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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1918
Page
6
A Sunday school lesson on Mark 6 32 44 and the Mark 6 50 and Matt 20 28 passages explores Jesus feeding 5 000 with five loaves and two fishes and walking on the sea to reach his disciples as they toil through a storm. It links healing teaching about the Kingdom with discipleship.
The First United Presbyterian Church schedules Sabbath school at 9 45 a m and public worship at 11 a m with the pastor preaching Special morning services will honor the ordination and installation of recently chosen elders Morning theme The Faith of our Fathers Junior meeting at 4 p m Christian Endeavor for all ages at 6 90 p m Evening worship at 7 p m features the pastor preaching The Burial of Jesus with choir music Rev J M Wishart is the pastor.
The pastor G Lolin Eaton invites strangers and locals to Sunday services at the little Satucco church on East Jefferson street. Bible school starts at 9 45 am with all age classes, morning sermon Come Tarry Go, communion, junior church led by Myrtle Horsey, Y P C U and Men's prayer at 6 45 pm, evening song and sermon World After the War at 7 pm.
Morning service at 11 o clock and evening service at 7 30. Sunday school at 2 30 with A L Hall speaking at the Sunday session and the pastor delivering the sermon. Clana meeting at noon.
Fifty couples enjoyed a dance at Phoenix hall with the Shubert seven piece orchestra and a whistling solo by Henry Berdo. The Shuberts head to Iowa City for the university prom. In Haskins a Red Cross unit was organized at J C Mathers home with 24 members as officers elected and weekly meetings planned.
Havre Red Cross auxiliary met with Mrs. Bert Booth and ten more ladies as ten hospital shirts were completed. Next meeting set with Mrs. Peter Witting. Tuesday evening March 19 saw J. P. Dayton Jr. honored by wife inviting the American Maids club for his twenty seventh wedding anniversary with a decorated room, program, and lunch. Out of town guests included D. W. Dayton and daughters Margaret and Helen of Washington.
The Ladies Auxiliary of the VU P church in West Chester met Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. C. HH Dans' home with about 60 attendees. They raised around $14 for French relief, enjoyed cake ice cream and apricots, and Easter rabbit and chick favors were given.
Mrs Will Anderson led twelve ladies Wednesday as about thirty bandages were finished for the Red Cross. Carrie Anderson provided piano tunes. attendees included Alice Goodspeed, Mrs Seigman, Mrs Charles Stewart, and others. The Good Times club met with twelve in the forenoon and fourteen in the afternoon producing scaletus and bandages.
The Junior class elected officers led by Isabelle Lemmon as president with Burrell Keck as vice president and Helen Cunningham as secretary treasurer. The senior class selects a patriotic play titled Claim Allowed to be performed around April 12. The YWCA met with missionary focus and elected next year’s officers Martha Godfrey president Doris Chalmers vice president Milred Mauthe secretary Gladys Clark treasurer with Miss Patton Montgomery and Shields as faculty advisors. Town advisors are Mrs Elder and Mrs Whitmer.
The afternoon buzzed with sewing activity as instruments of craft and merriment coexisted. Members of Bethel church youth groups elected officers for next year while Miss Pearl Glassburner and Harry Dye were named teachers. A May social by the Ladies Aid of the M E church featured a band in unique costume and a one act playlet A Cup of Coffee. About one hundred sixty ladies attended the ten cent social, with Drums and refreshments. The Baptist Ladies League hosted a month fraternal thimble bee with forty attendees and Hooverized refreshments.
Students push thrift campaign while agriculture club conducts a garden survey. The aim is to ensure every suitable plot is cultivated to support the war effort. The survey began Thursday morning and finished before noon with help from several students.
A physics class studies the ammonia ice plant concept and considers building one if they can obtain the plant.
High school pupils look forward to a week off starting the fourth and fifth of next month while teachers attend a convention in Ottumwa. Junior English classes meanwhile study parliamentary law.
A Red Cross note describes extensive needs for dressings including split irrigation pads and folded gauze dressings. At the workroom 21 workers produced 642 of the 4x4 wipes on Thursday evening under Miss Nelle Tripp, and 17 helpers under Miss Nellie Junkin supervised the next day for split irrigation pads.
The workshop attracted a large turnout of interested visitors yesterday. Mrs. Lloyd Durst and Mrs. Rocsers of Kalona were present, and many attendees from the Liberty Loan meeting at the Commercial club went on to view the workshop's ongoing work.
Local volunteers led by Mrs. Charles Harley and others produced 26 hospital shirts and nine knitting pieces for relief efforts. Wilber Miller donated a large storage box for muffins and Mrs. Lem Cherry oversaw surgical dressings with 27 workers making 12x24 pads and irrigation pads. A shipment of 35 hospital shirts arrived from the Crawfordsville branch.
Finished bandages have been turned in by Good Times club led by Mrs Marie with 26 scultetus and 40 triangular, the Willing Workers under Mrs Duke with 105 scultetus and 5 triangular, and Kolah club listing 10 4 tailed 10 T binders 10 abdominal 20 triangular and 5 acultus. Work Monday will be the 2x2 wipe.
The Arsucanians are described as a primitive yet prominent Chilean tribe. They are not formally conquered, though many natives now serve as government wards. Their widespread, mixed blood is said to shape the Chilean people’s distinctive character.
An old advertisement offers one hundred dollars for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a thirty five year trusted cure. It claims the remedy works through the blood to heal mucous surfaces and remove disease, urging immediate use for improvement.
The talk explains the value of mammals eating birds that prey on rodents snakes and toads noting they reduce damage to fruit trees and crops. It highlights cooper's hawk and sharp shinned hawk as chicken stealers yet stresses their overall benefit and calls for protecting game birds and songbirds while outlining fish eating birds such as herons kingfishers and loons and citing Frank Chapman on three reasons to study and protect birds.
In St Louis estimates about 150000 men of German birth who recently became citizens will lose their voting rights under Attorney General McAllister's ruling. The impact may hit the liquor and prohibition efforts in next fall's statewide vote, as this foreign element has opposed prohibition measures.
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