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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1918
Page
7
Community notices summarize activity across Washington County neighborhoods. Short items report local events, updates, and happenings from various districts and residents in a compact, period voice. Local civic items and community announcements are highlighted.
Local residents travel for business and family visits to New York Toledo Cedar Falls and Davenport. A nine pound son and ten pound son born to Rosenberger and a birthday party for a six year old are noted along with multiple farewells to draftees and a drowning death of Lyde Rhodebeck near Whit's Bridge.
A busy weekend features hosting at the Walton home with Marcella Glas glow Bernice Thompson and Clyde Paris, a Baptist Decoration Day service with Rev. A F Barker, wreaths for World War I veterans, and visits from Mrs. Robert Guthrie and family. Also noted are the wedding of Ruth Deen and E. Deen, Mrs. Ruegsenger’s country visit, Margaret Rhodes birthday party, Camp Dodge calls, and Lloyd Shackner and Simeon Hefflin enlisting in the navy.
June 1 report notes visits to hospitals and homes in Crawfordsville Iowa City Washington and Mt Pleasant. Families W A Harper Ed McFarland W Wagener from Corning enjoy summer visits and a United Presbyterian church youth picnic at Oakland Mills with Rev P H Hayley.
Brighton reports visitors and travels including Mrs James Frain of Bremont and Mrs J A Wilkins from Broken Bow. Malcolm Griffith earns a degree at Iowa City and heads to Madison for forestry work. A union prayer meeting and memorial readings are noted along with pending surgery for Miss Ethel Thompson and a May 27 baby birth in Long Beach California.
Stringtown reports Laurie Monson returns home on a 48 hour furlough starting May 20, with family awaiting further details of his status.
From the Great Lakes Training Station a group left with 44 county men for Camp Dodge on Tuesday while many relatives saw them off. Neighborhood activity includes a patriotic meeting near Wayland, visits by Farrel Young of Crawfordsville, and Harriot Boshart Ruth Mast and Mable Rich attending Snow College of Dressmaking in Washington. Verda Rich Florence Monson and William Eicher graduate eighth grade, and Washington visitors include F. G. Rich and daughter Velda J. H. Witting Florence Monson and Raymond Monson. The Children's Day committee at Richer Sunday school is preparing a program soon.
Mrs Lyle Nicola and son Charles from Norfolk Nebraska returned to Washington. Washington residents Mabel Crooks Yazel Orris John Davis and several others were victorious on Saturday. Red Cross slides were shown at United Presbyterian church with excess funds going to the local Red Cross. Lee Shaffer of Wahlington visited his parents over Sabbath.
We toured the county and found crops improving over last year with corn ahead of schedule by June 15. Local notes mention Bessie Grimstead and Floyd Shackner’s Iowa City marriage, a family illness in Arkansas, and civic visits to Washington. Red Cross ladies consider another play soon.
National League Philadelphia 6 Cincinnati 3. American League Chicago 6 New York 2 Detroit 4 Boston 4 St Louis 4 Philadelphia 2 Washington 0. Cleveland 1 in 11 innings. American Association St Paul 2 Minneapolis 1 tied at 1 1. Kansas City 2 Milwaukee 2. Columbus 3 Louisville 3 Indianapolis 2.
A Breslau report tells of Mrs. Goihla a 48 year old wife of a municipal clerk who built a vast frauds scheme. She used war contracts to borrow millions and bribed officials to win contracts. Convicted of fraud in 11 cases bribery in 5 and lottery law violations she was sentenced to six years in prison.
A young British soldier writes from Bethlehem detailing guard duty at the birthplace and manger of Jesus. He notes a 14 pointed silver star gifted by France, lamps from many nations lighting the stable, and a natural rock manger reinforced with marble for preservation.
Clackamas county Oregon dissolved its poor farm policy and now a wandering demented man found near the county with a notebook of plans for a Chautauqua park is treated as a possible German spy. He admits German identity and is handed to federal authorities for internment until war’s end.
In downtown Denver workers dig for redevelopment and uncover 18 inch teeth a massive femur and skull fragments showing the creature was far larger than an elephant The teaser ends with an Exchange quote contrasting demanding lonely souls with joyful givers.
The traveler notes the grandeur of Russian churches. Semioriental design with abundant color and ornamentation stands out yet is tempered by harmonious shade blending and a solemn interior atmosphere.
A farmer hires a shopwalker as a farm laborer and sends him to fetch a load of potatoes. At the station the agent asks how the heaps will be moved without a cart. The reply is a humorous misstep about forgetting the cart.
State banking superintendent George Messenger reports a decline in deposits to 505,838,344.16 as of May 10 1918 from the March 4 call, with total assets at 596,592,633.44 and overdrafts down 1,699,134.69 since March 4 1918.
Mrs Mary Sordam of Port Amboy New Jersey reports Foley's Honey and Tar Compound eased her throat and stopped a summer cold. The product claims to be mildly laxative and free of narcotics or opiates as an advertising testimonial.
The document enumerates sixteen national army camps with locations across the United States from Camp Custer in Michigan to Camp Upton in New York and Camp Funston in Kansas, followed by a list of National Guard camps including Camp Robinson in Wisconsin Camp Bowien Fort Worth Texas Camp Cody in New Mexico and Camp Shelby in Mississippi with several others.
Des Moines June 3 fifteen subscriptions to each of five magazines will be sent to Iowa soldiers in the 168th infantry Rainbow division in France from the Spanish American War Veterans coffee fund. Colonel E R Bennett requests the magazines to provide fresh reading material for the regiment. Some fifty casualties are noted in trench training and since returning to the line.
The oldest incorporated city in the United States is New York, chartered in 165 percent. Boston, settled in 1550, gained a charter in 1822 after the Revolution and a long interim. Other cities followed with later incorporations including Philadelphia 1701 and Baltimore 1786.
Australia hosts about one hundred snake species, with roughly three quarters venomous. Large pythons and rock snakes are harmless, but danger rises southward. in Tasmania all species are venomous, though only five are truly deadly.
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