Budget of School News Highlights Local Exhibit and Fete
An exhibit of manual training and domestic science from the high school is set for Friday and Saturday at the old Methodist church with no admission. May Fete on Friday evening on East Washington street features drills and folk dances led by the W C A with a secret queen. Athletics letters awarded at the final assembly include football, basketball, girls' basketball, track, walking club, yell leaders and musical numbers by students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Methodist Church
L. T. Smith
Flossie Lewis
Patterson Place
Washington Street
Martha Godfrey
Katheryn Montgomery
Tollows
Ivan Lemsey
Larter Macon
Randall Neil
Lester Duke
Elwyn McGinnis
William Glassburner
Arlington Daniels
Ted Crone
John Putnam
John Brookhart
Shirley Clark
Lyman Hendrickson
Charles Neil
Lloyd Grecian
Lawrence Gilbert
Glenn Anderson
Norwood Jones
Nita Webb
Gladys Clark
Helen Pierce
Mildred Rice
Marguerite Springman
Dorothy Donaldson
Wanda
Wanda Neiswanger
Irene Pierce
Emma Green
Foley Kidney Ville Ad Tallies Sleep Aid Testimony
A Detroit woman testifies to Foley Kidney Ville relieving backache rheumatic pains and kidney bladder trouble. She reports better sleep after using the product, noting the endorsement from Lemmon's Pharmacy and Mrs Chas Gray of 270 Sixth St.
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Foley Kidney Ville
Chas. Gray
Sixth St
Detroit
Mich
Back of the American Front Details Marriage Rumors
The narrator traces a target to a base port and learns Captain T, from a long New Orleans family, is away on a two day honeymoon. He notes that many reserve officers marry quickly and cites a consular official. The piece emphasizes gossip and solid but casual facts about officer marriages.
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New Orleans
Foley Kidney Pills Endorsement From Calvert Reader
M. W. Taylor of Calvert Alabama writes Foley Kidney Pills restore regular kidney and bladder action and relieve backache rheumatic pains stiff joints and sore muscles in a testimonial ad placed by Lemmons Pharmacy.
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M. W. Taylor
Calvert, Ala
Foley
Lemmons Pharmacy
Advt
Thought and Courage Inspire Moral Heroism
The passage urges lifting nature to one's own stature and fighting for honor. It extols battle for a man’s worth and suggests enduring wounds with a beneficent, smiling spirit as a noble act.
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Cervantes
Woodrow
Happiness in Love of Books Quote
A quoted meditation by Langford extols book lovers as the richest and happiest of mankind, noting that rank or position does not affect the joy found in books. The line celebrates reading as a universal source of fulfillment.
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Langford
Pioneer Social Planned by Mission Circle at Baptist Church
These notes summarize a week of local social events. Tomorrow afternoon a pioneer social will be held in the church parlors by the Mission Circle of the Baptist church. Earlier, Monday afternoon, the First United Presbyterian Ladies Aid society hosted a quarterly social and music program at Mrs W. McLaughlin’s home featuring a spring flower decor and a program from Carolyn Hamilton’s studio. The Klein bunch picnic near the Marion township house honored Miss Emma Green with a supper and outdoor games. The Christian Culture club at the A M E church hosted a program led by Mrs C W Moughlin praising women’s clubs and sharing papers on Education Child Welfare Health and Young Women with a patriotic finish. The program included performances by many local ladies and a piano selection by Mike Ruth Peterson and a solo by Elizabeth Redd.
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Mission Circle of the Baptist Church
W. McLaughlin
First United Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society
Carolyn Hamilton
Wanda Neiswanger
Doris Chalmers
Dorothy Donaldson
Hardetot Godard Novello
Christian Culture Club
A.M. E. Church
James Redd
Anna Barkley
Myrtle Rhodes
Rhodes
Katheryn Turner
Elizabeth Redd
Frances Rhodes
Mike Ruth Peterson
Alice Thompson
Muscatine
Florence Uall
Jennie Green
Jas. Swift
Eugene Schneider
Seattle
Wash
Theo Carr
W. C. Mayhew, Jr
Reister
Robert Cherry
Hewmings
Frank L. Wilson
Matt Darragh
Evening Musical Program at A M E Church
Community clubs held meetings with talks on Canadian Rockies and Yukon River, plus a Loyal Sisters Sunday School social at the Methodist church. Members engaged in needlework for French war orphans, election of officers, and a farewell luncheon with gifts for their teacher Mrs Gilbert.
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Methodist Church
The
Loyal Sisters
H. F. Gilbert
Mt. Pleasant
KR. E. Brown
Brown
KR. FE. Brown
Oliver Rice
A. L. Griffith
J. E. Kunath
John Green
Lyman Bunce
W.S. Greenan
Kunath
Gilbert
Mrs. Mason
Washington, Penn
Engel
Grace Hill
Community notes from Over County
Mrs Henry Trier and children and Orba Rickard visited the Will Rickard home as the father remains very ill. Mr Farrier and daughter from near Brizhion visited W E Augustine and took a brown leghorn chick. Emil Fink and spouse joined Will Rickard family Saturday evening. Walter Mayers and wife were in Washington Saturday afternoon. Bethel church ladies plan a 10 cent sale at Mrs George Hotle's Thursday afternoon and will conduct Red Cross work. Wolfe Bros. operate a modern auto huckster wagon this year and offer fresh goods.
