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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1918
Page
3
Morning travelers and visits noted as residents and guests journey to nearby towns including Des Moines Davenport Keota Osceola and Iowa City. Seasonal sales advertise white skirts and cream specials at Rothschilds and Martins.
Local shopping notes show Rothschilds offering a white dress, women’s overalls, and hosiery. Advertisements promote Bagasel streetwear and embroidery trimmed brassieres while customers from Kansas City to Oakland visit.
The county draft board released a tentative list of twenty one registrants and two alternates to go to Camp Dodge during the week of June 24. Led by James Cameron and Paul Gray, the list includes names from Washington Ainsworth Brighton and Crawfordsville among others with further volunteers and class one registrants indicated for possible entrainment and later changes.
Rock Island passenger trains from Chicago to Omaha and Denver continue via Washington due to high water at Marengo and flooded Des Moines branch bridges. Trains may run this way for a week, with one Chicago and an expected Omaha service today. Rivers rising and rain record heights threaten further damage. Des Moines and Coon rivers loom high while Skunk river overflows.
Day McNamara returned home from Burlington after attending the state convention of undertakers. County Agent M. Al. FPedderson went to Des Moines for a view business viant and will return tonight. Herbert Gass was bruised yesterday when he crashed through a plate glass window at the Smith millinery store where he works. He escaped serious injury.
A bigamy case in Russia reveals a prisoner, a young woman about thirty, confessing to sixteen marriages. She admitted eluding each husband and siphoning their portable property before fleeing with new partners.
Dan Mannhardt reports the death of Henry Bureker a prominent Fairfield Pleasant Plain stockman aged about fifty five to fifty eight who died at Ottumwa at his sister Gets Lieutenancy home Reed Salladay received a commission as second lieutenant and is assigned to Camp Pike Arkansas after officers training Company K veterans who served on the border 76 Today John Weoley Morton at 76 says he remains active at his Temple building post ready to meet all comers continuing duties despite age
An advertisement quotes Mrs Margaret Strate of Bishop California praising Foleys Honey and Tar Compound as a reliable cold remedy. The ad from Leammon's Pharmacy urges readers to use the medicine when coughs or obstinate colds persist this season.
Ilarold Jones of Richland spent last night in town visiting friends. W. A. Gibson assists with corn plowing at his farm north of town. Mrs. Richard Donaldson and her mother Mrs. Emily P. Edgington traveled to Des Moines for a few days. Miss Mary Crovither was in Washington and now visiting friends while aiding Iowa Wesleyan University in Mt. Pleasant. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dolies arrived from Morene Arizona and will stay several weeks visiting relatives in Os kaloosa and Waterloo. Dolies is advancing as a manual training teacher at Morenci with yearly salary increases.
Nathee thanks attendees and performers of the Red Cross benefit show held last Wednesday night at the Graham. All those with bills against the event may present them to C. M. Keck at the Commercial Savings Bank GRO. D BICKFORD.
Annual memorial service to be held Sunday June sixth at 4 30 PM at the K P Hall. All brothers urged to attend and provide ears and flowers. J F Bovee 9712.
Mawkeye Lodge No 1 IA passes resolutions on May 30 1918 mourning George G Reiater a loyal member and neighbor. It drapes the charter in sorrow extends sympathy to his family and orders distribution of notices to Loyal Workman county papers and bereaved relatives.
A reflection on friendship as the most blessed bond that understands the heart. It warns against allowing anxiety or grief to wear the spirit down and suggests true friends can anchor the soul and lift heavy burdens.
A court cartoon notes a husband learns his ignorance only when attempting to manage the house while his wife is absent. The quip underscores domestic role dynamics in a lighthearted, comic tone.
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