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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 29, 1925

Page

6

Local society notes feature Halloween events and club gatherings

Mrs Melo Kallous hosted the Independent club with a two course luncheon and Halloween decor. Priscilla club guests included Mrs Fred Stewart hosting and reading. Grace Hil Ladies Aid planned an November 13 bazaar and chicken pie supper. Myrtle Morrow held a seventh grade Halloween party at the Junior High. Numerous notices list upcoming meetings, elections, and social events across local groups and churches through late October and early November.

Navajo Club Fred Stewart Priscilla Club William Stewart D. J Patterson Will Fldridge Charles Speer H. W. Russell Grace Hil Ladies Aid Society

Halloween and club notices fill local schedule pages

The column lists a food sale by the W Ros lodge in the Grover Yooms on Saturday October 31 and a called initiation meeting for JPP RB on Thursday evening at Mrs C W Stewart’s home. Rebekah lodge seeks tea towels for a Friday event and hosts a Halloween social with pumpkin pies. Harmony Club plans a masked weinie roast at Malcolm Montgomery’s Friday night October 30. Epworth League hosts a Halloween social in the church basement not masquerade style. Methodist Choir rehearsal Thursday at 7 30 with 150 percent attendance expected next Sunday. Womans Missionary Society meets Friday at 2 30 with Mrs Cavendar. Walnut Womans Club Halloween party at Mrs Ralph Chorpening’s Saturday October 31.

C. W. Stewart Harmony Club Malcolm Montgomery Epworth League Hallowe'en Womans Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church Julia Cavendar South Iowa Bunce Walnut Womans Ralph Chorpening

Street Market for Stage Folk Serves Theatres of World

New York reports a bustling scene around Broadway and Forty-sixth as actors, agents, and stage hands gather at appointed rendezvous. The system ties mail, photos, and introductions to jobs across the city and beyond, with many waiting at designated spots for chances to work.

Stace Folk Theatres of World New York Poles Driten Howe Eich Heatres Eaxtes

Farm Bureau Fights Estate Tax Repeal

The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation opposes repealing the federal inheritance tax and urges members to lobby Congress in December. The executive committee warns state legislative action would create unfair regional differences and argues the tax should remain a federal measure.

Bbe Mresay Des Moines Iowa ‘Farm Bureau Federation Congress Federation United States

Iowa City Sets Record Low In October Cold Spell

Record cold swept Iowa City as October temperatures plunged to five above zero, shattering previous October low marks and spanning across the night with unusually frigid air for early autumn.

Iowa

Florida described as a sunny land of fruit and fools

An essay narrator pokes fun at Florida calling it a chin whisker of the United States and mocks its geography and demography. It lists fruits like oranges grapefruit and tangerines as Florida’s chief produce while joking about tourists tin canners and hotels. An offbeat line about an inmate named Orville Pullis ends the fragment.

Florida United States Everglades California

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