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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 29, 1918

Page

3

Birdhouse Prize Winners Awarded at Old M E Church

The birdhouse exhibit opened at the old Methodist church with eighty houses on display. Winners in Class A seventh and eighth grades plus outside McKee school were named, with firsts to Howard Woods Francis Barnoske and others. Judges praised workmanship and bird-life essays. many entries were unfinished.

Birdhouse Howard Woods Billy Mount Theodore Bailey Keith Molesworth Charles Mclaughlin Heinrich Eicher Clarence Carris Durand Itoss Leonard McClelland George Freshwaters Milford Kiefer Carleton Caldwell Francis Barnoske Rodney Mayhew Floyd Bolleau Edward Caldwell Laird Dusenberry McKee Firsat Robert Sage Maria Mount Clarence Harris Helen Keister Dorothy Barkoff Henry Bailey Charles McLauchlin Frank Skipton Paul Putnam Jeanette Rothschild Lewis Warren John Lemmon Richard Groendycke Glenn Eldridge Gladys Mace Ruth George Loia Hkrown Dorothy Ward Mary Louise Minick James Work Mabel Nelson Lloyd Boileau Iowa June Wells Old Methodist Church Green Squire Louis Baird T. L. Hosmer Orville Elder Carl Roberts M. D. Work H. E. Case Mabel Newby Maude McCreedy

President Wilson backs junior war garden clubs in schools

Franklin K. Lane received a published letter from President Wilson urging teachers and children to cultivate home gardens as a patriotic effort akin to shipbuilding and munitions work. Enrollments will close soon, with Prof R M Visquain at the high school office each morning to assist.

Franklin K. Lane Interior Woodrow Wilson Lane Bureau of Education United States France Home Garden Army America Europe War Garden Army R. M. Visquain

Spring Is Nice But Constipation Relief Ad

A vintage advertisement touts Foley Cathartic Tablets from J. F. Lemmon's Pharmacy for digestion biliousness gas stomach furred tongue headache and other bowel clogging conditions. Claims no bad after effects and promotes a relief during trying weeks of changing habits.

J. FE. Lemmon

Bethlehem Commandery called meeting announced

Knights Templar Bethlehem Commandery schedules a called meeting on Friday evening March 29 for work in the order of the temple. J. B. McElhinney E. C. S513 urges a large attendance.

Bethlehem Commandery Order of the Temple J. 8. McElhinney E. C

Nation to Adopt Five Time Zones and Daylight Shifts

A national bill proposes five time zones with standard times governing inter state commerce and federal actions. Clocks go forward one hour at 2 am on the last Sunday in March and back one hour on the last Sunday in October, aligning with mean astronomical time by zone.

United States Alaska United Department Monroe County Clark Moberly Mae Dress E. IL Daugherty Bae Change National Pank Columbia Missouri

Cut This Out It Is Worth Money Ad Offer

Public advertisement urges readers to mail five cents with name and address to Foley & Co. Chicago for a trial package including Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. sold by J. E. Lemmon's Pharmacy.

Foley & Co Sheffield Ave Chicago Ill Foley J. E. Lemmon

Card of Thanks from the Elwells and Family

The Elwells thank friends for kindness sympathy and flowers during the illness and death of their husband and father. Bristol R. L. March 27. Eighteen hundred shoe workers at the National India Rubber plant strike over a wage increase posting leaving 4 500 operatives out of work.

Bristol R. L National India Rubber Company

County Shows About 100 Men In Army Figures

Washington county reports about 350 in the army and a few in the navy with roughly 250 total county members in service. A. L. Griffith, county exemption board secretary, notes many enlistments not yet counted and at least twenty under draft age.

Washington County Army and Navy A. L. Griffith County Exemption Board Army Navy Aero Service

Camp Dodge Band to Play at Graham Theatre Next Monday

Leigh Wallace, Washington Liberty Loan head, arranges a Camp Dodge military band concert at Graham theatre to launch the local Liberty Loan drive. The band, praised as excellent, will be here Monday after a telegram confirmed availability. Colonel D J Palmer will present Boy Scout medals won in the Second Liberty Band campaign.

Leigh Wallace Liberty Loan Committee Washington Graham Theatre Camp Dodge Liberty Loan Tihe Camp Dodge National Army Liberty Band D. J. Palmer

Fresh Strawberry sundies at Dean's tonight and tomorrow

Local notices report fresh Strawberry sundies at Dean's for tonight and tomorrow. Also notes Dorothea Wickham’s return from Poughkeepsie to take a ten day home vacation and various hospital and travel updates from the community.

Dean's Dorothea Wickham Poughkeepsie, N. Y Vassar College

Fortnightly club and society notices and moves

Numerous local announcements detail Fortnightly Music and Evening Literature meetings with Miss Mary Hunter and Mrs F L Wilson, guest rules, and program notes. Other notices include Washington county hospital auxiliary meeting, a dance by HH b heating at Phoenix hall, and a missionary gathering hosted by Mrs G F Poster.

HH. B Phoenix Hall Shuberts

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