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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1922
Page
6
The sermon at Presbyterian Church Labored on Luke 16 31 identifying three spirits of error Pharisaic, skeptical and superstitious. It argued true religion blends heart and action with freedom found in surrender to Christ and avoiding external forms without faith.
In 1 Corinthians 7 22 the pastor cites Paul calling Christians bondslaves to Christ. The sermon notes that Paul spoke of himself as a bondslave, illustrating total devotion of a believer to the Master with ownership over time strength abilities and possessions.
In a sermon on Matthew 15 23 Dr W W Bowers reflects on Jesus silent response to a desperate Canaanite woman. The lack of words drives her deeper to Christ, showing gifts point to the Giver and inviting believers to seek refuge in Him beyond answered petitions.
Quarterly communion services were held yesterday morning at the Fire United Presbyterian church with a large attendance. Eleven new members were received into the church at this service.
Report notes Coban covers a land area nearly equal to the state of Pennsylvania in scale and geography referencing the Cusa site within the region.
The morridge of Henry Hale of Morning Sun and Miss Naomi Blanche Miller of Color June H igh was solemnized Saturday evening at 8 30 at the Baptist parsonage Rev M B Regan performed the ceremony in the presence of Mr and Mrs M B Davidson a bride cousin The single ring ceremony was used The bride wore a blue satin dress with yellow trimming She is the daughter of Lewis Miller and the family formerly resided in the Washington community They will be remem bered by many there and will go to housekeeping at once on a farm near Morning Sun
Word has been received of the death of Sterling D. Coe aged 75 at David City Nebraska. Formerly of Crawfordsville and Ainsworth he lived for a time in Washington. He married Melinda Crawford and had a son and a sister Mrs J B Crawford of Sioux City. He worked as a cabinet maker and in the furniture business in several towns.
Funeral services for Miss Martha Bare were held Sunday afternoon at the Jones and McElhinney chapel conducted by Dr. W W Bowers with music by a quartet from the Methodist choir. The pallbearers were Asa Jones Harley O Loughlin Al Huber Elmer Burham Clay Walton and J N Phillips Interment was in improve cemetery.
Fragmentary quotation discusses the dual power of friends to aid or harm, warning that even strong preventive measures may be less effective than prudent defense by friends. The source uses archaic phrasing and appears as a brief reflective line.
The Congregational church at Nashua receives an up to date Estey organ and a silver plated baptismal font donated by Mrs. I. M. Fisher of Cedar Falls. Rev. Edward Lee presides with a dedicatory sermon as the Nashua choir assists. Two children are baptized as 20,000 visitors toured the site last year. Fifty five weddings were held there in the prior year.
Miss Clara Frazier of Corning Adams county attacked Newton school teacher Miss Frazier after learning a student had been whipped. A crowd intervened as students joined the melee. In Judge Carey’s court she paid a $50 fine plus costs for the assault. Four Meskwaki Indians from Tama county visited Des Moines on Sunday and gave an interesting prose.
The official record for the distance, held by this stock chassis, is 6:31:48, or 91/4 miles per hour, set at Union Town Speedway a year ago. Thus once again, the Paige 6-66 demonstrates power and endurance as the Maser of the Highway.
Scott county onion growers organize to combat the onion shrip which injures crops. An expert from Texas onion fields will demonstrate methods used there. Scott county long an onion center in Iowa, but near St Angar in Mitchell county the industry has grown to rival and even eclipse Scott county.
Miss Theresa Dansdill educational director of the Iowa Tuberculosis association is invited by the National Tuberculosis association to author a comprehensive handbook on teaching practical hygiene for teachers and schools. She will spend two months in New York and later time in Washington before completing the work in Des Moines in July.
A man and neighbor uncover a fox den with twelve young in two litters near Lincoln township. A petrified human-like figure from a Fox cave north of Edgewood is described as natural rock sculpture with bones visible where embedded. A route map for an air line highway boosts is released for Iowa towns. Mammoth teeth found near Ottumwa join Des Moines river specimens, one nearly intact, the other altered to silicon by mineral replacement.
A Toledo western college once named for Leander Clark merged with Coe College Cedar Rapids after a local push by businessmen. The state acquired the property for a juvenile home and the Clark heirs sued for $50,000. the district court ruling favoring the state was upheld by the supreme court. Arthur Goshorn recounts a fox tale from Winterset as well.
A London dog ambulance travels at all hours with a sidecar, padded dog carrier, and a veterinary attendant. If the dog is beyond help the vet ends the case. if curable the dog is taken to the hospital. A new machine digs a 12 by 7 foot trench, advancing like a prehistoric monster. A rotating wheel digs and a belt transports spoil 20 feet aside as a five man crew clears a quarter mile daily.
A Science report describes an experiment with 600 white rats from the sixteenth to the twenty-fifth generations of full siblings. The study examines the consequences of close inbreeding and its impact on the animals.
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