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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1925
Page
3
The Washington Y team will play West Chester Independents on the local floor Wednesday evening. The game, moved up from April 16 to avoid a long layoff, will start at seven with a preliminary high school game, both finishing early to allow attendees other evening activities.
Joe Webb and Preston share their life stories at a local Rotary meeting. Both are longtime residents of the area and portray themselves as homegrown contributors to the community as the group hears personal narratives.
Miss Sallie Dickey a missionary from India met with the mission pageant cast at the First United Presbyterian church. She explained the pageant purpose and rehearsed the first two scenes as practices for the event next Sabbath evening. Dickey arrived from Goldfield Iowa where a similar pageant was presented last Sabbath.
Copies of the southeastern division program have arrived in Washington. The Muscatine convention runs April 2 and 3 with most Washington teachers attending. Supt. W. C. Harding chairs the executive committee and will respond to the welcome from the Muscatine mayor. Thursday features include Lee P. Leom's speech, FE M Sipple, and Bishop C. L. Mead. Math round table Friday is led by Miss Maurine McLaughlin with Miss Lela Rhodes co participating.
In an English mine, lamps replace candles as a safety measure. The report notes a bow number 27.000 and references miners adapting to new illumination replacing old cannie lamps.
The club will hold its regular monthly evening meeting during which the event will be described as ladies night. Attendees enjoyed the stories and romantic and heroic tales shared yesterday.
The Fire Prince operetta opens at the high school auditorium Thursday evening with a large student cast rehearsing for weeks in music and theatricals. Seats were reserved at Phillips drug store and more sales are expected as interest runs high. The listed cast includes Groguio Jason Kleese Prigio Harold Reynolds and many others in a pantouflian court scheme with Isadora Queen of Pantouilia and Lady Melinda among the principals.
The March term grand jury resumed duties after a brief pause. Judge W. Hamilton will likely receive a report when court convenes Thursday. Timothy J. Farrier, arrested in Topeka on desertion charges, was bound over to the grand jury after a scire facias hearing. Frederick, charged with breaking and entering, had no preliminary hearing yet.
London dispatch reports the London Zoo received a family of pygmy mice from Gambria in western Africa. The tiny rodents are said to be smaller than bumblebees and a pair could fit in a safety match box, as 15 escaped through a hole during shipping.
The sewing class previously set for Friday has moved to Monday night from 7 to 9 with remaining open space for new students. Mrs Breiten bach and Mrs Lupton assist the Duchess, Honorary Governess Carayn McCleery Rosa, and other noted participants in a scene set at the Spanish Embassy garden and palace rooms.
Chairman J Reade McCrory reports a St Louis directive for rapid remittance of funds collected for the destitute and injured after the southern Illinois storm. Donations may be left at local banks and will be sent to St Louis. Red Cross teams, with Carbondale as headquarters, set up depots for medical clothing and food as nurses and doctors volunteer.
Muscatine high school girls capture the district tournament by defeating Corydon 24 to 20 in Columbus Junction. The championship followed last Saturday’s game and the all tournament team includes Deweese Museatine Patterson Crawfordsville Whitmer Bereiter Kent and Clayton from Corydon and Muscatine respectively.
A fragmentary note appears to describe a whimsical scene with a trout and a vague commentary on labor and usefulness, lacking clear persons or events to anchor a fuller report.
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