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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1918
Page
8
A fragmented OCR line lists periodicals including Ladies' Home Journal Saturday Pyvening Post Womans' Home Companion The American Adventure Pictorial Review and Pictorial Review era items. The snippet reads like a catalog of women's magazines.
A general meeting of all Labor Unions will be held at City Hall Tuesday evening at 7 30. The call invites button cutters to join the gathering and perform united action led by Bilas Thosa, president.
Stores in Washington will close at 11 o clock on Thursday to participate in the city celebration. The notice notes reduced hours for the event and mentions a 9.171 percent figure tied to the observance.
A gamekeeper in Thaxted Keex Bogland was fined one dollar for using bad language the court heard. A woman described a horse near her cottage turning its ears and eyes toward the speaker in apparent astonishment at the exchange.
The county board of supervisors met in regular session. Miss Herel Dean returned from Des Moines. Several residents traveled or planned visits to Muscatine Nichols Keota Pulaski and Cedar Rapids. Roy Downs enlisted in the U S service. Mrs Bradford and family visited Fremont Fairfield Burlington and Denver.
Austin from Fort Madison takes over as agent of the American Railway Express in a consolidation of Adams Wells Fargo and American Express offices. Work to fully organize will take days. The express office and Western Union telegraph office in the same room will open 8 to 10 am and 4 to 6 pm on Thursday July 4.
Por Flying Dutchman day load Cloyce A Pringle son of Mr and Mrs Frank Pringle northwest of town has enlisted in the marines passing a fine physical examination at Davenport. Harley McCreedy taking a training course for army Y M C A secretaries at San Antonio likes his work mightily and is getting along fine. Mrs Clyde Hillhouse to return home tomorrow after a serious operation at Rochester Minn and six weeks recovery there.
June wedding among recent items features Mile. Andrea Koch and Walter Sherfey Hood at Cambridge home. Hood to report to engineers' force in Washington. Community send off for Cloyce Pringle enlistee bound for Paris Island. Standard Bearer girls meet at Methodist church planning July convention with about sixty delegates from Muscatine district.
W H Warner received word that his son Clyde Warner of Worland Wyoming wed Miss Ethel Howell of Worland last Thursday June 27. The couple are now on a wedding trip and plan to visit Washington. Clyde Warner works in the clothing and shoe business in Worland.
Funeral services for H. T. Reynolds were held yesterday afternoon at four o'clock at the West Main street home. Knights Templar and Blue Lodge members attended with Dr. J. A. Glendinning presiding and A. N. Alberson singing. The body was escorted to Rock Island station for interment at Hoosick New York, with widow and son Almon traveling with the body. Pallbearers included W. A. Gibson A. Van Sickle Wyatt Marbourg Henry Parkinson A. G. Marbourg and Charles Noecker.
Members of the legal advisory board and the exemption board attend to registrants filling out questionnaires at the court house. Yesterday and today were set for this duty and about half of the 137 in the class of 1918 completed theirs yesterday while the rest are doing so today. Most do not claim exemption.
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