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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1921
Page
6
Bert Dixon and Alex Juy de travel to Chicago for the automobile show. A west window displays toilet soaps sold at 15 cents per cake. An order promises sale at 10 cents per cake or one dozen for a dollar.
A large gathering of about fifty guests celebrated Lewis Duke’s birthday at his southwest Washington home. The Walnut Sunday School organized games, races, and songs with prizes and a noon lunch, while Miss Eula Cherry and others hosted entertainment and cake.
Washington IA residents and visitors fill the weekend with travel to Keota Sigourney Harper and Crawfordsville. Notables include Mr and Mrs Sterling White of Davenport Mrs M H Sartor and brother Bryan Fenton visiting Centralia MO and West Chester respectively. An Olds and Crawford sale near Ainsworth is set for Feb 7 listing 1200 bushels of corn.
The town calendar lists the Leon Beatty Post No. 29 monthly meeting at 7 30 p m Tuesday February 1 with a large attendance urged. Also social and farewell gatherings for Royal Neighbors Modern Woodmen and families, missionary society meetings, YPBC Chapter 1, and Fortnightly club discussions with biblical questions slated for February 1 and 2.
Local organizations announce events for February 1 including Royal Arch con vocation with possible Richland Chapter officers, D A R meeting at Mrs H M Shaver's, G A R post at 2 pm, Knights of Pythias work night, Methodist box social with capped prices, Baptist Senior Guild ten cent social, Havre Social Club gathering, Harmony Club, Fleur de Lis Club dinner and reminders to notify hosts if unable to attend.
The Fortnightly club child study meets at 2:80 with Hallie Hall. Prairie Flower Mission Circle meets with Mrs Al Reeves Feb 3 for an all day session. bring thimbles. Farmers Union at Pleasant Plain school house Feb 1. large attendance urged. Legionnaire club meets with Mrs Babel Gray Feb 12. Delta Alpha social at Mrs Hilt McGuire home. bring needle thread and thimble.
A college English teacher humorously defines a moneylender as one who serves in the present tense, lends in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjective, and ruins you in the future. The quip highlights language roles in finance.
A historic note praises dogs for bravery as Charlotte Bronte records finding the skeleton of Delta at Herculaneum. The collar inscription recalls the dog saving his master three times from sea, robbers, and wolves before perishing to protect life from lava.
A proud politician ends an hour long harangue delivering a line about oratory as a gift not an acquisition. The matter of fact chairman responds we’re not blaming you you did the best you could.
The line from Vergil's Eneid traces to the siege of Troy where Greeks pretended friendship. They built a wooden horse and offered it as a gift. Trojans admitted it. at night Greek soldiers hidden inside opened the gates. The lesson warns to fear deceptive friendliness.
A discussion of planets with binary stars. Two suns exert strong gravity, making elliptical orbits and immense tides if water is present. Objects on such planets cast two shadows due to the dual light sources.
Miss Virginia Clark visited the Flave Hagist home in Keota Saturday evening. Zella Shields traveled to Oskaloosa Saturday evening to visit her mother, Mrs. Madison.
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