Busy social clubs share spring activities around town
A string of society notes recounts groups meeting at Mrs. Chas. Brown, Dorothy Billings, and Mrs. L. S. Patterson. Members gave demonstrations, sang, recited, and planned picnics and luncheons while hosting a recital and a strawberry social with varied performances by Edith Bolleau, Owen Bolleau, Eva Diller, and others.
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Busy Bee Club
Dorothy Billings
Matt Stout
Helen Grosseup
L. 8. Patterson
Frank Carter
Frank Sage
Cristian Church
Edith
Owen Bolleau
Edna May Mayhew
Leona Parcell
Bertha Earl
Marie Jackson
Eurian Parl
Eva Diller
Helen Williams
Martha Teeter
Velma Moore
Ethul King
Local Clubs and Church Notices Roundup
Community groups schedule meetings and events through June including Kolah club Wednesday with Mrs. Spiledel and booster club Tuesday with Mrs. Wilson. West Chester United Presbyterian Church holds Sabbath school at 10 and services at 11 and 8. Memorial Day observance by M W A on Sunday at 10. D A R hostesses at Mrs. Brown's Monday at 4 30 with date change noted. K of P work session Monday at 8 with refreshments. Farmers Union postponed meeting to Tuesday June 5 with Letts speaking. Reception for Rev and Mrs Willard Wylie at Second United Presbyterian Church Tuesday June 5 from 8 to 10. Tes W. R. Sawhill also to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Missionary Society of the
Second United Presbyterian Church
J. B. Randle
Miss Lewis
R. S. Cook
India
South
J. B. Randie
Alexander
Faris
Beal
West Chester
Farmers Union
Young America
C.F. Letts
Willard Wylie
Cato Begins Greek Studies at Age Eighty
History records note that Cato started learning Greek at eighty, but the Greek philosophers could not improve his disposition.
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Cato
Airplanes Guard California Rice Fields From Birds
Airplanes are employed to drive off wild ducks and geese to protect rice fields in parts of California. The aerial method aims to reduce crop damage by frightening waterfowl.
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California
Never Condense Troubles One by One Comes
A wary proverb notes that troubles should be borne individually. Small worries accumulate until they become heavy burdens, urging patience and steady burdening rather than piling all at once. The message emphasizes gradual handling over overwhelming, repeated strain.
New York Cotton Exchange Opens Its $5 Million Skyscraper
The New York Cotton Exchange plans a July 5 opening for its new $5,000,000 headquarters on Hanover Square. The 18 floor pit will host 400 resident members with teles, score boards, and rapid elevators. The design features arched glass, mosaics, and four corner art scenes of New Orleans Liverpool Alexandria and Bombay.
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Associated Press
York
New York Cotton Exchange
Hanover Square
Lower Manhattan
Exchange
New York
New Orleans
Liverpool
Alexandria
Bombay
New York Harbor
Library Association backs bill and funds education in 1926
At the fifty fifth annual meeting the American Library Association reaffirmed support for the Towner Sterling Educational bill and urged early congressional action. Mrs Henry P Davison established The Henry P Davison Scholarship Fund funding six scholarships from Oxford and Cambridge to Yale Princeton and Harvard.
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Washington
Capital News Service
Council of the American Library Association
Congress
England
America
Henry P. Davison
Oxford
Cambridge
Yale
Princeton
Starvard
American Library Association
Church Treasurer Knew Best
A church treasurer quoted by the head deacon says the right time to raise the minister’s salary is when the church can pay what was promised last year. The exchange adds a humorous note about fiscal prudence at the church.
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Intermediate League of the Methodist Church
Box Springs
Philander
Weill
Cultivating Friendship Says Moderation in Neighborliness
A proverb-like note advises agreeing with a neighbor but not too quickly to avoid seeming defeated and to preserve harmony. It emphasizes careful exchange and patience in social relations.
Top of the Heap Upholds Football Advice
An eccentric old uncle advises a young man to aim for the top in any football game. He stresses maximizing position at the peak of competition as essential guidance.
Illusion of Knowledge Quips by Unele Eben
In a Washington Star excerpt Unele Eben jokes that those who think they know more than others rely on imagination rather than information. The quip reflects a humorous take on overconfidence in knowledge.
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Washington Star
Stray Bits of Wisdom From a Wandering Reader
A compact fragment notes the taste for new science and old literature with a nod to the classics remaining modern, while elegantly referencing Lytton Strachey’s wit about preferred works.
