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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1928
Page
5
Long list of social visits and family events across Kalona and Fairfield Iowa. Local families gather, travel, and host relatives, with a note on A H Kepler funeral and a marriage at W H Plank home. Enthusiastic community updates include threshing, illness recoveries, and local excursions.
The article recounts the life of English educator Rachael McMillan through her sister's biography. It contrasts past schooling with modern methods, noting children once owned books, received enthusiastic lessons, and were allowed to study rather than be studied. The writer questions if current trends truly improve youth education. CO. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.
Local residents report multiple visits and family gatherings from Wellston to Muscatine and Ottumwa. Homes receive repainting, stock shipments travel, threshing work continues, and a crop impact from recent flooding is noted along with rainfall reports from Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bare and son of Dayton Ohio visited his aunt Miss Ella Bare from Thursday to Tuesday. Relatives including Mr and Mrs John Simpson Mr George Alexander and others called on Sunday. The group toured Gip Burham farm and Elmer Burham home before dining with Mrs George Alexander in Washington. They returned Tuesday afternoon. Community men helped Roy Dawson with a hay crop on Monday. Local visits included Mr and Mrs Hewitt and Victor Gray at Clarence Niffeneger and Ernest Meeks households. California visitors Mrs Alice Meeks and Mrs Wm McLaughlin with sons Donald and Bernard met at Ernest Meeks and William Wallace homes this week. Tia and Merwin Dunshee returned.
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