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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1947
Page
6
A column muses that good habits form character like cement and the home shapes future citizens. It cites quotes from Ross and Lincoln, compares families to perennial plants, and notes social visits and events across Wayland, Iowa, including weddings, recitals, and family gatherings at multiple local homes.
Harry Hines, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hines, earned second place in the VFW Auxiliary essay contest with a piece on the home cradle of good citizenship. The essay extols parental guidance, virtues, and the sowing of character seeds to foster responsibility, manners, and tolerance in children.
Mr and Mrs Cloyce Pringle of Hook Island and Mr and Mrs Frank Pringle visited Lee land Tringle at Springville To. The Pringle and Humston families spent Father’s Day with their parents and relatives.
Mrs Moxley presides at meeting electing officers for the year including vice presidents Mrs Ola Lalauskey and Mrs Lars Neat, secretary Mrs L W Waite, treasurer Mrs Newton Kovums on, historian Mrs William Van Zanten, chaplain Mrs Charles Mumper, and others. Salvation Army forms Brighton service unit with local committee led by Mayor Elmore and others visiting from Sacramento. Pleasant Valley Farm Bureau hosts strawberry social. Presbyterian Missionary society entertained guests.
The data outline typical consumption and production figures: cows eat 100 pounds daily to yield 20 to 25 pounds of milk, American families own about 3 beds, soap use reaches 26 pounds per person yearly, bee hives yield 17 pounds of honey annually, and housewives wash roughly 6 tons of dishes per year.
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