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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1918
Page
3
Local announcements list meetings and events at Masonic Hall Brighton W, Lexington Auxiliary October 10 at Jennie Shulty home, R C B C Red Cross drive, Rainbow club with Mrs J A Smith, Good Times club elections, and a congregational social at First United Presbyterian honoring departing families with a chicken supper at Pleasant Hill church and Home Economics Fortnightly club program.
The group will meet Tuesday evening at 7 20 with the Misses McCreedy. The program was changed to Conservation of Clothing, and members are advised to note the updated agenda.
The barrel of empty fruit jars is now at Lemmon Jewelry store. Please bring in your contributions of fruit. For each jar you get an empty jar with a new top. The orphan home has 250 to 300 children to feed and is non denominational. Also urged to brine fruit. The Baptist annual roll call and business meeting will be at the church Wednesday at 7 30 pm. Washington church members urged to attend and elect officers. The Just Us club meets Wednesday pm with Mrs John Dodd and Mrs Jessie Dougherty hosts a Chapter 1 P E D and mothers at her home on South Iowa Ave Thursday at 2 30 pm. Short business session at 2 pm.
The St Pauls Evangelical Ladies Aid Society will meet at the Carl Zieglowsky home on Thursday October 10 for an all day gathering. A good attendance is desired.
The Rebekah club will meet at the hall Thursday at 1 00 p m Members asked to bring thimbles needles and also lunch for evening The Ss S 8S club will meet with Mrs Everette Stewart Thursday afternoon at 2 o clock The Ladies Aid of the First United Presbyterian church will hold a sale of old fashioned things and good foods next Saturday in the room at the northeast corner of the square vacated by CC Crull
Seventy-one men from the Sept 12 registration are tested by Dr C A Boice and assistants. Ninety-one examined yesterday. eighty-two passed for general service with nine in remedial or limited groups. Classifications list multiple named individuals in Groups A through D. Drill planned for Saturday night at 8 o'clock at the armory with Lieut L R Schilling in charge.
Burlington plans to close its station this week and move service to Rock Island. Trains will stop at a new platform at the Burlington Y crossing, with passengers boarding there. Agents Kunath and Mannussier may transfer to better posts. union of the three lines is likely next spring.
A vintage advice ad claims a beautiful woman has good digestion and suggests light meat meals and Chamberlain's Tablets to strengthen digestion. The ad promotes the product at 25¢, sold by Lemmon's Drug Store.
Sheriff R. H. McCarty returned from Slater Missouri with Hubert Ayres who faces an indictment for stealing hogs in the Wellman area. Har ry Nelson has already pleaded guilty and serves five years. Ayres denies guilt and will face trial at the November district court term.
The weekly Red Cross gathering at Richmond drew 34 members with rising attendance. Despite earlier plans, the next meeting remains at the usual venue. Members listed include Mines, Koenning, Marek, Shleichter, Schmitt, Bopp, Stagner, Shalla, Lintz, Kiefer, and others.
Local notice promotes the Methodist Ladies Aid rummage sale with winter overalls shirts and second hand goods including cooking utensils and dishes. The sale runs Friday and Saturday starting at 8:00 a.m. in a room south of Sherman Bros.
An advertisement from Sherman Bros promotes Hog Powder with explicit feeding instructions to mix with ground feed and moisten to a crumbly mass. It claims each hog receives a beneficial dose and offers money back if not satisfied, urging purchase from Sherman Bros.
Senator Calder of New York introduces a bill backed by War Industries Board Chairman Baruch to indefinitely extend daylight saving time as a coal conservation measure. Under current law clocks revert on October 27.
Major Gen Edmund Wittenmayer is named among the brigadiers elevated to major general rank for the wartime period. The promotion expands the general officer cadre as the war continues.
Adjutant General Lasher in Des Moines announces a Washington call for 3900 white men qualified for general service. In five days starting October 21, 2500 will go to Camp McClelland Alabama and 1400 to Fort McArthur California. The local draft board assumes this replaces a prior Camp Dodge call paused by influenza, about 30 to 40 men expected for the county.
Mrs. William Bell of Logansport Indiana writes she credits Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy with curing a severe diarrhoea attack three years ago calling it the only medicine that relieved her. For sale by Lemmon's Drug Store ad.
If you have any scrap iron metals hides and gunny sacks sell it to Colm for absolute satisfaction. I buy all kinds and offer the highest prices. See me for prices and don t delay.
An OCR fragment mentions a person named Cohn at a city entity with a phone number 267 and a phrase Mutual vi, indicating a partial notice or classified snippet.
The Fortnightly club’s musical department met with Mrs. Carl Hedges on Monday October 7 with Mrs. Claire Dewey as leader. Discussions covered Howard Brockway and Sidney Homer and performances included Brockway’s Serenade and Homer’s works. An all day P P L club meeting at Mrs. E J Page’s yielded Red Cross and French relief work, six hospital garments and a knotted comfort. Delta Alpha Baptist class elected Viola Burch as president and Gwendolyn Long as class reporter, with Mrs Carrie Blake as teacher and a post election social hour.
The Prussian Cur reveals Kaiser's propagandists and secret agents in America with Capt. Horst von der Goltz portraying scenes of factory burnings ship destruction and labor unrest. It ties last century figures like Wilson Lincoln Pershing and Crown Prince to a sweeping historical panorama with a romance amid wartime struggle.
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