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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1919
Page
6
The sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be dispensed on Sabbath with preparatory services Friday at 7 30 p m and Saturday at 2 00 p m. Sabbath morning services at 10 30 and evening at 7 30. Sabbath school at 10 00. Young People's Society at 6 30. W Robb pastor.
The Sunday school holds services at 9 30 a m and 11 a m with a full program including preludes by Howard Battmann Rockwell and local organists, children and adult choirs, solos, recitations, and an anthem. Epworth League meets at 6 45 p m with a talk on Christianity and health. The evening service features a diverse musical lineup and a sermon by Rev J A Glendinning.
The jolly musical spectacle My Sammy Girl comes to Graham Theatre on Thursday October 16 featuring original musical numbers and a comedy element. Kilroy and Britton stage a large company of players and a lively group of show girls to color the performances.
The female duckbill lays two to three eggs about three quarters of an inch long enclosed in strong, flexible, white bills. The young are suckled by the mother. Duckbills have been kept in the zoological gardens at Melbourne but efforts to transport them alive to Europe and America have failed.
Riverside defeated Brighton 9 to 1 in a matchup at Riverside. Kutina pitched poorly with weak support from Brighton, while Riverside hitters led the scoring and Whitehill held Brighton to a few hits. A fair crowd observed the game with many Brighton and Washington supporters in attendance.
Public notice invites members to join a weekly Friday Bible study on the life of Christ led by Prof. Vartanian at 2nd United Presbyterian Church, beginning with Matthew's gospel, with a call for additional attendees. Ward boys assigned to accompany Secretary Huxford on a trip are to meet at his home at 4 p.m. and bring everything but the weiners, to be supplied by a committee.
The town reports brisk sales of overcoats and coal, with moth ball scent in the air as winter settles in. Thermometers show 9 degrees in the afternoon and 40 in the morning, a sharp fall toward freezing. Winds shift NW threatening snow with 44 degrees by early afternoon and colder night ahead.
Mrs. Eva Livingston learned of the death of missionary William Colby in China. He was married to Louise Stotts, a Washington acquaintance, and formerly of San Francisco. They wed about a year and a half ago in China. Colby died August 6 from overwork. His wife will live with her missionary parents in Chikongshan near Pekin.
A tip on sharpening a lead pencil with a knife. Place a paper slip as a guard to keep lead dust from touching fingers.
A Birmingham Age-Herald quip shows a superior asking for a book of synonyms. The clerk claims thousands of volumes but laments no offerable Synonym’s works, prompting a brief, humorous exchange about matching exacting tastes.
The term foxglove is described as a corruption of folds glove or fairy glove in etymology notes. The note links the plant name to folklore and linguistic shifts over time.
The second session of the Community Bible class at Second United Presbyterian Church will be held this Friday evening. Prof. Vartanian of Parsons College leads the study on the Life of Christ from the Gospel according to Matthew. Fifty members have enrolled. more are welcomed from all denominations.
A historical maxim stresses honesty as the core prerequisite for public and private safety, warning that wisdom and safety come only to those who sustain integrity in all actions. The quote from Sir Walter Raleigh underscores the enduring value of truthfulness.
A vivid Civil War vignette recalls General Jin Stedman urging a retreating brigade to turn and hold a vital point at Chickamauga. An officer answers they have done all they can, to which Stedman retorts that they have not yet died, capturing wartime bravado.
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