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Lytton
On Passing Others are less eager to pass others than to surpass yourself
A borbes Magazine piece argues that self surpassing matters more than overtly passing rivals. It explores mindset shifts, discipline, and personal growth strategies for sustained progress.
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Borbes Magazine
Halls Catarrh Medicine Advertises 40 Years Use
An old ad touts Halls Catarrh Medicine with a trio: a local ointment for mucous surfaces and a blood-acting tonic. It claims quick relief and long trust, sold by all druggists with F. J. Cheney Co Toledo Ohio.
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F. J. Cheney &O
Toledo
Ohio
Honorary advisory committee named for educational survey
Seven men and women appointed to an honorary advisory committee as sixty officials from British dominions will attend an Educational Conference in London in June to survey methods for 6,000,000 children in 21,634 elementary schools. The public may attend demonstrations showing books apparatus maps timetables handiwork art work domestic work and pupils graphs and notebooks.
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British Dominions
London
England
Wales
Former Boston Symphony Director Dies in Fresno Poorhouse
A former director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and longtime teacher died in a Fresno poorhouse. Once his orchestra delighted crowds at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. A traditional musician of the old school he shunned jazz and eventually had no pupils left.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Fresno
California
San Francisco
Violin of Paganini Resting in Genoa City Hall
The violin once owned by Paganini, regarded as violin technique’s father, is kept in Genoa’s Palazzo del Municipio. Crafted by Joseph Guarnerius del Jesu, it now rests with three broken strings in a silk-lined case in a sunlit largely darkened room.
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Paganini
Palazzo del Municipio
Genoa
Joseph Guaranerius del Jesu
Veterans on Civil War pension roll count shown
Counts 193 881 Civil War veterans on pension roll. Frequent train pulling strains locomotives, with over a quarter of freight locomotives in or awaiting the engine hospital for repairs.
Mrs H J Dupius Visits Keota Shopper in Town
Mes H J Dupius of Keota spent yesterday in town shopping and running errands.
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Mes
H. J. Dupius
Keota
Night flying eyed as future of mail delivery
Chicago on June 2 reports that night flying by aviators may become common by summer end. Public utility lighting and beacon lights are seen as essential for night mail routes with emergency landing fields and searchlights guiding planes if motors fail.
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Associated Press
Chicago
MacReady
Kelley
I. J. O'Malley
Chicago Aviation Club
Mr. O'Malley
United States
Aerial Mail
Postmaster’s Wife Fends Off Bandits at Oregon Post Office
In Granite Falls Oregon the postmaster’s wife rushed downstairs during a raid. She fired on three bandits with her revolver as they tried to blast open the post office safe containing a large cash sum. The husband arrived with an empty rifle and eight shots frightened the attackers away.
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Granite Falls
Oregon
Earthquakes Felt Across United States in 1922
In 1922 there were 84 earthquakes strong enough to be felt across the continental United States. Most occurred in California and a Central States region, with activity concentrated in those areas.
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United States
California
Central States
Holy Week Silence Halts Seville Streets in Reverent Observance
In Seville Spain during Holy Week the streets are empty as residents observe a solemn period with no secular activities permitted. The city’s reverence restricts normal life for the duration of the observance.
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Seville
Spain
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Miss Hazel
TC. Davis
Brownfield
William Stewart
Coote
Henry Little
Kern
Anita Pratt
Wyman
Inez Loftiss
Wenzel
Catharine White
Allen
Helen Banks
Smallwood
Charles Grayson
Women’s Missionary Society of the
First United Presbyterian Church
The
Presbyterian Church
Win Smouse
Mrs. Smouse
Harry Shrader
Margaret Stewart
Lucille Schmoeller
Ream
Wilson
Harding
Lawrence Wilson
Women's Missionary Society
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
R. E. Brown
Ab Anderson
Ethel Atkinson
Carl Hedges
Homer Stephens
Ladies of the Baptist Church
John Clow
Kolah Club
John Spiledel
Pleasant Plain Missionary Society
Walter Brown
Booster Club
Joe Wilson
K. BE. Brown
RK. S. Warfel
Orville Elder
Esquire
R. Minick
C. C
Modern Comfort
New Cotton Exchange
Haaren High School
New York City
Westinghouse Nc
New York Bourge of Education
University of the Air
Ad Clubs
Birmingham
Alabama
Ansoptical Company
Crooked Advertiser
Wash
Ington Merchants Are Co
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