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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1922
Page
7
Correspondents report a river side community update with Rebekah meeting notes, local visits, gatherings, and farm duties. Residents include the Denisons Heckes Havel Searneys Shallas Malichkys and Flynn family. Weathered by Sunday dinners dances and regional farm activity across Iowa communities.
Havre November 1 The Havre Special club and families were hosted by John Protman. Will McBride visited Floyd Steel in Riverside. A B Carr bought a new Chevrolet. Farmers Union shipped hogs to Chicago. John Caldwell Lee Hessel tine sent a car load to Chicago. Mrs George Barnett of Cedar Rapids visiting Wilh and Will McBride. Mrs Ella Merchant visiting son John in Burlington. Ode Ferguson Earl Frey and Stanley Fishburn went to Chicago. Grobb of Keota visiting John Koch.
Wayne, Nov 1. Mrs Hazel Moorhead, Mrs Vera Sands and Miss Gladys Carson attended cooking school in Washington last Thursday. Mr and Mrs Frank McLaughlin of Peoria and others spent Friday at the R W Carson home. The Miller couple visited their daughter near Crawfordsville. C C Moorehead traveled to Iowa City for the Iowa Purdue game. Elmer Danielson returns from a Chicago honeymoon trip.
In Crawfordsville on Nov 1 the Presbyterian church hosted a reception for new pastor Rev Kilgus and his wife. The program featured welcome by Dr N J Lease, greetings from local clergy, musical performances, readings, and hymns with about 40 guests including Miss Elizabeth MacCarthey and Mrs Mollie Fishburn.
Peter Graber, a Wayland restaurant proprietor, died Tuesday morning from a self inflicted rifle shot behind his establishment. The body was found by Dr. Cook nine oclock. He left a wife and brother and other relatives. Funeral arrangements were not yet set. Local residents attended a Halloween gathering at A F Mitchell home while others visited relatives over the weekend. Communion at Richer church drew a large crowd.
A homespun reflection on secrecy and trust notes that a person who shares a secret and pleads secrecy often enjoys the act and derives gratification from the listener's secret keeping, highlighting social dynamics of private disclosure.
Democratic challenger M Gilette and incumbent W D Toles both claim dry stances in Iowa Eleventh District race. Each cites endorsements from the Iowa Anti Saloon League amid prohibition debate. Gilette says wets harmed his reputation while Toles is noted as dry.
Fraternal groups and patriotic bodies including the Boy Scouts of America unite for National Forget-Me-Not Day on November 4. Proceeds fund wounded and disabled veterans programs and rehab efforts. James E. West of New York offers Scout liaison duties to coordinate city committees and officials.
Iowa post Legion commanders and adjutants decide to hold the third annual meeting in Des Moines with date to be announced later. Post Commander Hanford McNider will be one of the speakers.
At Kolmar a gathering on autonomy and neutrality for Alsace Lorraine planned a push before the League of Nations. Delegates from America and other nations were urged to attend with a warning that support may be limited in neutral or Allied nations and opposition arose from agrarian speakers against French administration.
A Eureka meeting will be held Thursday evening November 2 at 7 30. Senator J L Brookhart Representative Co FF Zetts and County Clerk J D Glasgow will speak. All are welcome. committee
The Associated Press report from Panama City says W. James died this morning and his wife Isabelle died yesterday after a bowl of soup was found on a kitchen table. Doctors say ptomaine poisoning caused the deaths and an inquest will be held today.
At Winderer Pennsylvania witnesses including mothers of six told the Hiand Coal Investigating Committee of brutal wage practices. Mrs Harry Beal Seymore described a husband who earned 147.57 a month yet had 47.50 cut and paid via company store deductions. Commissioner Herschfield announced sufficient evidence of hardship gathered.
Henry J Prentiss Jr aged 24 city editor of the Cedar Rapids Republican dies at the University hospital after a fall on October nine. He fractured two vertebrae in the neck and had been named to advance to managing editor. He is survived by his wife Marion Chase and his family.
A patient recounts severe abdominal gas and colic relief after taking Mayr's Wonderful Remedy prescribed after unsuccessful treatment in Philadelphia. The ad claims the remedy clears catarrhal mucus, reduces intestinal inflammation, and treats stomach liver and intestinal ailments including appendicitis with a money back guarantee. Lemmon's Pharmacy advertised the product.
The text outlines a gospel lesson focusing on Jesus healing a paralytic and other cases such as a demoniac, a feverish woman, and a leper. It contrasts divine healing with faith healing, notes the purpose of miracles as authentication of Jesus’ divine mission, and emphasizes bringing others to Jesus.
A fragment quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes on self love, describing a cup without a bottom that could not be filled by pouring great lakes into it, as a metaphor for endless desire.
A short devotional line asks who judges another man’s servant and notes each stands or falls before his own master. The verse from Romans reflects on personal accountability and divine judgment.
A brief devotional line notes that humans are formed from dust and the Lord remembers our frailty, reflecting on mortality and divine awareness.
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