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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1927
Page
5
Monday’s gym classes split into teams with names like The Black Cats and The Red Socks for inter class tournaments. Senior hockey winners noted with weeklong honor rolls and a school potluck after which teachers enjoyed a program and readings.
Friday the Operetta All at Sea was presented at eight o'clock under Miss Reane Miss Wilson and Miss Clemans. The sea atmosphere pervaded the performance from the opening scene to the pirate king finale. Proceeds go to buy music for the glee club contest in spring. The orchestra featured a xylophone duet by Cherry McElhinney and Helen Helwick and new electric light music racks enhanced the show.
Wellman high school announces its boys basketball schedule under Coach George E Stephens. The lineup includes home games against Washington Lone Tree West Chester Kalona Brighton Kinross Keota and North English with dates from December through February.
Crawfordsville reports the high school Cyclones fell twice to Olds on Friday night at Olds. Girls lost 13 to 9 and boys 35 to 20 amid uneven performance. Olds dominated Long shots with seven baskets from center, while Anwyl wore a nose guard due to a prior injury.
Columbus Junction reports the election of Daughters of Union Veterans local tent officers led by President Mrs Ken Pierce and senior vice president Mrs EK B Curtis. Also noted are gilded wedding anniversaries for Mr and Mrs Richard Peters, who observed fifty years of marriage at their South Hill home. their Welsh birthplaces are noted.
London reports a global surge in finds from pre history to Egyptology. Highlights include the Hetepheres tomb at Giza revealing royal burial practices, Scottish skulls near Sutherland, South African cave art near Rhodesia, a wooly rhinoceros site in Lecce, and Sahara rock paintings suggesting Ice Age fertility.
The article details a long settled family near Columbus City now in good health with nine children and many grandchildren. It also announces Louise Hollister a national WCTU organizer speaking at the Presbyterian church and a Monday meeting to organize a local WCTU chapter with Mrs Chittum attending from Wapello County.
In Young America on December 9, residents note corn husking is nearly finished. Willa Briley and friends visited Marjorie Smith and attended a Prairie Flower schoolhouse candy and box supper. Mrs. Cloyd Knapp returned from a ten day hospital stay after surgery. Elmer Cherry and George Fulton shared a day at the Fulton home. Fulton broke a collar bone in a horse incident. Mary Briley joined a party hosted by Donna Clow last Saturday.
Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack bring Chang back to America after 22 months in Siam. The film depicts man versus jungle with animals as principal actors and a white gibbon named Bimbo providing comic relief. The crew faced malaria and deadly wildlife during production.
Mrs. Charles Cherry and Mrs. John Cherry called on Mrs. Cloyd Knapp at the hospital last Friday. Burl Pringle stayed in town Wednesday night due to bad weather. J. N. Phillips sprained his wrist last week and was unable to tend corn for a few days.
A colored cook returns after midnight from a revival, loudly proclaiming. Her employer urges calm religion, joking that King Solomon’s temple was built without a hammer. Aunt Mandy retorts that they are just blazing now, not yet building.
The piece argues manners stem from heart and morality not just etiquette. It emphasizes the golden rule Do unto others as you would have them do unto you as the guiding text. It suggests humanity would not need formal codes if this rule guided children.
The article notes Virgil born October 15 7 B C in Andes near Mantua to a farmer family. It cites Celtic root strains Visilius and Maro and says he may not have been a Roman citizen by birth but gained citizenship through Julius Caesar.
The text notes Virgil took little part in wars, wrote Isis Logogues in 37 BC, spent seven years on the Georgics, and the Aeneid remained unfinished at his death in 19 BC. He never married and wished the Aeneid burned.
Iowa professor offers a star based method for reading time using the North Star and the Big Dipper as a clock. The procedure adds months since January 1, doubles, and uses modular arithmetic to yield the hour after noon, with adjustments for midnight and for the advancing day to mid next week.
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