Community party and club events fill Washington evenings
Neighborhood society notes detail a No. 7 schoolhouse party with singing, ukulele, and an automobile contest. Other items cover Miss Marguerite Hicks’s school year end, Epworth League gatherings, a T 8 E club meeting, a missionary tea, Navajo club activities, a dinner bridge party, and plans for improving local parks and tourism facilities. The week closes with a spring wedding in the Presbyterian manse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. 7 School House
John Green
J. O. Matthews
Ellen Green
Elizabeth Koehler
Tillie Bear
Isabel Wolfe
Marjorie Green
Gladys Warren
Florence Gardner
Bertha Klopfenstein
Ellen Wolfe
Albert Zieglowsky
Fred Klopfenstein
Tommy Wolfe
Tommy
Cars Committee
Joe Klopfenstein
John Krause
Oral Long
Sam Warren
Marguerite Hicks
No. 11
West Chester Seniors Stage The Gold Bug Play
West Chester high school seniors staged The Gold Bug at the Baptist church with help from other class students. Paul DeLong led as the Gold Bug, a young man who loses his grandfather's allowance at twenty and must manage with a $1000 legacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Chester
West Chester High School
Baptist Church
Paul DeLong
Coolidge Vetoes Bonus Bill in Defense of Patriotism
President Coolidge argues the proposed soldiers bonus violates American ideals and taxes the people unfairly. He says the bill would force public sacrifice and that the nation as a whole does not want it, estimating costs at 146 million for insurance and cash payments plus 6.5 million in admin expenses. The American Legion vows to push for a soldiers compensation law despite the veto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Longworth
Rankin
Mississippi
Des Moines
American Legion
Barton
Itowa Department
Legion
Historic Washington county places sought for county story
The office invites readers to send facts about historic sites in Washington county. Visitors Henry Griffin and William Teener from Riverside were in town on business. Irvin Coffey and his wife from West Chester also appeared, while Marjorie McCreedy and Dale Pober from Haskins are in town for the class play tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington County
Henry Griffin
William Teener
Riverside
Washington
West Chester
Mrs
Irvin Coffey
Marjorie McCreedy
Dale Pbner
Haskins
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West Chester Epworth League
Ruth
Theodore
Walter
Lloyd Bauer
Iowa University
Iowa State Teacher College
Iowa Wesleyan
Barbara Bauer
Mary Scranton
T. 8. E. Club
John Jackson
Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Homer Darbyshire
Howard MecCleery
Mary Louise Harwood
Charles A. Dewey
Sam McCleery
R. L. McGugin
John Pratt
East Maintreet
Carlton Wilson
The
Improvement League
County Health Board
Flower Exchange Committee
Johnson Store
Flower Box Committee
Clara Barton
League
Chautauqua
J. H. Warren
C. J. Wilson
M. E. Dicken
City Beautiful Committee
M. W. Bailey
H. M. Eicher
Orel Virginia Smith
Verl Verdi Koch
Presbyterian Manse
F. W. Eastwood
Jennia Madden
Judson K. Smith
Brighton
Iowa
Leon
Elk Point
Canada
Ernest G. Koch
Coolidge
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Start
Schaffner & Marx and
Clothcraft Men’s and
Physicians and Surgeons
A. John Droz
West Main Bt
Frank Boller
City
Mutual
W. Washington
T. J. Pease
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Blue Mutual
J. D. Dayton
Westchester
Gale
Austin Sutherland
Kaynee Wasil Togs
T. A. Michels
Washington, Iowa
Morrison & Morrison
Brookhart Bros. Law
Opera House
Mutual Phone
C. D. Wilson
Wilson & Wilson Lawyers
Opposite Journal
Livingston & Eicher Law
Abstract Department
Real
Nat'l Bank
C. V. Brown
South of Water Works
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