Society Notes Highlight Local Club Gatherings
The IX club met at Mrs. Ralph Waggoner’s home with officers elected for the year. T. S. E. club hosted at Mrs. Cloid Willits’s residence with a luncheon. Mothers Circle of Wallace PTA sewed buttons for the association at Wallace School. Wednesday Reading Circle hosted Mrs. Cowles’s letters at 725 East Main. Fortnightly club’s Child Study department held a Sunset Park picnic with thirty attendees. Virginia Wallace hosted a Sunday school party. Camp Fire sisters enjoyed a three course breakfast at the Burham home. Business and Professional Women's Club held a bi monthly dinner at the Y with a flag day program featuring talks, readings, and songs. A wedding under the stunt committee announced Miss Nel Sampson and Mr. Helen Breese as bride and groom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IX Club
Ralph Waggoner
Washington
Sunset Park
Business and Professional Women's Club
Mildred Rice
Helen Cunningham
Betsy Ross
William Stewart
Uncle Sam
J. R. Mc“McCrory
Miriam Ad
Carolyn Hamilton
Maurine McLaughan
Willa Crabbe
Jonathan Apple
M Nel Sampson
Helen Breese
Etha Dawson
Ward Gilliland
Winnie Palmer
Ruth McGinnis
Martha McGinnis
Carol Forgey
Sara Grimes
Community notices and club events gathered for June
Local announcements list meetings for U and 1 Choir Mrs Maxwell IX club and Washington Chapter No 98 Order of the Eastern Star with a trip abroad talk by Miss Alice Meek. Socials bake sales ice cream socials church picnics and choir practices scheduled through June and September hush.
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Washington
Order of the Eastern Star
Alice Meek
Shadow on the Wall in an Old Tollhouse
A doctor visits a stormbound tollhouse and recalls the doomed Dirk family. Mary Dirk’s hidden money and a past tragedy drive a chilling encounter as a spectral dread and a fatal truth emerge with a green lightning shock.
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Deedor
John Viirk
Mary
Old John Dirk
Mary Dirk
Old John
Dirks
Tothouse
Old Marys Dirk
Green Lake
John Dirk
Mary Imrk
John
Tooney
Isle of Wight: Historic Trade Hub and Roman Stronghold
The Isle of Wight near England’s south coast played a key historical role from ancient times as a tin export hub for Cornwall and Devon. Phoenicians and Greeks vied for control of tin trade routes through the Straits of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean, while later Roman campaigns and a villa at Brading marked its strategic value as Vectis.
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Wight
England
Cornwall
Devon
Gaul
Spain
Straits of Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Marsielles
Polybius
Vespagian
Suetonius
Vergasian
Britain
Isle of Wight
Brading
Orchids as Pests and Passion in Modern Gardens
Readers note orchids are valued highly by collectors who treat them as status symbols. The piece argues that in this country flower lovers pay steep prices for rare varieties, while noting orchids’ delicate care and susceptibility to pests.
Invasive Newers Threaten Porto Rico Crops
In parts of Porto Rico the newers are abundant in the wild, becoming a real menace. They spread like weeds, climbing trees and casting out aerial roots that strangle citrus groves and curb fruit production.
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Porto Rico
Radio stations in Russia pursue global radio links
The text notes Russian efforts to match the United States and England in radio communication. Construction is under way for a plant at Leningrad with a 10 mile radius. Twenty aerial masts over 1000 feet tall will enable regular links to China, Japan, Europe, and North America using long and short waves.
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Fluseia
United States
England
Leningrad
China
Japan
Europe
North America
Reich ratifies Russo German treaty with broad support
Berlin June 10 The Reich today ratified the Russo German amity treaty almost unanimously after an address by Chancellor Marx stressing Germany's aim to maintain friendly relations with both the east and the west.
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Berlin
Marx
Germany
Brazil Withdraws From League of Nations Council
Geneva June 16 Brazil decided not to seek re election as a non permanent member of the League of Nations council Dr Mello Franco told the council this afternoon He said Brazil would await the council re organization commission final report before stating any further attitude toward the league
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Rye
Associated Press
Geneva
Switzerland
Brazil
League of Nations Council
Mello Franco
Council
League
Council Reorganization Commission
Brockhart Leads in Iowa Senate Race With Broad Margin
Revised returns from 2,441 precincts show Republican Brockhart at 207,017 votes while opponents Clark and Cummins trail with 64,350 and 136,947 respectively. Democratic candidates Files 11,650 Finch 7,596 Murtagh 12,592 Porter 28, ained.
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Des Moines
Republican
Brockhart
Clark
Cummins
Bickelberg
Reardon
Democratic
Files
Finch
Murtagh
Porter
Ained
Open Suit Against Refining Company
The trial of a $25,000 damage suit by Fred W. Simpson administrator for Alvina Simpson began in Fort Dodge Iowa. Simpson charges kerosene bought from Sinclair Refining Company was adulterated causing his wife to die in May 1925 from a kerosene explosion.
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Associated Press
Fort Dodge
Fred W. Simpson
Alvina Simpson
Sinclair Refining Company
United States District Court
Justice Butler Refuses Stay of Hoffman Jail Sentence
Washington June 10 Justice Butler of the Supreme Court refused to stay the jail sentence imposed on Sheriff Peter M Hoffman of Cook County Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Justice Butler
Supreme Court
Peter M. Hoffman
Cook County
Ilinois
Also Mentioned on This Page
T. S. E. Club
Cloid Willits
South 14Th Street
Wallace School
Wallace Parent-Teacher Association
W. A. Gilmore
Mary V. Simmons
East Main Street
Virginia Wallace
Ellen Wallace
East Jefferson Street
Methodist Sunday School
Virginia
Colorado
Eva Burham
Lucile Ross
Burham
U and 1
Joe Maxwell
Orville Elder
Friendship Club
E. A. Apple. Bate
Church of Christ
New Haven Church
Ladies of the Christians Church
Thompson
Valley Ladies Nid Society
Valley
Marsh W. Bailey
C. C. Reister
OHS
Johnson's Grocery
Methodist Choir
United Kingdom
The
Smithsonian Institution
Costa Rica
Pennsylvania
Cisco
Texas
Tory
Domb
Ged
Gruff
Imal
Little Island
Albhage
Ward & Co
Frank L. Wilson
Radio In
Russia
Refining Company
Hoffman
Karl Libe
C. M. & F. Clothing Co
Palm Beach
C.M. & F. Clothing Co
Kuppenheimer and Society Brand
C. M.& F. Clothing Co
C. M. & F. ‘Clothing Co
Coopers Make
Storts
C.M. & F. Clotting Co
IEN
Cooper Summe Union
C. M. & F. Cloting Co
DEN
Engind
C. M. & F. Clothng Co
Preales
Madras
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