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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1927
Page
3
The Delphian society elected officers for next year with Mrs. Alice Lemmon as president and Mrs. O F Boller as vice president. Miss Eva Denny was named executive committee chair. meetings will pause for summer and resume in September.
Community notices include a Mothers and Daughters banquet at West Chester Baptist church on Friday evening June 3. U and K club ladies host husbands at 6 50 dinner at Mrs Geo Schenelder home. Ladies Aid of M E church Ainsworth Iowa plans May 26 at 2 pm in church basement. Garden club meets at Mrs Carlton Wilson Thursday at 7 30 with urging all members to attend.
The Woman's Home Missionary society of the Methodist church will meet with Mrs. W. W. Bowers at 509 West Washington street Friday afternoon at 2 30. The annual mite box will be held with program and refreshments. Havre social club to meet with Mrs Joe McGinnis Thursday afternoon.
Ladies Aid group meets all day Thursday at Mrs. E E Greenfields home. Children’s Day practice postponed to 4 PM Friday. World War veterans and relatives invited to West Chester cemetery for soldier graves decoration. Relief corps conducts memorial and regular meetings. bake and bazaar events planned at local churches and Washington Cleaners through June.
A speakable elderly patient receives a visit from a cheerful caller who tries to lift spirits with jaunty encouragement. The bemused convalescent responds with wary politeness as the exchange unfolds.
Harry V Winslow advance representative for Neale-Helvey Players was in the city finalizing plans for the companys return next week. Last year they performed on South Marion Avenue in Washington to good patronage and will present a new program to be announced later.
The largest peace time voyage will carry more than three thousand business and professional men from North America on six Cunard liners to Ostend Belgium for the Rotary International convention opening June 6. The fleet includes shipboard hotel room keys and an entertainment program with prizes.
The garter snake has an unusually wide distribution from southern regions to areas near the Great Slave Lake and even records in the Yukon. Cold sensitivity limits many North American snakes, yet garter snakes extend far north beyond the Canadian border.
An article notes that Vikings used small ships, similar in size to lifeboats, describing their vessels as only slightly larger than life boats used by Atlantic mariners. It mentions Lief Erikson’s voyage to North America in a distant account.
A rose window is a circular stained glass feature divided by mullions with tracery radiating from the center. The form was prominent in church architecture during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
An exhibit of manual training and domestic science products from the high school will be held this Friday. The show opens at 2:30 PM and runs through the afternoon and evening with manual training displays in the shop and sewing in the domestic science room under instructors W F Bickel and Miss Rachel Fabrik.
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