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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1918
Page
6
Community briefs list moves visits and travel for residents including Mrs. G W Gaumer and Lieut Robert Noonan. Ads promote Moline Universal tractor demonstration and a plowing event on Tuesday. Property sale offers a 5 room house plus extra lot at 2200 dollars and various local shop promotions.
Governor W L Harding proclaims November 1 as Fire Prevention Day in Iowa urging citizens to safeguard grain, mills and stores from fire. State fire marshal Ole Roe stresses fire loss harms food supply and war effort, calling for newspaper and school cooperation to make it a no fire day.
Sioux City Indiana October 26 The Mariner Terminal Elevator company is incorporated for 1 000 000 and plans immediate construction of a fireproof 250 000 bushel elevator. It will be one of five similar units to be built in the next year or two as fast as possible.
Don’t forget to set clocks back one hour tonight before bed as time changes at two in the morning. The old schedule returns, ending daylight saving and ending the extra daylight of summer.
Miss Myrtle Barham travels to Chicago to visit friends while a batch of hot and cold lunches is served at Deans. A potato shipment from Ohio is due on the Washington Elevator track early next week at 1.30 per bushel. Mrs J HW Pdgington reports her sister Miss Ethel Laughead, a nurse in Denver California, is among ten overseas duty nurses and will report to New York City when transportation is arranged.
Mrs Farr Hout reports Captain Hout and the Washing ton boys of Company K 133rd Infantry have reached overseas service after delays at an eastern camp during the influenza outbreak. Lee R. G. Ward, son of Mr and Mrs Berkeley Ward of Davenport Iowa, has been commissioned a second lieutenant at Camp Gordon Ga and serves as instructor of automatic rifle firing and grenade throwing. Ward previously served on the Mexican border and in recruiting work. He learned of the Company K arrival via mail from his home and invites letters from friends and family. His posting is Camp Sherman Chillicothe Ohio.
Mr and Mrs Chas Johnson announce their son Thomas, stationed in Iowa City, has recovered from flu and resumes duty after about two weeks in hospital. The Graf family near Wellman suffers flu with five year old Gerald seriously ill with pneumonia. a nurse is employed as others recover. A closing out sale three miles southeast of Washington by Jake Lemley offers cows hogs chickens grain hay and machinery.
American soldiers in France sent home 467784.14 in the week ending September 19 through agencies like the Y M C A Knights of Columbus and the Jewish Welfare Board at no cost to the men. The savings run at over two million dollars a month and the service is part of a broader drive for 170,590,000 during the week of November 11.
A brief item notes a Monday and Tuesday sale at SA with 30 cents per bushel. Ella Waggoner travels to Chicago to visit her son Seth at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.
Washington report notes four leading railway brotherhoods renew their demand for time and a half overtime pay and wage readjustments. The engineers firemen conductors and trainmen seek higher rates plus holiday and Sunday work credits and a special senate action on firemen wages.
Camp Grant will lift the quarantine five weeks after it began, announced by camp surgeon Col. George B. Lake. The ban on church services public meetings and theaters remains in Beckford as conditions improve rapidly.
Des Moines reports Henry L. Adama urges Iowa bar members to focus on nonpartisan Supreme Court judges before election day November 5. Four candidates include Justices Gaynor Preston Stevens and Democrat McGinnis. Voters risk a light turnout on nonpartisan tickets.
Poem by John G. Saxe remarks on democracy and race mixing, calling American aristocracy a bridge across a century. It satirizes social class, suggesting lineage cannot guarantee status and that bloodlines blur into a plebian future. The verse critiques snobbery and inherited privilege.
Burlington visitors at the Coliseum barber shop on Main Street now hear filtered conversation guaranteed unadulterated by Spanish fly germs. Barbers hide behind masks as a protection for themselves and patrons.
A lecture from the National City Bank in New York notes the U S rice crop nearly doubled since the war began and could reach a record, with production rising from 136 million pounds in 1890 to over 1 billion pounds in 1917 and an expected 1.136 billion this year. The spread of rice farming across Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, and California is explained along with global comparisons to Siam, the Dutch East Indies, Japan, and India. The lecture compares world rice and wheat totals, highlighting rice’s regional significance.
The piece notes barbers have long faced mockery for their talkativeness yet are valued as listeners and conversationalists. It argues the craft often requires agreeing with patrons to maintain success and social propriety.
An advertising notice urges men to stay in Class A by using Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules. It links kidney health to timeless vigor and promotes a trial box with a money back guarantee. The copy touts imported Haarlem Oil and three sealed package sizes.
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