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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1924
Page
6
Iowa Avenue residents urged attendance at a social Thursday with Highland Foudr performing. The West Chester M. E. Church Women’s Home Missionary Society meets Friday afternoon with Mrs. Daniels. The T. S. KE. club gathers Wednesday evening at Mrs. Chande Tucker’s South Third Ave. home.
Howard Fay Williamson and Myrtle Marie Thompson of Grand View were married at the Methodist church parsonage by Rev. W. W. Bowers. They were accompanied by Fannie Kutler and Reuben McGill of Grand View. The couple will reside in Keota. The Dunbar reunion was at Washington in Sunset Park with about seventy relatives and a lunch served cafeteria style. Officers for next year were elected: Mrs. Gus Strum president Glenn Panbar vice president Mr. George Baker secretary I. C. Dunbar treasurer. Next meeting set for Keota park August 23, 1925. The Past Noble Grand Circle of the Rebekah lodge met with Mrs. Dora Bailey. Ilo Laverty and J. E. B. Eldridge married at Indianola with Dr. and Mrs. Fred Reid of Washington as out-of-town guests. The Young Women's Missionary Society of the Baptist church met with White cross work to aid foreign missionaries. Emma McChesney chaired. Mrs. Ralph Minick and Mrs Duartes Hays assisted. Mrs. Boyd Stephens hosted with announcements of Emma B. McCall and Cora Manson weddings. Verle Gallagher hosts Monmouth College students. Inez Ruth Furtz and Cecil Ray Hunt wed at the Methodist parsonage. Hunt stationed at Drake University. Emanon double quarters held a steak fry near town with music.
Mr and Mrs John Park and children of Kansasity are expected Thursday for a visit here at the Latta Boice and Thorne mess.
The calendar lists multiple social events across churches and clubs. Picnics at Sunset Park for the Girls Missionary society and Pilotsburg Ladies Aid, afternoon meetings for Woman's Missionary societies and Rural Women, banquets for Ad club delegates, and family reunions at Sunset Park.
Mrs J P Kramer arrived from Sigourney to stay with Mrs Howard Crozier. Mr and Mrs Ed L Kos left for Des Moines to attend the fair. Mary Barnett returned to Oskaloosa after visiting W C Harding. Eunlee Atchison came from Lake Geneva with girls from Mount Pleasant Michigan.
Recipes focus on pickles with a few puddings and notes from contributors Mrs. Sam Forman and Mrs. GW Hay. Directions cover tomato cabbage celery mixture, spice blends, mustards, vinegars, dill, and sealing in mason jars for weekly canning ideas.
A simple homemade pickle mix lists 1 quart boiled beets 1 quart chopped cabbage 1 cup onion 1 cup grated horseradish 2 cups sugar 1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon nep per pinch cayenne. Mix and cover with cold vinegar to preserve.
Mrs Porter shares a garden produce based salad method chopping cucumbers and onions mix with cabbage and seal with vinegar and sugar. The steps include letting the mix stand overnight then sealing again on the stove for final preservation.
Wash pimentos and trim stems then halve and seed. Soak in boiling water three minutes three times, drain and repeat. Pack in jars and add one pint vinegar one pint water one quarter cup salt and six tablespoons sugar. Heat willning mix and pour over peppers then seal. Yields about three dozen pimentos.
A pickle method lists ingredients and steps for Mrs Elmer Cherry. It instructs slicing 25 cucumbers with 12 onions, salting and draining, then combining with vinegar celery seed mustard seed turmeric and sugar to boil briefly before sealing in jars.
A recipe instructs soaking cucumbers in cold water overnight then draining, pouring boiling water over, drying, and packing in jars. It advises boiling one gallon vinegar with alum and spice, adding saccharine, then pouring over the pickles and sealing the jars.
A compact kitchen note lists ingredients for cucumber salad by Mrs James Palmer. It itemizes 12 cucumbers 6 onions 1 pint vinegar 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon pepper 1 pinch ginger 1 teaspoon white mustard seed 1 to 4 teaspoon turmeric 1 tablespoon flour. Instructions suggest slicing soaking boiling steps then adding cucumbers and boiling five minutes.
