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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1919
Page
8
The Evening Journal carries community items from Lyon’s: travelers visiting relatives in Fairfield and Columbus Junction, local sales and personal notices. Found items include missing hair tonic, bus service calls, and postwar muster outs at Camp Dodge. Auction sale details and house listings appear amid woodcuts of daily life.
Sale note highlights factory direct prices on new stock with limited time offer. Special prices listed include 112.50 16.50 1K.75 20.75 20.00 260, indicating bulk or freight related savings. Calling customers to act quickly before stock runs out.
E A Bickford NW Cork Square advertises magazine subscriptions with club arrangements. Call after 6:40 p.m. or write care of the Journal. Nita Belle McKoon listed as agent. Save money by subscribing. authorized representative also promotes subscriptions via 50 Red after 6:30 p.m. or care of the Journal.
The item notes hogs in the February sale have been well fed and cared for with exercise to ensure strong litters. A. C. Cannon adds an optimistic thought that when God wills a man to be free no ruler can prevent it.
Fragmentary line reads like a reflective notice on leadership and power. The readable portion suggests a paradoxical view of rule and self in a public sphere, with no clear event or identifiable person. Further context is needed for precise summarization.
An eighth grade team from McKee School defeated the high school freshmen five 9 to 5 in the Commercial club gym yesterday. After a 7 to 3 halftime, the grammar school players outscored the freshmen in the final period and prepared to face Ottumwa tonight.
A Graham theatre performance of Which One Shall Marry sparked a large audience last night. The play contrasts wealth driven marriage with love guided unions and condemns mercenary motives. It was well staged and acted. Manager Bickford announces La Salle Musical Comedy Company for a three night engagement starting Monday.
Graham attractions present Guy Voyer as comedian with LaSalle Musical Comedy Company in A Stubborn Cinderella at the Graham starting Monday February 10 for a three day engagement. The cast includes Harrie Lee Minnie Millard Karl B E Butler Harvey Winkler Bessie DeVoie and Grant Hoag with a large beauty chorus. Seats on sale at Lemmon's.
Rev John A Earl of Des Moines college his wife and 20 year old daughter narrowly escaped death by fumes from a fire at their home 1107 Oak ar k avenue they fled in night attire to neighbors Miss Ruth Earl woke coughing fire started likely from furnace room smoke filled the house severed electric light wires and telephone connections interior damage estimated about 200 dollars with water damage to furniture not yet estimated.
Readable fragments describe a local column item with a call for interest or action. Specific person names or places are not clearly evident in the fragment. The brief hints at a community note or opinion piece awaiting fuller detail.
Transportation is provided for buyers from distant areas to attend the Hirth Duroc sale in February. Report at Dougherty brothers store in A.C. address.
The LaSalle Musical Comedy Company brings A Stubborn Cinderella to the Graham for a three day engagement starting Monday February 10. The company of thirty performs with a sixty foot baggage car, lavish scenery and costumes. Shows include The Time the Place and the Girl and The Bridal Whirl, with reservations urged.
Dr. F L Palmer of the state teachers college led a nature study visit in Washington aiding teachers and pupils. He highlighted local trees and rare species, led hikes near the Rock Island reservoir, and advised on tree care while planning a statewide tour after Navy service.
Columbus Junction residents Mr and Mrs W F Oakes report a letter from their son Lieut George Oakes dated January 9 1917 stating he has received his first letters from home and a batch of thirty three. He went overseas with the Rainbow Division in December 1917 and has spent time at an officers training school and in the hospital.
Public auction of home furnishings by David Payne on Saturday February 15 at 11 oclock. Items include heating stove beds chairs rockers cupboards dressers bookcase bedding dishes and other household goods plus farm tools and equipment. held by Dr F Macon and Clerk Dougherty Peb8 11 12 14
Fragmentary lines evoke a meditation on life and death with a quotation attributed to Southey. The passage centers on faith's vitality amid hardship and the intolerable weight of existence, reflecting a poetical verse fragment.
James Otha Carr died at home five miles southeast of Washington at 4 10 pm yesterday from diabetes after months of illness. Born August 21 1906 he lived his life in the area and attended Pleasant Hill school as a member of the Paptet church. Survived by his parents and nine siblings. Funeral Monday at the home conducted by Rev B M Pettit with no confirmed attendance by Rev Dr I Coon of Greeley Colo.
In a letter from president J. KR. Howard the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation objects to being fathered or linked as a relative by the Greater Iowa association. The president denies paternity or blood ties and criticizes the other group as a trouble maker in the Iowa neighborhood.
Hundreds of striking miners halted at the call of the IWW last night as miners were sent home today. Mining is suspended and many workers were beaten. U S regulars guard property while General Must Derivate and City Clerk Kellogg report a state health board order requiring all funerals in Montana to be private until rescinded.
The first Senate chaplain was Rev Samuel Provost of the Episcopal Church and bishop of New York. The first House of Representatives chaplain was Rev William Lynn of the Presbyterian Church. Both served in the first Congress after the Constitution's adoption.
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