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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1918
Page
7
Local brief notices list updates from Washington County with personals births and deaths. Items reference residents changing addresses birthdays and obituaries while highlighting community happenings and social notes across multiple areas.
Our school will not open this week due to flu conditions. Families report recovering patients in the neighborhood. Harriet and Tressa Phillips helped Willa Maxine Briley celebrate her fourth birthday. Walter Nicholson's baby James is ill but hoped to improve soon. Mrs Eliza Butler arrives from Burlington to spend winter with her daughter Mrs Lloyd Humston. Tressa Phillips visits grandmother Bailey. Townsfolk shop for Christmas and work on timber, wood cutting continues for Mr Phillips. Chas and John Cherry bought timber from H B Portes and prep saw, others saw wood last Wednesday.
John Putman bought sixteen head of calves from Will Fleming last week. Roy Schneider welcomed a baby girl born Thursday last week. Glen Pratt bought cows from Will Mitchell. John Putman Jr. and wife celebrated a baby boy born Thursday. Chalupa returned to Richmond after a two week visit. Roy Schneider and Charley MacMullen families ill with influenza. Clyde Maxwell shipped hogs to Chicago last week. Dan Graber and family from Ficher neighborhood traveled to Washington Saturday.
Mrs H A Mellinger and Mrs J H Wolfe visited Iowa City. Mena Dunlap returns to work at Farmers Saving Bank after illness. William Landers discharged from Camp Pike. Paul Strabla dies of pneumonia after influenza. Lieut Henry Snider leaves for New York after a year at Camp Mays. Everette Allen returns on furlough from Maryland. John A Yoder sells residence to Lou McGuigan and plans relocation by March 1. Professor Terkley’s basketball team travels to Thornsburg for a game.
In the afternoon game Thornsburg led 14 to 9 as Lawn Adams of the S A T C Iowa City played on the streets. Mr and Mrs Fred Berkley traveled to Des Moines Saturday evening for the wedding of his brother.
West Chester reports include Will Embree shipping cattle this week and a string of residents and visitors on business or ill with influenza. Names mentioned include W. J. Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. John Weener and sons, Hazel Walton, Ernest Van Sickle, Mrs. J. S. Crawford, James Daniels, Mrs. W. S. Boyer, Ed Anwyl, W. F. Holmes, and D. E. Brumback, with remarks on weather and road conditions.
In Crawfordsville on December 17 W T Trotter of Ainsworth and Herschel Jones of Mt Pleasant called on friends. L L Neiswanger and son Victor from Washington visited Frank Taylor’s home. Nan Ritchey contracted influenza. Chris Sommer, recently injured, returned to town with careful movement. Minerva Fern McNeill two year old daughter of Dayton and Mrs McNeill died at six this morning from pneumonia after influenza.
Fred Zieg lonsky and family visited Washington Saturday. W C Embree sent a hog shipment to Chicago Sunday. Walter Clark and Ella Clark of Peoria spent time at F G Martin’s home and sold their farm to Beyer and Dayton of West Chester. Albert Dayton and daughter Mabel visited J B Moore’s home. Forest Embree recently returned from a Kansas City training camp and spent Saturday with Will Embree. Maude Brady of Oskaloosa stayed with Floy Owen. A E Knotts made a business visit to Washington Saturday. Jyall Moore spent Sunday at Rubio. Tom Knotts returned from Ames with honorable discharge from service. Fred Ziegiowsky shipped hogs Friday.
Sioux City report shows Lieut. A J McLaughlin heads Iowa vice education campaign. He vows no peace with prostitution or venereal disease and urges civilian cooperation to protect returning soldiers. Public health pamphlets described horrors and methods to fight vice.
An advertisement promises that 3B A Thonas' Poultry Remedy keeps poultry in good condition and increases egg yield. Sherman Bros guarantees refunds if not satisfied.
Edgar Davison, 27, who enlisted in 1917 and served with Company M in Fairfield, Iowa, died of wounds received October 3 in France. Survived by mother Mrs. Dick Cain and others. Official reports being checked, family hopes for clarity.
Promotes rest and easy morning expectoration by calming coughing and inflammation. Claims fifty two years of American production, aids general health, helpful for throat and bronchial issues such as line trouble asthma croup bronchitis. Sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy as an advertisement.
Des Moines City Railway company placed in receivership after filing in Federal court. Homer A. Miller and Emil A. Schmidt named joint receivers with bond of 506000. Company cites a 19628.97 judgment, a 2450000 mortgage, and 7500000 notes with no funds to meet obligations.
A fragment from a Boston Trane script shows Miss Passay faulting children for disrespect, while Miss Pert agrees an offense that angers them. The lines capture a social friction moment in a dialogue exchange.
New York dispatch reports Maj. Gen. Enoch H. Crowder, provost marshal general, praising the U S selective service as permanent to raise armies. He notes 23 740 000 registered, nearly 3 000 000 fighters sent, and 2 000 000 more ready to entrain on Armistice day, warning against a return to volunteering.
Mrs L A Dringard of Jefferson City Missouri says she used Chamberlain tablets for stomach trouble and fatigue and felt relief from the first dose with noticeable improvement inside a week. Lemmon's Drug Store promotes the remedy.
A wartime call urges American households to intensify food conservation to feed two million overseas soldiers and a starving Europe. Housewives are urged to Save now, build reserves, and support the Allies with increased food, ensuring ships go to Europe loaded with rations today.
Noel Evans field clerk of the Thirty fourth division reports from Tours France on conditions there dated November 20. He notes few private cars many American government cars, gate controlled rail crossings, narrow streets with walking crowds, government owned railroads with low passenger rates and high freight rates, grand city halls and palaces of justice, municipal theatres, and third rate vaudeville. Evans also describes department stores and package prep, and mentions uncertainty about when the division would return to the states.
Loveland United Presbyterian Church votes to invite the national Young People's Christian Union convention and a Christian workers conference for next summer. Tentative dates are July 30 to August 3 with delegates from across the United States and railroad-rate assurances. The eight day workers conference may run concurrently with the convention.
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