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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 21, 1922

Page

6

Local Notes From Washington Iowa and Nearby Visits

Local brief mentions Mrs Will Harwood and daughter Mary Louise visit Burling ton. Mr Harwood to Burlington tomorrow. Mrs Ella Leair and son Ivan return home to Knoxville after ten weeks helping at Phillip Musgrove home. Mrs Acheson and Arthur head to West Allis Wisconsin then Weehawken for weekend visit. Edith Boileau’s name omitted from Christian church box social program. Washington Cleaners promotes service with bright clean results.

Will Harwood Mary Louise Burlington Mr. Harwood Ella Leair Ivan Knoxville Leair Phillip Musgrove Christian Church Box Social Edith Boileau Edith

Mrs Martin Swift Visits Muscatine This Week

Mrs Martin Swift travels to Muscatine to spend a few days with her son Richard and his wife. Several local residents appear in brief notes including health updates and visits to relatives and friends in nearby towns.

Martin Swift Muscatine Richard

Mrs King Visits Muscatine While Rohrer Attends Washington Burlington Game

Florence Rohrer traveled to Burlington to visit friends and watch the Washington Burlington game. Mrs C G King went to Muscatine to visit her mother Mrs L M Rippey for the day.

Florence Rohrer Burlington C. G. King Muscatine

Porter and Deatheridge Visit Richmond Friends in Kentucky

Richmond Kentucky residents Mr Cairo Porter and Mrs Delphia Deatheridge arrive for a visit with John Mundy. Nell Warnock of Blairatown Iowa spends the weekend with her mother Mrs Charles Cutwright. Dean's advertises Sunday six o clock dinners featuring fried chicken roast pork and veal with dressing and 1016 Angel food cake with hot chocolate.

Cairo Porter Delphia Deatheridge Richmond Kentucky John Mundy Nell Warnock Blairatown Iowa Charles Cutwright Dean's

Junior High Pep Talk Highlights Student Orations

In English class on Wednesday afternoon, students delivered oral topics after Miss Vincent had them outline their subjects. Dunham Morrison’s talk on My Stamp Collection drew special praise, with many other engaging talks noted by the class and teachers.

Florence Brookhart China Florence Clarence White Bacon Chester Howard Margarita Forman Mexico Jones

Girls Basketball Tryout Highlights Promise for Season

Last Thursday night showcased a promising start as a basketball tryout revealed several hopeful players. Florence Brookhart and Estelle Davidson lead the early lineup with guards and forwards in mixed positions as more players are expected to join at the next session.

Florence Brookhart Estelle Davidson Gertrude Hammers Nita Corbin Catherine Hall Nona Ous Peace Guard Adaehinecaad Leta Donaldson Gertrude Bates Frances Thomas Aletha Waseen Urnee Rena Okie Es

Milk science and Pasteur history in a classroom tale

A school set covers slides on MILK and the Pasteur story. It contrasts pasture with Pasteur and notes the challenge of showing the world how to pasteurize milk. The class also mentions a distillery project and turning red ink into drinking water as part of experiments.

Pasteur

A Call to W C T U to Fight Tobacco Like Whiskey

A letter urges W C T U sisters to mobilize against tobacco as they did against whiskey. The writer recalls a school verse on tobacco, cites a man who quit to protect his teens, and notes a family taking the total abstinence pledge.

Pooty dam col quote prompts junior high challenge

A reminiscence recalls Betty Hollingsworth urging a playful challenge to a Connecticut junior high. The speaker imagines a football game as a humorous, hypothetical contest.

Betty Hollingsworth Connecticut

Scout Meeting Activities After Games

After the regular meeting on Wednesday, nine games were played. Lynn Eldridge, Clifford Baker and Delbert Badham completed their tenderfoot tests. LeRoy Pratt has one knot to tie. Kenneth Haney is finished except the knots. A large number of second class scouts await the Rotary club badge ceremony. A hot ball game featured a spanking machine and drill with sharp salutes.

Lynn Eldridge Clifford Baker Delbert Badham LeRoy Pratt Kenneth Haney Rotary Club

A Hundred Years Ago a Hunt Turns to Modern Times

A nostalgic verse notes a shift from a hunter tracking a deer to a distant era where a woman with makeup pursues a man. The poem contrasts past wilderness with present urban or social change in a single reflective scene.

South End Defeats North End in Junior High Football

Junior High football game Saturday at the Athletic Field ended 25 to 12 with South End victorious. Pete Boileau and Dick Powers led teams. Norman Sage and LeRoy Pratt ran the program. The event featured a musical program, Beulah Phillips and Laura Graham arranging next week’s reading and music.

Pete Boileau Dick Powers Norman Sage LeRoy Pratt Beulah Phillips Laura Graham Catherine Coulter Hilda Brown Marjorie Moberly

Old Time Yale Man Returns to Keokuk

Cortes Maxwell former Yale hurdle record holder returns to Keokuk Iowa with the Iowa Yale football squad. He visits Yale hall of fame where a life size picture and two bronze tablets honor his record. He also finds the preserved section of the old campus fence bearing his carved initials from forty seven years earlier.

Associated P'ress Keokuk Cortes Maxwell Yale New Haven Maxwell Mr. Maxwell Lowa

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