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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1931
Page
3
A short devotional excerpt highlights praising God with instruments including trumpet psaltery harp timbre dance stringed instruments organs and cymbals drawing from Psalm 150. It emphasizes joyful worship through diverse musical voices.
The Auxiliary will hold their annual poppy sale next Saturday. Money from the sale funds welfare work for disabled veterans and their families in U S hospitals. The campaign asks for coins and larger donations, framing the effort as a debt rather than charity.
Fragmentary line recalls distant times with emphasis on duration and change. The text evokes memory of people past and present, hinting at contrasts between old ways and new eras without specific events or identities. The excerpt reads as a reflective excerpt rather than a reportable incident.
Roberta Wheelan recalls a funny incident at the post office when she asked a passerby whether she had placed a stamp, feeling embarrassed by the lady's reaction. Roberta notes she will be eight on May 19 and signs as from Route 4.
Lord Chesterfield argues against licensing liquor for revenue, calling it an indulgence to debauchery. He warns the bill would propagate disease and disable industry, urging lawmakers to view it as a fatal engine harming mankind.
A visiting minister asks a class who was the first man and woman and the meekest. The children answer Adam Eve Moses, but when asked who was the meekest woman there was silence until a boy says there wasn’t any.
Pupils from first and second grades completed art booklets about birds including robins bluebirds woodpeckers and cardinals. Second graders wrote their own stories and the first graders presented in class. Memorial Day talks by W A C representatives followed clean up plays by fourth graders. P T A elected officers for next year.
Miss Charlotte Foster and Miss Isabelle Davis supervise Lincoln fifth graders as they present marionette plays at the rural school commencement in the Methodist church. They perform for Lincoln kindergarten pupils on Friday morning and note recent Stanford Achievement tests completed Tuesday and Wednesday. Visitors David Melcher Wayne Knapp's little brother and three adults from the W R C discuss Memorial Day in an all school assembly.
In the central school this week pupils study poems about flowers with the poem Daisies by Sherman. A snapshot of the first primary room was taken Monday and will be sent for a state fair exhibit of rooms 100 on the dental honor roll.
Miss Mayenna Jacobsen and pupils visited the second primary room to view the Peter Rabbit sand table project and hear two talks by Jeanette Krabill and Ruth Hotle. High school normal training students, guided by Miss Jeannette Kyle, attended similar events and heard additional class activities. Viva Yeoman was absent two days. Stanford Achievement tests for third grade were given at year start and end of first semester, and third contest stories were finished by Wednesday.
Miss Helen Levis and Miss Mildred Woodburn were absent two days due to a hand infection from a bee sting. Fifth graders took Stanford Achievement tests Monday and Tuesday. A W R C committee planned talks for Centennial pupils and assembled them in the intermediate room. Pupils finished Robinson Crusoe scatterwork and island scenes in Miss Van Viliet’s art class. A pattern must be cut before spatterwork, a time consuming step. Last week most fifth graders earned A in spelling and third compositions were completed.
Buck Jones stars with Silver in The Fighting Sheriff a Columbia western about Red River’s sheriff chasing a bandit leader. The plot centers on a love triangle with a bold rival suitor and a shy sheriff as Loretta Sayers, Robert Eis, and a strong supporting cast appear under Louis King's direction.
Miss Wildamue Hulton of The Heights announces a party for current pupils at 2 o clock tomorrow afternoon. The event honors children who will attend the Heights kindergarten next year and will be joined by incoming teacher Miss Corrine Martin of Waterloo.
Miss Mabel Rice Daniel Bieber of Wayland visits this room this week while James Bey and Carl Long have been absent. Dorothy Turner was accidentally knocked down on the sidewalk, leaving a large bump on her forehead. Benjie Widmer sang a song about a jack-in-the-output during opening exercises as first graders read The Three Bears and prepare to dramatize it with roles including the Great Huge Bear.
Third grade pupils studied a geography lesson on dairy products then asked and answered questions in class. They finished bird stories for the contest and listened to bird records on the Victrola as Miss Landau nears finishing the Bird Book for reading to the children.
Intermediate Boon Miss Carol Porgey Miss Elda White Mrs. Russell Frink presented checks to winners Gweneth Kruser Maxine Whitlock Howard Little in the American Legion Auxiliary puppy poster contest. Fifth graders completed Stanford Achievement tests and worked on reading and language skills.
The Wallace kindergarten pupils will host a party at ten o clock tomorrow morning for children entering Wallace kindergarten next year. The teacher for next year Miss Corrine Martin of Waterloo will attend the event.
Helen Wylie recounts a trip to Washington D C with rides on train taxi bus boat and airplane. She visits Union Station Zoo Capitol building Lincoln Memorial Arlington Memorial Bridge and returns to the farm with her father enjoying a hayload ride as the best part.
Robert Montgomery bags fresh triumphs as a salty hero in a dramatic statewide bill spotlight.
The Met ro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature Shipmates plays Friday and Saturday at the State Theater with Montgomery in the navy hero role and Dorothy Jordan as the admiral's daughter. A strong supporting cast includes Torrence Bosworth Edwards and Hedda Hopper. Also noted is Mrs Walter Smith recovering after a road accident and hospital stay.
The Portnightly club garden department closed yesterday and judges will take a week to pick winners. Judges include Mrs Will K Jones Miss Maude McCreedy and Mrs Harold Montgomery with Mrs Carlton Wilson as chairman and other members Mrs T A Michels and Mrs RK S Dean. Three prizes awarded for best three compositions in each grade from third to sixth with first prize of 1.00, second 0.75 and third 0.25.
Vere Ernie Norton and date chief Margaret plan a summer trip to Charles City to stay with Mr Norton who is employed there.
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