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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1922
Page
4
Personal notes record Ruth Osborn weekend with Henry Osborn and kin near Bainbridge and Indianapolis visitors to local households. Several social calls and fudge party guests from Indianapolis and nearby towns are listed along with a Buick touring car for sale and a 10 acre corn sale at near market price.
Merril Stout and his wife spent Saturday night and Sunday with Dr and Mrs Bothwell at Martinsville. Miss Jennie Truax of Monrovia was also mentioned in the social note.
Charles Hinshaw and family spent Sunday with Lee Pike and family near Plainfield. Harry Bray of Indianapolis and Miss Opal Poe were Sunday guests of the Misses Iva and Zula Bray.
Sweden plans a sweeping education reform to make all public schools coeducational from elementary to university. The plan envisions state control, earlier specialization, and elimination of most nonessential subjects, with tuition largely removed and a new seven year lyceum pathway to university matriculation. Latin Greek and three modern languages would be offered alongside Swedish.
Christopher J. Fitzgerald bid 450 at auction for a horse study and found it is by Isaac van Astade, a 17th century Dutch master. An offer of 25000 has been made, but Fitzgerald says the painting is not for sale.
A Saturday Evening Post essay imagines sweeping urban redesigns that replace checkerboard streets with central parkways and broad boulevards. Traffic will be guided by electric signals, crosswalks enhanced by lighting, and many downtown buildings torn down to reduce crime and tenements.
The Indianapolis Star notes that Broadway and Maiden Lane once lined with trees evoke a time when New York would not be a true business city. Settlers saved fine trees along homes and greens, yet today Broadway and Maiden Lane are dense wholesale districts with few trees, while other regions retain shaded streets.
The Department of Agriculture bulletin argues shade on city streets is a municipal function, to be supervised by an unpaid commission of three to five members with an executive officer. It outlines organization methods and chapters on planting pruning spraying transplanting and related topics. The bulletin is available free from the USDA Publications Division in Washington.
A thoughtful piece argues that envy of others work fuels discontent and harms effort. It notes many complain about duties others perform and cites a tale where a husband quietly exposes the bias in judging women’s work, teaching two lessons about hurt feelings and not judging others’ labor.
Reports show inflammable roofs cause large fire losses and prompt campaigns. In Indianapolis a program begun last year slashed fire losses by 550000 and fires by 350 in 1921, with 850 of 1199 fires linked to inflammable roofs.
A World War affected veteran receives medical aid after a leg injury. Local officials confirm relief efforts and hospital treatment for the serviceman.
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