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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1918
Page
5
Chaplain Winfred E Robb reports from Des Moines that Col Matt Tinley of Council Bluffs is commanding the 168th Infantry as Col Bennett recovers in hospital. Robb recalls conditions, captures, and morale amid pursuit of the enemy, noting wounded and returning home timelines and changes in battalion leadership.
Mrs Chas Breybrook of Middleville New York cites her five year old son’s severe cough as unrelieved by several medicines until Chamberlains Cough Remedy. She notes immediate relief and eventual recovery and predicts widespread recommendations. Lemmon's Drug Store sells the remedy.
From Massena in Cass county comes a tale of the hasty exit of Bill Briggs organizer of the Briggs Drum Corps and town figure. His departure was said to be spurred by a threatened shower of eggs. Briggs had returned from a visit to a wet town and allegedly brought liquor offered to a minor. Indignant citizens gathered eggs and threatened to use them on Briggs.
Des Moines will host a large reclamation hospital after the Ford plant at West Eighteenth and Grand is converted into a 2000 bed facility for wounded overseas soldiers. The center will serve invalids within 200 miles, with 2,500 staff and patients, plus visitors, and operate within a network of centers 400 miles apart.
A promoted claim for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the world class cure for a bad cold. Sold at Lemmon's Drug Store.
In Storm Lake Iowa Miss Mae DeVelle died Oct 19 after a secret life. James Harris a local widower answered her ad and married her in Des Moines. She later divorced, fell ill, died, and the body awaits burial as relatives are sought while funds she claimed exist in Des Moines and Marshalltown remain unproven.
State engineers at Clear Lake Iowa started a new spillway project after the old structure proved inadequate as lake levels rose and summer rains tore away portions. The replacement will double the old spillway size and should be completed before cold weather.
A Cedar Falls youth at Camp Dodge reports in a parents letter that peace rumors fuel soldiers’ longing for combat in France. He notes noncommissioned officers delaying officers training until February as the war nears end, while his company raises about 2500 in Liberty bonds despite hospital beds and flu cases.
Greenfield Iowa October 24 The bureau of military affairs in Adair county questioned why several wealthy property owners did not subscribe for bonds in the fourth Liberty loan drive. John Ersham refused to pay 700 dollars asked by the bureau, appeared before federal authorities at Council Bluffs Saturday, paid 1 000 dollars and was released. War fund committees report trouble with him in all drives. He came to this country from Germany about twenty years ago with 85 dollars and now owns a 190 acre farm in the area.
Railroads under federal control reported subscriptions totaling at least 1642694 workers and officers to the fourth Liberty loan amounting to 164,992,150 dollars. Regional totals include Northwestern 25,649,150 and Eastern 44,580,450 with other regions contributing in the tens of millions. War department personnel in Washington added 12,341,400, exceeding their combined total of prior loans.
Des Moines dispatch notes Camp Dodge returns to normal operations after a three week influenza quarantine. Visitors remain restricted while soldiers resume daily routines at Y buildings KC halls and Liberty theatre shows. Drafted men reporting Sept 5 endured a hard period as quarantine limited movement within cantonment limits.
DES MOINES Oct 24 German in firm names is fading as state filings show the German Mutual Insurance association of Le Mars changing to Le Mars Mutual Insurance company and the German American Savings bank of Lamotte becoming Iowa Savings Bank.
Dr J L M Dorreen of Akron Iowa known as the fighting parson has accepted the pastorate of the First Christian church in Sioux City. He will arrive November 10 and preach his first sermon on that day succeeding Rev Paul Preston who left to serve as navy chaplain.
Des Moines Iowa October 24 Paul Junkin Creston editor visitor to Des Moines says Chicago hustled to sell Liberty Bonds and asked him how Iowa did it He praised Iowa’s bond drive leadership and advertising noting Iowa led the nation in the fourth drive and impressed Chicago.
Des Moines reports widespread flu in state facilities. Eldora shows about eighty bed patients with ten deaths mainly from pneumonia. Anamosa warden J N Baumel ill with pneumonia. 150 cases and two deaths. Woodward epileptic colony has thirty mild cases. no pneumonia. Girls institutions largely unaffected. penitentiary has no grip.
Lille, freed from German control, greets British liberators with massive parades and cheers. Geo T. Bye of the American Press describes crowds waving flags, kissing officers, and singing in the streets as relief floods the city.
Royal Air Force raids over a 250 mile Rhine valley sector from Cologne to Baden hit rail centers, munitions works, gas plants and factories in three months. The strikes forced German air reinforcements to shift front lines, while panic and retreat spreads from Mannheim to Berlin, heightening civilian fear nationwide.
Green's August Flower marketed as a cure for disordered stomach and inactive liver causing sick headache constipation sour stomach nervous indigestion and gas. It acts as a gentle laxative regulating digestion, cleansing the alimentary canal, and stimulating bile to purify the blood. Sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Iowa ranks second on the efficiency chart at the state house as Class One men are examined and classified. Utah has completed its work, and Iowa shows fifty two of 112 boards finished. Proved marshal general aimed for 100 days to finish classification, with Iowa likely under half that time. Read the advertisements.
IOWA CITY la Oct 24 The influenza situation here is reported from all sources to be decidedly better With near 1000 cases at the university there have been twenty one deaths up to this time with indications that very few more if any will result There are now less than 250 cases in the various hospitals while the Elks home the Masonic temple and three other improvised hospitals have been closed and only the law building and the women's gym are now used in addition to the regular general hospital where all severe cases were transferred
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