Board Proceedings 1919 January Sessions and Claims
Washington County minutes show the 1919 board meeting of January 2 with B C Foster elected chair and oaths taken by Parrow and Morgan. Regular and vacation claims are approved, salaries set, and warrants authorized for county officers, along with appointments and a road and bridge program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
B. C. Foster
J. W. Parrow
A. J. Morgan
Leigh Wallace
Ed Romine
CC. M. Strain
Ainsworth Lumber Co
T. D. Woodburn
W. G. Fleig
B.C. Foster
Com
Work & mi
A. W. Pringle
M. D. Brown
G. F. Wallace
H. V. Frank
H. T. D. Henderson
W. B. Webster
Kos
T. H. Huston
F. H. Ross
W. J. Crawford
N. C. White
FE. Iseminger
J. J. Benda
Eardley Bell, Jr
S. L. Marsh
J. Kallaus
Frank H. Gray
F. EF. Skola
W. J. Crozier
A. Sherbeck
Melo J. Shalla
D. C. Griffith
Newton Whetstine
K. C. Marr
Brighton Township
W. G. Stewart
Dutch Creek Township
Ed Miksch
Washington City Council
City Council
D. F. Macon
C. Foster
Commercial Savings Bank
Brighton State Bank
Wellman Advance Official Paper Selection Adopted
Grace B. Conner deputy county superintendent presided as the Wellman Advance was chosen as an official paper for the year. Board minutes show miscellaneous business before adjourning to Monday February 3, 1919. B C Foster, chairman. A L Griffith, clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matt Parrott & Sons Co
Zion Institutions & Industries
Koch Brothers
Educational Publ. Co
Laurel Book Co
Scott Foresman & Co
Silver Burdell & Co
F. G. Shinn Co
Stone
Metropolitan Supply Co
le Mars Printing Co
Eugene Dietzgen Co
R. L. Fairbrother
Grace B. Conner
Brighton
W. P. Rawn
Ruth Gibson
Grace Willits
Council of Defense
Laura FE. Ingham
de E. D. Morrison
Knupp
Nicola & Harmon
G. Squire
A. White
A. R. Miller
J. D. Glasgow
Stamps & Office
W. B. Coleman
E. R. Harvey
Ins
Roy A. Means
Blackmar & Co
Leigh H. Wallace
Lumber
Security
A. L. Griffith
A. J. Griffith
A. J. Miller
B. F. Dixon
Gas & Oil
Cc. J. Fulton
J. A. Cunningham's Sons
G. W. Wallace
Mame E. Shearer
Edna C. Purvis
Ethel Grecian
Board of Supervisors
Harry McCall
Belle Rice
Geo. F. Morrison
Iain
F. C. Beatty
Mame Shearer
Mil Rice
Dred Aed
G. W. Wallace Youas
Grace Conner
Edna Parvis
Wagter
A. G. Cunningham
M. E.matron
Wellman
B. C. Foster
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Praised for Children
Mrs F W Olsen of Marysville Missouri reports her son Jean suffered a severe cold and persistent cough until taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. After one bottle his cough eased and he recovered quickly. She calls it excellent for children and notes local Lemmon's Drug Store carries it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
F. W. Olsen
Marysville
Jean
Lemmon
Advt
Tortured By A Traitor From Iowa
London writer describes German American sergeant who tortured American prisoners in a German camp. A returning veteran recalls field torture in salt mines and vows vengeance on the Iowa native, while others plan to confront the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
Tottenham
Fritz
Jerry
Kultur
Red Cross
America
Iowa
Chinese tea houses and social drinking stays restrained
The piece notes that China has many tea houses like Western roadhouses and that the Chinese favor tea over alcohol. It compares tea houses to ice cream and soda resorts in number and sociable function.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
China
Turkish era ends as Eastern question reshapes Europe
Dr. Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago arrives in Chicago after an extended absence and assesses the near East. He predicts Turkey in Europe will disappear, the Near East will split into independent states, and hopes for fewer world wars through new political realignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Turkey
Europe
Nenr
Harry Rate Inason
University of Chicago
Judson
Paris
Atlantic Congress for a League of Nations Opens in New York
More than 3,000 delegates registered as the Atlantic Congress for a League of Nations begins a two day session in New York under the League to Enforce Peace. State branches in New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia and West Virginia participate in the event the first of nine congresses planned this month nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Atlantic Congress
League of Nations
League
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Armistice Signed on Silesian Front Between Polish and Czecho Slovakia
Basle reports an armistice between Polish and Czecho Slovak forces on the Silesian front signed February 2. It lasts seven days and auto renews for the same period unless renounced with four hours notice. Troops keep positions as of January 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Basle
Colonel Henry D. Lindsley Heads War Risk Bureau
Henry I. Lindsley built a Texas fortune and retired, but after the United States entered the war he joined the training camps. He rose to colonel in the army and now leads the Treasury War Risk Bureau, a formidable post for an accomplished insurance man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry I. Lindsley
Texas
United States
The
Treasury
Lindsley
Conger Buys 240 Planes to Build Canadian Air Route
Roy U. Conger, now the world’s largest individual airplane owner after buying 240 aircraft and T0 motors plus millions of parts from Britain, plans to establish a commercial Canada air route. He is the son of the late American minister to China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royd. Conger
Canada
Conger
China
The Seckel Pear Named After George David Seckel
The Philadelphia Ledger notes G D Seckel, headman, recounted how George David Seckel brought a pear tree from France and named the fruit the seckel pear after himself. It states his Walnut Street residence below Fifteenth and that he died around 1860.
