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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1922
Page
3
Tonight Washington high school girls face a sextet of alumni in a 7 15 PM start. The doubleheader includes the Washington Mt Pleasant boys, both squads aiming to improve in the Little Six standings with key early-season results shaping the league.
The First United Presbyterian Church in Monmouth Illinois hosted a dinner for nearly two hundred men and boys with Rev. J Reade McCrory as guest of honor. Speakers included D J Jows and other local leaders. discussions covered church youth, and McCrory urged youths to face wartime challenges. A death report notes Mrs S P Beatty dies in Davenport after her son Leon Beatty fell in France in 1918. Damascus Shrine officers were installed at the White Shrine of Jerusalem with Kathryne Beatty as Worthy High Priestess. Washington High School defeats Ottumwa High in both debate sections on the city manager form of government.
Littlefield departs Saturday for Los Angeles to attend a La Cuauhtemoc Mining and Smelting board meeting. He will help formulate plans to resume operations at Mexican mines, closed for a year. He expects a three to four month absence and plans to visit the mines beforehand with daughter Laura Lucille.
We wish to extend our sincere appreciation and thanks to our neighbors and friends who were kind and helpful during the illness and death of our dear mother and grandmother Geo. F. Wallace and family.
Word was received this morning of the death of David Hamil at the home of his son Calvin Hamil in Idaho. Burial and funeral services are expected to be held in the coming days with his son and daughter Mrs. Clara Latta listed among surviving relatives. Lived here many years ago and leaves a son and daughter.
A humorous column notes the bridegroom’s sentimentality as he unpacks keepsakes on a rainy day and laments over white kid gloves. The piece captures a light, domestic vignette with gentle irony.
A Christian revival drew a large audience at the local church yesterday evening. The service featured strong singing and forceful sermons, attracting hundreds. Regular service is scheduled for 7:30 this evening with an open invitation to the public.
The text notes potatoes grown privately in Scotland in the early 1700s and that field cultivation was rare before 1735. It cites a 1697 Scots writer on husbandry who urged potato cultivation in the fields.
A reflective excerpt echoes the journey of life as a pilgrim path. It urges humility in failure and warns against false consolation through selective virtue.
At four o'clock yesterday afternoon the jury returned a verdict for the defendant in the Ainsworth Savings Bank versus I L Colthurst case. The bank sought eight thousand dollars on two notes for California land bought from the Hayes company. Colthurst claims the signature on a purchase statement is a forgery. Trial began yesterday in a three cornered matter involving a mortgage foreclosure in Farmers and Merchants State Bank versus J L Benton. The Steele versus Steele divorce is scheduled for trial next.
The family thanks friends for help and sympathy during their sorrow at the death of Mrs. M. M. Cooksey. Special thanks go to Pastor Rev. Hampton and his assistants for comfort and music.
Washington D C Jan 27 More than two thirds of Iowa residents are natives of the state according to a census bureau report based on the 1920 census. Of 2 404 021 inhabitants 1 624 606 are natives of Iowa with 553 421 born elsewhere in the United States and 225 994 born in foreign countries. The full native American and colored population totals are included.
Dr. Phillips preached The Great Investment on John 6 37 at the Baptist church last evening. Five new members joined and five more were baptized as the house filled with attendees. Joseph Conrad sang a solo and a baptismal service is planned for tomorrow night.
Population data show cans in Iowa rose from 87.7 to 90.6 percent between 1910 and 1920 while foreign born share declined. Native Iowans increased from 63.7 to 67.6 percent and births in other states dropped from 24 to 23 percent. The figures suggest fears of foreign born dominance in the county are unfounded.
The speaker of the House of Commons cannot take part in debates and votes only to break ties, while the Lord Chancellor in the House of Lords may speak and vote on all occasions.
A compact timeless line from George Eliot praising perfect love and its poetic breath elevating even the least instructed human being. The remark frames love as a transformative, uplifting force in human relations.
The Missionary Society met at Mrs. Harry Dye’s home with fourteen present for devotionals and business. Mrs. Dye and Mrs. Warren Donaldson announced February meetings and officer elections. A separate Y W Girls banquet at the high school cafeteria featured speaker Mrs. Casselman of Haskins discussing “Girls” and moral contrast, followed by hymns and prayers.
An Indianapolis News item notes an eight year old shows an animal book to his four year old brother. He points to a reindeer and says you can always tell a woman by the kind of shoes it wears.
The phrase Light of the World crowned Sigismund (1411 1487) as German emperor for his reputed enlightenment and intellect.
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