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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1923
Page
6
Mrs Penfield runs the Custard Cup in a barn conversion with kids Drink Lettie and Thad. A stranger questions her maid name while Mrs Weatherstone admires Penfield’s home made cleaning method using a grain bag. Crink greets the visitor as the scene reveals Penfield’s resourceful ties and future prospects.
In a tense scene Mrs Weatherstone meets Mrs Penfield and the three adopted children. Social disparity hangs over the encounter as the women spar over motives and money while the kids observe and endure, then head home with fragile kindness and a sense of upheaval.
Today and tomorrow most teachers living out of town leave the area. Instructors' vacation plans are indefinite, with several spending the summer at their homes or in summer school programs.
Mrs. Frank Gobbie, president of the W R C, announces assigning six members to each cemetery section for Decoration day graves decorating. Sections list 11 areas with named committee members, including Dawson and Maxwell in Section 1, McChesney and Emma Garrett in Section 2, and Purvis, Brinton, and Dewey in Section 7, across multiple locations with many volunteers.
The United Presbyterian general assembly opened in Buffalo with Dr. J. Kelly Giffin serving as moderator and Dr. Charles P. Proudfit preaching the opening sermon. Sessions run a week to ten days as officials consider reducing executive boards. churches across the United States and abroad attend and praise the denomination for leading foreign missions with high per capita donations.
The American Legion auxiliary will sell pop pies all day Saturday. Community members are asked to wear a poppy on Decoration Day to honor World War workers who sacrificed their lives. Poppies were made by Washington women and proceeds go to hospitals for disabled soldiers.
An advertisement touts Kellogg's Bran as a sole solution to constipation noting its high bulk for permanent relief. It urges daily use for a health impact and suggests mixing with cereals or baking, with recipes on packages and availability in stores, hotels, and restaurants.
The Friendship club will meet with Mrs. Chas Brown next Tuesday afternoon May 29. Presbyterian Choir rehearsal Thursday evening at seven o'clock. Chapter Neot of the PY Beta Ki Frat of Washington Iowa will adjourn for the summer effective Saturday the 26th.
The notice lists Eureka Sunday school at 10 am and a 11 am worship service at United Presbyterian West Chester on May 27. It mentions a poppy sale to honor World War I dead, a Young Woman's Home Missionary Society dinner and mite box opening, and wreath-making for Memorial Day graves with flowers requested.
J T Matthews comes forward to say the snow storm noted in this paper occurred on May 23 1882. He cites a library photo back dated May 22 1882 and claims Washington Press records corroborate.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at two o'clock at the home south of Coppock conducted by Rev Ballard. Interment followed in North Hill cemetery at Wayland with pallbearers William Fred Henry Ike Ben and Frank Neff.
Mrs. J. B. Crail announces that four by six flags on ten foot staffs have arrived for decorating downtown streets on patriotic occasions. She will deliver them soon to business men who signed up, with readiness expected for Decoration Day.
A London Opinion teaser notes a child named Joan adopting a Girl Guide role, claiming she will be a good girl and asking not to be bothered as she embraces guiding duties. The piece highlights a young girl’s entrance into Girl Guides.
A witty column laments pedestrian hardship as fuel costs loom high. The author rails against price speculation while imagining absurd gains from wishes turning into cars, reflecting public frustration with costly gasoline.
Miss Georgia Hopley, the only woman agent in the federal prohibition enforcement corps, will begin a town speaking tour the first week in June with Des Moines as a likely first stop. Her mission is educational not detective work, to show why people should obey the law, backed by the Iowa Women’s Christian Temperance Union which sponsors her campaign in the state.
Des Moines reports that YWCA branches across Iowa joined other states in observing Grace Hoadley Dodge birthday as Grace Dodge Day. Dodge born in 1857 founded the Travelers Aid Society and helped establish settlement houses and educational work. She died in 1914 while serving as president of the National Executive Board.
Mrs. Kathryn W. Lauser says Des Moines may become a training center for Travelers Aid workers as the organization plans to extend to every city over 10,000 population. Nationwide training centers could open to meet demand after helping over two million people in 1922.
Marshalltown Louisiana May 25 a new children's detention hospital will be built this summer funded by local W Co T VA raising money to aid the project.
Edgewood Indiana will dedicate a memorial fountain honoring Mrs. Thera H. True for her work on behalf of prohibition. The project will be installed by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and unveiled in the town.
Sioux City Iowa May 96 the city planning commission adds a woman member Mrs Lillian Kittee state superintendent of open air meetings for the Womens Christian Temperance Union her appointment expands female representation on the panel
Twenty eight schools will be represented by YWCA girl reserves in an annual field meet at Union Park Des Moines tomorrow. Events include Savage dash broad jump run and catch relay baseball throw volleyball serve shuttle race baseball tennis croquet three legged race crab race and obstacle race. The meet serves as a lead up to the commer camp at Boone starting June 26 under a YWCA director Maquoketa ln May 25. Local WCTU adopts plan to award five dollars to each high
In Mt Pleasant Indiana May 25 Henry county schools were dismissed and pupil attendance made obligatory to view the W C U U film There’s Millions In It. The film educates on tobacco use by boys based on scientific findings.
Des Moines Indiana May 25 The Womans Christian Temperance Union plans to cooperate with vacation Bible schools by supplying a volume of Bible stories on citizenship health and abstinence to every teacher. Leaflets for children of each grade will also be provided.
Miss Elizabeth Fisher left yesterday for Waterloo to attend the Iowa Federation of Women’s clubs. Miss Alice Rownd, president of the Fortnightly club of Washington, will also attend. R. Stuart began delivering California fruit trees, mostly apricot varieties, at 25 cents each, call 709 So. 7th Ave. Agents wanted, 8616.
Commencement exercises for the junior high are set for this evening in the high school auditorium. Instead of the usual address a class program will fill the evening. Public invitation is extended to all attendees.
J. Meinhardt, a Chicago truss expert, visits the Ottumwa Hotel on Tuesday May 29 offering free demonstrations of The Vacuum Shield. He claims the device contracts ruptures in about ten days and provides instant relief, with a warning against old style trusses.
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