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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1925
Page
6
Ladies from Highland Sewing Circle and Friendship Club held all day gatherings at homes for meals and Christmas exchanges. They planned a Christmas program and tree at Highland Center School on December 23 and discussed January meetings and guest invites.
Tuesday Mrs. Joe Maxwell hosts BFOLON club meeting at 7 30 in ALR hall. Wilte Shrine meets at Masonic Temple. Wednesday Lebekahs hold annual Christmas dinner with 5 30 serving. Numerous circle and club gatherings include embroidery, Pythian, Navajo, Just Us, De Molay dance invitation, and Christmas exchanges.
European News Letter reports Steefried Wagner condemns jazz as alien to German taste urging youth to waltz to Johann Strauss tunes amid tensions over French use of black troops in the Rhineland. The piece notes beer culture, Cologne fair revival plans, and England’s top shoe maker is a woman, Mrs. B W Pigott, chairing Mansfield and Sons.
A community supper at six o'clock is followed by a Christmas program at New Haven church. The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the West Chester Methodist will meet in the afternoon with Mrs Coffey, starting promptly at two. Saturday the W RL regular meeting is at the hall at 2.30 with the 1911 Century meeting hosted by Mrs W M Keeley.
Mild weather gave way to heavy snowfall across Iowa with towns from Marshalltown to Burlington reporting 2 to 7 inches. Fort Dodge and Sioux City logged four inches, Council Bluffs more than twelve, and Cedar Rapids four with trains delayed east and west.
Road records detail projects from 1926 to 1938 including gravel and grade work on routes through Iowa City Keokuk Sigourney Montrose Donnellson Ft. Madison Columbus Junction Grand View and Mahaska counties with costs ranging from tens of thousands to over a half million dollars. The plan lists specific route numbers and counties reflecting a broad modernization program.
The record lists numerous 1920s road projects with graveling on routes in Muscatine, Oskaloosa, Wilton, Durant, Keosauqua, Farmington, Ottumwa and surrounding counties. It notes grades, gravel quantities, and costs including 2026 figures in some lines, totaling substantial expenditures for county road work.
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