The Rocking Hair Brigade and Town Notes
Village column covers Washington gossip at length including shifts in local families C A Speer moving to Wapello Mrs Speer and Myrtle Morton remain. Y W party plans and toy donations. old fireless cookers. health notes from Rochester. births including Larry Duane Shalla. deaths including Mrs Fred Anderson and Will C Bardo. D A R meeting. bell preservation talk. local social news from Washington and nearby towns.
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C. A. Speer
Washington
Wapello
Mra. Speer
Deaths of the Week Summary
Mrs. Fred Anderson died at her Oklahoma City home last Saturday. Her husband had died two years earlier. Mrs. Solomon Weekly, a former Seventy-Six township resident, died at her daughter Effie Fisher’s Waldo Ohio home last week. William Edward Page, 70, died of a heart ailment at his East Fourteenth Street home Tuesday night. Mrs. Christian Bumgarner Anna Schafer Bumgartner of Brighton, 86, died at her daughter Will Croft’s home from pneumonia.
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Fred Anderson
Mary Virginia (Smouse) Anderson
Oklahoma City
Solomon Weekly
Effie Fisher
Waldo
Ohio
William Edward Page
East Fourteenth Street
Christian Bumgarner
Anna Schafer Bumgartner
Brighton
Will Croft
Road Trip Through the South with Pecans and Billboards
The narrator reports a cool morning drive from Penney Farms Florida to Knoxville Tennessee. Georgia and South Carolina show countless billboards, pecan orchards, red sands, and cotton fields with little labor. They stop near Greenville for dinner and note water power as rivers descend from the mountains.
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Florida
Georgia
Chattanooga
Gray
South Carolina
Greenville
Cumberland Mountains
Greenwood
Asheville
Review of the Week’s News and Local Updates
The YWCA Christmas party will be held at the Y on Thursday December 22 with requests for toys and money. Guy Gilliottte led in Iowa votes with L J Dickinson pursuing a possible recount. Sealing of corn for federal loans has begun and labor shop owner changes hands to Gust Bramer. Henry Russell’s son Henry died on the battlefield in France October 14. Sam Gardner, a county pioneer, died December 13 at 86. Patricia Keeley’s illness remains unchanged as influenza recovery continues. Henry Steck returns home after discharge from Camp Pike officers training.
Odd Fellows Elect Officers And Local Projects Noted
The community reports Odd Fellows elected Fay Murphy as noble grand. A Legion project builds a PWA sign on the cemetery road site. An ice skating rink on South Fourth Avenue is prepared for cold weather then opens for visitors. Poultry show draws big crowds with a women’s handcraft division. Laird Hawkins of Ainsworth is found guilty of drunken driving. An eye injury occurs at Tucker and Eicher garage from a wire brush. Local church and school activities, hospital insurance for calendar factory workers, and Christmas seal sales are mentioned along with holiday community events.
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South Fourth Avenue
Quotes on lawsuits laziness church opinions and cooking
A collection of wry observations noting that successful lawsuits feel like the lawyer’s advice, lazy parents produce industrious children, large churchgoers seek popularity over piety, couples seen on trains prompt gossip, and many people endure poor meals at home.
Veterans and families receive government insurance checks and reopening of medical office
Vere Mary Mc Avoy received her first government insurance check after her son Dewey was killed in action in France. Cant Henry Hall reopened his medical office following honorable discharge from army training at Fort Riley Kansas. Mr and Mrs Ardoren were summoned to Chinen for the cortane Meer of their car io We Alea Tree 8 Work Procreescine. They started laying the hotel for boarding and the first floor concrete and steel orders were placed.
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Vere
Mary McAvoy
Dewey
France
Owens
Henry Hall
Medical Department of the Army
Fort Pilew Wansas
Sells Farm and Miscellany Report from Local Notes
The 194 acre farm sold for 31000 to Higbee of Winfield Beacon. timber included. C F Norton connected with missionaries in India. his family runs a school there. Howard McCleery expected to return to the county to farm north of town. Esther MacGugin returns from six weeks in Colorado. voting rights there require one year residency. Wally Bidwell John Teeter and Lon Brindley share a birthday and age. they dined at Harvey and Warfel. Mrs D W Lewis, former schools superintendent wife, dies in Pasadena. Charley Means and Peter Berdo swap houses. Peter plans a new home project.
