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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1924
Page
8
Local items list holiday bazaars at the Baptist church and sales at West Side Clothiers. Shippers notify Ed Jackson for Farmers Shipping Association duties. Residents travel to Davenport Osceola and Kansas City for medical care, visits, and family events.
The object of preaching is to remind mankind of what they forget not to supply intellect but to fortify feeble resolutions and recall people from the by path to the broad path of salvation which all know but few tread. Sidney Smith quote.
Rev. C. F. Hoffman resigns from Keota United Presbyterian after eight years to take a call in Emporia Kansas. Rev. J. W. Neyman becomes Keota Baptist pastor with Mrs Neyman assisting. Other items report quarantine at home of Miss Myrna Fountain, cancer concerns for August Hochstadtler, recovery from a broken hip for Mrs. M. A. Hulse, and travels of Mrs. Warren Morgan to Washington.
Clay Iowa reports the Clay Two Farm Bureau club women held an all day meeting with Mrs. Ellis Walton and Lillian Sha ben Ames Iowa Home furnishing specialist giving the first lesson on Color and Design in Home furnishing. The five month course begins.
A Christmas Savings Club leads to fifty weeks of deposits and a future Savings Account, praised as a fine family resource and a thrifty example for others to imitate.
Riverside December 12 Friday marked Grandma Kreb's 90th birthday with friends sending gifts and postcards. Local social notes mention Cinch and Whist clubs, high and consolation honors, and a birthday party for Melvin Havel with a $100 gift from his parents.
Sept Harold Ross A B E Gualt and J H Jones traveled to Cedar Rapids for the annual Presidents of school boards and superintendents meeting. Mr Jones will give an address. Locals visited in Washington yesterday and others spent the day with Mrs J F Buxbaum.
A Baltimore Sun comment notes that many claim greatness but few handle film stills with dignity, highlighting the challenge of appearing impressive on camera and the occasional humorous outcomes in early movie photography.
In Washington County Iowa a will dated February 14 1922 and a codicil dated December 16 1923 for Horace Steele have been filed and opened for probate. The District Court will hear proof at 2 pm on December 27 1924 at the courthouse in Washington and all interested persons must appear to show cause why the will should not be probated. Frances Eb Wilson Clerk of District Court.
An old estimate notes the average man walks about four feet per second, covering three miles per hour, while a horse trots ten feet per second or about seven miles per hour.
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