Text Books Used In Rural Schools Wash ington County
A long list details five year text book use in Wash ington County rural schools with prices tied to 1915 contracts and 1920 renewals. It lists Grade II to VIII readers arithmetic geography penmanship spellers and health civics and sewing texts from Searson & Martin Beacon Elson Silver-Burdett McFadden Brigham & McFarlane Blair's Sewing and more with seasonal editions. It notes August book readiness and a small trade credit on older volumes toward September purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Searson & Martin
Elson
Young & Field
Silver-Burdett
McFadden
Merrill
Fairbank
Merrill Speller
Brigham & McFarlane
Bolonius
O'Shea & Kelloge
Blair
Young America
Young & Filed
Merrill Spelter
D. S. O'Shean& Kellogg
Wilson
U. S
Miller
Osborne
Holton
Free & Treadwell
Nature & Life
Emerson & Bender
Horack
Government of Iowa
Nida
The Kidnapped Bride Dramatic Reenactment
A Burlington Hawkeye dramatic piece outlines a staged elopement caper set in Washington and Henry counties along the Blue Grass road in June 1920. It follows Miss Nordica Gladys Wells and Harold B. Duke with conspirators Tom Berdo and Sister Helen, leading to a staged parsonage wedding and a police chase ending at Burlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nordica
Gladys Wells
Harold B. Duke
J. H. Cadlipp
Thomas H. Berdo
Terdo
Martin Whittaker
Howard Freshwaters
Fay Brown
Marie Butterfield
Hazel Porter
Elizabeth Bell
Alice Gibson
Epee
Ei Kndd
Helen Duke
W. O. Ransom
Washington
Henry
Blue Grass Road
Burlington
Great Blue Grass Road
Miles
Mr. Griffith
Eearly
Nordica Gladys Wells
Washington County
Wells
City Square
Duke
Tom Berdo
Berdo
Iowa
Helen
Mt. Pleasant
Whittaker
Sister Helen
Town Square
Brazelton
Blue Grass Trail
First Methodist
Sixth
Court Streets
George
Tracy
Naboth Osborne
Jack Gardner
Anderson
Miss Wells
Mrs. Berdo
Mr. Duke
Mr. Berdo
J. H. Cudlipp
Des Moines County Court House
Bride
Miss Butterfield
Dash
Mount Pleasant
Elmer Wells
Mont Pleasant
Finis
Mrs W A Stoutner of Keota in Washington visit
Mrs W A Stoutner of Keota is spending the day in Washington visiting friends and relatives and taking in local sights. She plans to return home later today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Stoutner
Keota Fe
Washington
Gladys Sigler
Beulah Roberta
Des Moines
H. Richards
Miss Roberts
Gladys Knupp
Batteries in the U S got their heads ago and figured it out
A concise note describes how batteries in the United States learned to optimize power storage and distribution, signaling progress in energy technology and domestic innovation. The report highlights milestones in development and early adoption across industries and regions.
Washington youths celebrate birthdays and weddings amid community notes
A birthday party for William Loriie Sehulty and a neighborhood picnic near Cotter highlighted a busy social run. Miss Nordica Wells and Harold B. Duke wed quietly in Burlington, with Washington friends expressing warm congratulations. A Palo Alto wedding connects to Stanford alumni Scofield and Mattingly as another note of regional ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Loriie Sehulty
North Avenue
Gladys Marie Mattingly
San Francisco
Stanford
William Launcelot Scofield
Palo Alto
Stanford Memorial Church
D. Charles Gardner
Scofield
University Avenue
Monterey
California Fish Commission
William Scofield
Norman 4. Scofield
State Fish Commission
Yale Forestry School
United States Forestry Service
Japanese Training in Early Education
Japanese children begin study of Stu. Jiten in early years as a system of physical culture hygiene and ethics. Exercises build strength and flexibility, and later pupils learn the art of using an adversary's strength against him.
Also Mentioned on This Page
County Board
Beacon
Lippincott
Elson Runkle
Bailey & Germann
Lington
Valley
Kitterman
Ransom
Warage
Chicago
M. R. Regan
Liberty, Mo
Wm. Jewell College
U.S
USL
USL Service
South Side Square
Washington, Iowa
Edwards School
Cotter
Marguerite
Rose Schmitt
Kansas City
Lyle Duncan
Edna Tobin
Methodist Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
W. T. Marr
A. W. McBlain
J. A. Chambers
Elizabeth Reese
Norma Reaney
Joe Jones
Kate Annas
Helen Snelson
Edkins
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Methodist Church
T. W. Harwood
Harrison Dodder
Mary Louise Harwood
Helen Mauthe
Merle Simpkins
Nordica Wells
Thomas Berdo
Macomb
Illinois
Lola Wells Hughes
Puresty
Washington High School
Cedar Palla State Normal
George Duke
East Washington Street
Cedar Township
Beautiful Country Place
B. F. Brown
Youre
California
Oldsmobile
Mannhardt Bros
Second St
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