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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1922
Page
5
Local correspondents report Sunday visits by Wm Mey of Riverside with J R Mey and family. Fruit and nut displays impressed. 500 pounds shipped to Ottumwa children’s home. Talks by T H McMillan noted. several community events and modest gatherings described. W H M S and Pythian Sisters socials summarized. plans for Des Moines branch convention mentioned.
Grace Hill, Grace Hill, Vet. 14 Mrs. Sirs. Ma ble Engle and Lorel P. Guy were married at Brighton and traveled to Blandinsville to visit an aunt. They will settle on his father's farm near Brighton and friends wish them well. Lester Chorpening broke his right arm, Dr. Hay treated it, and repairs aid at Buxbaum property continue.
Mrs Emma Brim has been on the sick list this week. Visitors include Mrs John Davis of Washington and Mrs R J Armstrong. The Methodist church plans a large oyster supper next Wednesday evening. Several locals visit kin in Des Moines Mt Pleasant and Columbus Junction. Births noted in Idaho and Des Moines. The Thurston family moves to Rockford Illinois for a telephone job.
Oct 14 Crawfordsville reports visitors from Washington and Winfield. Rev J F Barnett and Laura Barnett return from Iowa City. A R Miller of Washington speaks on The Other Side of Main Street at the Methodist church. reception held for the new pastor and family. Frank Taylor of Burlington visits. opening lecture on Oct 27.
Mrs. Glen Romine is ill and cared for by her mother Mrs. Barrett. Chas Green's party at Miles Green's in Keota. Farmers prepare to crib corn next week. Rowe Plecker ship Ohio potatoes at 75 cents a bushel. Will Hradek in Cedar Rapids. Verne Romine moved near his father. Howard Dorrange has a new wagon. Jesse Moffit of Town City visited. Geo. King canvasses farmers and sells packing stock to Muscatine plant.
Rev W C Allen attended the golden wedding of Mr and Mrs John Caven in Morning Sun with about two hundred guests. Mrs W C Allen and son Theodore left Cherokee for Phoenix Arizona for the winter to aid Theodore’s health, as he now can move about.
Wayne Wayne notes include R Miller having his house painted and Mrs Ernest Zickafoose with baby Aletha visiting at the Jesse Neff home in Wayland. Henry Roth shipped a car load of hogs Tuesday morning. Crawfordsville visitors J A Moorhead and Mrs John Adams are guests at C C Moorhead home. Students enjoy a two day vacation while teachers institute is in Mt Pleasant. Oscar Tolander returns from Chicago after bringing a car load of cattle.
Mr and Mrs Howard Leacox and Betty Jean returned home from a Kansas trip with a fine report. W C Hotle and family enjoyed a rock party at the Wess Eagle home. Mr and Mrs Jake Sheets and Mrs Will Sheets visited H A Engle home for dinner. Mrs S W Brookhart and children visited the Brookhart shack gathering nuts in Washington. Mrs Will Palmer and daughter Mrs Fern Davis were callers at H P Deal home. Mr and Mrs W D Augustine were business callers in West Chester. Center school dismissed for chimney work as board prep for a Hero furnace installation.
In Pleasant Hill Oct 14 a number attended the Marion township convention at the Eicher church. Local families and guests visited various neighbors Sunday and Tuesday including the Kephart, Chalupa, Mayhew, Witting, Karpp, and Telford households. A Poland china hog sale occurred in Washington Tuesday afternoon as Mrs Carr and daughter Florence left for Illinois to visit ailing father.
Dayton Grove residents report visits and shoppers across town. Mr and Mrs H L O Loughlin called at the Embree home. Mollie Tinerney and others spent time in West Chester. Washington trips and family visits are noted. corn husking is expected to begin on Monday.
Paul Lepper and his wife stayed at the Frank Snider home and then returned Thursday. Selina Wittmer returned to Washington to work, attending a convention Monday. The Amish Mennonite Bible conference fills the week with large crowds. Mrs Masser of Olds visited relatives Tuesday. Sunday school convention was held with good program despite smaller attendance. Edith Schantz wed Harold Snider at the Christian church parsonage. Rev. Hampton officiated. Paul Lepper broke his arm after falling from a horse while driving cattle at the Frank Snider farm.
A fragmentary quote features Charcoal Eph mocking point and crowd noise as they approach the Pearly Gates in a dialectal line from Richmond Thine Dispateh. The text reads like a rough, stylized folk remark about heaven and crowds at heaven’s gate.
Buffalo bones discovered in a cave in Malheur County Oregon extend the known range farther west than previously recorded by authorities.
