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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1922
Page
5
Correspondents report farm activity and social news across the region. Lloyd Lefever shells corn and delivers to Kinross while others attend sales in Washington Keota and Eckbart farm events. Births occur at the homes of the Hotle and Horning families as townsmen visit relatives and shop in nearby counties.
Dayton Grove and Haskins columns detail local social events. West Chester shoppers Cy Timmins and family visit, a charity lecture, Sunday school trips, and a So and Sew club meeting with new officers. Obituary for Mrs Swain Beatty. many residents attend church dinners, baptisms, weddings, and family visits across Ainsworth Washington Core Muscatine and Riverside.
Local residents share social calls and family updates from Valley, including visits among Feltz Conrad Frank Wallace and others. Eighth grade exams near for Louise Wallace and Nellie Pfeifer, while a quilting session closes with 16 members and 2 visitors.
Miss Earth Peter son heads to Des Moines for a state board exam after nurse training in Iowa City. Mr Norris plans to manage a Farmers Store in Fredonia. Mrs Mary Chambers attends American Lesson auxiliary in Washington. W H Ross sustains a broken wrist cranking a car. A large crowd witnesses a double basketball bill at the high school with girls losing 7 to 15 to St Marys Riverside and the boys winning 44 to 3. This week hosts electricity lecture by Dr Williams and a junior class play Aaron Boggs Freshman. Saturday features a Wyman vs Ainsworth basketball game. Maud Bronson returns to Chicago for millinery work. A B Swift and son report a full ice house this week.
The article notes a lecture titled What is the matter with the world and lists local attendees and visitors from Washington. It covers a declamatory contest, church socials, and community notices including schooling, church events, and local remarks on health and public matters.
Grace Hill residents recount a weekend of gatherings with birthdays celebrated for Mrs Augustine and Walter Peterson. The Harvey home hosted a large dinner while Griffths and Chorpenings hosted others with skating at horse shoe lake and Edison music. A ten cent social at the community building drew many ladies and children, and a later gathering at the Springer home featured five tables of a local game night with ham sandwiches and desserts.
A fragment from a printed exchange asserts that trust enables deception and questions whether any man or woman can be truly deceitful, noting belief in others shapes perception of bad intent.
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