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Newspaper
Jacksons Hole Courier
Location
Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1922
Page
2
An American family in China employed two Nan king servants who were Christians. A Chinese servant learned their faith and told the mistress, noting their knowledge of God Jesus Christ and Santa Claus. The piece blends stray ad copy and reflections on wealth and fate.
AMiein Post No 3 of the American Legion in Vicksburg Mississippi raised more than five thousand dollars through a community carnival. Local groups built booths and shows, each using their emblem and paying expenses, with profits donated to the Legion home project. Mayor Hayes praised the five night event as wholesome and unifying with no incidents.
Emily Hellig, a longtime member of the American Legion, aided wounded soldiers in the Civil War and served in surgical dressing rooms at the American Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly during World War I. She helped with sanitary efforts in Philadelphia, received two French government medals in 1915, and was elected to the post auxiliary last April. Her life connected with notable figures like Rear Admiral George Kunte and the Paris post, highlighting rare wartime service by American women.
National adjutant Lemuel praised the American Legion's improved deliberations and personnel in Minnesota Washington California Colorado and Kansas. He noted clear definitions, smoother machinery, and leadership. factional fights were ironed out by concessions. He highlighted soldier settlement efforts in Washington and California, independent state chapters in Minnesota, and Colorado hospital support.
A couple from Indianapolis faced separation as they enlisted together in World War I era service. Mr Akin joined Navy Intelligence in Washington and later moved with the Bureau of Naval Intelligence while Mrs Akin served as a devoted homemaker and active in the American Legion auxiliary in Tailanapolis.
A comic snippet recalls Mrs. Johnson revealing she wed Widder Smathers after considering punishment from a past incident. Gap Johnson chuckles at the notion of consequences and a local maid faces a directive to stay home as family chatter mentions a newly promoted sergeant with a striped coat in a lighthearted rural column.
A very deaf old woman watching an Italian turning a peanut roaster remarks she cannot hear the tunes and that the device seems to burn inside, adding she will not give money for such music. The quip reflects a satirical line from Congregationalist humor.
Practical tip for wood finishing advises applying shellac as a first coat on soft wood and letting it dry before painting or varnishing. It claims this reduces paint use by about half and yields a harder smoother surface, noting few men know when to begin or stop.
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