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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 09, 1926

Page

6

Local Social Clubs Host Gatherings and Weddings in Keota and Washington

Social events fill the week from Has kins threshing ring forming a club with a pot luck dinner for about forty to monthly meetings and officer elections. The West Chester Baptist class and Girls circle host meetings, elect officers, and plan socials with refreshments and games. A Keota wedding for Lucile Sheets and Everett Stewart takes place at the Methodist parsonage, with a Ohio trip and home in Keota planned. Booster and Golden Glow clubs hold programs, luncheons, and visits, while a bridge group tours Iowa City and attends the flower show. An Albert M Huff auxiliary reports Decoration Day work and appoints a delegate to Clinton convention. The Livingston household hosts senior friends for an evening gathering and breakfast in bed the next morning.

Methodist Church Lucile Harriet Sheets Keota Everett A. Stewart W. W. Bowers Bowers Alice Meek Ohio Albert M. Huff G. A. R. Hall Clinton Iowa Mable Livingston Ralph Livingston Washington

Local Women's Club Institute and Society Meetings Listed

The W C T U plans a Thursday June 10 institute at 1 30 PM at 608 East Washington St with devotional readings and talks by Ethel Atkinson Virginia Crull and others plus a conference report. Chapter and lodge gatherings outlined include PB OO meeting at Mrs. Orville Elder and a Washington Chapter No 98 Eastern Star session with a trip report by Miss Alice Meek and a social. Moose Lodge hosts a social Thursday evening inviting members and guests.

W.C. TU C. W. Busby East Washington St Fleming Ethel Atkinson Elizabeth Ann McCrory Etta Brinton Virginia Crull Della George Wapello J. PB. OO Orville Elder Washington Order of the Eastern Star Alice Meek R. G. Cherry

Ice cream social and club meetings announced townwide

Town notices list events at churches and clubs including an ice cream social and apron bazaar on Friday June 11, meetings of Ladies Aid groups, an IX club full day gathering on June 9, and garden and choir activities. Various hosts include Mrs. Green field Mrs. Ralph Waggoner Mrs. Roy Boone Mrs. E. A. Apple kate and Mrs. Badger with locations and times noted for each event.

Pilotsburg Ralph Waggoner IX Club

Junior Christian Endeavor Picnic Plans

The Junior Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian church meets at the church at 2 o clock on Friday to go to Sunset Park for a picnic. Mrs Leslie Dunlap hosts location details at 909 North Marion Avenue.

Ternoon Leslie Dunlap North Marion Ave Junior Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church Sunset Park

Lutheran Leader Demands Strict Prohibition Enforcement

Dr. G A Brandelle president of the Lutheran synod urged unwavering enforcement of liquor laws at the Sixty Seventh annual synod convention in Philadelphia He called on Christians to stand by the laws and criticized any modification of prohibition noting continued drunkenness but much desire to increase it by some breweries as read in his report

Associated Press Philadelphia G. A. Brandelle Rock Island Lutheran Synod Sixty Seventh Annual Synod United States Brandelle Society of Automotive Engineers Studebaker

Cloud of looming deluge warns against prohibition derision

A newspaper excerpt warns of a cloud rising like a man’s hand that will swell into a deluge to drown drys. It notes the forces of evil are loud and urges vigilance to protect blessings from prohibition and avoid being robbed of them.

Dana Barnes Receives Top Honor at Bliss Electrical School

Dana Barnes son of Mr and Mrs T H Barnes of Crawfordsville graduated from Bliss Electrical School in Washington DC last Friday evening with the highest honor a gold watch chain and medal awarded by the school's president. The medal goes to the student with the top overall averages across all departments. After two weeks at home Dana plans to return.

Dana Barnes T. H. Barnes Crawfordsville Bliss Electrical School Washington, D. C Dana

Times Square Eavesdrop: Pigeons Nest Above Broadway Theatre Sign

Tales of New York life blend from Times Square to Pelham as eagles nest above a theatre sign while sailors parade the town and debutantes dance. Tilden dazzles at Pelham and actors push back against Sunday barber bans amid rising urban mischief.

Broadway Times Square New York Charleston

Return of the Merry Widow Hat Popular on Boulevards

The Merry Widow Hat returns this Spring in a subdued form with a wide brim from eighteen to twenty four inches. Once unseen for twenty years it now complements featherweight outfits and gives promenades the look of a lane of black flowers on bright stems.

Yesteryear

Greenwich Village Influence Reaches Jefferson Market Prison

The influence of Greenwich Village spreads to Jefferson Market Prison as the austere red brick bastile features a storm door painted flaming orange. The bold color scheme complements heliotrope shutters vermillion lintels and cerise stoops observed on the building.

Greenwich Village Jefferson Market

Graduate to Join Westinghouse Lab in Pittsburgh

The individual will return to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania to begin work in the research laboratories of Westinghouse Electric Company after being recommended for the position by the faculty of the electrical school.

Pittsburgh Westinghouse Electric Company Electrical School

Rich Feldspar State Produces Major Share of Ore

One third of the country’s feldspar production comes from North Bay region. Industry analysts note the feldspar deposits power regional ceramics and glassmaking sectors.

Nose at the grindstone over meddling in others affairs

A Boston Transcript quote favors hard work over prying into others matters, praising personal focus and diligence as better use of one’s time.

Boston Transcript

Reading Lamps Uncover Hidden Homer and Horace

The readable fragment hints at lamps placed to illuminate texts, enabling readers to explore poems by Homer and writings by Horace, suggesting a literary theme about access to classical works.

Homer Horace

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