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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1918
Page
7
Community notes from Over County summarize happenings in Washington County neighborhoods. Short items cover local events, meetings, and forthcoming activities across multiple communities.
June 9 Rubio brief notes a rising river after a brief fall, sweeping river bottoms and submerging fields. J W Brock moves into the Nordyke house. Geo Reed of Milwaukee visits relatives. Willard Statler on a 10 day furlough in aviation. Grace Fitch cares for housework amid illness. Lowell Hyzer injured by a splinter but aided by Mrs Hadley. Mrs KE S McNeese visits Richland.
Mrs W Merchant visited Washington business matters Wednesday. Mrs Chas Davison had tonsil surgery in Washington with Dr McLaughlin assisting. Myon Merchant Gleede Cold and Manual McKeene registered in Mt Pleasant. Clarence Benson couple visited Coppock Thursday evening. Sam Petratz Blanche Sutherland joined B A Davison home Thursday evening. Tom Bales and wife traveled to Washington Friday on business. Jess and Ben Davison baled day Friday for Fred Neff.
Wellman community notes report the death of Mrs. Roth in Kent Iowa and a fatal auto crash near Iowa City. Kalona honors flags on June 15 with Governor Harding as speaker. Chas Eckerman’s crew and local residents appear at Iowa City and Wellman events. A 9 pound boy Arthur Hamilton born Storm Lake June 3 is announced. Chautauqua dates set for August 15 21 and local visits by residents are noted.
Local residents undertake travel and visits including Susie and Jane McCarter in Iowa City, Flora Wells hosting Standard Bearer girls, and Mrs. Guy Walker visiting in town. Marines bound for training in St Paul, and a field meet plus park picnic planned by Epworth League. Community events include tea at the W M S, children’s day programs, and summer school departures to Cedar Falls.
National League has no games listed while American League results include Chicago 2 Philadelphia 1 and Detroit 4 Cleveland 6. Boston and New York 4, St. Louis Hawks? The text also oddly notes 112 innings and a merchant line about an ad.
Sergeant wounded in France recounts first American contingent’s entry into the trenches with Pershing. He describes mud filled dugouts, shelling, gas attacks, and a foot wound from a rifle misfire. Pal Merle C. Smith and “Duck” Smith featured as comrades.
A newly organized Auxiliary of the Red Cross for the Hard of Hearing gathers deaf women in room 300, Mason Building, Los Angeles, to sew sponge wipes compresses and surgical necessities for Red Cross relief efforts.
Miss Marion L. Davies, University of Wisconsin graduate, becomes one of the first women appointed examiner under the federal trade commission. She conducts research in the congressional library on manufacturing facts, bringing two years of secretarial experience with the commission and a prior career in reporting.
Occy Wattles returned to the same seat at the cinema last night and found the gum from the prior night missing. He admits curiosity about who removed it, though he does not want the gum himself.
A fragmentary dialogue features a slur and a defiant reply about appetite and honesty set in a period tone. The crude remark contrasts with a defensively phrased retort about purchasing food openly.
Little Bess in second grade claimed her teacher kept calling for cigarettes. The mother and child visited the school to confirm the charge. The teacher then corrected the class by calling out Sit ereet, sit ereet, revealing the youngster misheard the command.
A quoted maxim from the Boston Transcript states that personal jokes are always good. The note emphasizes self origin as the source of humor and reliability in humor choices.
A brief exchange from Farm Life features a character questioning another's basis for self-respect with a witty retort about supply and demand. The dialogue highlights economic thinking within a rural or agricultural context.
The article notes that tunneling is among the oldest trades and highlights progress in the last century. It cites Theban kings and a 400 foot tunnel expanding into a chamber, and mentions rock temples in Nubia and India as examples from which moderns can still learn.
A quotation from Bacon laments aging men who stall, delay ventures, and settle for mediocrity rather than pursuing full, decisive and productive efforts in business and life.
A concise witticism noting that when one woman keeps silent the others wonder what ails her.
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