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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 23, 1925

Page

6

Birthday Gathering in Sunset Park Honors Mies Walters

Sunset Park hosts a festive birthday party Saturday evening for Mies Havel Walters attended by friends and family. A six oclock dinner featured a large cake baked by the hostess with gifts from John M. Dowis and Miss Myrle F. Mattison.

Sunset Park Mies Havel Walters Frente Clinton Walton Miss Walters John M. Dowis Keota Myrle FE. Mattison Wellman Baptist Parsonage Fast Second Street John D. Kern C H. Mattison

Cross Examination of Shepherd Short Time Continues

The continued cross examination of the defendant, identified as Shepherd, proceeds with brief questioning and rapid responses. The proceedings wrap up quickly, with emphasis on key statements and minimal detours as the case moves toward closing arguments.

Lee Song the Chinese Hatchet Boy

A brutal tale of Lee Song a famed hatchet boy for the Tong in a shadowy midnight mission. He targets laundryman Billy Wing to avenge a family grievance while a small boy Jing endangers his resolve. Mercy clashes with instinct as Lee contemplates a sudden act of mercy.

Lee Leesna Liu Kwen -Long Lee Song Wee Lee Song Billy Wing Hilly Billy Jim Tong Song Jing Turner Rach Canton Nia Lee Seng Bownd Sones Mott Street

Iowa May employment inching up says survey

Iowa industries show a four tenth percent rise in employment from April to May led by stone and clay products with minor gains in food and kindred, iron and steel, and paper. Building permits drop in May though five month totals rise over 1924. May job seekers outnumber openings with 2,602 applicants and 435 jobs offered.

Associated Press Des Moines Iowa Bureau of Labor Cedar Rapids Council Bluffs Davenport Dubnane Fort Dodge Keokuk Marshalltown Mason City Ottumwa Sioux City Waterloo Free Employment Service

Using a watch as a sun compass in the hemisphere

The guide explains a simple method to find south or north by orienting a watch. Hold the watch flat, point the hour hand at the sun, and bisect the angle to XII to locate the cardinal direction. In the northern hemisphere this yields south, in the southern hemisphere north.

Labor Market Slump Evident in May Openings

The report shows an industry wide drop in job openings with 17 to 26.2 jobs per 100 applicants across different classes of labor. May also saw one fewer firm operating full time than April, while part time activity rose by one firm.

Community club notices and church group gatherings

A slate of local club and church events includes Sunshine Community Club meeting Wednesday after noon with Mrs Joe Klopfenstein 10Sts the W 82 group meeting with Mrs Jake Hotle Thursday afternoon Pythian Sisters picnic Wednesday evening bring baskets and dishes Fleur de Lis club meets Thursday at 2 pm with Mrs Walter Smith quilt material requested Ladies Bible class social Thursday at Mrs St I McGugin home Home Department invited Mite box opening Children's Missionary Society meets Wednesday 2 30 pm at S W Brookhart home refreshments served Reading Circle Wednesday afternoon Ladies Aid Society two oclock at church West Chester M F B church Womans Home Missionary Society Friday afternoon election of officers May Home Mission magazine readings Womans Relief Corps regular meeting Saturday afternoon Knights of Columbus regular meeting Wednesday eight oclock Epworth League social Friday night June 26th at church basement guests invited Native Chapter J P UO meets Thursday 7 30 at Mrs R L Livingston old fashioned country dinner fundraiser Friday June 26th 11 to 1 sewing circle meets Thursday afternoon at J M Kelley’s Methodist Choir picnic Tuesday 6 pm church grounds bring dishes and silverware

Harry Perguson North Second Avenue B. O. We. Club New Haven Virgil Batts Young Women's Missionary Society First United Presbyterian Church Marion McGee Clinton McGee Ab Anderson Edna Maurine Mayhew VY. M. CG Y Men's Club Washington Women's Missionary Society of the Bethel Presbyterian Church Myrtle Pearson Joe Kloptenstein Sunshine Community Club Rosemary Club Lloyd Wathen She Children's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church S. WW Brookbuert Mast Washington Street Irs le Fandies Aid Society of the Christian Chamet The Knaights of Columbus Children's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church S. W. Brookhart Womans Home Missionary Society of West Chester M. FB Wallace Buremus May Home Mission Magazine Ladies Aid Society Methodist Church Belva Carris

Do Not Transmit Disease and Plant Cutting Health

The note states that disease spread can occur from cuttings of infected plants, advising against using such material to produce healthy plants and implying the need for clean stock to prevent salt disease transmission.

Quote from Schiller on hate love and pardon

A brief, philosophical fragment attributes to Schiller insights on hate and love, defining hate as taking from others and love as enriching oneself. It links pardon to recovering lost property and dismisses misanthropy as suicide, while fyetism is described as the ultimate poverty of a created being.

Schiller

Boy Scout Rescues Boy From 2300 Volt Wire

Westmere City reports a nine year old boy near a high tension line was saved by a fellow Boy Scout. David Currie, acting quickly, restrained another rescuer and administered aid after Whitley Hemingway touched a live wire carrying 2300 volts. Doctors arrived to revive the child.

Associated Preas Wester City David Currie Whitley Hemmingway Whitley David

Administration Tax Plan Nears Completion for Congress

Aimed to cut the tax burden by 300 million dollars the plan was nearly finished for submission to Congress next fall after a conference between Secretary Mellon and House Ways and Means Chairman Green. They reportedly agree on major features but differ on repealing estate taxes.

Associated Press Washington, Jrnune Congress Mellon Green House Wills and Means Committee

Police decline jurisdiction over Reading theft case

Early in the morning a woman telephoned Reading police to come to her house. Officers arrived in a car and she asked them to compel her son to return cough medicine he refused to do. The police declined jurisdiction.

Reading Pa

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