A brief quotation contrasts principles with sentiments in forming beliefs. It emphasizes reverence for sentiment rooted in principles while warning against building on sentiments that merely arise from principles. The remark attributes the idea to Jacobi, suggesting caution in philosophical foundations.
The Mississippi river is noted as the longest global river with total length reported as 2S miles. When combined with the Missouri river, forming the lower Mississippi, the total length reaches about 4 382 miles.
In old Norse belief the echo was called the dwarf language, thought to be produced by dwarfs within the mountains mimicking sounds from the outside world they overheard.
Anete Eben remarks that if everyone learned the Ten Commandments by heart the world would need fewer lawyers and more mindful behavior. The Washington Star quotes Eben on moral guidance and its practical impact.
A park concert in a southern city drew a large audience as mocking birds tempered the band music with their own songs. The event featured a canopy bearing the Star and Stripes while a soloist bird captivated listeners.
A London Times writer notes Nara as an enduring center of Japan’s ancient culture. White walls and pine groves frame cherry blossoms, lacquer shows, and the Kasuga shrine with vermilion torii. The area is a living museum of crafts from a thousand years ago.
A playful note describes Mrs Tompkins tree getting a fresh spring look with a new parasol and outfits she makes herself, as reported in hondon Answers.
A classroom pun about dividing a cake into halves and thirds. The teacher asks about eight and thirty seconds, and a small boy quips mince meat, turning the math lesson into a playful joke.
The seventh grade organized the October eleventh literary program. Wayne Weaver read the previous meeting minutes, and a sequence of piano solos and readings followed. Mer ritt McDaniels presented the Pumpkin Centre Hawkeye, with Catharine Hull among the confident performers.
In our home room we enjoyed playing basketball with a soft baseball and a makeshift basket. We also heard pleasant Victrola music and anticipate a good paper this week after a one week delay due to a lack of news.
In arithmetic class Lynn Eldridge asks Miss Rhodes about C and B. Miss Rhodes replies that the only difference is that C is the third letter and B is the second letter.
A collage of jokes from a school and neighborhood scene features a boy misnaming singers Caruso and Higman Friday, a Thomas cat mimicking Caruso, traffic and repair shop quips, courting courtesy, a gun gag with a Newlywed, farm quips on milk sales, a psalm recital anecdote, and classroom missteps from algebra to trousers.
An ad explains "cold in the head" as nasal catarrh and describes Hall's Catarrh Medicine a topical ointment with a blood-acting tonic claimed to prevent colds. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by BF J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, O.
The narrator travels from Washington through West Chester Wellman Oxford and Homestead to Amana. They tour frame and brick homes vine covered exteriors sandy soil large front yard gardens and a town with general stores and a school. They view the woolen mills powered by a canal with twenty five long machines fed by a single operator and observe the three to four story rooms each dedicated to a different process. The Amana community operates ten communal kitchens with a bell system calling all to meals. Esther Conger and Catherine Coulter.
After a brief Wednesday night gathering the Scouts moved to the tourists camp ground for hot dogs and buns. They played bucky bronco where a wild bronco threw Robert Cunningham and nearly injured his pelvis.
Wry notes compare the Russian cavalry to a unit without horses and the seven with no boats. A report mentions Mr Henderson grading test papers. Frances Thomas suffered a minor fall near the telegraph office, fainted after, but returned to school with a bruised elbow after being helped by Mr Austin and her father.
A short query notes that pencil design has not changed for a century and invites ideas for improvements. It highlights a demand for innovation in a long standing writing instrument and encourages discussion of new materials and ergonomics.
A federal and state crop bulletin reports Iowa’s corn at about 96 percent of normal and 441,201,000 bushels forecast, with oats and wheat yields up from last year and apples also rising, while carload shipments to Sept 30 show a strong agricultural movement nationwide.
A simple test to assess flour purity by hand. If a handful squeezed clings together the flour is pure. if it crumbles away it is adulterated with chalk or whiten ing.
A Nashville Tennesseean report notes a family misstep last night as a daughter contemplates concealed disobedience. The anecdote highlights a parent's forgetfulness and a plan to avoid exposure.
A supposed ghost sits on the edge of a bath at a large country house near Hitchin. Reports say the spirit resembles a plunderer who died waiting for his reward, according to The Passing Show in London.
Iron Mountain Michigan resident Mrs A H Garland reports relief from monthly pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and recommends it to friends. Xenia Ohio resident Mrs Mary Dale says years of back and abdomen pain ceased, now regular and well. The ad promotes the medicine for women ailments and urges thorough trial.
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