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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1918
Page
5
Community notes from Washington County highlight going and coming events in local neighborhoods. Short items summarize activities, meetings, and local notices across the county.
In Wellston on June 17 Mrs. Jesse Harvey visited relatives. Ralph Brianine and family spent Sunday in Grace Hill at the Belle home. Mr and Mrs Sam Anderson of Washington with Mr and Mrs Dave Wentworth of Brighton and daughter Carrie visited Mr and Mrs Will H Brinning. Many locals attended Children day exercises at New Haven Sunday afternoon.
Rural Route 4 notes social visits and tasks. Mrs L W Matthess and son Wilbur of Des Moines visit H K Matthess home. John Rittenhouse hosted by Maine Holmes. Shalla family visits Riverside. Sehulty visiting Warren Matthess. Adams and Stagner active in Wellman and Washington. Blaine Holmes loses two hogs to heat. Everett Young hauls tankage from Kalona. Mela Shalia visits Centerville. Warren Matthess and Marjorie Schulty call West Chester.
Raymond Monson leaves Noble to enter the Great Lakes Naval Training Station as a musician. Several families take weekend trips with autos to Camp Dodge and Davis County. Lee Rinner delivers a cow, and other residents visit Washington or attend a Wayland band concert.
Mrs MBE Sands and Pearl Badham with DeTbert spent Monday with MBE Ebner’s family. Vera Kekele returned to Washington after visiting cousin Fern Palmer. Z L Edwards is slowly recovering from appendicitis. Grace Foster returned home after visiting sister Mrs A Brown. A large crowd attended the Children's Day program Sunday evening. Mr Mullin fell into an elevator pit Friday, breaking three ribs but is recovering well.
In London on May 28 the writer describes a U S Army and Navy baseball game with vivid scenes of the crowd and players praising the sport’s thrills and noting the admiral and officers joining in the fanfare and chants as the audience roars and the game unfolds.
In the Dodo Class a pair of familiar beasts vanish from memory. The first is the consecrated cross eyed bear sung in Sunday school. The second is the equator or menagerie horse that could run around the earth, famed for speed and endurance.
Frank Miller of Bingham Utah says kidney troubles once kept him from work. He tried various medicines without relief until Foley Kidney Pills, and now he feels better than ever. Lemmon's Pharmacy advertises the remedy.
A fragment discusses Louise Glaemen and a satirical take on culture and progress. It references ancient paper making from Asia to Europe, Arab influence, and Silk Road connections. The tone critiques material progress as Kultur and notes alien enemies and scientific marvels.
The draft authorities offer a course in automobile care at Armour Institute in Chicago for 103 men from Town with two or three from Washington county likely. Volunteers must report to the exemption board by Friday evening. Induction telegram No 49 outlines a July 1 entrainment for 102 grammar school graduates with mechanical aptitude to Armour Institute of Technology.
A fragmentary dialogue features an Eskimo in constant clothing and a man in a shiny coat sleeve musing on moving north for fashion. The exchange hints at cultural contrasts and seasonal garb in a northern locale.
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