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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1921
Page
8
Local notes show theatre plans in New York with the Shubert name and Eva Herr vacationing with Raleigh Gallagher. Several residents travel between towns including Oskaloosa and West Chester while others greet visitors and manage daily errands.
Mrs. G. W. Wells of West Chester shopped in Washington and Mannhardt’s. Dorothy Libe returned to Boxholm after vacation with her family. Mrs. D. J. Bannon and Alma headed to Iowa City after visiting Mrs. Joe Reiner. Creta Knauss traveled to Columbus Junction after visiting her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Knauss.
Miss Alice Hodson departs for Chicago for a post graduate course under Dr. De Lee in the Lying In hospital. Miss Artie McCullough leaves Emporia after a visit with Miss Jesse Stewart. Kenneth and Phillip Haney visit Davenport to see Mrs. F. D. Letts. Miss Mabel Dankwardt goes to Des Moines Waterloo and Chicago for about a month. Carl H Killerman returns home from visiting his uncle W Z Santel. Mr and Mrs Al Keister visit L. H. McFarland in Crawfordsville. Mrs Mills Taylor and sons head to Monmouth Illinois for the weekend. Mr and Mrs Ray Ralston of Keota visit Joe Harrison family in Winfield.
Mrs M Crawford and daughter Mary returned to Keota after visiting friends. Charles Wheelen and daughter Bertha drove home to Monmouth Illinois after visiting Thomas Wheelen. Mrs Glover Ferrell visited Fairfield, as did Mrs John Belville to see her mother and sister. Tom Skeyhill, back from Russia, to speak Friday in Graham W I L course. Cleo Jones visited Brighton then home, Miss Marjorie Bolon Iowa City visits Brighton.
A compilation of local church and club gatherings with dates in early January. Missionary society meets Monday at 3 PM, New Year dinner at United Presbyterian on Saturday, and various club meetings at Fortnightly and Castle Hall with officer installations and social hours. Public notices call taxpayers and K P members to January events with installations and all-day sessions.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Eyestone of Ossian spend part of the holiday with Mrs Mary Eyestone. Donald Hazen returns to Des Moines to resume work at Capital City Commercial College after holidays with Loren and Mrs Hazen northeast of Washington. John Squire called to Davenport for the illness of his daughter Grace Like. An old arithmetic problem explains a 60 orange transaction with a split pricing profit.
A seven year old asked to hear Even Thou Bravest from Faust on the phonograph. She listened briefly and asked if it was a religious piece. When told it was a grand opera selection she commented that it was terribly quiet for grand opera.
Australian war veteran Tom Skeyhill who spent five months in central Russia spoke of harsh conditions and his perilous passport-less journey. A famed war loan speaker, his talk follows his earlier eye recovery and notable fundraising at Madison Square Garden. He will lecture at the Graham on Friday January 6.
A printer with sore feet found relief by placing a rubber mat at his case. The mat disappeared by noon, so he cut soles and heels from it and attached them to his shoes, unintentionally launching the rubber heel industry. By 1920, 125 million pairs were sold in the U.S., with Brockton, Massachusetts, reporting 84 percent of local shoes fitted with rubber heels. An Akron factory symbolically highlights the era’s boot and shoe activity.
The author argues that despite teaching to discern good from bad literature, a reader needs an inner capacity to grasp the undefinable genius within a work. Quoting Tennyson and Martha Laker Dunn, the piece stresses that explanation and method cannot replace the individual insight sparked by the imagination.
A fragmented passage ponders how sight directs happiness, asking whether people seek complaint or praise first and whether estimation favors trial or mercy. It questions whether people measure themselves against others or aim beyond success toward life and joy.
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