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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 12, 1922

Page

7

Dayton Grove News Highlights Local Visits and Illness

Correspondents report weekend visits as Mr. and Mrs. Will Embree stop by parental homes. Florence Gass is ill. Washington callers include Mr. and Mrs. Embree and Geo. Ferguson. Others visiting Milo Delong and Emree households. Elmer Burham works for Harry Dusenberry. Mrs. Matt Casey and Bee Geneva Wilbur visit Ferguson home.

Dayton Grove Will Embree Florence Gass Dick Disney Geo. Ferguson Washington Asa Miller Orvis Ferguson Ben Holt Milo Delong Forest Embree Embree Elmer Burham Harry Dusenberry Matt Casey Bee Geneva Wilbur Ferguson

Pleasant Hill social notes and upcoming Sunday school event

Pleasant Hill residents share visits over the weekend including the Swift Kephart and Ballard households. The King’s Sons and Daughters Sunday school class was hosted by Harry Jones. The Foss children suffer mumps. A Sunday school convention is set for May 14 at the Pleasant Hill church with morning services at 10 and 11, followed by a Mothers' Day program in the evening.

Pleasant Hill Mryan Swift Will Caldwell Fred Kephart Baby Homer Kephart King’s Sons and Daughters Harry Jones Henry Ballard Pleasant Plain Ben Miller John Wagner Roy Kephart John Caldwell Lee Heasseltine Mary Stiles Roy Fossa W. Chester Foss

Local Notes From Haskins and Nearby

Community items report Rev. Casselman taking Kenneth to Iowa City for adenoid removal and returning Saturday. Ola Foster quietly wed, with praise for her teaching career. Visitors include Myrtle Welliver, Chic Embree family, and others in Muscatine Otumwa and Cone areas. Ills at home include George Wallace and Mrs Mullen. Stock shipments and farm activity noted.

Haskins Haskins C. W. Society Olive Moore Casselman Kenneth Iowa City Carl Jarvis A. L. Meridith Myrtle Welliver Muscatine Ola Foster Ola Chic Embree Near Gladwin Hal Edwards Roberts Ottumwa M. D. McCreedy M. D Sarah FE. Warner Washington Jno. Godlove Geo. Wallace Haskins Mullen Mr. Criss Cone Jimmy Cherwinker Harley

Mathers Day Services Planned With Stereopticon

Community notes reveal visitors from Washington and local families calling on Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mathers. Special Mathers Day services are set for Sunday with morning and evening sessions and stereopticon slides. A heavy rain Wednesday slows farming activity for a day or two.

Wilbur Gardner Davis Bros Fay Cherwinker Washington Fred Stewart Walter Stafford Chas. Stafford Vivian Hazel Booth Helen Albaugh M. KK. Meek Lem Cherry A. E. Putnam J. C. Mathers Mathers

Gardners and Relatives Visit West Chester Family

Rural Route NC May 11 reports Mr and Mrs Walter Gardner and children visiting the Oscar Gardner home near West Chester. Elmer Kephart of Washington and family spent Tuesday with Homer Kephart. Charles Kephart Ed Simmering and children visited Sunday afternoon. Claud McCall and Kathryn Caldwell also spent time at the Hryan Swift home.

Washington Walter Gardner Oscar Gardner West Chester Elmer .Kephart Homer Kephart Chas. Kephart Ed Simmering Claud McCall Hryan Swift Miss Kathryn Caldwell

Local Social News and Viking Ship Exhibit

In Crawfordsville May 11 visitors included Miss Mary McCall and families, with Care Away Circle meeting hosted by Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. Hull. Hazel Moorhead led a book review on Main Street and new officers were elected. A Viking ship from the eighth century, buried with tribute offerings, was unearthed in Jarlsberg and Larvik Norway and is on display at the University Museum of Christiania.

Crawfordsville Mary McCall J. J. Anwy Hazel Guy Mitchell Max Irene Washington W. G. Robertson H. C. Hull Etta Buxbaum Hazel Moorhead Edna Jones Alice Davidson Lois Davidson Eva Spangler Laura Barnett Bessie Busby Gladys Strothman Helen Wallace Hazel Anwyl Lois Bauer Phillips Bar| Griffith Jarlsberg Larvik Norway University Museum of Christianta

Hezekiah Leads His People Back to God Lesson

Introduction to the Sabbath lesson for May 14 argues religion must come first not politics. Hezekiah restores the temple and Passover, inviting all tribes, showing genuine religion through renewal, repentance, and mission, guiding believers to seek God even if forms are imperfect. Read 2 Chronicles 29 and 30 for discussion.

Hezekiah Judah Assyria Egypt Ahaz Samaria Syria Isaiah America God

Woman's Complex Life and Nervous Breakdowns

Discussion of how modern women's busy roles lead to headaches and nervousness, with reassurance through Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Claims the tonic helps restore health. references reader letters and herbal roots as safe, drug-free relief.

Lydia FE. Pinkham

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