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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1922
Page
3
The Chautauqua opens August 15 with top orchestras and concert companies. Bohumir Kryl and his band will perform two concerts on August 22 attracting large crowds. The Link orchestra starts the program on August 16 with a six member ensemble delivering instrumental and vocal numbers.
Regular meeting Friday evening includes balloting and initiation with good attendance expected. Gibsonian orchestra performs Thursday as a new chautauqua music act. Ward Waters Trice impersonates with two assistants for an entertaining program Friday. Saturday features Smith-Spring Holmes orchestral quintet famed for highclass music. Monday brings De Moulin fourpiece concert. W O W regular meeting Thursday of the second week tickets. Hadley concert quartet on Wednesday offers popular vocal and instrumental program. Goforths orchestra on Thursday August 24 described as clever entertaining soap and variety with George Goforth on traps merimbaphone and xylophone. Woman's Missionary Society meets Friday at 2:30 pm at the Presbyterian church. Third Ward social at G A R hall Tuesday July 25. Damron clay modeling lecture Sunshine Dietrick Strickland Gillilan humorist among other acts. Serious talks by Marshall former VP Stidger Judge Kavanagh and Dr Liehilter noted.
Jesse Miller former Grace Methodist Episcopal music director in Des Moines has been named director of the choir and pastor's assistant at the local Methodist church in Washington. He will move his wife and son to Washington by September first to begin duties. he succeeds Alma Huppert who left July first for Milwaukee and mission work in China. Miller impressed at the Cedar Rapids state Sunday school convention and will contribute his strong tenor voice to the church.
Washington Lodge announces second degree work after the commandery meeting Friday evening July 21. H T Carris, W M notes lodge business and schedules.
Americans from many states paid tribute to Pocahontas at Jamestown Island Virginia during unveiling ceremonies. The event highlighted her role in saving the early colony from death famine and confusion.
An open letter to MR. W. KNOX discusses selling Automatic Take-up Nuts for connecting rods. The author cites users like Ted Eggers the blacksmith and Preston Wolfe testing them on his Ford, urging installation for more power and efficiency. The tone is promotional and personal.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sam T Donahey were conducted yesterday afternoon at 2.30 at the West Main street home. Rev A R Oates and Dr W W Bowers presided with pallbearers David McLaughlin W A Cook C M Keck BE Biber L B Patterson and F R Sage. Music included a solo by Mrs J C Ream. Members of the P and O society attended in a body. Floral tributes were numerous. Interment followed at Elm Grove cemetery.
Alex Miller lectured on the chautauqua platform in Cavalier North Dakota to three listeners as Mr and Mrs Orville Elder and son David pass through Minnesota on their way to Winnipeg Canada They bought an advertisement announcing the address. The Elders traveled twenty five miles to hear him and saw his sister in law and brother in law in the audience.
The Friday night program for the sixty first anniversary jubilee service at Shorter A M E Church begins Friday at eight o clock. Doxology led by the congregation. Rev B A W Johnson gives the invocation. Dorothy Lewis sings selections and announces the master of ceremonies. Members of the A M E Church deliver remarks. Inter church committee members include Mrs C W Stewart John Shields Col D J Palmer W P McCauley. The choir performs Wake the Battle Won and Whispering Hope. Readings by Robert Lewis Veleces of the Woods Rubinstein Junior Choir and ministers Rev C W Klein Rev J Reade McCrory Dr W W Bowers. Quartet Bless My Soul O Jehovah features Mrs W Williams Mrs A E Johnson and Raymond and Arnold Hall. Closing remarks by Rev Johnson. Public invited.
Fifteen year old Wyatt Romine, a Washington high school sophomore, died about two o'clock this afternoon at his father's home near Keota after several days of illness. His sister Tera also attends high school here. Funeral plans are not yet set and will be private.
The Johnnie Wright orchestra, popular at Washington dances, will leave next Thursday for a tour across Iowa Nebraska Colorado Utah Idaho Oregon and California. They will perform at the Pageant of Progress in Los Angeles and at the St Francis hotel in San Francisco on a fifteen week engagement. Members include Johnnie Wright Ralph Bowman Hap Hollinger Brooks Mellicker and Chuck Sullivan. Gertrude Bickford drives in a Paige sedan with Gertrude Davis as companion. George Bickford is advance agent. Several members formerly played with the Paul Whitman orchestra Hunt's Saxophone band and the original Kilts.
About thirty five Washington men serve twelve hour shifts enforcing a federal restraining order at Fort Madison during the strike. Deputies report neutral, calm enforcement as strikers remain peaceful with no violence or major incidents. Lieut. George E. Ketterer of Des Moines praises the force and the duration of service remains undetermined.
Great men believe in Sunday school and church. The country church urges Prairie Flower services and growth. Sunday school at 4 PM with Morning message Jesus Reversing Current Philosophy and Evening talk No Waters too Deep. B Y P P A at 7 30 led by Ernest Booth. A J Unthank, Pastor.
A Kentucky visitor encounters an elderly unmarried Black man and asks why he never marries. The man answers gravely with a twinkle, saying he avoids matrimony, while a comic aside from Brander Matthews and a preacher tale about heaven and remarriage adds flavor to the discussion.
Iowa Governor Kendall pledged state aid to the Harding program to resume coal production. Kendall and Nebraska Governor McKelvie discussed cooperation and possible militia use. Across the nation governors urged action to avert a coal crisis and protect mines and workers while federal plans faced union resistance.
The article notes an English firm producing vast waste matter from its operations and exporting it as images of eastern gods. The material is melted and remade into counterfeit religious depictions for export.
The article notes uncertainty about peteorie stones or meteorites but suggests they are tiny fragments from primitive material that were not swept up during early solar system formation and later became trapped by Earth's atmosphere.
A London Opinion quip surveys two readers discussing Sir Walter Scott. The pair praises Lady of the Lake Marmion Powers of the Peak and Emulsion with playful humor as they debate which of his works holds the best claim to popularity. The exchange ends with a coy remark about Emulsion.
A shopkeeper paints a sign reading Fresh Fish Sold Here but erases words to leave only Fish. Customers query every cut, then another remarks that the odor proves the point, suggesting the sign’s single word suffices. The anecdote from the San Francisco Argonaut contrasts marketing with senses.
The passage notes elephants may exceed 14 miles per hour and sustain 10 mph. claims proper nature at 40, potential lifespans over a century. It cites Darwin on exponential growth from a single pair after 730 years without breeding, and mentions tusks as weapons used for digging roots.
Dr L O Howard retells a Washington man’s tale of a fly haunted Connecticut hotel. The guest complains of flies in the grove hammock hours are noon to two when dinner keeps files indoors, landlord explains.
About 25 degrees will be conferred to Iowa State College students who finish work at the end of the first summer session. Half are master of science and half bachelor degrees. Dean R B Buchanan will deliver the commencement address as acting rector. The first session closes Friday and the second opens Monday.
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