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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 27, 1926

Page

6

Prosperity Encampment to Install Officers Thursday Night

Notice from Prosperity Encampment No 58 I C O Fy calls a Thursday meeting on January 28 to install officers. All Patriarchs are requested to attend. Chief Patriarch Sr Baker signs. Also notice that West Chester Farmer Shipping Association will meet Friday.

CC. Sr. Baker West Chester Farmer Shipping Association

PT club ladies host husbands supper at Myallitts home

At one o clock in the old Farher's Union building the U and PT club ladies will entertain their husbands with an over supper Saturday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Ed Myallit.

First United Presbyterian Church William Matthews L. L. Sirwell North Town Avenue Priscilla Club O. F. Boller J. M. Godfrey Boller South Iowa Avenue J. Reade McCory Mrs. Kerr le Crosse Wisconsin Sam Wittmer Annette McGinnis Sadie Miler Howard Wittmee Bruce Stewart Will McBride Didean R.al Dewson Farm Bureau Leslie Gates Ruby Kassel Ames Art F. L. Wilson Sainte Chapelle Paris Frank Carter Quimper Olive Campbell N. M. Speidel Europe Preston Wolfe Mr. Wolfe Roy Mallory Farher’s Union U and PT Club Ed Myallit

Despot King of Norway Known as Nero of the North

A 1913 era claim labels a Norwegian monarch as a cruel despot nicknamed Nero of the North and The Cruel. It notes deposition and banishment in 152 percent and cites Christian I as king of Ugonitirk.

Norway Nero North Christian Ugonitirk

Pumpkin bread not listed in local menu history note

The item notes a missing bread on a Homestead Farm menu as pumpkin bread once a favorite in early Iowa dining. It explains pumpkin bread was made from stewed pumpkin mixed half and half with corn meal then kneaded like white bread with leaven to rise.

Dninig Iowa Lexington Ladies Aid Society Lexington Church Bert Dill Everette Smith Jake Sigler Morton Emde Cecil Amiong Wade Gardner Jack Horner Mary Helen Clara Huber Mary Timmings Oldfield Homestead Iown

Woodlawn Cemetery Committee 1925 Annual Report

The W I L Woodlawn Cemetery Committee reports 1925 receipts totaling 109.25 for manicuring and lot work. Planting included peonies donated by Mrs. W M Stone of Anadale Minnesota. Disbursements include cemetery sexton wages 109.25 and B F Campbell fees for re setting monuments and selling markers totaling 81.55 15.00. Chairman J B Crail signs the report.

W. I. L. Woodlawn Cemetery Committee W. M. Stone Anna‘dale, Minn

Early settlers and hominy in Iowa kitchens

A read through old Iowa dietary notes describes lye hominy made from ground corn, the corn grater sheller, and the traditional cooking cycle from boiling with ashes to cooling in outdoor kettles. The piece contrasts pioneer meals with modern enthusiasms and ends by asking how mush diets influence corn prices.

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