Washington High Wins Muscatine Debate
Washington high school opened its first Big Nine debate with a win over Muscatine as the affirmative team swept all three judges. The match covered a tariff policy and featured strong rebuttals by John Matthews and solid delivery by Harold Ogilvie, Floyd Jones, and Kenneth Hagerman for Muscatine. Judges were WD McKee, Carl Opperman, and W L Rhea.
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Washington High School
Muscatine
Washington
John Matthews
Ellen Morrison
Merrill Robb
Oskaloose
Harold Ogilvie
Floyd Jones
Kenneth Hagerman
WD. McKee
Sigourney
Carl Opperman
Letts
W. L. Rhea
Mediapolis
Dr Sawhill to Speak at the Second Church
Dr W R Sawhill of Seattle will address the Second Church at 7 30 PM on Monday March 17. He moderates the United Presbyterian church and tours presbyteries for the New World Movement. Dr E F Kimmelshue accompanies him from Des Moines.
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W. RR. Sawhill
Seattle
Wash
United Presbyterian Church
Sawhill
New World Movement
Washington
Iowa
Dr. Sawhill
J. Reade McCrory
Willard Wylie
E. F. Kimmelshue
Des Moines
Synod of Iowa
Officers Chosen by the P E O Society
The P E O Sisterhood held its regular annual meeting and election yesterday afternoon at Mrs. Harvey Young's home. New officers include President Mrs. Homer Stephen and Vice President Mrs. Harvey Young. Reports praised the year's work and committees will be appointed for the coming year. Out of town member Mrs. Helen Anderson Southwell of Omaha attended. Tea and cakes followed.
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P. BE. O. Sisterhood
Harvey Young
Homer Stephen
CC. H Pauls
WL. S. Patterson
C. 8. Anderson
W. W. Wilson
Charles Thomas
He'en Anderson Southwell
Omaha
Nebr
Six Cylinder Love closes Improvement League course in Washington
The Graham hosted the closing night of the Improvement League Lecture course with the play Six Cylinder Love by James McGuire. Frank Joiner stars as Gilbert Sterling with Frances Singlehurst as the wife, supported by a strong cast. music by an amateur orchestra. Attendance was the largest of the winter series and the event yielded a small profit for civic improvements.
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Washington
Graham
Improvement League
Frank Joiner
Gilbert Sterling
Frances Singlehurst
William Mareh
Burton
Clara Mathias
Mrs. Burton
Philip E. .Macey
Stapleton
Frank Martins
Conroy
Milap Shields
Robert Grimes
Jesse Miller
Orville Elder
Fred Reid
J. B. Crail
Pneumonia Claims 20 Year Old Girl Near Washington
Ina Belle Caldwell aged twenty daughter of John Caldwell died this afternoon at home three and one half miles south of Washington from pneumonia after several days illness. She was housekeeper for her father and three sisters since her mother died five years ago. A member of Pleasant Hill Christian church and Sunday School, she leaves sisters Dorothy Mildred and Marguerite and other relatives.
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Ina Belle Caldwell
John Caldwell
Washington
Phaeumonia
Miss Caldwell
Pleasant Hill Christian Church
Dorothy
Mildred
Marguerite
Auto Wreck Damages Sought In District Court
A. B. Roe sues Frank Kurtz for 667.19 alleging a December 12 1923 collision at West Main and South Avenue DP. Roe claims 122.19 for car damage 15 for a sewing machine 40 for loss of use total 177.19. A second count asserts Mitchell suffered four weeks unable to work permanent injuries and seeks 500 in damages. W M Keeley attorney for Roe.
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District Court
J.D. Glasgow
A. B. Roe
Frank Kurtz
Airlives
J. Mitchell
West Main Street
South Avenue DP
Mitchell
Roe
W. M. Keeley
Sheriff Uses Mule Team Making Rounds
Sheriff Charles Denison and Deputy Sweet run a busy county circuit for court papers sheriff sales and other duties as roads slow their schedules. Denison tested a mule team a cavalry horse and later a faster approach while Sweet used makeshift speed car runs and walks through fields after a hound bit his arm. They hope spring brings better roads and smoother travel.
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Charles Denison
Pred Sweet
Washington County
Denison
Clay
Caldwell Funeral Arrangements Pending Announcement
Funeral preparations for Caldwell were not completed early this afternoon but will be ready for official announcement tomorrow.
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Caldwell
I Saw Your Ad in the Journal Merchant Prompt
The speaker instructs a merchant to tell customers a fixed line about seeing the ad in the Journal. This directive emphasizes promotional contact phrasing in a historical newspaper context.
Fairfield Draws Washington In Sectional Opener
Fairfield 21 Washington 11 as the Little Six champions defeat the Wash ington high school five in the first sectional game at Fairfield. Mt Pleasant beat Batavia 22 11 in the other morning tilt.
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Washington High Scholol
Fairfield
Washington
Mt. Pleasant
Batavia
Olde
Birmingham
Pleasant Plain
Crawfordsville
Ottumwa
Eldon
Packwood
Keosnuqua
Fidon
Cemetery tax defeated in Senate and house actions noted
In Des Moines on March 7 a plan to levy two cents per square foot on cemetery lots for upkeep and to sell unused portions of abandoned lots failed in the Senate 59 to 38 after strong opposition. The measure had previously died in the Assembly. The same session also saw pure food and pharmacy narcotic bills advance in the House after rejecting an amendment to shift licensing to the board of health. A roll call was planned for the afternoon to take up the school Bible reading bill.
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Dew Moines
Mar
Senate
Assembly
Tuck
Taylor County
Price
Monroe
Buser
Muscatine
Shinn
Harrison
Board of Health
Board of Pharmacy Examiners
Charge New Yorkers Conspired to Bribe the Attorney General
Thomas B. Felder an attorney was indicted by a federal grand jury with Gaston B. Means former DOJ agent and Elmer Jarnecke Means secretary for allegedly scheming to bribe the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York and two of his assistants.
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Associated Tress
New York
Mar
Thomas B. Felder
Gaston B. Means
Department of Justice
Elmer Jarnecke
United States
Southern District of
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