Local club teas and society gatherings fill Fortnightly agenda
Mrs E T Wickham hosted a Monday afternoon literary gathering at West Washington Street with a two course luncheon, blue and gold decor, and readings from Cream of the Jug and works by Hazlitt and Fitzgerald. I G Whitewoman's Relief corps reported Christmas aid totaling sixty dollars, with flag and marker projects. Young Woman's Missionary and Baptist groups held meetings with pot luck suppers, sewing for a hospital home in Boston, and donations to Bennett College. H B and H S clubs hosted multiple potlucks, oyste r suppers, and family gatherings with games and music, extending a busy social stretch across the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. T. Wickham
West Washington Street
Joe Wright
H. I. Ward
A. W. Clow
Grant Overton
R. S. Cherry
William Hazlett Upson
C. M. Keck
Robinson Cruse
H. C. Witwer
Jennie Achegon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
E. D. Morrison
Dorothy Ward
George Morrison
I. G. Whitewoman's Relief Corps
G. A R. Hall
Court House
Julia Vavender
Relief Committee
Patriote
Girl Scouts
Young Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Juanita Rosenberger
West
Madison Street
Edith Spera
Marjorie Smith
America
Boston
Bennett College
Mississippi
H. 8
Alex McCreedy
Will Busby
Lingering Colds Threaten Weakened Systems This Epidemic
Physicians warn this year s epidemic poses danger from after effects as colds attack weakened bodies leading to bronchitis sinus trouble pneumonia or even meningitis. Children and the elderly are especially at risk. Vicks VapoRub is recommended for external use to ease symptoms without upsetting digestion by rubbing in the throat and chest at bedtime.
Fortnightly club drama night and card party noted
The Fortnightly club Drama department hosted Miss Charlotte Foster at Mrs A Andersons home with a talk on dramatist and a review of Milton's Comus by Mrs P G Widmer. A well attended card party at Castle Hall featured bridge and five hundred with light refreshments by Mrs Will Clark and committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Foster
A. Anderson
T. A. Michels
P. G. Widmer
Milton
Castle Hall
Will Clark
Clyde Pratt
John Applegate
Baptist Ladies Announce Monthly Social at Mrs Bowman Home
The Baptist Ladies monthly meeting will be at Mrs Anna Bowman's home Friday afternoon with all ladies asked to bring towels to donate to the church. petite Mrs James M Wilson will host friends Thursday afternoon at Mrs M E Dicken's home on South Iowa. 29212 1p Praise and Power Night at the Christian Church social service for everybody Thursday night. Sixth grade seating and favors. bring a New Testament. All sixth graders invited. Woman's Home Mission Society will meet with Mrs W W Bowers Friday at 2:30 on West Washington Street. Mrs George Brinton to lead lesson. large attendance desired. 29212
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist
Anna Bowman
James M. Wilson
M. E. Dicken
South
Iowa
The
Christian Church
Methodist Church
W. W. Bowers
West Washington Street
George Brinton
Vote confirms West for cabinet in senate division
United Press reports a 54 to 0 party line vote confirming West for the cabinet after a closely watched roll call. The Senate kept the tally secret, but the public breakdown shows Democrats and Republicans split with a minority opposition. A separate dispatch from London notes King George's illness improvement and plans to move to a sea climate for recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Democrate
Ashust
Arin Tavard
Col. Blas
S.C Tratton
No M
Browesard
Reco Nas Caraway
Anne Copeland
N. Y
Pletcher
Fla
George
G. Glass
Hawes
Hayden
Kendrick
Wyo
Overman
Pittman
Raksdell
Smith
S.C
Steck
Taz Stephens
Thomas Okla
Tydines
Bingham
Burton
Ganper
Sortis
Deneen
Tiago
Fess
Henn
Gould
Maine
Why Male
Hastings
Jones
Wash
Keyes
N. T
McNare
Ore
Metcalf
Modie
Phinns
Colo
Reed
Robinson
Ind
T Sackett
Schall
Minn
Shortridge
Callt
Smoot
Utah
Steiner
Vandexberg
Mich
Warren
Wye
Waterman
Watson
Barkley Sy
Black
Ala
Dill
Harris
Harrison
Heflin
McKelah Tenn
Neely
London
Odd Creatures Found in Subterranean Life
A discussion of cave life noting that subterranean species live without sunlight, reproduce and die in darkness, and exhibit drastic changes such as reduced or absent eyes and pale skin. Many cave forms resemble surface types yet show unique adaptations like loss of vision and altered brains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ares
End of the Drum Era Ends Military Prestige
A historical reminiscence notes the drum’s decline before World War I, replaced by other instruments as nations followed the example. It recalls ancient uses in Greece Egypt and South America, Puritan church bells, and Kipling era headlines, arguing the drum was a costly, noisy encumbrance hindering mobilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pizarro
New England
Pliny
Kipling
France
Rehoboth
Gorilla social life and aggression in defense of self
Naturalists describe gorilla family structure as stable and long lasting with immaturity and mating practices retained within the group. Gorillas are generally peaceful, but will savagely defend themselves and their family if forced into battle by an aggressor.
