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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1919
Page
8
Subscriptions and clubs arranged for magazines with contact details for Nita Belle McKoon as agent. Call 59 Red after 6 30 pm or write care of the Journal to enroll.
Executors Boyd Twinam and W A Harper announce one offer for sale the house and lot on East Main Street Crawfordsville as part of the Effie Twinam estate. Sale details and terms to be arranged.
There will be a meeting of Local 760 on Wednesday January 8 at 8 o'clock at the trade assembly. Very important that every member be present. New business noted. P O CNOBSON Pres 7812.
Regular meeting Friday evening January 10 at Cyrus chapter No. 12 Royal Arch Masons for annual election of officers petitions to be acted on and other important business large attendance desired signed L. D. Langworthy 7903
Items described as spoons left in Suneet Park are claimed by the Matt Gillespie home owner upon identification and payment for this notice. A buyer seeks 3 000 bushels of corn and lists Chas Brown with phone 282 Black 7912 for contact.
County home sale scheduled Friday January 10 at 1 PM. Auction lists 65 Chester White sows 15 yearlings and 50 gifts, all bred to top hogs for quality and breeding. Immune and purebred stock. F C Beatty Superintendent. Macon Auctioneer Dougherty Clerk.
Read The Avenine Journal ad pages announce Caners closing out sale with Tits and pictures, Uncle Sammy’s Minstrels perform at the Graham, and numerous notices from locals like J. F. H. Taylor, Mrs. Warfel, and soldiers returning home. Also ads on rugs, shoes, safes, and walnut prices amid local travel and visits.
Local items report Mrs. A N Alberson seriously ill on West Washington Street Graham Mrs Lina Jones returns home from Sigourney Lem Cherry is critically ill at Harper Mrs Frank Edworthy and Harry Oxley Des Moines visit Wayland Then Dolores McCleary leaves for Muscatine and Omaha County plans auction January 10 with 655 immune Chester White bred sons Death of Mrs Clyde Taylor's husband in Burlington hospital follows New Year’s Day.
Real brood sows and quality breeding attend the county home sale on January 10. The notice also promotes stage entertainment by soldiers just out of service with a 2:30 concert, magazine subscriptions, and local political news from Des Moines. Also mentions a postcard from France and Hyomei as a treatment for catarrh sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
County Home Ches ter White bred sow sale is Friday Jan 10 at 1 pm. Mrs M E Brown announces spring samples Buckley Bros dress goods with large line and contact phone 574 at 607 East 2nd St. Sergt L E Griffith home from Camp Taylor Ky after honorable discharge. He served at Camp Cody N M and Camp Johnson Fla until muster out at Camp Taylor last week. Sand advertised as liver kidney tonic. 50c bottle. Sanol kidney bladder remedy. 50c and 1.00 at Lemmon's Pharmacy. Uncle Sam's Minstrels at the Graham Saturday. E E Reynolds Wiseton Sask and Mrs Sadie Reynolds visit Morning Run then return.
A Beecher passage muses that blossoms cannot reveal future odor and that a person cannot predict where his influence travels beyond his awareness, highlighting the perilous reach of personal power and consequence.
Robert M. Green is credited with discovering ice cream soda during the Franklin Institute’s semi centennial celebration in Philadelphia in the summer of 1874. He served the delicacy and advertised it as a new invention at that time.
A group of European electricians found through experiments that placing arc lamp carbons horizontally with one slightly above the other yields better results. The change affects arc stability and light efficiency, marking a notable improvement in early lamp technology.
A married woman learns that dating a man only on Wednesdays and Sundays contrasts with daily companionship, revealing how routines and expectations shift after marriage. The piece highlights the difference between limited access and constant presence in a relationship.
Sergeant Lane Wilkins former Company K 133rd infantry Camp Cody now in Company B 208th infantry T7th division writes from France to parents. He recalls replacing in the 77th division met Washington K boys and Rainbow division veterans describes hiking days in France mentions promotions hospital stays and bayonet training reports voyage path from New York October 13 to Birkenhead and Havre and Christmas plans with mentions of Thanksgiving rain and drill.
Fairfield High School beat Burlington High School 26 to 19 in the opening game of a six-team southeastern Iowa schedule at the Y M C A. Voor and Riepe led Burlington with most baskets as Fairfield displayed balanced scoring.
Railway employees in the Rock Island Burlington line show little objection to replacing the old ticketing area with a modern, larger depot. Crowds at the morning ticket window resembled circus day as passengers rushed to catch trains, highlighting the need for better facilities.
Havre general merchandise store operated by T. L. Steward was wiped out by a blaze Monday night. The building owned by Ralph Dougherty of Washington was a total loss with stock not fully covered by insurance. Stewart estimates goods at 5000 dollars. Fire origin undetermined. it started about eleven after occupants left. The safe and its contents survived. no rebuilding plans yet.
Secretary W F Huxford of the Community Y M C A announces a 4 pm Friday meeting for all four Boy Scout troops to reorganize the movement in Washington. The gathering at the old M F E church lasts under an hour. The Southeastern Town conference for older boys is now set for the first week of March.
A fragmented roster listing John Alex Young and Charlies C Cunningham with Harvey Young and Donald Bell along with Louis Fifer and roles including President Vice President Cashier and Assistant Cashier. Additional names include Chas J Wilson Dr EK Wickham Wm A Cook Lloyd Ives Jas A Harwood and a series of initials and unclear titles.
The readable fragments present a brief item with vague phrasing likely from a local notice or short brief. No clear names, places, dates, or actions are identifiable to form a solid summary.
In a southwest Washington area, six families within a mile and a half suffer Spanish Influenza. Frank Gray and con Willard are ill, eight in the Garrett family, Charles McCulley, and McCulley’s case with pneumonia. Emil Portman and wife ill, Portman serious, Willard Stone family and Will Cherry improving. Neighbors McKay, Lewis Duke, and Otto O’Hanton tend to chores for the sick.
Friends of Dr Charles F Wishart of Chicago and Monmouth graduate of 1894 are alerted to reports from the Chicago Tribune detailing that Rev Chas Fr Wishart pastor of the second United Presbyterian church Twentieth Street and Michigan avenue and his family have been severely affected by the influenza epidemic including the doctor his wife and two children.
In ill health last Thanksgiving Dr. Wishart will again occupy the pulpit next Sunday. Dr. J. G. K. McClure preached yesterday and has often filled Wishart's position. Mrs Wishart and the children have recovered.
Since its empaneling yesterday afternoon the grand jury has worked hard and summoned numerous witnesses. The jury for this term includes foreman William Tener and members J A Mc Coy William McClintic W R Crawford Sam T Manatt T B Maxwell and Frank Anderson. The judge stressed the duty and the court’s expectations.
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