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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1918
Page
10
Local items include shoe ads Morrison & Morrison about farm loans and a Rude Spreader sale offer. Social notes mention Miss Heledia Harvis visiting East Pleasant Plain and Miss Myrtle Richardson en route to Brighton. Auction notices list E. T Wiley property sale after the Tucker sale with family travel updates and marriage news for Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stusse amid wartime service considerations.
Irb. 22 announces the ET Wiley estate sale at 62 South Becond Avenue immediately after the Tucker sale tomorrow. A six room house and a full corner lot four blocks from the opera house will be sold with terms given on sale day. Aus. Sutherland.
eMr and Mrs Charles Maye traveled to Keota on business. J FP McNamara returned from Chicago and Minnesota business trips. Miss Pearl Buck, who worked here, went to Keota to see her brothers John and James Buck who leave tomorrow for Des Moines to join the National Army at Camp Dodge. Miss Buck will head to Chicago Monday.
McNamara's invites readers to shift from bargain hunting to seeking high quality. After experience in the furniture leaving trade, they offer to help buyers distinguish design, construction and finish, proposing their guidance to make better home furnishing choices.
The merchant reports Donald Ross returned home yesterday from Monmouth West Virginia where he attends college to spend the brief vacation granted students for Washington's birthday anniversary.
Des Moines trip planned for Miss Marie Grecian to visit her sister Mrs H C Reynolds for about two weeks. Mrs James Shrader travels to West Chester with grandson Georgie McAvoy. Monmouth college glee club eyeing Iowa and Washington visits. Elizabeth Ingham ill. Laura Ingham and Laura Lucile Littlefield visit Brighton. George McKee on 15 day furlough from Camp Cody visits Andy McGuire. Sam McGuire escorts him to Lincoln school for army life talk to pupils and teachers.
Washington newspaper reports bankers emptied the town as they caught the Burlington train to attend the district bankers convention in session. Rev. S. K. Coats travels to Packwood to deliver an address at a farewell for Camp Dodge recruits and will return to his pulpit Sunday. Katherine Stichter heads to a Keota school event honoring Washington’s birthday and school standardization. Mrs T Y Wickham and daughter-in-law visit Ainsworth, then return to the Dr T Wickham home. King DeWitt Coxsee, born at the Methodist hospital, weighs seven and three fourths pounds. parents live in Des Moines Town and local friends send word.
Miss Beulah Kerr vacationing with her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Kerr and plans to return to Des Moines to attend Drake University. Mr. and Mrs. J. Rothschild are home from a spring buying trip to New York after a three week eastern city journal. Train service in the east has been disrupted by current conditions causing connection difficulties.
Amsterdam reports that Ukrainia now a new Russian republic has concluded peace with the central empires and will be converted into a protectorate under Austrian Hungary. The Ukrainian rada at Kiev has accepted the principle of a protectorate.
London February 22 reports 204 Americans killed when the torpedoed Tuscania sank. Identified and buried are three officers and 187 men, with one officer and 1 man unidentified buried, 32 men missing presumed lost with the ship.
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