Mrs. J. E. Lemmon provides a simple method: wash 25 cucumbers and 12 onions, soak cucumbers overnight in cold water, slice cucumbers and cabbage, sprinkle with 1 2 cups salt, let stand one hour without draining.
A compact preservation note details slicing 100 cucumbers medium size, salting lightly, then combining white wine vinegar with olive oil and mustard seed. Add celery seed and salt, mix, then layer cucumbers, spice, and cover with the oil and vinegar blend for serving.
Fragmentary recipe notes describe mixing celery seed light brown sugar and vinegar then resting two hours. Another batch uses one quart vinegar ginger celery seed mustard seed turmeric two cups sugar and a flour slurry to boil for three minutes before canning and sealing.
Mrs Warfel offers pickle preparation guidance using cider vinegar. She advises mixing one gallon vinegar with one cup sugar one cup dry mustard one cup salt and spices, then packing washed whole pickles in a stone jar, stirred daily and kept covered with grape leaves. After one week transfer to glass jars with tight lids.
A historical home recipe lists ingredients for Tomato Catsup by Mrs. M. E. Dicken using ripe tomatoes peppers onions apples and vinegar with cloves cinnamon ginger and sugar. Instructions describe boiling the chopped produce for an hour then straining, tying spices in cloth, adding seasonings near the end and boiling to thickness. If peppers are sweet add cayenne for heat.
A simple baked batter uses 1 cup molasses 1 cup cold coffee and 1 teaspoon baking soda cinnamon and cloves with flour until thick. Dressing combines 3 eggs 1 cup sugar and 1 cup butter heated in a double boiler.
Mrs Fred Jones Cedar Rapids shares a simple prune pudding method Beat six eggs lightly with six tablespoons sugar Stir in one cup chopped prunes Bake for ten minutes Place a pan of hot water in the oven and set the pudding pan inside for cooking.
A recipe instructs to mix 3 tablespoons sugar 2 rounds cornstarch and 2 eggs beaten lightly in a double boiler. Heat pineapple juice from a can but do not boil then whisk into the mixture until smooth. Add 1 tablespoon butter and cook until very thick while keeping over heat until cooled.
A recipe fragment calls for adding pineapple, diced, 1 cup diced marshmallows and 1 to 2 cups nut meats if desired. Fold into a cup of stiffly beaten whipped cream.
Multiple announcements list meetings and gatherings across local groups. Rebekah Convention in Wellman August 28 seeks good attendance. Rosemary club at Koehlers. Pilotsburg Ladies Aid picnic August 27 at Sunset Park. Bethel Presbyterian Woman's Missionary Society meets August 27 at 2 pm with Miss Edith Reed. Keota Pulver reunion August 28 at Keota Park. Woodman lodge meets Tuesday 7 30 pm. Rural Woman's club meets with Mrs Lloyd Humston Wednesday afternoon on Chau tauqaa Echoes. Fleur de lis club Thursday afternoon with Mrs Stella Whisler. Circle regular meeting Wednesday Aug 27 at church. Brumback and Ellen Dayton committee. Havre Social club at Mrs John Reeves Thursday afternoon. E O W club regular meeting Wednesday 2 30 at Mrs Alfred Johnson. W H M S of M K church meet Friday 2 30 pm with Mrs Will Horning.
A kitchen note lists one dozen large dill pickles or 12 to 18 smaller pickles sliced, with 1 1 2 cups olive oil and a pinch of salt. This reads as a basic quantity guide for a pickle rendering or marinating step.
The Notice reports the 12th annual Lemley family reunion at Sun set park scheduled for Friday August 29. Also listed are events for Baptist Ladies social at the church on Friday afternoon and the C D A Sewing Circle postponement to Thursday September 4 meeting with Mrs Braunhausen.
A fragment lists ingredients for pickles using six quarts of medium pickles and one quart vinegar with olive oil and a dime’s worth of a missing component.
The note remarks that few gold mines remain to be found and oil fields are scarce, with a curiously phrased line about anyone attempting to apply plaster. The source text conveys a generic, fragmented view of mineral prospects.
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