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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1922
Page
7
Rural Route Three news item lists visits by Mr and Mrs O Nate Benson and others to Oskaloosa Sigourney and Kalona. It mentions bronchitis for Mrs Bare, a telephone line rebuild project, a W R C meeting, a Halloween party and a local death in Washington.
Mrs J F Buxbaum and numerous others from Presbyterian and Methodist Sabbath schools attended the County Sunday School convention at the Eicher church reporting a splendid meeting. The gathering included families and individuals such as Edwin Chrissinger May Orris Dot Orris and Grace Cunningham among many others from Crawfordsville.
At the Tuesday meeting of bank directors H. W. Van Horn was chosen as cashier to replace S. A. Stephens with Miss Alice Pearson as assistant. The item notes a Rock Island celebration in Washington, a high school radio phone purchase, visits by Mrs. Ellen McCreedy and her daughter Effie to Clinton, and new homes rising in Oak Park including the R. C. McKeinnan house designed by Wilson Welliver and the replacement for S. A. Stephens’s house.
William G. Haskell announced the American Relief Administration in Russia will halve its personnel by October 1, with 200 Americans returning from famine areas. Major Philip H. Carrol has left London for the United States, followed by his wife and two children. J. J. Somerville, a YMCA worker in Riga, departs, with Latvian officials bidding farewell at the station.
A fragment discusses flawed philosophy and the futility of universal claims. It critiques Wat tie remedies for inequality and questions returning to savage states. The text attributed to Shetly notes misunderstandings in the study of philosophy history.
The piece notes the ring finger’s protection by others, offering it immunity from injury. It then recounts an ancient Chinese superstition that eating peaches grants longevity and a tale of a girl who gave a peach seed to a sailor lover. The seed supposedly grew into the first peach tree in the United States.
Cooperation drives progress and enterprise fuels business growth. The principle of teamwork is presented as essential to national prosperity and continuous movement, noting power applied to a wheel as a metaphor for sustained effort.
The Ukraine faces low 1922 grain production and widespread poverty with relief needed. Officials report scarce bread in the south, ample north crops, and plans to move 4,000,000 poods of grain south while beet sugar output rises. Potatoes look steady and 1923 may bring near normal planting.
In November 1922 in Washington County Iowa the district court hears a petition filed by Thomas and Joseph Shebeck against multiple defendants including Anna Dutler Libbie Ramsey Frank Shebeck Emma Shebeck Louise Springman and others with claims to described real estate in section 8 township 75 north range 7 west. The notice is served to all named defendants and unknown claimants stating there is a petition on file in the clerk of district court.
Fragments resembling palm leaves and petrified tree segments were uncovered along a Leyden street area and near a mined exeenon tree stem, with additional similar finds reported around Ploassaiant Colorado and Drenys.
Richard Castle, son of the Pett Telephone Colony cashier, has just returned from Seattle where his aunt Helen has lived since her injury years ago. He recalls the baby and mentions Aunt Helen in a brief family note from Wichita.
Emma Shebeck Louies Spring man Catherine Eichterjoin Shebeck Eva Smith and Stanley Ramsey are children and grandchildren of Catherine Shebeck deceased. They own undivided shares of property, sale necessary due to indivisibility, unknown claimants barred from title, district court term set to begin November 13 1922, Bailey Baldridge attorneys.
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