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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1918
Page
7
In Washington County notices include personal updates, births, deaths, marriages, and other short notices. Community columns list arrivals and departures, recognitions, and small social items from local residents.
A Valley community note lists multiple families visiting relatives across South English Keota and West Chester including Breitenbach Freshwater and Pfeifer households. The G G class met at the Pfeifer home. bananas and candy were served. social visits continued with Churchill Mayer and Augustine guests at Frank home. Brumback Dayton announces closing books September 1 and offers twine stock clearance.
The usual services will be held at the Methodist Episcopal church next Sunday. The pastor will speak on Booze and Where It Belongs in the morning and Therefore thou art inexcus able in the evening. Wednesday prayer meeting and Monday official board meeting are scheduled. Queen Esthers plan a postponed meeting at Miss Viola Rodemaker's home with Miss Ethel Henderson leading the study.
Howard Wittrig purchased a quantity of steers at the Wertz and Stone sale held Monday in Havre. Zeta Pratt returned home Tuesday after visiting Glen Pratt the past week. Local residents attend the chautauqua and families visit relatives around Noble and Richmod as noted. George Long sold his 120 acre farm to Martin Weston for $275 per acre.
Peter Witting visited Noble on business Tuesday evening. Mr and Mrs Glenn Pratt and Mrs Margaret Pratt spent Sunday afternoon in Washington. Roll Gamon and two sons John and William visited John Wagner’s after church. Jake Shrader sold a cow to Will Saville last week. Gladden East family spent Sunday at Will Stafford’s. George Long returned home to Whittier California after a month with relatives here. Paul Gast and family travel through Illinois this week visiting relatives.
Daytime activity in Dayton Grove as threshing starts on Wednesday. Visits include Cleve Knotts and son from Muscatine staying with uncle A F E Knotts. Rev F S Seeds from Bonaparte attended C C Owen’s home. Numerous local families hosted guests and relatives this week, including Floy Owen and Dot Dusenberry.
Crawfordsville residents report a busy day as Walter Orris and family visit Iowa City for Velma at Mercy hospital while Claude McCoy and Delbert Maxwell depart for Ames to join mechanics training. The Meneley Chautauqua opened with large crowds and featured Cheney Concert Co. with Sextette from Lucia and Hawaiian tunes. Dr. O. O. Smith delivered talks on child development and the home school community, stressing seven and twelve as legal age markers and the mind as a camera capturing growing moments.
Dr. Smith laments the five million dollar boys myth and urges tailored schooling for each child. He notes many great men hail from rural areas and criticizes the standard curriculum. Cheney's evening program features instrumental numbers and readings, with the ocarina quartet drawing praise. The program start times shift to 3:00 PM and 8:45 PM.
W F Augustine and wife attended the Augustine reunion in Keota with 60 to 70 relatives from Rubio Dublin West Chester Keota Delta Oskaloosa Brighton and Washington. The gathering enjoyed a fine program and will be an annual Keota event with a large picnic lunch and visits among cousins including L J Augustine Delta and several Augustine families from nearby towns.
Aug 15 social visits reported across the rural route. A. B. Carr and family visited Frank Kephart. Cart Schneider and Bryan Swift joined Will Caldwell after services. Other calls included Mrs. John Pratt at Sam Sigafoose, Edna Bishop at Charlie Kephart, and several Kepharts helping with clover hay. Community members attended dinners and threshing tasks around Eureka neighborhood.
Grace Hill aug 15 Mrs Clara Engel spent Friday with Mrs Porter and Miss Norene Kracaw of W Visited Engel home. Children’s day exercises were well attended with Faith Dunbar four sang Keep the Home Fires Burning to hearty applause. Wes Engel family planned Burlington trip with Ruth George niece from Blandenville Ill. Mabel and Eunice Engel to join. Threshing finished prompting Chautauqua attendance. Ivan Rehmel Washington en route to Harwood Mo visiting Ossian Rehmel and Ralph Rehmel. Mrs George Baker joined to visit Ralph’s wife. Robt Blick visiting Corydon Iowa. Sam Heney building chimney at Community building. Al Bales hauling walnut logs to Wellston for shipping.
Miss Dora E Thompson heads a program to organize groups of fifty army nurses to staff field hospitals within five miles of firing lines. The units travel in hospitals mounted on motor trucks and trailers, eating and sleeping on the move. The medical department equips these facilities to care for wounded soldiers as operations resume.
A wartime tip advises using dried produce to deter moths and protect stored foods. The National War Garden Commission offers a drying guide, available for two cents postage from Washington.
A German prisoner of war survivor, Maria van Gastel endured wounds and three months in an English hospital, losing her family and fortune. She came to America, learned English, and delivered a masterful plea for the Allied cause praised as an epic in tragedy by the Austin Statesman.
An aged Mr Nichols, frail from a lengthy illness, was able to sit in the yard on Tuesday, marking a notable moment in his condition.
The American Red Cross will launch a nationwide salvage drive under a new bureau of conservation in Washington. Directed by the War Industries Board, the effort aims to conserve materials rather than raise funds, with chapters nationwide collecting specified wastes to aid the war.
A playful exchange shows Charley asking his grandmother not to give him what he needs. he says his mother will supply it anyway, turning the birthday request into a humorous remark about family dynamics.
Grocers urge all Iowa women to submit suggestions on saving sugar as promoted by the Food Administration. Letters, up to fifty words, must be mailed to Miss Alice French of Davenport by August 26 with name, address, and legible signature. Prizes include autographed certificates from Mr. Hoover and Mr. Deems.
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson left Washington quietly for a weekend at Col. E. M. House’s Magnolia Massachusetts cottage. No press was aboard the special train and the trip is described as a vacation outing. Officials expect discussions on international affairs including the Russian situation with Colonel House.
Amsterdam reports the assassination of Herr Von Sengbusch, a German official at Wouden Russia, with the killer fled. It follows a string of German official killings in Russia including Count Von Mirbach in Moscow and Von Richthofen in Kiev.
The treasury announced in Washington that the maximum price for silver is fixed at 101 per ounce. Export licenses will be issued by the Federal Reserve Board only for essential civil or military uses and only if the purchaser does not exceed the maximum price.
Mrs PL Sheehy Skeffington, freed August 12 from Holloway after deportation from Ireland, seeks a permit to go back to Ireland. The request has been refused by the authorities.
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