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Milt Yardhee
Higbee
Winfield Beacon
Wally Bidwell
John Teeter
Lon Brindley
Harvey and Warfel
Bidwell
Andrew Carnegie
Academy News notes pep talk and sports updates
Forty years ago Niehe Service-Woehingrtan workers discuss local plants in town. Wade Steck returns from Chicago after visiting an old friend. John Rahenek at Morenan Park Academy reports on football and athletics. The Academy meeting hears a Time Works Wonders talk by Row 7 Fimer Rurequiet. Miss Mary Massey delivers a solo.
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Hore
Ohlenen
Wade Steck
Chicaro
John Rahenek
Morenan Park Academy
Academy News
Ficher
Plavine
He Academy
Warren
Mary Massey
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Orr
Copppeck Highway
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Oklahoma
Heights
Howard Anderson
Mrs. Miller
Mrs. Anderson
Don
Frank Prebyl
Kalona
John Shattle
Emma Bopp
Ed Conner
Nancy
Old Heights
Ben Biiley
the Heights
Fairfield
Centennial
Brigade
Nina” Stutsman
EB. E. Stutsman
White Shrine
Sare Andeneak
Will C. Bardo
Akanesas City
Kansas
Nartnershin
Indaw
W. M. Terry
Fema
Bordo
Riverside
Toe Wright
Frank Crone
PWA
Everstine Daniels
Loe Cabin
D. J. Palmer
Alexander Youg
Edith Miller
Besse Conger
Miss Daniels
Mre. Ekler
Beitel
D. C. Russell
John Black
Emil Hesselschwerdt
Journal Cameranal
Ralph Livingston
Los Angeles
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Eda Sproul
Nell Samson
Tampa
McCalls
Lizzie Palmer
Bea Wilson
Linotyne
Journal Office
Bea Will
Carrel Halliean
Gladys Mace
Bea
Crawfordsville
Ww. C. Bardo
Will” Bardo
Arkansas City
T. E. Maxwell
County
M. C. DeLong
Marquis Turbott
Washington County
Susie Schlarbaum
Schlarbaum
Wayland
Wayland Mennonite Church
Robert Reaney
A. J. Donovan
Washington-Riverside Road
Brichton
George McDaniel
East Main Street
Sidney Smith
South
Marion Avenue
Glenn Zaring
Kankakee TI
Laird Hawvivs
Ainsworth
Penney Farms
Knoxville, Tenn
Mrs. C. S. Williams
Moore's
Mr. Williams
Mrs. Williams
South America
Tropics
A. Keith Droz
Y’s Men’s Club
Washington County Hospital
Iowa
Guy Gillette
L. J. Dickinson
Martin Nielson
Gust Bramer
Sam Donahey
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H. W. Russell
Henry
Sam Gardner
S. C. Gardner
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Keeley
Patricia
Henry Steck
Camp Pike
Little Rock
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Odd Fellows
Fay Murphy
Noble Grand
Lester Glick
Navy
California
China
Laird Hawkins
Alvin Hawkins
Tucker and Eicher Garage
J. A. Porter
B. Ward
East Third Street
South Eighth Ave
C. F. Anderson
Bigesville, Ill
McCleery Calendar Factory
Frantlin Kinsley
Ernest White
Dorothy Denison
North Fourth Avenue
Pr. C. A. Boice
Ely
Y's Men’s Club
Bernice Derby
Howard Mylton
Cleen Zarine
Kankakee, Til
Christian Church
Floyd Hunt
Joan
Lloyd Hunt
Davis
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Morrleon
Tantan Mehnar
White
Mra
Rose M. Peid
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Teteeratee
Betsey
the Fox
Betsey Patterson
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Napoleon
Harry Dye
Elizabeth Patterson
K. C
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J. M. Kelly
Juliet Lemmon
Henrietta Hull
Helen Junebluth
Helen Alcorn
Janet Dennines
Martha Reister
Margaret Griffith
Helen Jones
Betty Cunningham
Helen’ Masson
Virginia
Sara Marie Navis Willa Briley
Maxine Willits
Ruth Broyan Owen
William Jennings Bryan
N. PW. Moner
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Cal
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U. P
Inter-Church Committee
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Iowa Gas and Electric Company
India
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Colo
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Colorado
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Loveland
Charley Means
Peter Berdo
Peter
Niehe
Woehingrtan
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