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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1918
Page
5
Brief notes from Washington County report births and deaths, personal notices, and happenings. Items include arrivals and departures, community events, and small-town updates from local residents and organizations.
Letters from France describe health and weight gains for Elmer Eglin and others on furlough while sons far away report good health. Locally, Richmond Red Cross sales raise funds, Bohemia praise noted, and residents applaud wartime support. A lightning accident kills a horse during a farm porch moment.
A. B. Carr shipped hoes to Burlington. Visitors from Washington included Mrs. Walker Mrs. Benz and Mrs. Oscar Jugenheimer. Zeta Pratt and Mable Moore returned home after a week with the Glen Pratt family. Golia Miller prepares to ship to Camp Pike after a farewell party with Red Cross comfort kit. The Turner child injured a foot and Dr. Clyde Boice treated it. Community members Will Stafford Tom Stuart and others were in Burlington and Washington for various affairs.
A modest audience at the Methodist church heard Rev Brigham of Riverside discuss German atrocities. The rapid delivery made parts hard to follow. John Wooley returned from Moscow Idaho for a brief visit with his father and sister. Mr and Mrs Gardner and W A Harper and Carlton Wilson of Washington were in town on business, with Mr and Mrs R C McCleary and Mrs W E Stump visiting in Washington forenoon.
Miss Myrle Laney is spending the week at Joe Wieland's. Whilma Mincer broke her arm Thursday evening. John Laney and wife with Mrs. Dvorak and daughters Helen and Nora spent Thursday evening at Joe Wieland's. Mr. and Mrs. H. Walters visited the A. Mehleck home on Sunday.
Claiming catarrh is caused by constitutional factors, Hall's Catarrh Medicine from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio is advertised as a blood acting internal remedy. A $100 reward is offered for any case it fails to cure with circulars and testimonials available.
Dubuque reports nine new infantile paralysis cases with five new infections yesterday raising alarm. State health secretary extends city quarantine indefinitely preventing under 16 leaving the city and requiring health certificates for older residents. Local officials seek legal authority while Archbishop Keare urges strict enforcement at churches to keep minors out.
The Wellman community and surrounding area turned out to hear Miss Anne Olsen county demonstration agent for Washington county. She outlined four steps for the food program production distribution conservation and urged patriotic homekeepers to help win the war. The event, sponsored by the W. Q. V. club, received support from local stores and volunteers.
Camp Dodge prepares for twelve hundred tents to house incoming selective service men over five days. The first contingents from South Dakota, Nebraska and Montana will fill barracks, with space fully used for the first time. Officers and engineers organize water and sewer systems, kitchens, and shower baths as 35 companies are housed in tents. The Eighty eighth division grows to war strength with transfers from Camp Funston and other camps, while three thousand Negroes report within the week.
Gene Moberly and family visited Ed Murdock on Sunday. Hollis Whiting, recently injured, can work some now. John Stolley purchases a new Velie car, signaling improvement in the area.
From Washington, officials told generals and staff that Camp Dodge is one of seven locations under consideration for enlargement as part of broader expansion work at various cantonments.
Dr. L W Littig dies in Iowa City from a carbuncular infection caused by an insect bite at a Johnson County Medical association meeting. Born in Davenport in 1858, he trained at Iowa University and Penn, studied in Berlin and other European centers, and held royal surgical credentials. Funeral Sunday at his home. He leaves a wife and five children.
The YMCA seeks men who can go overseas to teach singing as part of the mass singing effort in American camps and in the American Expeditionary Force in France. The aim is to form a singing army that helps win through music with choir leading and mass singing.
An Oronsa torpedoed survivor, a YMCA secretary aboard, paused mid wash of his false teeth. He joined a lifeboat crew, rowed awhile, and then found his teeth were biting into his own flesh.
A reflective note urges vigilance as a pivotal moment unfolds. The piece invites awareness of signs and signals that could define a larger, enduring opportunity or danger for readers.
Gypsy Smith recalls preaching behind Lewis guns and serving under shellfire for months. He says he did not duck his head as bullets flew, while wearing a YMCA uniform and delivering gospel to soldiers in the trenches.
Washington County headlines and briefs from the Evening Journal cover local happenings, notices, and curiosity items in compact form. This summary preserves the paper’s period voice and focuses on readable, named entities and concrete facts where present.
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