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Henry Trier
Orba Rickard
Will Rickard
Farrier
Near Brizhion
W. FE. Augustine
Emil Fink
Walter Mayers
Washington
The
Bethel Church
Hustons and visitors tour Washington area
Dr and Mrs Huston visited Washington yesterday as Wallace Cherryholmes from Winfield looked after heroes he had purchased. J Maxwell of Washington spent a short time here. Rev P H Harney drove Glenn Duncan to Burlington for Des Moines exams possibly entering Great Lakes Naval Training School if he passes. Town votes to extend street oiling limits and enforce equal taxation. streets to be oiled when ground warms.
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Crawfordsville
W. Huston
Washington
Wallace Cherrywholmes
Winfield
J. Maxwell
P. H. Harney
Glenn Duncan
Burlington
Des Moines
Great Lakes
Ainsworth News Briefs and 1918 Commencement Program
May 15 itemized notes from Ainsworth include visitors from Burlington and Kansas attending family events and a funeral. Local youths and veterans’ gathering in Washington at a grand army post. New baby born to Mr and Mrs F R Grimes. Riverside band entertained residents, with town looking lively. The Thirtieth Annual Commencement at Ainsworth High School on May 17 features music, orations, poems, and a France themed play with Pierce Graudet and family appearing.
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Ainsworth
C. A. Carron
Burlington
J. A. Gardner
Kansas
Mr. Gardner
Keota
Washington
Grand Army Post
F. R. Grimes
Mixx Alma Johnson
Brighton
A. D. Ache- Son
Riverside Band
Andy
Ainsworth High School
Warblers of the Forest
Warblers of the Forest.” Mrs. Edmondson, Melen Snelson
Vera Simpson
Myrtle HW Ross
Do Not Get Careless With Your Blood Supply
Public health notice urges readers to monitor blood health and ward off disease. It promotes Swift Specific Co.’s vegetable blood medicine and claims revitalization and vitality. Consumers are advised to buy a bottle at drug stores and request free medical advice from the company’s Medical Director in Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift Specific Co
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Diplomas Presented at Methodist Church Ceremony
Dr Montaine and Harold Clegg are among speakers at a valedictory and diploma presentation. Lillian M Simpson delivers a valedictory. The service includes a song The Call to Action and ends with benediction at 8 30 admission 25 cents and five dollars.
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Montaine
Harold Clegg
Lillian M. Simpson
Song
Foley Cathartic Tablets Relief Claim Ad
A reader from Unadilla Georgia says Foley Cathartic Tablets give quicker relief for biliousness bad breath bloating gas indigestion and constipation. Ad notes no eriping or nausea and lists Lemmon's Pharmacy as source.
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B. B. Hayward
Unadilla
Lemmon
Shrapnel Flies At Game On Western Front Ballfield
The Stars and Stripes reports a wartime baseball game on the western front where an A B F regimental unit edged Pioneer detachment 14 to 12 in nine innings. Shells and aircraft overhead did not stop the play, and the contest wrapped in one hour forty minutes.
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the Stars and Stripes
The
A. BK. F
Bowie
Hun
Fritz
Pioneers
Long-range battle questioned in brisk Arctic artillery debate
A terse line lists Homer as well as three baggers and five two cushion clouts among the day’s work and asks who claimed the artillery held the long-range edge. The remark hints at a broader dispute over distant fire and strategy.
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Homer
Youngster Confesses Hidden Knowledge Not Taught
A boy visiting his aunt admits he has not attended school yet but says he can share many things his mother taught him and adds he knows things he has never been taught. The remark reflects a playful boast about innate wisdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Hartley
Misapplied name for the daisy in Chaucer’s daily eye term
A remark cites Chaucer naming the daisy days eye because petals closed at sunset and opened at sunrise. It argues the best girl, brightest in the evening, cannot truthfully be called a daisy based on this misattribution.
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Chaucer
Worth While Quotation from a Classic Wit
The saying notes that aging comes from worry rather than labor. It reflects on stress aging and the value of steady effort with a contemplative, concise voice.
Vinol praised for child strength and cough relief in Newaygo ad
Mrs. E N Hanlon from Newaygo reports her delicate emaciated boy improved after Vinol cod liver and iron tonic. The Sherman Bros Drugists in Washington and many towns advertise the product on a public guarantee, urging mothers to try it for weak children.
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Newaygo, Mich
Vincl
Vinci
E. N. Hanlon
Sherman Bros. Druggists
Washington
Advt
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