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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1920
Page
4
A movement to promote meat consumption is forming as meat producers claim vegetarian advocacy has hurt demand. They plan to publish statistics showing meat as essential to health and note declining per capita meat intake from 216 pounds in 1900 to 176 in 1914, with a slight lull in 1918, forecasting higher pork and beef demand if trends continue.
ABE MARTIN comments on invitations thinning among women who still defer to husbands. He jokes that invitations to the Mopp’s party are already going out as the social scene shifts to cards and dancing with a lively, breezy tone.
In Wellman Iowa on Christmas day Miss Mayme Gardner oldest daughter of Bruce Gardner married William Francis Flynn at the Methodist parsonage. The ceremony was followed by a wedding dinner at the James and Harry Gardner home and the couple will reside on the groom’s farm southeast of Wellman. A miscellaneous shower honored the bride elect with gifts of silver and household articles, hosted by local clubs and church ladies.
Spaeth & Company summon the stage with Lasses White and Eddie Powell’s group at Graham theater on December 30. Acts include Isle of Flowers parody, Moonlight Among the Moss scenery by Joseph Physioc, featured blackface comedians Danny Duncan and Lee Edmonds, with a parade of Kings of Cork in new military uniforms by Russell Uniform Co.
Correspondents report a well attended Christmas program at the Methodist church with Guy Voorhees as Santa and a flag drill. Several locals mark holiday visits and travels to Washington and Chicago, with quiet holiday observances and no school vacation due to past measles disruptions.
Funeral service for a mother of a husband and four children was held at Hopewell church after she died, leaving three brothers and three sisters. Relatives in Texas California and Iowa attended as a brother from California came for the burial near Richland. The notice mentions a hospitalized baby and various local Christmas events and visitors during holidays.
The Christmas tree and cantata drew crowds at the local church. A. C. Robinson and family visited from Iowa City for the holidays. Rev J. E. Grinnell entertained relatives, Miss Jeanette Woodford returned from Ames, and Warren Morgan family joined kin in Brighton for Christmas. The Gassaway and Rath families were also mentioned in local gatherings.
Crawfordsville residents report numerous travels and arrivals with relatives in Des Moines and Chicago. Rev A L Graham dies of pneumonia in Monmouth IL, remembered by the community for frequent visits and sermons here. Latimer Davis welcome an 11 pound boy born Sabbath.
Owen Moore stars in a comedy drama described as polite yet humorous as the hero is repeatedly wrong despite good intentions. The plot follows a rich American who leaves his fiancée to run a small errand, tangles with a taxi, a mystery woman, and a gangster leading to unforeseen danger and a string of laugh producing incidents. Mi O Na stomach tablets are advertised by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
Mrs Walter Gardner and son Elwyn visited last Monday at the Charlie Kephart and Ed Simmering home. Miss Florence Carr has had measles but is improving. Florence Gardner spent Sunday at the Harry Jones home. Tena Sizxamering, Anna Sizxamering, Dewey Coffman, Joe and George Simmering were at Charlie Kephart and Ed Simmering home for Christmas. Mr and Mrs Fred Teford and family visited Robert Kephart home in Washington on Sunday. Oscar Gardner and his mother Susan Gardner spent Christmas at the Walter Gardner home. Opal Gardner and children spent Christmas with Will McBride's. Marion Thompson of Washington spent Christmas with his parents James A Thompson and wife.
In district court for the January term 1920 an instrument purporting to be the last will of Helen S. Crooks deceased has been filed opened and read and is fixed for hearing proof on January 3 1920. Clerk J D Glasgow district court dated December 28 1920
Vesta stood as Rome’s hearth goddess with the city’s oldest temple. It housed no statue of the deity but safeguarded a sacred fire rekindled each Roman New Year by friction, tended by the vestal keepers.
The notes wish readers a prosperous New Year after a white Christmas and a green Easter. It recalls heavy snow on Christmas day and zero weather the following Monday. The item also records the death of Mrs. Robert Morgen on Wednesday night.
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