Failure as a Success in Facing Poverty and Wealth
A reflective passage urges the individual to judge worth by conscience not fortune. It argues that true success comes from how poverty or wealth shapes character, turning deprivation into virtue and failure into personal growth.
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Board Proceedings
Abby
Williams
BE. R. Jenkins
W. E. Anderson
S. A W. Bateman
W. P. Moriarty
R. Campbell
Clark & Enslin
EB. Atchison
Darbyshire
Wood
Chapek
Wee
Good Shepherd Board
Wash. Co. Hospital
Anna Burkley
M. Conner
A. Lemsey
M. J. Orr
A. N. Alberson
Clyde Hillhouse
C. A. Boice
J. C. Boice
Ta. Gas & Free. Co
John Shields & Sons
Mae Shockley
Eliza Kilgore
A. Harwood
J. A. Cunningham
Elder & Shannon
H. J. Ward
Tal J. Lemmon
Supplies Cove
Oriex & Speer
R. L. Lytle
John Bryant
Geo. F. Anderson
Prank
Wilson
Blair & Son
H. Prenzier
Ewe
J. F. Woodburn
Buck W. G. Robertson
Ewe c (Riminal
RW. McCarty
Portage Bowman & Knupp
John Shielda & Sons
City Water Works
Geo
F. Anderson
A. Gibson
Del
Bai
Clay Township
Washington Twp
Dutch Creek
A. Bickford
J. N. Gardner
I. H. Selden
Kalona Motor Co
Wm. Liebe
Fred Palmer
Tile
Guy Black
W. Davidson
Sam Baker
Oral Davidson
Elisabeth Finlay
Esther Rader
Nellie Dodder
Florence Bridger
Nell Hebner
George Masson
Eda Schroeder
Kate Koehler
Anna Staffen
Myrtie Kendrick
Minnie Schroeder
Bessie Wyse
Mamie Thompson
Persis Beal
Allie Hodson
Leila Wilson
Bolleau Taxi Line
Sikke T. Brewer
F. W. Brindley
Telephone Co
W. W. Wilson
Wolf Floral Co
Beck & Thye
T. Minick & Son
J. H. McFarland
E. E. Barnett
John Strain
C, BO & QR
Pauper. Co
B&q. RR. Co
W. H. Warner
Fred Custer
Zenna Hopengardner
Hillyard Chemical Co
C. W. Stewart
O. K
Commissioners of Insanity
Washington Evening Journal
Washington Democrat
R. H. McCarty
Sherff
W. J. Little
J. W. Davidson
PD. C. Kyle
F. Herr
L.S. Bradford
J. M. Shryock
W. F. Sweet
J. B. Dey
Washington National Bank
Peoples Savings Bank
First Savings Bank
Security Savings Bank
J. W. Spevacek
Frank Melinsky
Joseph Knebel
Bradford
I. EE
Young
Justice of the Peace Bonds
M. Stinson
A. BE. Mulhern
BE. Southwick
Mame EF. Shearer
C. Beatty
Kathryn
Montgomery
Margaret Walter
U. of C
Near East
Nation League Congress
New York City
Silesian
Henry D. Lindsley
Roy U. Conger
Swift & Company
Packer
Federal Trade Commission
Congress
Union Stock Yards
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