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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1918
Page
8
The Hanks of Washington will close at noon next Thursday April 22 to allow employees to attend a performance titled Private Peat at the Chaulsugua 674 venue.
A letter from Merle McAvoy describes life at a Waco camp with 50 000 soldiers and rising daily while noting high prices and hospitality from Little Rock. Roy Burns comes home on medical discharge after four years in the navy and seven months this enlistment due to an arm injury. He plans to seek other government work.
Notice announces a Regular Post meeting scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 1 20 o clock. Attendance is desired and C M Stinson PC is named as contact or organizer.
Mrs A B Schmoeller underwent an operation at University Hospital in Iowa City last week and is reported to be getting along nicely. She expects to return home here by the latter part of this week.
Local ads promote rugs and shoes at Crail's and Fox & Dewey while noting daily specials. Personal notices report Kunath family return from Glasgow Iowa and Mrs Dankwardt recovering after surgery. Social items include visits by Viola Auten and Hazel McCarty, with Guzeman returning from Iowa City. A genuine Stewart speedometer feature and health claim for Sand liver kidney tonic appear alongside drugstore references.
Advertisements note Ford theft prevention from K W thief locks via J F Duffy Ford Station and mention a surplus of speedometers at 8 75 while regular price is 11 25. Local social news covers visits, travel, military men in France, and magazine offers.
Maplethorpe promotes a fall hat sale alongside a stream of local travel and military registration notices. The item list includes residents visiting relatives, people traveling to Muscatine and Downing, Missouri, and multiple 21 year old registrations for June 5 1918.
The Louck and Boehme Company plans a move this week from the Motor Inn on West Madison Street to the Sidney Smith Garage on South Marion Avenue. The partners Louck Boehme and Kiefer will keep Velie and Moline Knight agencies and add a repair shop, expanding business. Sidney Smith will leave the automotive business, with details to be announced later. he has long been tied to the Franklin Agency.
Stanley Clair Stewart eighteen died at the county hospital yesterday afternoon after an appendicitis illness. An operation failed to save him and a second did not relieve him. Funeral services Tuesday at 10 at Wilber Miller chapel with Rev. M R Regan. Burial Woodlawn cemetery. He was born July 20 1890 in the county and survived by a brother Arthur and sister Ada plus four half siblings Lydia Marry George Charles Myra Cora and Nellie Newland.
A letter to the S P Beatty family northwest of Washington today said their son Leon Beatty died on the battlefield in France. Parents seek to verify the report as other letters from the area carried censored references to a Washington boy’s death.
Local dealers charge two dollars extra for adding a name in the hat while names are optional at four dollars at Maplethorpe’s. Mrs I Rothschild and daughters Corrine and Jeanette left for Kansas City for a week with relatives. Ruth Wolfe visiting Davenport while nursing training at Mercy hospital vacationing with her parents. Mary Connell returns from Chicago and Keokuk after buying millinery woods for her store. Edna and Ruth Bridges return from a week with their Muscatine grandparents.
Local grocers report heavy losses from stale eggs during hot weather as poultry owners fail to follow summer rules. Candling reveals frequent spoilage. merchants warn customers face shortages while the public loses food. A proposed remedy urges using slightly stale eggs at home rather than marketing them to reduce waste. Government rules for summer production are highlighted elsewhere in the paper.
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