Principal motions of the Earth listed by popular astronomy
The passage notes that no authority asserts a fixed number of Earth motions. It cites a list from Popular Astronomy of eleven principal motions including rotation on its axis and orbital revolutions, precession, center of gravity motions, nutation, obliquity variation, eccentricity, perihelion motion, planetary perturbations, solar system center of gravity motion, and the Sun’s motion through space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navas Anvers Isay
Plammarion and Gore
Rotatlo
Earth
Moon
Solar System
Space
Twain and the typewriter’s early Boston moment
In autumn 1874 Clemens, strolling with a friend in Boston, admired a stationery store window. He bought a typewriter soon after, influencing the creation of a famous manuscript as he began typing the Mississippi tale on the machine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twain
Mark Twain
Clemens
Boston
Jon Twain
Diverted Mind and the Value of Deliberate Thinking
Grove Patterson argues that constant diversion cripples productive thought and suggests Americans improve work by embracing quiet contemplation over hurried activity, urging fewer distractions to achieve better results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grove Patterson
Mobile Register
Prison Comedy and Mountain Melodrama At Local Theatres
The Graham theatre opens with Brotherly Eve a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy starring Karl Dane and George K Arthur as prison inmates in a reform penitentary satire. The Vox theatre features The Big Killing a Wallace Teary Raymond Hatton melodrama set among mountain log cabins near Hollywood with Mary Brian Lane Chandler Gardner James and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl Dane
1George K. Arthur
Graham Theatre
Metro-Goldwyayer
Reform
M-G-M
Dane
Arthur
Warren
California Hills
Hollywood
Wallace Teery
Raymond Hatton
Vox
United States
Eery and Hatton
Mary Brian
Lane Chandler
Gardner James
Miss Brian
Gardners
Squatter on Chinese Island Moves Home
Shanghai January 22 A tiny island appeared in the Wangpoo river near the Bund. Wang Chi Ho a Sarh pan coolie claimed the island and built a rude house. Police say he moved his family back to shore after the island vanished as water carried his house away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wang
Paddlin Ais Sampan
Chicago Negro in Bull Pen Slays Three Before Death
Oscar Monroe, 34, led a chaotic breakout in Chicago criminal court bull pen as guards opened fire. He stabbed three policemen and was fatally shot after escaping into a corridor. The mass arrest crackdown on 3400 underworld figures is noted as broken by the assault. A sapphire bubble note follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Criminal Courts
Oscar Monroe
Underworld
Road seeking material bids for bridge work
Ata teams in use count board of supervisors this week plans to advertise for bids on bridge and culvert material to be submitted by February 11 with the contract to be awarded. The county seeks douglas fir planking pine piling and corrugated culvert pipe for bridge work over the county this year. Debated prohibition amendments limit the first deficiency appropriation bill to ten minutes per speaker in the senate led by Senator Curtis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ata
Board of Supervisors
Washington
Senate
Curtis
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Ciety
Young Women's Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
Mrs. MccCreedy
Mrs. Busby
United Press
Drum
Happy Getilla Family
Ane-Arthur
Orm Prison
British Museum
Ottumwa
Miss Klein’s
Knox Knit Union
Klein Klothing Ko
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