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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1921
Page
8
Small town residents cheer as theatre news sparks chatter about the Shuberts while families spend Christmas visiting relatives in Harper Keota and nearby towns. Local callers note festive meals, travel to Crawfordsville Havre Burlington and Fairfield.
Local notes list residents traveling to visit relatives in Sigourney and West Chester. Mrs. John Tollenaar and son return from a visit to C. H. Ditmer. Mr. and Mrs. Chas Hennon visit in West Chester. Mr. and Mrs. C H Davis return from Wayland. Mrs. J R Durst and Matt Anderson visit Delta. Miss Maud Work visits Washington. Neighbors advertise Lyon cookies and pump repairs.
Notices list bills for the Goodfellows Club to J B Crail and many brief travels. Families visit relatives in Davenport Davenport, West Chester Sigourney Columbus Junction Keota and Des Moines for Christmas and weekends. A Farmers Union meeting at No 11 school house Washington township is scheduled for December 28 at 7 36 PM to organize a local unit.
The bulletin lists residents returning home and visiting relatives after the holidays. Kurtz arrives in Cedar Rapids from a parental visit. Velda Adrian and Elsie Braunhausen visit Muscatine. Mrs. John Foster dies in Bloomfield with sister Mrs. Kelly traveling there. Miss Mary McAvoy attends a funeral in Muscatine. others travel to Fairfield Muscatine Newton Waterloo Ottumwa and Cohousing.
A literary line from Nora Kent’s The Quest of Michael Marland invokes silk stockings as a remedy for sorrows, reflecting midcentury mood and fashion symbolism in the excerpt.
Uncle Eben remarks that some men are born great but face great difficulty living up to responsibility in a rural dialect quote about manhood and effort.
The Fort nightly Art Department meets Tuesday at 2 30 with Mrs F L Wilson 6712. Farmers Union meets at No 11 schoolhouse Wednesday Dec 28 at 7 30 with a State organizer. Young Women Missionary Society of the Methodist church meets Tuesday Dec 27 at 7 30 in the League room. Revival series begins after New Year at New Haven Baptist Church Rev Unthank. Navajo club meets Wednesday afternoon with Mrs C W Long. Christmas social at church Friday night. Rural Women’s club meets Thursday with Mrs Edgar Porter with Christmas exchange. Walnut Women’s club meets Thursday afternoon with Mrs Donald Tucker. Damascus Shrine No 16 meets Thursday evening at Moose Hall with officer elections and initiation. Oyster stew served. bring own dishes. B Y P E party planned for Tuesday evening not held due to weather. New Haven Baptist Church to start meetings Monday Jan 2 Rev A J Unthank of Koota to preach. Oyster supper and entertainment at New Haven Baptist Church Friday night. Everyone welcome.
Allen Green now works as an efficiency expert at Schuneman & Evans Department Store in Minneapolis supervising all employees. He is noted as a Washington product who has found success in the big city. Also mentioned: Barbara Cuddy visiting her grandparents Mr and Mrs T D Cuddy at Hedrick. Riley Provance and Kathryn Gibson visiting Eldon over Christmas. Mrs J W Nebergall visiting Titus to meet her new granddaughter. Marjorie White visiting Wellston. Emery A Hofer and Hazel J Starr obtain a marriage license in Washington.
In parts of the New Hebrides and the Solomon Islands families often kill infants and replace them with substitutes, a practice described as common in certain arts of those regions.
Mrs Karl Griffith and sister Martha Teeter visit in Brighton while Ernest Louck and W J Keifer attend a Velie factory banquet in Moline. Many others travel between Davenport Oskaloosa Des Moines Cedar Falls and Moline for holidays visiting relatives and returning home.
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