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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1929
Page
6
Nearly fifty attended the Pythian Sisters benefit card party amid rain with eight bridge tables and two for five hundred. Prizes went to Mrs. Roy Mallory and L. A. Jones for bridge and Mrs. Frank Mayhew and Ed Fox for five hundred. $8.20 cleared.
Readers: West Chester Methodist women hold annual chicken pie supper and bazaar in church basement on Tuesday evening November 5 with serving at 5 o clock. Susan Coffey Auxiliary meets November 1 at 2 30 with Mrs. Lou Bauer. U and I club gathers Friday at two. Living Lake School district delays opening due to weather. Weave jaskets and make trays class Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Claud Rhodebeck. Washington country club hosts luncheon bridge and thimble bee on Wednesday November 6.
Regular Rebekah meeting set for Friday evening at 7 30. Attendees asked to bring frail to send to home at Mason City. The Rebekah bake sale planned for Saturday has been postponed indefinitely.
Dutch Market at Baptist church Thursday night November 7 with supper at 5 o clock all invited. Regular Presbyterian Choir Rehearsal Friday at 7 15 p m. Fortnightly Members A lunch honoring Mrs Pennybacker at Green Mill cafe Tuesday at 1 p m 50 cents per plate. Reservations to Mrs J D Sexton by Saturday night. Class with Rev Eastwood s supper pot luck Monday 6 30 at Charles Williams 301 East Jefferson St bring silver sandwiches and a dish to pass. Woman s Missionary Society U P Church pot luck luncheon Friday 1 o clock November 1 leader Mrs D C Fulton. Box supper Albaugh school house postponed to November 6 Blanche Genkins teacher. Cottage prayer meeting at Mr Sand bloom s home Washington street Friday 7 30 all welcome. D A business meeting Friday 8 p m. Woman s Home Missionary Society Methodist Church fruit for Des Moines barrel please leave at Barclay s grocery or church by Saturday this week.
In Des Moines Iowa on October 31 a report from the UPI bureau notes a prominent man named "Y" backs ongoing sex education programs amid debate and policy discussions.
For over 50 years Foley's Honey and Tar Compound has been a safe dependable cough remedy for all ages. It soothes irritated throats loosens phlegm and stops coughing without opiates. Suitable for elderly people and mildly laxative children like it. Sold everywhere.
George Webber, executive secretary of the Y M C A, told delegates at a congress of parents and teachers yesterday that modern youth accept wives working after marriage and that marriage age has dropped in the past five years. He cited a survey showing rising marriage among recent high school graduates.
Toronto reports voters gave Premier G. Howard Ferguson's government a strong majority in the 18th general legislative election, reaffirming faith in the administration and the liquor control act.
October notes show John Robertson visiting Brigh ton with Mrs. Walter Wolfe and Cleo visiting Glenn Little. Amana society trips include Mrs. Murray and son J C Murray visiting. H T Carris and James Lemley attended a White Shrine meeting in Davenport and stayed with Vivian Lemley in Moline. Grandmother Bowen and Grandma Baker plus Martha Johnson joined Carlton Bowen’s Sunday gathering.
Curtis Snyder and Glenn Little sold hogs Saturday. Howard Snyder did the trucking. Mrs. Frank Genemenn of St Louis and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Churchill of Kansas City visited Glenn Little's Tuesday night and Wednesday last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Carris visited the Joe Schlatter home near Crawfordsville Friday, Mrs. M. C. Murray returned to Shellsburg after weeks with her daughter Mrs. B. R. Senft. The Matt Wehr and Jake Schmitt families visited Ottumwa to see Anna and Marie Schmitt at St Joseph's Academy. H. T. Carris family visited Glenn Stanard's near Brighton Sunday. John Robertsons helped Royal Robertson celebrate his birthday Saturday. Winifred Carris and Hazel Little visited Keota Saturday. Mrs. Winnie Palmer county superintendent visited Hard Scrabble school one day last week. The Glenn Little family and relatives dined at six o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Little. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sparks and children spent Sunday at A. D. Moody's. Virginia and Wilma Jean Snyder missed school Thursday. Mrs. Curtis Snyder and Lola May attended an all day Wellston club meeting at the home. Jim Pulvers spent Sunday afternoon at the Ike Pulver home.
First Christian bishop Priscillian of Avila Spain was burned alive at Treves for sorcery and heresy. He founded a sect blending Manichaean and Gnostic ideas, which spread in Spain before being absorbed by the Cathars after the sixth century.
Out of great quantities of fish waste and scrap, an industry develops. Countries now use this waste to make fish meal and fertilizer. The United States leads production, followed by Norway, Japan, and Great Britain.
A death notice thanks friends and neighbors for help with flowers sympathy and support during the loss of R. R. McKee. Signed by Mrs. R. R. McKee and by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hagie and family.
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