National Army Soldiers Sent Off to Camp in 1918 War News
A Washington county delegation of National Army volunteers leaves for camp with a formal send off. Governor Harding orders English as the sole instructional medium in Iowa schools. Iowa reports 15 percent more hogs via state college extension estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Army
Home Service
Department of the Red Cross
Court House
Washington County
W. L. Harding
Iowa
Iowa State College
Etha Dawson
Commercial Savings Bank
Ethel Grecian
Trains Cut on Rock Island Line. Local Jobs Shifting
The Rock Island line will remove at least two, possibly four through trains next Sunday, per Washington sources. Walter Little leaves H A Baxter elevator to join Farmers and Merchants State Bank as bookkeeper. Fred Downing of the Post Office enlists in the aircraft division. Following President Wilson’s Memorial Day fasting and prayer plan, many town businesses closed from 1:30 to 9. C W Busby remains noted in partial sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Washington
Walter Little
H. A. Baxter
Farmers and Merchants State Bank
Fred Downing
Post
Wilson
C. W'.busby
Y M C A Secretary Resigns for Scout Executive Post
Saturday, June 1, 1918, Thomas L. Hosmer resigns as community Y M C A secretary to take a Boy Scout executive position in Elgin, Illinois. Draft call notification for June expected soon by the county exemption board. Remodelling contracts for First United Presbyterian church to be awarded within a week or two. Washington teachers mostly at home for summer. some plan attending sessions. County food administrator H M Eicher reports no white bread in sight yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas L. Hosmer
Board of Management
Elgin
Illinois
First United Presbyterian Church
Washington
H. M. Eicher
State Department
Iowa News Roundup Highlights 1928 Corn Start and Politic Dust
The 1928 Iowa season kicks with Charles Reed warning of early corn planting and crop concerns. M L Bowman in Waterloo fights political attacks. Iowa Aeronautics Day grows into a major state event. Fort Dodge marks WWI veterans with a half holiday. Ross R Mowry nominated as U S attorney for southern Iowa. Iowa road contracts total 586700.24 dollars in Ames. Des Moines pioneer Charles R Chase dies. Corn planting finishes and plowing begins across sections. Iowa business leaders attend the first annual sales conference at the University of Iowa College of Commerce. Iowa bank deposits rise by 12500000 in eleven months. Commerce department notes more marriages than divorces in 1927. Immediate 50000 appropriation for Iowa City post office added. Dr C A Aplin elected president of Homeoraths of Iowa. Ninety five Iowa State College students receive scholarship recognition. Farm Bureau leaders Hearst and Turner protest McNary Haugen bill failure. Drownings reported near Indianola. Frank Miles recuperates at home. Eighty Iowa county agents attend ISU short course. Iowa City air mail port assured by federal official. Harry W Knapp dies at 84.
The Shepherd of the Hills and One Night Shows at the POX
The Pox Theatre presents Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills with Molly O Day and John Boles supported by Alex B Francis. Esther Ralston stars in Love and Learn as the modern daughter trying to avert a divorce through family struggle. Hoot Gibson leads The Wild West Show. Schedule: Monday Tuesday The Shepherd. Wednesday Thursday Love and Learn. Friday Saturday The Wild West Show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Bell Wright
First National Pictures
Wright
Ozark
Tyhere
Matthew
Big Matt
Matt
Mally
Sammy Lane
Molly
Molly O'Day
John Boles
Alex B. Francis
Ozarks
Esther Ralston
Anthony Coles
Lane Chandler
Lane
Hoot Gibson
Alexx Francis
Sally O’day
Stampdale Triumph at Aurora and Paris Doubles
Sporting Review notes Stampdale wins at Aurora while an old gon falls in Paris doubles. two Americans advance past the first round in British amateur golf. Fleet sprinters set to meet in Big Ten games Friday and Saturday as Pyle’s runners press on despite financial reverses. Sox beat Cleveland 4 to 3. Wimbledon to enforce amateur rule restricting players writing for papers. Helen’s Babe scores at Churchill Downs. Michigan claims Big Ten baseball title. Helen Wills and Penelope Ander Lyon of Illinois favored in Big Ten shot put. Joey Medill vs Mike Dundee slated at Mills stadium tonight.
Keota Commencement Program at High School Auditorium
Keota May 25 The commencement program outlined events from processional to benediction in the high school auditorium. Rev V G Nalley delivered invocation, Dr James Coons from Iowa Veseyian College Mt Pleasant spoke on Making a Life While Making a Living, followed by diploma presentations by T A Morris and music from the junior and high school choirs.
Sunburst Rose Class Plans Decoration Day Program
The Sunburst Rose announces Decoration Day on May 30 with a patriotic parade from local halls at 1 50 to the high school auditorium. Rev. W G Nalley gives the invocation Harland Newhart and Mary Louise Stewart read, Ex judge K E Willcockson addresses, and the ceremony includes America The Beautiful a benediction by Rev W O Harper and a cemetery march led by the Keota band Lincoln's Gettysburg address by Glen Smith American Legion ritual service graves decoration salute firing squad and taps.
