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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 30, 1925

Page

6

Society Notes From West Chester Meetings and Gatherings

The Home Missionary Society of West Chester held a regular meeting with Mrs Antonette Gray on Tuesday afternoon. Members included devotional reader Mrs Clara Henderson and program leader Mrs Reyer. A lesson on the America City Indian inspired interest and two visitors attended. Plans were laid for a Guest Day on May 12. At East Second Street, Mrs Carl Jungbluth hosted twenty ladies from the Navajo Club and three guests for an afternoon of fancy work and a two course luncheon, with spring flowers and desserts. The T. S. F. Civic gathering at Mrs Claude Tucker’s on South Third Street featured music and a luncheon served by Mrs Tucker with help from her mother and Mr C H Guther. High school teachers announce a May breakfast at the cafeteria tomorrow at seven. The I. O. F. Covenant Lodge 101 marked its 106th anniversary with three initiatory candidates and a short program, followed by a light lunch. The piece closes noting Moorish customs about motherhood and divorce.

Society of West Chester Antonette Gray Clara Henderson Reyer America East Second Street Carl Jungbluth Theodore Strown Fred Bev George S. Kerr Jungbluth Mies Helen Brown T. SF Claude Tucker Hes Home Third Street Nathh Gbson Covenant Lodge 101 The Brotherhood Stanley Miller R. R. Breese Alvermard

Plan Program of State Convention in Burlington Iowa

Plans for Iowa's sixtieth annual Sunday school convention May 6 7 in Burlington outline a $3000 investment with more than twenty speakers including Dr W C Pearce and Rev G A Schmidt. Local committees met at Hotel Burlington and registrations from across the state signal a major event with a large attendance expected. The program features a Who's Who of religious education leaders and a full slate of sessions at the First Methodist and other sites.

Burlington Iowa Walter Hutton Iowa State Sunday School Council of Religious Education Hutton International Council of Pelicione Banearing Kt. Parker Cedar Rapids First Baptist Church W. C. Pearce New York City World's Sunday School Association Men's Brotherhood First Evangelical Church J. L. Rubs Edward R. Bartlett de Pauw University Greencastle Ind W. W. Beal Westminster Presbyterian Sunday School Iowa State Council of Religious Education Frederic Catlin Counen Bluffs Elizabeth Dean Newton Wm. C. Beer Cedar Fats Norma Giffey Columbus

Little Brother Sparks Costly Debate at Home

Carl asks for a dog but is told the family must save for the baby. A few days later a baby brother arrives and Carl laments that all their money is spent on the new sibling. Grandmother witnesses the new expense as Carl voices his frustration.

Carl

Community notices from Moose Lodge to church groups

Announcements list Moose Lodge members and guests for a Thursday evening session and various regular meetings. Also notes about auxiliary meetings at West Chester Methodist church and the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society with hosts named and times given. Reports from Muscatine convention planned by delegates. Other club notices include Presbyterian Ladies social, A business meeting, O E S chapter, Baptist choir practice and a date change.

Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church Kara Gardner W. M. Keeley Muscatine

Gratitude for sympathy after bereavement

Mrs Henry Brinning and children express sincere thanks for the numerous expressions of sympathy and kindness shown after their recent bereavement. There will be a May basket party in the Country Club Friday.

Henry Brinning Fri

May Basket Day Notice At The Children's Mission

Members are asked to bring lunch in decorative May baskets and their own silverware dishes and napkin. The committee will provide coffee and ice cream. The Children's Mission meeting is set for Saturday afternoon at 2 30 with Mrs R H Hampsher at 321 West Madison Street.

Children’s Missionary Society of the Methodist Church R. H Hampsher West Madison Street

Helen and her sister seek to hear an Episcopal preacher

The girl asks her Congregationalist father to let them attend an Episcopal minister's sermon hoping to be persuaded. She promises not to believe a word he says if allowed to listen, highlighting religious tensions in a family.

Helen Papa

This Quail a Beauty

The California quail is described as the handsomest upland game bird in North America by Nature Magazine of Washington. It measures about eleven inches, with gray plumage and markings of black white brown and tawny. Native from Oregon to Lower California, it has been introduced as far north as British Columbia.

California

Youngster Tries Apple to Curb Typhoid Germs

A four year old boy with typhoid fever insists on eating an apple despite illness. He tells his mother that eating an apple now might kill her, then proposes to have a small piece to kill the germs.

Johnny

Grumbler Never Leads says Bishop Fallows on progress

A quotation from Bishop Samuel Fallows warns that persistent grumblers never lead progress while successful people stay focused. The message contrasts pessimists with those who advance in work and life.

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