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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1912
Page
5
Local and Personal items note a high school orchestra performing The Professor's Love Story at the opera house. Visitors arrive for weddings, visits, and shop promotions, with Rothschild's advertising dresses, silks, and sale events at half price.
The M. M. C. class of the Presbyterian Sabbath school, chaperoned by Mrs. W. H. Hughes and Mrs. J. B. McCleary, spent a day at the Iowa river banks in Columbus Junction with Harriet Dougherty Myrtle Whitcomb Vera Keck Anne Keck Abbie Shrader Mary Gibson Sylvia Schenefelt Marjorie Hebner Ruth McCleary Marie Rankin Marguerite Wallace and Margre Rittler. Local ads note discounts at Rothschilds and Caloric stove promotions from Frey’s Studio and Rothschild's. Local visitors include John Shields from Champaign and Miss Alma Osterberg from Cleveland.
Two conventions will meet at Covenanter Church this week the Women's Presbyterian Missionary Association session starts Wednesday evening at 7 30 continuing through Thursday with a Sunset park picnic for delegates and locals. The Young People's meeting opens Friday morning with 9 30 sessions and features a tainted money debate and a vigorous program led by Rev. J D Edgar and others.
Rev. Lewis Meyer D D associate editor of the Missionary Review of the World will lecture on Why the Jews Do Not Accept Christianity Thursday evening June 6 at 8 o clock at the Second United Presbyterian church. Dr Meyer is himself a converted Jew. The lecture is free and all are invited 9313.
London reports the marriage date for Miss Dorothy Taylor of New York and Claude Grahame White, famed aviator. They will wed at Widford Essex on June 27, after meeting aboard an Atlantic crossing. The couple plans to live in London.
A war interview quotes a veteran recalling Gettysburg and Pickett's Charge. He describes the volley of musket and artillery fire as constant and dense, noting the lack of trees for officers seeking cover.
Wisconsin faces about half a million dollars in barley losses yearly to smut. Advice urges proper hot water treatment testing with a reliable thermometer at creameries. Farmers are encouraged to cultivate barley plots, using two to three acres to produce their own seed.
The text advises using two bushels per acre for satisfactory seeding results. It notes that very thin seeding causes excessive shedding and irregular, late ripening. It adds grain value for brewing depends on uniform ripening and proper maturity.
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