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W. C. Moser
Long
America
W. G. Nalley
Reading
Harland Newhart
Mary Louise Stewart
K. E. Willcockson
America the Beautiful
W. O. Harper
Keota Band
Glen Smith
American Legion
Cedar school year ends with Sunset Park picnic
Miss Anita Telin closes a successful Cedar year with a Sunset Park picnic for 35 pupils and parents. The Walnut Sunday school drew 37 attendees last Sunday. Roy Libe bought a rotary hoe and reports it works well. hardware stores struggle to keep them in stock.
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Verdi
Anita Telin
Cedar
Sunset Park
Walnut
Roy Libe
Evacuation of Americans From North China Ordered
United States government decides to evacuate all Americans from north China in case of extreme emergency. Lindbergh’s proposed Atlantic flight via Greenland is postponed until fall. Coolidge vetoes the MacNary Haugen farm relief bill for the second time. Lindbergh accepts a full time job as chairman of the TAT technical committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North China
United States
Charles A. Lindbergh
Atlantic
Greenland
The
Transcontinental Air Transport Corporation
South China
Bomb devastates Buenos Aires Italian consulate offices
A powerful blast ripped through the passport offices of the Italian consulate in Buenos Aires killing several people. Details on casualties and causes remain incomplete as authorities investigate the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Coal mine disasters kill 225 men in three states
Since Saturday upwards of 225 men have been killed in three coal mine disasters in Pennsylvania Kentucky and Virginia. Plans for the Republican national convention in Kansas City in June got under way as carpenters and painters began transforming vacant rooms in the Security Building into headquarters for the national committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Virginia
Kansas City
National Committee
House Adopts Measure to Adjourn Congress Next Tuesday
Amid jubilation the House of Representatives on Thursday passed a resolution to adjourn Congress next Tuesday at five o'clock by a 303 to 57 vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
Congress
Polar dirigible pilot reports dropping pontifical cross
General Umbreto Nobile radioed the pope from his polar dirigible claiming he dropped a pontifical cross on the north pole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Umbreto Nobile
North Pole
Senate Conferees Agree Tax Cut Favorable to President
Senate and house conferees reach a tax reduction totaling about 223 million dollars, with the arrangement deemed satisfactory to the President. Other items include political shifts in Germany and ongoing global tensions as nations respond to wartime pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Hoover Campaign Expenditures Under Scrutiny In Senate
Testimony in a senate inquiry shows total spending in the Hoover campaign reaching 300745 dollars while Hoover’s Indiana manager denies charges of 100000 dollars in expenditures and only 53000 dollars raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Indiana
Senate
Washington County News Highlights May 20 26 1928
One Week in Washington County reviews events from May 20 to May 26 including a lineman electrocuted in Dubuque while with Interstate Power, fishing licenses not required per deputy game warden, a notable marriage announced, graveside Memorial Day decorations organized by veterans groups, and Earl Dickinson placing eighth in the Washington D C spelling contest. The Southeast Iowa track meet results show a local team scoring 44 13 points. other items note school prize winners, obituaries, political speeches, and community notices.
City Council Approves New Crossing Signals Plan
At Monday’s meeting the council passed an ordinance to install a new crossing signals system with lights and bells where the Rock Island and Milwaukee railways cross North Marion North Iowa North Second and North Fourth avenues.
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Rock Island and
Milwaukee
North Marion
North
Iowa
North Second
North Fourth Avenues
Local Court Session Opens and Social Notices
Judge J G Patterson of Oskaloo sa held a brief district court session on Monday adjourning tentatively until Thursday May 31. The community learns of the marriage of Miss Corinne Martin of Oskaloosa to Raymond Buckley of Ainsworth on Sunday. Grace Viola Hesseltine of Crawfordsville and Clarence Earl Sacket of Ainsworth wed Sunday afternoon at the Methodist parsonage. Dr W W Bowers urged high school grads to value worthwhile things in his baccalaureate sermon at Washington High. The local Y's Men’s club sent the largest delegation from the state to the Washington high school track convention.
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Washington Fire Department
John Steck
Bar
Hout
Leigh Bell
Clarence Barnett
Henry Berdo
John Bidwell
George Dempsey
Louis Anderson
Fred Minick
Kenneth Carris
Frank Shearer
Clyde Rhodebeck
Keota
English River
J. G. Patterson
Oskaloosa
Corinne Martin
Raymond Buckley
Ainsworth
Grace Viola Hesseltine
Crawfordsville
Clarence Earl Sackett
W. W. Bowers
Washington High School
Methodist Church
Y's
Des Moines
Portland Woman Rebecca Moore Dies At Home
Miss Rebecca Moore of Portland Oregon died Monday evening at her home. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at the Pleasant Hill Christian church southeast of town. Thieves entered the L E Nagley garage on North Second avenue Monday night and stole all the gasoline in sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca Moore
Portland
Oregon
Pleasant Hill Christian Church
L. E. Nagley
North Second Avenue
Norman Sage wins junior college oratorical contest
Norman Sage takes first place with Rose Ranch finishing second in the junior college oratorical contest held Monday night. Washington Rotary club awarded prizes to the winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Sage
Rose Ranch
Washington Rotary Club
Cash and Carry market sold to Mitchell plans to continue
The Cash and Carry market owned by Jake Hertig was purchased by W H Mitchell who plans to keep the business running. Dr F W Eastwood was chosen to deliver the memorial sermon to war veterans and auxiliaries tomorrow at 2:30 in the Presbyterian church. Barbara Miller daughter of Mrs Ola B Miller of Iowa City formerly of Washington was among twelve Iowa co-eds chosen for Mortar Board the senior women’s honorary society.
