Washington County Women Social Calendar Highlights
A week of club meetings and pageant events fills Washington County. Mrs Pred Palmer hosts the social club. Missionary societies meet at multiple churches. Embroidery and Knitting groups convene across towns. Eastern Star and Bridge clubs gather for afternoon sessions. a joint missionary meeting is planned. a royal women’s group hosts an 8 pm event. and celebrations are noted from local reunions to a Weirton couple’s wedding.
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Pred Palmer
Young Women's Missionary Society of
The
Second United Presbyterian Church
Grace Conner
Clay Humston
Brighton Township
Cedar Township
Walter Kyte
Women's Missionary Society of the Christian Thates
the Order of the Eastern Star
Harry Kracaw
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Adopt French War Orphans Ties Grow Across Communities
Local groups including the Kooking Klub and Fortnightly club announce support for French war orphans. Donors pledge ten cents daily, aided by the Fraternity Franc Americanine and The Fatherless Children of France Committee, with several classes adopting children for one or two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Europe
France
Kooking Klub
Alex Lytle
Flo Stewart
Mennonite
Noble
Good Times Club
RH. Clyde
Methodist Church
PD. A. R's
American Brotherhood
Widow Question Over Hiring Farm Help Sparks Salon Debate
An applicant challenges a widow on the farm about how to keep a hired man, asking whether paying wages or marrying him is the proper method. The exchange, reported by the Kansas City Star, reflects social norms and gender roles of the period.
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Messrs
Willis Todd
Dick Lindsey
Todd
Rascal
Sam Neill
Will Todd
Will
Sam
P. Pr. Ls
Lincoln
Martin Whittaker
P. Y .L. Club
Lincoln School
Kansas City Star
Part of Her Costume in a Bible Leaf Discovery
Besse runs to her grandmother with a pressed leaf she found in the big Bible. The child asks if the relic once belonged to Eve, a quaint remark reflecting a day-long memory recorded in the Boston Transcript.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Besse
Eve
Boston Transcript
Must Be Housecleaning
Marjorie notes pussy willows and cats’ muffed airings as a humorous household moment from a Boston Evening Transcript snippet.
Miss Maude E Minor Leads Girl Protection Effort
Miss Maude E Minor of New York heads protective work for girls for the War Department training camps. She is prominent in social work and oversees a team of 55 deputy sheriffs at camps, guiding the protective program during encampments.
Vanguard of American Telephone Girls Reaches France
Women from allied nations have long served in war work but American women take a new role operating telephone exchanges near the front. Pershing recruited 100 operators first, with 150 in training and 400 in reserve, to handle confidential military calls and translate French messages for rapid artillery control and troop movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
General Pershing
Army Signal Corps
The
Signal Corps
Army
Secret Service
Prac
New York
Wesson
Paris
Pancakes and syrup fuel for muscular work
Popular Science Monthly argues that heavy labor does not require a meat diet for strength. It states minerals and proteins are not the main need but starches fats and sugars, and that pancakes with syrup better repair tissue losses by supplying fuel rather than roast beef.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pancakes
Popular Science Monthly
Said by a Cynic on Literary Ailments
A quip notes two literary illnesses writer's cramp and swelled head Each never fully cured or killed The remark attributes enduring flaws to writers and critics alike in a wry postscript from Coulson Kerna ban.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coulson Kernaban
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington County
Young Women's Missionary Society of the
First United Presbyterian Church
A. BE. Ross
Mothers’ Club
W. R. Mount
Pythian Circle
Ezra Gardner
Lexington
Just Us Club
Havre
Lloyd Tattle
Women's Mission Circle of the Baptist Church
Roy
Women's Missionary Society of the
Piast United Presbyterian Church
Margaret Doolittle
Royal Women of the Baptist Sabbath School
Carolyn Hamilton
Ieahelle McEthineny Nelson
Hastings
Nebr
Sunset Park
Carolyn McCleery
Muscatine Journal
Marie Edwards
Otto Schiebel
Charles Hazen
Washington
Business College
Porter
Firet Methodist
Irene Marie Fawards
William Max Lowe
A. S. Smith
Near Letts
Iowa
Lowe
Lena Lowe
Miss Edwards
Chas Edwards
Near
Gladwin
L. Orier
Mrs. Lowe
Letts
Town
Pridge Club
Lloyd Lytle
Hermine
American’ Brotherhood
Vive Larteiet
Shuveterre
Hermine Larteiet
Marjorie
Boston Evening Transcript
Guy Engel
White Way Club
West Chester
W. B. Ruthhouse
Engel
George Wright
Miss Trier
Belville
Ralph Jack
Red Cross Knitting Club
W. J. Todd
P. P. L. Club
Vanguard OF
American Telephone Girls
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Klein Klo. KO
Wen
Palm Beach
Camtchis
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