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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1921
Page
7
Correspondents report new cars and pianos, rural pupils staying in town, storm work on telephone lines, a death in Washington, housework help, bank work in Wellman, Chicago visitors to Enid Eckard, Parsons Glee club concert attendees, and family emergencies in Rock Island.
Ainsworth April 21 The entire high school graduating class becomes Methodists this year with a quarterly conference dinner planned May 5 at 7:30 pm in the church dining room. The class and faculty will join alumni members of the M E church. Wesleyan College president A B Smith will speak for twenty minutes. music by a quartet and refreshments follow.
Mr and Mrs Walt Patterson were Washington visitors Friday. The Swain Heatty family visited Davenport relatives Sunday. Mrs Rene Oldfield and Lyal called at Carl Oldfield home Tuesday. A church pageant was postponed to next Sunday due to bad roads. Wade Gardner hauled tile from Wellman this week. Miss Norma Gardner, operated on last Wednesday, is able to be up. Mr and Mrs Chas Shucks visited Wellman Saturday afternoon. Mrs Harris McGingin, caring for Norma Gardner, has returned to Wellman. Mr and Mrs Everett Huber were Washington visitors Friday.
Mrs. Melissa Simpson died Tuesday evening after a two day pneumonia illness. She was 59 and survived by her father W. S. Moore and sister Mrs. Tracy of Minneapolis. Her mother died in February. Funeral held at 2 30 this afternoon. Hugh Henry conducted services. Ruth Young returned to Washington after grandfather John Alex Young's death. Mrs. Will Bristow taught in her place. Mrs. Clara Shepherd and daughter were mentioned in the notice.
Sabbath school at 10:00 a m and public worship at 11:00 a m with preaching by the pastor Rev W G Robb midweek prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m all are invited to these services
Northeast of Washington church schedules Sunday school at 10 00 am and preaching at 11 00 am led by Pastor C M Diefenbach.
The W F M 8S Thank Offering is rescheduled for Sunday the 24th at 7 p m with the Pageant The Gift Supreme. Zion and Pilotsburg services are set for 11 a m and 3 p m. Muscatine district spring conference meets at Sweetland with Bishop Stung and Pres Smith of Iowa Wesleyan addressing and plans for the coming months. The 8S Workers Conference will be at Mr and Mrs Enteminger home on Tuesday the 26th and community sing at Mr and Mrs Wede Gardner’s on Wednesday the 27th. Ivan Cameron Thom, pastor.
Secretary of War Weeks announced that General Pershing will command the general headquarters of the U S Army. He outlined plans to inaugurate in peacetime a skeletonized headquarters to be ready for wartime operations.
William A Schnell of Wisconsin braved a crippled train and trudged twenty eight miles through heavy snow to reach Freeport Illinois for his wedding to Miss Catherine Wernle of Greenville Illinois. The pair wed despite the train blockage and travel ordeal.
An ambitious woman at Saint-Saens Mondays browbeats him into joining her two daughters for a duet. After enduring their timeless performance, he asks the mother which daughter she wants him to accompany in From Grieg to Bralhu with T D G Mason.
A quote from a Testion Transcript describes Dorothy thanking Mrs Naybor for lending a picture Deworks. She entered an open house while no one was home, placed the picture hook on the table, and thanked the lender.
Des Moines reports that despite urging for more school funding, the Thirty-ninth general assembly enacted limited relief. Whitmore's bill to raise bond interest to six percent includes five year refinancing, while many districts have not sold bonds or built. A mining camp aid bill failed. other measures expand local levies, improve transparency, and fund vocational and constitutional instruction.
The London Morning Post notes a flippant exchange where advanced women claim men boast about their scarcity and a woman muses about living apart by an ocean. A daring bachelor replies that many women would drown in such a world, prompting playful banter on gender dynamics.
April 22. President Fred A. Canfield of the Iowa State Federation of Labor denies charges of indorsing the Springer utility bill and neutrality on wage questions. He cites a Cedar Rapids wage survey showing justified pay increases and reports harmony among Des Moines labor leaders, denying opposing factions ahead of the Burlington convention.
Organized wage earners in the state state they will not be swayed by incidental issues political or otherwise. They insist on focusing on the major matters facing the trade union movement in our state.
Special permits will be issued to drivers to enter the restricted traffic district in emergencies. P. J. Mills, president of the White Line Transfer company, is chairman of the special committee.
A survey of downtown restaurants began to assess if facilities can feed about 50 000 Shriners arriving for sessions. The plan includes using downtown churches as temporary restaurants and coordinating extra food orders with local purveyors and packing houses.
The passage explains that lamp light diminishes by about 60 percent as lamps dirty between cleanings. To achieve a desired four candle illumination, lamp ratings must be raised roughly 33 percent above the rating needed for clean new lamps, per the Electrical World.
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