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Jake Hertig
W. H. ‘Mitchell
F. W. Eastwood
Presbyterian’ Church
Barbara Miller
Ola B. Miller
Iowa City
Washington
Iowa
Mortar Board
Col D J Palmer a Washington county Civil War leader
Col D J Palmer rose from a Lincoln era recruit to Union Army lieutenant colonel and later Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. A native of Washington county he served as county auditor state senator railroad commissioner and secretary of the treasury before leading GAR oration in Washington DC. His long career spanned military politics and church work making him a pillar of the community.
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Washington County
Evening Journal
Sherman
Georgia
Lee
Appomattox Court House
Pennsylvania Avenues
Washington, D. C
Johnson
Col
D. J. Palmer
Col. Palmer
Dave’ Palmer
Iowa
Bell
Shiloh
Palmer
Jack
Pennsylvania Avenue
Old Jack
Helen Letitia Young
John Huskins
Washington
Henry
General Assembly
Des Mines
Leslie M. Shaw
Treasury
Roosevelt
Grand Army of the Republic
Detroit
Michigan
Wwil 6On
Republican Party
United Presbyterian Church
Colonel Palmer
Rural School Picnic Led by County Superintendent
Mrs. Winnie Palmer county superintendent heads a rural school picnic today at Sunset Park with students and staff gathering for a community event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnie Palmer
Sunset Park
Baptismal Superstition Shared by Old English Folklore
The Dearborn Independent recounts a superstition claiming that when children of different sexes were baptized together the boy must be baptized before the girl else the girl risks growing a beard when she grows up.
Lead Poisoning From Pipes Cited In Water Safety
The notice warns that lead in pipes can taint drinking water. It advises drawing off standing water before use and notes tin-lined pipes as a safer option to prevent lead poisoning.
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Western Hog Oiler War Orphans Company
Co. W. Busby and Company
Graham Theatre
Red Cross
Fuel Administration of
Rov. Emry
Fairfield
J. D. Glasgow
Carl Kuehnle
Denison
Navy
Will Miller
Dan Rohrer
Clarence Phillips
Seth Waggoner
Lee Chambers
Hosmer
Grace Hill Moravian Church
Liberty Loan
Washington Loan and Trust Company
C. A. Dewey
Kalona
St. James
State News Review
Charles JD. Reed
Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau
M. L. Bowman
Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Ross R. Mowry
Southern District of
Coolidge
Ames
State Highway Commission
Charles R. Chase
Harry West
University of Iowa College of Commerce
Partment of Commerce
C. A. Aplin
Homeoraths of
Charles E. Hearst
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation
Dan W. Turner
Corning
Wiley Nutt
Robert Dunkard
Indianola
South River
Frank Miles
Iowa Legionaire
Glover
C. C. Schrader
Harry W. Knapp
Grinnell Register
POX Theatre
Sporting Review
Stampdale
Aurora
Old Gon
Paris
Pyle
Sox
Cleveland
Wimbledon
Helen’s Babe
Churchill Downs
Helen Wills
Penelope Ander
Joey Medill
Mike Dundee
Mills Stadium
Faye Thompson
Verdi F. J. Wenger
National and International News Review
Spitzbergen Base
Tyrol
Bremen
Junkers
Labrador
Stewart
Methodist General Conference
Peking
Japan
Tientsin
Hamburg
North Carolina
N. Y
J. P. Morgan
Col. Lindbergh
Transcontinental Company
Ramsay MacDonald
Britain
Canada
al Smith
Texas
Nobile
McNary
Muscle Shoals
John C. W. Smith
Iowa Southern Utilities Company
Interstate Power Company
Dubuque
E. L. Brettenbach
Harry McCall
City
Ella Clark Calvin
Fayetteville
Arkansas
Spanish War Veterans
Daughters of Veterans and
Girl Scouts
Earl Dickinson
Southeastern Iowa
Maurice Mayo
Francis Crone
Florence Deagan
Columbus Junction
James Smith
Washington County Court House
David Hamilton
Topeka
Kansas
W. J. Hamilton
W. R. Jeffrey
John Burnside
Monmouth, Husois
County Conservation League
Bethlehem
Lucille
Martha Reister
Ha) Retster
Mildred Bramer
Gust Bramer
J. W Long
Washington Y. W. C. A. F
Ottumwa Y. W. C. A
Y. W
Bruce Gates
Washton High School
Paul Putnam
A. BE. Putnam
Colorado
Nicaragua
Little Christina Ross
W. H.rossa
Heodta
Ata
Hugh Nelson
Fresco
California
John A. Logan
Oscar Lane
American Legion Auxiliary
Parent-Teacher Association
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