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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1919
Page
3
Workers will start plastering interior walls and roofing at the Washington high school on East Jefferson and Past Madison streets next week. Foreman Ed Angstead said the largest plastering crew yet will be on site as brick work nears completion and interior partitions rise.
Mr Angstead says the building can be finished and furnished by early September with no delays and faster progress in the next four months. An advertisement cites Mrs Volta Bankson of Chillicothe praising Chamberlains Tablets for indigestion liver and headache relief.
Bethlehem Commandery holds a regular conclave Friday evening May 16 to conduct petitions and close with Red Cross work. All Sir Knights urged to attend at 7 45 with James J Glasgow, E C present.
Harold Buckley of the 149th field artillery Rainbow division is spending a week at his Buckley home. He plans to go to Chicago next week.
Stockholders are urged to attend the upcoming Mercial Club meeting at the Commercial Club gymnasium next Monday evening. The temporary board will lead open discussions on business matters for the new organization and elect a permanent board. Site committee work is not yet complete and location decisions will be deferred.
Mrs Sarah McColl wife of Peter McColl died this morning at the county hospital after a prolonged illness and an operation. Funeral services will be Saturday at two in Woodford chapel conducted by Dr J A Glendinning. Surviving are her husband a son Delbert of Washington a daughter Mrs W J Dooley of Eldon two sisters Mrs Lavina Herris and Mrs Ada Suter and one brother Moses DeMarre. home at 1002 East Third Street.
Washington residents and surrounding communities will hear the Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra next Tuesday evening at the Graham. The 40 member non profit group, organized to promote musical knowledge, aims for a full house as 65 league members and friends sell 500 tickets with the Washington Improvement League backing the event.
Washington County wool growers are urged to attend a 2:20 PM Saturday meeting at the County Agent's office to discuss forming a county association. Tom Stone of Ames, I N Taylor of Oskaloosa, and il Weible of Brighton will attend. the office will move to the former Press office for the meeting.
Three trains bearing the 168th infantry arrived in Des Moines as the state capital hosts the veterans. The plan is to send Iowa’s regiment to Camp Dodge tonight and muster them out tomorrow with homecoming timing for Washington’s troops not yet announced.
Local notices list ticket outlets at Klein Klothing Co C E Plumly music store and Nicola Harmon's for the Gatty Sellars recital. James T Nichols to describe Brussels as the Hun left it in a Thursday Christian church lecture after his Paris peace conference visit. Rev F A Gageby made a brief city stop en route to Fairfield praising progress of his Chicago work.
Conductor B O Worrell of the Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra will give a Graham concert next Tuesday night. He previously led the band for the old 54th Iowa National Guard regiment at a camp northwest of town and later visited as part of the Ottumwa Baptist gospel team in a local meeting.
E. E. York, superintendent of schools, is in precarious condition after a bee sting at Geo Wetter’s farm during a county farm agent and state bee inspector demonstration. The venom spread rapidly, following a similar severe illness two years ago.
Reports describe dogs pulled in double traced harness kicking up ice crystals that strike the eyes of a leading dog, risking partial or total blindness. The more ferocious dogs in the front of the team generally avoid this danger.
In Trepassey Newfoundland on May 15, air service personnel condemn the label Nancy boats for seaplanes. They insist the NC designation is unwieldy and prefer new planes as pilots do, warning that the term Nancy is demeaning to the trans Atlantic flyers and their crews.
Secretary Baker announced that wives and mothers of American soldiers may sail to Europe after June 15 if they plan to stay six months, provided their return does not disrupt troop movements. Those of other than soldiers would be denied travel abroad.
Reports from Ukrainian sources say Polish assaults around Lemberg failed, with infantry charges repelled by machine gun fire leaving hundreds dead. The same message notes heavy fighting near Kiev as Bolshevik offensives against Simon Petliura’s army continue.
The steamship Kai serin Augusta Victoria, recently turned over to the United States, sailed from Col o Illinois last night for the United States with 5 000 troops aboard. The transport carries the One Thirty fourth infantry Cold Pipe horses regiment, the Sixty sixth infantry brigade headquarters and the Twenty seventh engineers.
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