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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1918
Page
8
A brief column lists residents traveling to Columbus Junction East Pleasant Plain Charles City and Kalona with visits and weekends. A marriage license was issued to Ben M Miller and Cora M Miller of Kalona. Various residents return home or travel for business and social visits. Ice cream specials are advertised by Hartman and Conger.
Community notices include Red Cross benefit at the Graham, meals at Deans, theater promotion for The Crisis, and visits from residents such as Zechariah Gillespie and James Work. Shopping ads for Crail's rugs and 49 cent chocolates at Deans accompany travel and social updates among locals.
The county hospital welcomed its seventh son yesterday as Mr and Mrs Willis Turner announced the birth after 6 pm on Sunday. Community notices urge war tax support and promote opera house showings including Crisis and a big musical event next Wednesday. Local retail and personal updates include Dean's candy specials and a variety of car purchases from Jones Auto Co and area residents visiting relatives.
The Boy Scouts will meet at the opera house at 2 o clock on Tuesday. All members are urged to attend, signed E. L. Hosmer, Scout Master.
A telegram from J. and Deems, state food controller, reports Herbert Hoover stating at a Washington meeting that even a bountiful harvest would require storing grain for hard years ahead. He warns against unlimited bread and urges substitutes, high milling extraction, and waste reduction until after the war.
The Washington band will perform as the first open air concert of the season in Central Park tonight. Forecasters expect fair weather and a large crowd, with attendees invited to enjoy the outdoor show.
The Crisis popular screen play was shown again at Graham last night with another good crowd. About fifty Wayland residents drove over for the show. An orchestra directed by J. C. Caner provided music throughout. Expect Orders Soon Washington’s thirteen army enlisted men in a mechanical course at New York University anticipate finishing next week and receiving orders to go to active service, hoping for France.
A recently opened Shanghai department store proves popular as shoppers prefer wandering aisles and bargain hunting over theater-going. Chinese customers are described as buying items they do not want, reflecting similar consumer behavior seen in the United States.
A brief notice from 88th W. W. Wilson states wagons run on Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays. Readers are asked to put flags out early.
In parts of England village girls ask the cuckoo when they will wed as the bird is believed to answer with a number of notes equal to the years until marriage.
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