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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1923
Page
5
Neighboring town notes describe a push for paved highways as heavy mud and frost hinder travel. Local obituaries recall a brother's passing with memories of family, friends, and a Grinnell pianist. Community events include school performances and a debate on railroad control.
Miss Bucher and pupils prepare a Halloween program at the school house on Friday evening October 26 with a candy social to follow. Proceeds aid the school. Ladies Aid met October 10 with Emma Augustine, 18 members, five visitors, and 10 children present.
Grace Hill report notes Mr. and Mrs. James Chorpening and family visiting Ralph Chorpening. H. A. Engel and son Eugene dined with Mrs. Clara Enerel for her birthday. Ruth Flots Springer welcomed by grandparents. Beltel's foot injury lingers. Mrs. Porter in Washington with Mrs. W. J. Taylor. Rain reduces local happenings.
Prof L E Anderson and Daryl Dayton drive to Racine Wisconsin to visit Anderson's mother who heads to Memphis for winter. They expect a round trip of 316 miles each day. They traveled Grinnell to Washington in five hours and claim California mileage was easier. Local corn news and a school football trip to Keola are mentioned along with a Washington lecture attendance by Dusenberry and Em.
J T King visited Washington yesterday. Misa Grace Lease of Brighton teaches there and is in town for the weekend. Leo Mak Elwyn Davidson traveled to Iowa City yesterday. Dr and Mrs Farrel Huston of Burlington are visiting relatives. The Brightonian literary society program last night featured Music Orchestra Reading Gretta Hinton piano duet Doris Fletcher and Alice White Paper National parks Eugene.
Mrs A Alcorn of Muskogee Oklahoma visits Riverside with Chas Cummings to care for property. Robert Tobin shells corn this week. Miss Helen Masty from Iowa University visits Wes Prehoda's. Pete Gerot returns from Chicago with 41 head cattle. Bank meeting at St Mary’s hall despite weather. Frank Lear surprise party with Lorack orchestra. Grandpa Malichky visiting relatives. Flynn brothers lead in Tom Thumb wedding at Riverside Methodist church. Ray Canning’s chicken house progresses. Mrs Louis Douglas and baby Ruby Maxine of Iowa City visiting Carl Craig and relatives.
Mrs Ora Anderson and daughter Marie from San Francisco visit her parents as Mr and Mrs Gowey plan Ames travel. Dr and Mrs G W Taylor return from Colorado visiting relatives in San Luis Valley and Denver. Mrs Roy Kime and baby visit John Zelinsky home in New Sharon. Mrs Clella Spohn and seven children arrive from Wisconsin planning to live here. Mrs G P Messer and Mrs Yates Knerr visit A A Knerr in Fairfield. Eliza Whisler visits Iowa City. R N Reedy leaves for Piqua Ohio for a new motor hearse. Imogene Shy of Winfield ill at Roy Edwards home in Brighton.
Mrs. Seeley was taken to Washington hospital this week and Mrs. Ethel Singleton of Richland visited her mother Mrs. Dave Irwin. The church W M S held a called meeting at Mrs. E. H. Faris home to elect officers and delegates for the Des Moines branch meeting. Next year’s officers are President Mrs. J. F. Frain, Vice President Mrs. L. E. Helmick, Secretary Mrs. Cora Day, Treasurer Mrs. C. V. Robison. Delegates are Mrs. Faris and Mrs. Frain with alternates Mrs. H. W. Helnick and Mrs. L. E. Helmick.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Springer welcome an eight pound girl named Ruth Elouise. Mrs Della Neal tends the newborn at the Springer home as Merle Statler and others visit and mois weather delays the Ladies Social Union this week.
Sir Williams MaccEwen described a case to the Royal Society of Medicine in which a boy with a completely missing humerus had six bone wedges from three donors implanted into his arm. The grafts grew, the arm recovered enough for the boy to fight another boy and break the arm, showing remarkable repair despite initial dismissal by his mother as useless.
Goethe began Faust and worked on it for nearly five decades with repeated revisions and rearrangements. The final portion was printed just before his death in 1832, marking the completion of the work after a long, uninterrupted period of literary effort.
Nature Magazine notes barn swallows fasten mud nests under barn eaves or on cliff faces while cave swallows build on cliff faces and near holes in rocks. Tree swallows use hollow trees, rock cavities, or bird boxes for nesting.
Red winged blackbird nests amid swampy bushes feeding on insects and weed seeds. Goldfinch, a sociable bird, eats various seeds.
A colonial era note compares training monkeys for tasks from coconut harvesting in plantations to historical uses in China Abyssinia and Cape Colony. It mentions a baboon trained as a signalman at Altenhage station to operate switches.
Northern Baptists plan a two month missionary movement with thirty five city conferences in October and November. The effort aims to register thousands wearing blue and white buttons signaling participation and to spur evangelism across the United States and world. Leaders cite wars famines and revolutions as signs for renewed spiritual focus and designate Rev. W H Bowler as national leader directing thirty five conference secretaries.
The English inventor Jethro Tull created his horse hoe in 1692 to loosen soil weed grass and cover plants while a team of two horses replaced the work of twelve laborers. Around the same period a Spaniard named Lesecoteilo reportedly devised the first grain sowing machine.
ABE MARTIN argues that building a good name should start after school and be pursued earnestly. A strong name aids heart matters, business, society, politics, and even raids, often surpassing money, clothes, or lawyers, and remains a priceless asset across communities and generations.
A Creighton Missouri resident told the editor he would choose a clear conscience over a million dollars, though he admits he has neither. The remark reflects local humor and economic realities in the town.
A brief reminiscence notes that old newspaper pages gain interest from their nostalgic value and compares timeless songs to a recent hit that can feel weary after months. It reflects on how past and present pop tunes contrast in lasting appeal.
A Boston Transcript quip argues that calling someone a lady in every sense would imply a peculiar composite image including a rooting slate measuring 16 by 12 and a calcareous stomach organ of a lobster. The piece satirizes the phrase as an odd ideal.
A woman’s private story unfolds as a curious caller asks about a portrait on her library desk. She explains the image is of her late husband’s brother, a man dear to them both, honoring a life linked to the first marriage and later to another partner.
A portrayal of a man described as the most dangerous when his courage equals recklessness. The statement links fearlessness with foolishness as a dangerous combination.
A fragment from a peculiar piece notes a pilot in a daily life scene, describing a state journey and the moment he realizes possession without clear purpose. The text hints at satire on power and routine in a provincial setting.
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