged to attend.
The Red Cross July report lists surgical drains packs 500 and 8x4 compresses 250, garments shirts 12 jackets 29 pajamas 26 convalescent robes 2. Local socials include the Mathers family visiting Rubio, Frank Ulrich moving to Grand Mound to manage Eclipse yards, Helen Reams visiting Madge Stone, Velma Gallagher staying with Hazel Booth, and John Godlove’s family attending Riverside M. E. church services.
A resourceful housewife adapts to less sugar by drying fruits and making syrups from beets apples and quinces. She uses corn syrup molasses honey and maple syrup in canning and cooking and notes sugarless candies and fruit pastes. The article encourages sugar reduction to prevent waste and provides recipes and tips for preserving juices jams and desserts.
Rev Dow Younkin of Boston Mass known as minister and superintendent of a children’s home for 27 years. He preached on Matt 16 26 and relatives shared a fine basket dinner after service. Walter Lehman and three Kalona youths visited, then traveled to Washington to join his brother bound for Jefferson Barracks. Roy Stafford returned from St Anthony to visit sister Mrs Lukovsky. Mrs Robert Gregory returned from Washington after a week with her sister Mrs Brown.
The Nesho Grocery Company of St. Louis contributes $600 to the Red Cross in lieu of penalties for food administration violations. A Phoenix area ostrich farm manager is allowed to slaughter 800 birds in good condition, yielding 25,000 pounds of dressed meat sold at 15 cents a pound. The Food Administration requires banquets to replace regular meals rather than add extras.
The passage notes sugar arrivals in November and December with possible January quantities, and mentions France and Italy forbidding confectionery production using sugar milk or flour, affecting cake and sweets manufacturing.
A Victorian note warns that English hotel patrons must bring their own sugar for tea or coffee. Some hotels provide no sugar butter or cream and offer no desserts beyond fresh or stewed fruit.
In England sugar for manufacturing any product other than jam and condensed milk is restricted to 25 percent of the amount used in 1915. The rule targets conserving supplies during wartime.
University of Iowa graduate Carl Byoir resigns a $55,000 Hearst position to join George Creel on the committee of public information at $5,200. He graduated in 1910 from the liberal arts college and remains of draft age.
Delegates to the All South Christian Endeavor Convention in Memphis Tennessee representing 150000 Southern Christian Endeavorers pledge their very best efforts and services in the movement for food conservation.
U S beef exports totaled 96 982 000 pounds in May 1918 the highest monthly figure in country history. Over 96 percent of shipments went to the four European Allies as their livestock output declined and the demand for beef rose while U S conservation measures aimed at preserving supplies.
Prices received by producers for eggs are rising and the poultry market remains short of birds as high egg prices reduce slaughter of broiler turkeys. The U S Food Administration urges hotels and restaurants to stop serving small broilers weighing two to four pounds. Living costs in Europe show sharp wartime increases with Norway up 137 percent, Sweden 2 percent, and Denmark 60 percent.
The first beet sugar crop will reach market in October, marking the start of a harvest that will continue through the year. Louisiana cane production will begin to augment supplies as the season progresses.
Mr Byoir replaces Will Irwin as board correspondent after six months and will assume leadership of the foreign education service. Irwin organized the service and Byoir, an associate chairman, will coordinate the committee's effort among thirty three language publication groups.
Mrs. Blanche Bowers of Indiana Pa reports long poor digestion until trying Cham berlain's Tablets about a year ago. She says since using them her digestion is fine and Lemmon's Drug Store advertises the product.
Norway reports 14 vessels sunk in July by German submarines, raising total losses to 856 ships totaling 1,169,587 tons since the war began. The sinkings cost 1,802 Norwegian seamen lives.
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