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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1919
Page
3
Thousands of residents will rally in Washing county to welcome home soldiers on September 11. Businesses plan to close, with meals and refreshments available at select venues. The county aims for a unified holiday, allowing no commercial profiteering from the event.
Solicitors advertise repeated calls for the sale of buttons linked to the September 11 celebration. They promise accurate lists of buyers and full records of all transactions and urge purchases or returns through follow up calls. Their policy is to call again if not found at home.
Fire department was called to the Will Weidner residence on West Madison Street where a wood shed and its contents were badly damaged before the blaze was quenched. The shed owner next door is Will Sley. Cause of the fire undetermined. policy coverage noted as partially insured.
A brief notice signals readers to check the want column for clues to a missing item. The ad urges skimming the listings for a pointer or lead, suggesting the sought object may be posted among ordinary advertisements.
George Foster sold his 371 acre farm northeast of town to Mrs. Kate Singmaster of Keota for 196,630 dollars at 530 per acre. The deal, the county’s largest in this season, was arranged by J. R. Maxwell of Washington and marks a major real estate transfer with undefined plans for both buyer and seller.
A typographical error listed bacon in twelve pound cans at 14.15 per can in government surplus food quotas. The correct price is 4.15 per can. The rural route edition corrected the figure this morning, and bacon remains a popular item in orders via the post office agency.
Mrs S K Statler of West Chester is spending the day in town. Miss Freda Schmidt returns home at New London after visiting Miss Wilma Kurtz. Miss Marguerite Springman of Cedar Falls Iowa State Teachers College is expected home Saturday.
Dr S Zerlanski travels to Washington to lead the county drive for a 500000 home service fund for the Salvation Army A local committee with a county chairman and department leaders will be formed A returned soldier may chair the effort and prominent community figures will help the drive The campaign runs across the state from September 22 to 39 with this county asked to contribute 2800 as its share and officials expect easy fundraising due to wartime praise for the army’s work
A telegram announced the death of Anna L. Paullin in Xenia Ohio yesterday morning. Her brother Robert L. Cherry and husband’s family mourn her passing after years of ill health. She formerly lived in Washington and was married in 1855. Survived by two children J W Paullin and Lorena Paullin in Xenia and siblings Robert L Cherry D B Cherry and Mrs M M Vincent.
Mrs. Louis Swick, visiting sister Mrs. Ida Rathmel, returned this morning to Davenport. The merchant recalls a remark she heard during the visit, noting the social exchange as she left.
An army officer will issue Victory Buttons to all honorably discharged soldiers sailors Marines and army nurses upon presentation of discharge. Bronze buttons go to service five days or more in the present emergency and silver to those wounded in action. The plan avoids sending discharges to recruiting offices by certifying on site.
The Methodist choir notes a regular rehearsal Friday at 5 Pp. m. at 6012 Second United Presbyterian. Preaching resumes at the Second United Presbyterian church on September 31st.
Frank Keenan stars in The Midnight Stage a Pathe Extra Selected Star Photoplay with Keenan in a dual role John Lynch and Bige Rivers at the Fox Theatre on Saturday. Harold Lloyd also appears in a side program offering comedy. Better come early.
Dorothy Gish drew on real London fogs for the Paramount film Louis at Grah am theatre. The opening reel unfolds as Trafalgar Square is blanketed in mist with damp air penetrating every corner while some scenes are interior due to the era and staging limits.
A vintage advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for catarrh for thirty five years. It claims relief by cleansing the blood and healing mucous surfaces and offers a reward for an incurable case. The copy mentions Toledo, Ohio and urges immediate use.
New York reports doctors from Germany and France say the war made children the largest casualty, with infant losses ranging into millions in Germany alone. They note front line exposure in France and widespread state care for parentless kids across Europe, amid food shortages and shifting family roles under Bolshevik rule in Russia.
Adrian Leon Leonard died after a four horse plow injured him in the abdomen while his father farmer lawyer John C. Leonard plowed a field. The child, born November 8, 1917, was returning to the house when the accident occurred and died at 12:30 after surgical repair failed.
Aug 21 Omaha report: Johnny Knott and his former wife Miss Frances McKercher, once Mrs Cecil Mallory, travel from Sioux City to Omaha for a second remarriage after multiple divorces.
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