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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1919
Page
7
Brief notices from Washington County include births deaths and personals. The column lists arrivals departures social updates and community happenings in concise items. Readers learn names affiliations and locations involved in these neighborhood reports.
May 5 Kalona reports show Hugh Dunlap and Miss Myrtice Warner visiting relatives over Sunday. Dr. J. Fry resumes practice after illness. Jos. and Jowich S Yoder travel to Iowa City. Henry Koening and Claude Adams also visit. Mrs Jee undergoes surgical operation in Iowa City and recovers. A. Warner returns from Iowa City. A Melsinger, Sr. heads to Chicago to join his wife with daughter Mrs. Ss. M. Myo. Mrs. K Mauek and daughters Grace and Gretchen visit Kalona. multiple local households noted.
Residents note early sparrow appearances and ready mule homes for birds. A sheriff joke references a trunk confiscation en route to Wellman. Local gossip covers Mrs. Amalong improving after illness, Dewess family changes, and recent visits by Ralph Ashby Milo Stephens Charley Rickey and Roy Sehulty plus Roy Durran buying a new car.
Mrs J P Tobin was a Washington visitor Saturday and Sunday. Joe Kallaus bought a car load of hogs from Minnesota. Mrs Jim Marshall is improving slowly. Mrs Sapplee visited the W Norr home Sunday. Miss deal of Washington works at the R E Peters home. Everett Tobin visited Rob Quinn's home Sunday. Joe Kolesick and family visited Ed Guzeman's home Sunday. I K Beal bought 700 bushels of corn from Fred Jackson and 32 head of cattle Tuesday. Mrs J P Tobin and Bennetts called at the R E B Petra home yesterday.
Walter Stewart from near Keota unloaded four loads of fine feeding cattle here Saturday night. Ira Miksch shipped a car of fat cattle to Chicago Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Harvey visited Davenport over the weekend. Oscar Lane and Miss Pierce of Washington spent Sunday at the W. J. Dea home. Mrs. Howard Hotle visited her grandmother, Smolie, who is ill.
Richard Henry Little reports from Berlin via Chicago Tribune that German high command at a Spa in Belgium studied American war records. Major von Rundstedt quotes observers noting Americans are brave and temperamental, likened to a prima donna. US soldiers from rural areas praised. city troops lagged.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Brinning and children visited the Char lie Harvey home on Sunday. Mrs Harvey Corpman and her son stayed in Washington Monday night. Families including the Millers and Harveys visited the R E Brinning home Thursday. Bethel Aid met at Mrs J E Harvey's last Thursday and will meet again at W C Hotle's Thursday afternoon for a ten cent tea. Merle Dunbar and Homer Hotle attended a party at Arthur Leacox's Saturday. Mrs A L Mayer was in Washington Friday night. BE Davis visited Washington over Sunday. W C Hotle received building blocks and brick from Wellman Saturday. Austin Bower and Gilbert Hotle work for C BE Griffith.
Local residents report arrivals and departures from Lenox Gladbrook and Washington. Miss Ferne Brown remains very ill after a ruptured appendix. Mrs. J A Moorhead and Mrs James McPadden visit, while the ladies club hosts a social at the Wells home. Dwight Nicholson returns from Camp Pike after mustering out, and F E Youngs attends his mother in Coin Iowa. Howard Crozier of Washington is mentioned in funeral attendance.
The text explains by-products as substances formed incidentally during a process or manufacture. Examples include hides and feathers from hunted game, sawdust and shavings from lumber, and coke produced alongside gas manufacture.
The text notes the earliest use of the term John Chinaman as a label for Celestials appears in a London publication from about a century ago, in a letter to the Drury Lane Theatre management committee.
More than 200 eastern department officers at Governors Island discussed converting war risk insurance policies for soldiers and discharged men into ordinary life policies. The goal is to preserve rights, explain policy value, and promote immediate conversion to six available plan types with government overhead coverage and added features like cash value and loan options.
Harold Nicklas now seventeen meets his long lost brindle dog Shep on Second Street Muscatine and the animal follows him home to South Muscatine forever. Harold vows to keep the dog until it dies, ending a five year separation.
An advice note urges Americans to reduce rich foods and use four ounces of Jad Salts daily to flush and stimulate clogged kidneys. The preparation, made from grape and lemon acids with lithia, is described as safe, inexpensive, and beneficial for bladder disorders and general health.
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