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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1918
Page
8
McNamara’s promotes a floor display of blastings solid quarter sawed oak dining tables including Hastings removable top models with leaf lock steel fittings. The store notes strong demand, citing six sales of a particular 0 by 5 foot table in three weeks and urges buyers to avoid veneered oak in favor of solid construction.
Local brief notices list Foxr and Dewey for shoes Crail's advertisement Rose Derby as Letts morning passenger Smalley demonstration at Mason's Saturday afternoon and many residents traveling or visiting Ottumwa Des Moines Trenton and San Diego Quarantine affects Miss Geraldyne Stocker and influenza school closures in Rock Island Rheumatism ad claims Lemmon remedy.
Maplethorpe advertises a weekend sale with prices such as $15 for a suit and $1.29 for a sweater, touts “greatest bargains” and a carload of Moline Tractors at the Overland-Washington Company with public sale planned for Monday.
Public sale announced at Mocking Bird farm on Wayland road and another at Uppermill Farm with Duroc Jersey hogs. Maplethorpe's sells work suits. Overland Washington Co promotes Moline tractors. Sanel kidney and bladder relief advertised, plus a travel update on Mrs Greta Colton Rutherford. Cotton bats offered at low prices from New York Store.
H Worley of this city has purchased the City Bus Line formerly owned by the late Frank Rogers and will operate it in the future He plans to continue the service in the standard traditional to Rogers era and asks public support when in need of transport He will run all trains and conduct a general transfer business.
Des Moines reports an Oct 17 1918 directive from the Iowa State Board of Health ordering all public gatherings forbidden until further notice. The order closes theatres schools churches and funerals and requires local boards to enforce it immediately while allowing limited travel. Guilford H Sumner and O K Mauck sign.
At 3 PM the county exemption board received a telegram from Adjutant General Lashker canceling the call of 22 registrants to entrain for Camp Greenleaf Georgia next Friday October 25. The influenza epidemic condition in the country prompted the cancellation, with a new entrainment date to be announced when sending is again advised.
During school closure a group of high school boys seeks farm employment for corn shucking. Farmers interested should contact J. R. Maxwell, Secretary of the Community Club, at the Co. M. & F. Store to arrange duties.
Advertisement promoting American Magazine at 82.00 per year urging readers to send copies to soldiers and sailors to boost morale. Subscriptions coordinated by agent Nita Belle McKeon with contact details. promoting wartime readership and support.
Letters from Washington soldiers in Company K 168th infantry describe the St Mihiel operation near Metz. Corporal Wayne Simerman says none were killed, several wounded lightly, and notes his injury healed as he wrote Sept 20 from a shelter hole on the battlefield. Frank Rice reports healing in a base hospital near Paris after a Sept 12 shoulder wound.
The merchant from Camp Dodge, Private John Merchant, is reported released from the hospital after a siege of influenza. Ben Cary of Wellman is said to be ill with influenza at Wellman. Mrs. Clare Smith returns from Ames after visiting her sister Miss Belle Jay, whose condition remains unchanged from the previous report.
C Hunter Ratne ex president of the Mercantile bank of Memphis Tennessee is freed from a federal penitentiary after serving three years eight months and six days for causing the bank’s failure through speculative cotton futures. He edited Good Words in prison and plans to return to Memphis Tennessee.
Victor Berber, Milwaukee congressional candidate, posted a $10,000 bond in a federal court on espionage act charges. Bond was signed by William Bross Lloyd, Socialist candidate for senator from Nipola.
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