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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1918
Page
8
Read the advertisements and notes about visitors. Mre J J Lyon traveled yesterday to Toulon Iowa to visit her daughter. Ruth Ranows and Helen Coffman came from Keota to spend the day.
Local note: Deans offers fresh strawberry sodas and a six o'clock dinner Sunday evening. Also promoting Wor Sale items including sweet potato plank and a new dry goods saleslady Mice Fila Podeter at the Graham store.
The Evening Journal lists social visits and errands in Keota and Burlington. People call at homes, visit relatives, and discuss travel to Fairfield for a track meet. A marriage license was issued to Guy Moothart and Marguerite Fleming. A cablegram reports Dr Harvey McCall arrived in France. Subscriptions offered for Mentor and Everybodys Magazine.
The item details numerous residents and visitors including Miss Ruth Lewis from West Chester, Mrs. L. H. McAvoy from West Chester, Miss Louise Cunningham visiting Cedar Falls, and others traveling to Muscatine Davenport Ottumwa Moline Seattle Keota and Rexburg. It records mothers day plans, hospital training in Chicago, and family visits spanning multiple towns and states.
Visitors from Ainsworth join a Baptist youth rally at the village church. Local families note relatives in Army Y M C A work in Norfolk and a state P E D convention in Centerville. Several area youths join the Marine Band and coastal training shores, while others enlist for Navy and Army assignments and celebrate family ties.
Provost Marshal General Crowder asks Adjutant General Logan of Iowa for 100 railway brakemen, flamen conductors 85 locomotive engineers and firemen 25 boiler makers and helper 10 gunsmiths and 37 veterinarians. Railway men report Camp Dix Wrightstown NJ boiler makers Fort Myer VA gunsmiths Camp Hancock GA veterinarians Camp Lees VA. Only white men physically fit for service may apply through the local exemption board at the courthouse.
A morning fire at the W. M. Galloway farm a few miles northeast of town destroyed a wash house or summer kitchen. It started likely from a stove used for washing. About fifty neighbors aided, preventing damage to the main house as flames were driven away by wind. The wash house and some clothing were lost. Insurance will cover the damage.
The Shuberts arrive by car for a concert at the Iowa City Country Club this evening. Mrs. Leah McAvoy returns from Kalona after visiting her sister Mrs. Don Figgins and announces niece Miss Helen Figgins has just left the hospital after a successful operation.
A notice seeks one hundred head of stock or any number available. The ad for Boyd Berds appeared yesterday with the word stock omitted, and the Journal acknowledges the error.
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