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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1918
Page
7
The Miller property on South Avenue DB will be sold at auction Saturday at 2 oclock. A good investment awaits the purchaser and the ad notes the sale location and time, with earlier items about local business and civic notices.
Ad offers Dean's Special for Saturday and 60 cent chocolate cherries. Lemmons Pharmacy stocks rheumatic products with money back guarantee. Mrs W C Willie celebrates a son’s return from an eight day hike in Company K 19th Infantry. Magazine subscription deals for Me and Everybody’s Magazine Pictorial Review Ladies Home Journal and more.
Des Moines May 15 Special to Evening Journal The treasury department extends the statewide War Savings Stamp drive for another week or until Saturday May 1st to let county and city chairmen meet quotas. Early reports show last week's drive was successful with post office sales totaling 936,941.72 for the week ending May 7, ahead of 610,872.62 for the week ending May 4. Bank reports pending may push weekly totals higher. Homer A. Miller State Director.
Fairfield launches The Community Magazine as official mouthpiece of the new Community Club. Editor Harry Randall states it is an experimental monthly aimed at a better Fairfield and Jefferson county. A separate note says Frank Bandy William Sloat Charles Miller Stanley Moore and Harold and Ralph Methlelland gathered flowers for the hospital on Monday.
Auction notice invites bidders for the Miller property this Saturday at 2 o clock on 8 Ave D. J W Martin advertises high cash prices for walnut logs and local services listed by several names. Also noted are a May Festival at Patterson lawn Friday at seven and Miss Althea Montgomery visiting her mother while teaching at Cooper College.
Irving Johnson, candidate for district judge from Oskaloosa, visited Washington on Monday to bolster his campaign. The community also noted a generous donation from Mrs. W. A. Whiting, who gave a hen and eleven chicks to the County Hospital, with the chicks receiving special care at the chicken yard east of the building.
A called meeting of Cyrus Chapter No 13 Royal Arch masons is scheduled for Thursday evening May 16 1918 at seven o clock for work on the Royal Arch Degree. Companions from a neighboring town are urged to attend. L D Laneworthy signs notice. You haven't read all the news until you've read the ads.
Joy Jeffreys presents a stereopticon lecture at the M E church on Thursday May 23 at 8 p.m. Admission is free with an offering at the close. Dr John R Mott and Teddy Roosevelt quotes frame the talk highlighting training camps and early work with youth. Beautiful colored slides and a live wire speaker promise an engaging event for all ages.
Special notice directs payment of interest due by May 15. It instructs to clip coupons and present them at Washington National Bank affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank at 764.
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