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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1918
Page
7
What Is Happening in Various Communities in Washington County Told in Brief News Letters and Coming and Going. Local items cover short notices on residents events and civic happenings across the county.
Mrs. FE. R. Rhodes left for West Liberty to visit daughter Mrs. Phillips and family. Mrs. Nichols visited sister Mrs. Grant Whittaker in Muscatine. Red Cross unfit here shipped 12 pneumonia jackets 80 absorbent pads 8x12 20 seull tetus using 220 gauze strips 6x3 200 gauze wipes 2x2 16 pajama suites 16 bed socks. F. A. Crawford of Fairfield in town renewing ties. J. M. Stewart returned from Missouri with stock cattle. Charles Hodges sent a hogs car to Chicago. Lewis Gormly of Crawfordsville Way visiting. A. E. Sands moving into new store room with glass front and updated floor.
G W Manussier leaves for Washington to work as assistant to Kunath in Q de pot. New station agent M Pomb arrives from Rutledge Illinois. Delong Twinam and Wells visited Washington. Roy and Mrs Finke welcome a daughter. Cloyce Huston to join Bohumir Kryl's band in Chicago this spring. S T C club aids French sufferers with garments. Mrs Bennett and daughter visit Warren Williams home after Washington trip.
Mr and Mrs G W Nickolaus spent the day with friends and relatives here yesterday. They are moving to Kansas City. Mr Brindley of Washington was a visitor on business yesterday.
Mr and Mrs George Chalupa and John Sneider visited Sunday with Carl Sneider. Silas Caldwell butchered meat Tuesday. Howard Baker sold a team to Roy Dawson Tuesday. Fred Bleese shipped a car load of Walnut logs from Havre Wednesday. Neighbors stay busy moving this week. Cloyce Benson with daughter Virginia Roy Kephart and daughter Velma visited Earl Kephart Sunday. Join Pratt and Sam Sigafoose spent Tuesday together. Edgar Myers visited Sunday after church at Howard Bakers. Claude McCall and children returned Monday from Pensacola Florida. Harry Bishop and daughter Helen spent Monday at Duke Edwards. Homer Kephart delivered hogs to a Washington buyer Wednesday.
In Titus February 28 report the Kleese and Fuhr children endured a case of Dutch measles last week. Caleb Lemley aided Derwood Lo wash move Thursday. Mrs Nebergail and daughter Edith visited the Alvie Nebergall home. John Griffith butchered hogs Wednesday. A Brookhart sale Monday drew a good turnout. Rev Drebert from Grace Hill solicited subscriptions for a new summer church addition. Ed Mikech visited from Wellston business area Tuesday. Herman Myers shredded corn fodder for Cale Lemley last Saturday. Mrs Orley Page visited Franklin Center school Wednesday. The Brush families moved to a farm north of town.
West Chester reports that the Reverend Mr. Mountford of Washington will preach Friday evening and Saturday afternoon at the United Presbyterian Church. Stock cars are en route with three passing through town, and there is demand for more houses as the town has no vacancies. Mrs. Walters buys Pollock's restaurant and will take possession at once.
Jim Blakely has been visiting friends in Newton Iowa this week. Reverend Hadley visited Richland Wednesday. Revival meetings at Friends church in Richland are led by Richard Newby of Des Moines with locals attending.
Churchgoers from Clay community attend Friends church revival services led by a renowned evangelist. Weather and bad roads reduce attendance but organizers expect meetings to continue another week with strong urging to attend.
John Lohberger was laid to rest after a Wednesday morning service at St Marys Church conducted by Rev Jacobs Meier. Pallbearers included James Walsh Cornelius Walsh John Knittel Ramey Knittel Louis Rose and John Dann. Interment followed at Mt Olivet Cemetery with out of town mourners Joseph Lohberger Jake Minick and family Joseph Reiner of Washington Anna Colbert Cedar Rapids Charles Sauer and Mrs Mike Stump of Richmond in attendance.
A stark admonition questions the duty to rescue a coughing or snuffling child on railroad tracks urging immediate action to remove the danger and protect the youngster from harm.
Foley's honey and Tar gives relief from coughs colds croup and whooping coughs. Contains no opiates. For sale by Lennon’s Pharmacy ad.
The text compares casualty rates in 1859 and the Franco-Prussian war. In Italy at Magenta and Solferino, casualties to combatants averaged one eleventh. In the Franco-Prussian clashes at Worth, Spicheren, Mars-la-Tour, Gravelotte, and Sedan, killed and wounded averaged one ninth, with Mars-la-Tour at one sixth the highest and Sedan at one twelfth the lowest.
Misses Mary Warren and Belle Jay attended the teacher's meeting in Washington Saturday. Cy Dickinson and family spent Sunday at Terry Gowey's. J N Picken moved to the old Freeman place near McKain's bridge. Andrew Waggoner moved from the old Tom Atwood place and Clarence Turnbull moved to Richland. Roman Borkoski moved to his new farm bought from Charley Parcel. J W Holloway moves into Aaron Bailey's former home. S M Brinton returns to his farm and A M Crumley will occupy the old Anson Brinton place. D D N Kileinschmidt moved to a farm near Harper. John Darling will move to Kleinschmidt's former farm and EF B Cady will occupy the Medes Relief farm. Harry Symons and family of Pleasant Plain visited W F Leppart Sunday.
Miss Jane Dillon, artist and interpreter of plays, appears at the Ainsworth Methodist Church on March 9 under the Woman's Foreign Missionary society. Season ticket holders enter free. single admissions are 25 cents. Regular church services, Sunday school, Epworth League, and prayer meeting are announced for the week.
Riverside residents report visitors from Richmond and Muscatine. Mary Saur visited Mr. and Mrs. John Dawa, while Esther Swift left for Muscatine to visit Myrtle Wetzel. William Griffin was summoned to Williamsburg due to his father Thomas Griffin’s illness. Mrs Arch Smith of Muscatine visited her sister Mrs J L Hawthorne, who then joined her for a week at her home. The funeral services of the late …
The fourth annual Sunny Slope bred sow sale offers twenty sows, forty five coming yearlings, and five select fall boars. Brook's Choice 14861 is the herd boar with near eleven inch bone. Sale day in Washington Iowa with Col. Reppert as auctioneer.
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