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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1918
Page
8
Community notices cover visits from Chicago and Des Moines, local shop ads, and events. Families attend funerals, sail to Cedar Rapids, and host ice cream socials at Prairie Flower school to aid Cedar township Red Cross. Proceeds support local projects as residents travel and return home.
Miss Etha Dawson resigns as deputy county auditor after seven years to join Commercial Savings bank. Miss Ethel Grecian, previously with Eicher Livingston & Eicher, will become deputy auditor, and Miss Ruby Macon will fill Grecian’s former role. Tom Schilling buys into Clayton McKenzie Grocery forming McKenzie & Schilling. Henderson Wallace learns of brother-in-law W. Brooks's death in Ogden Utah. widow is Mary Wallace. Burial planned in Ogden. only wife survives.
Washington readers found a brief item in Chicago papers about a street car labeled 348 stopped in Aurora Illinois and penalties for speeding. The owner of our local 348 arrived at the Journal Levee in an agitated frame declaring his innocence.
Washington friends take comfort that the unnamed woman remains free from scandal and her character stays untarnished though the 348 claim is said never to have gone east of Muscatine. A Black child, Cecil J. Ballew, two months and twenty three days, son of Mr and Mrs C F Ballew, died at home near town. Funeral at Miller chapel Tuesday at 10 am with Dr Peterson of the A M E Church officiating. Interment at Wooldawn.
In Phoenix on May 27 federal officers detained over 2000 men in a roundup of draft evaders. About 80 are believed not to have registered and are jailed for further investigation. Four hundred guards ringed downtown after a Red Cross pageant to control crowds. no one could leave the business district without inspection.
The administration oil leasing bill to open more than 6,000,000 acres of public Western lands for development to supply the navy and other needs passed the House and now goes to conference.
A Detroit Free Press fragment notes how pessimists of the past would keep people in caves if proven right, yet their gloomy forecasts persistently fail as their pessimistic lineage continues predicting impossible outcomes.
A reflective line by Carlyle on restraint and life unraveling when denial is not practiced, emphasizing moral discipline and the fragile nature of human effort.
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