Willits Family Reunion and Local Society Notes
A Sunday Willits family reunion honored visiting relatives at the Cloud Willits home with a noon dinner for twenty five. The Worth While Girls elected Miss Besse Jones president, Miss Carol Forgey vice president, Miss Amy Edworthy secretary treasurer, and Mrs Charles Hays pianist at last night’s church meeting. Mrs Guet Bramer's birthday was celebrated by the E O W club with a silver cream ladle and a two course lunch. Miss Etta Conner hosted the Fortnightly club’s literature department. talks featured The New Map of Asia and a visit with author Mr. McLaughlin, plus discussion of Old Cap Collier. The marriage of Miss Edith McBride and Mr. George Charles Barnett occurred at St James Church with a breakfast reception, after which the couple left for Cedar Rapids to reside in furnished apartments. Mrs. Barnett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William McBride, has long lived in the county and worked for the Busby company. Mr. Barnett is connected with the Riverside family business.
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Besse Jones
Carol Forgey
Amy Edworthy
Charles Hays
Etta Conner
Fortnidtly Club
Asia
David McLaughlin
Carine
George Dowell
Cobb
Edith McBride
George Charles Barnett
St. James Church
J. Orlowsky
M. J. Hartigan
Katheryn Barnett
Cedar Rapids
Roy Dautremont
Barnett
William, McBride
Havre
Old Washington Academy
Busby Company
Moline
Illinois
Riverside
Joseph Barnett
Mrs. Barnett
Women lag in industrial job competition with men
Federal reports indicate women are losing ground to men in securing industrial jobs. The findings highlight ongoing gender disparities in the labor market and call for policy attention to workforce equity.
Women of Verse for Young People in The Ladies' Home Journal
A Washington County women oriented page notes Bur ton BE Stevenson writing on youth verse. Henry Holt publishes the work in New York City at two dollars. The item references Alice Kazeltine's Stories and Books for Little Folks in The Ladies' Home Journal September 1920.
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Burton BE. Stevenson
Henry Holt
New York City
Alice Kazeltine
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Social calendar events and club meetings listed for Portneuf area
A long schedule of societies meets in Portneuf with dozens of clubs and groups planning gatherings. Descriptions include Home of Mrs A J Dawson, Priscilla club, Fortnightly art department, Queen Esther circle officer elections, West Chester Pythian Sisters, Moose Lodge Women, Kolab club, Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid, West Chester Presbyterian Ladies, Bethel Missionary group, Horay Campfire girls, a reception for Rev Nash, Independent club, Catholic Daughters card party, and a Des Moines Missionary society convention October 6-9 with a banquet and Young Women events in Washington.
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Portniehdly Club
A. J. Dawson
Anna Dawson
Fred Stewart
Priscilla Club
Frank Wilson
Queen Esther
West Chester
Goldie Jackson
Elsie Jackson
Mina Jones
Pleasant Hill
Carolyn McCleery
Horay
KR. Conner
South of Town
Louis Swift
Independent
Catholic Daughters of America
Armory
S. J. Boyd
Washington
G. A. R. Hall
Jilly Dow Program at Methodist Church
The Sunday program lists a Lost Chord Sullivan hymn responsive reading baptism of infants and carols. It includes a graduation for Beginners and a welcome to cradle roll, recitations, duets, and members receive addresses and songs. The text notes this is No 30 in a series on child training from the National Kindergarten Association.
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Joan Keeley
GebaGhooe
Robert Smith
Geo, Jones
National Kindergarten Association
West 40Th Street
New York City
Nation's Beauty Miss Gogman Wins Golden Mermaid
Miss Margaret Gogman of Washington was acclaimed the most beautiful girl in the United States by over two thousand people on Atlantic City’s steel pier. She won the Golden Mermaid, a $5,000 trophy, and also took first prize in the bathers' revue.
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Margaret Gogman
Washington
United States
Atlantic City
Gorman
Women gain bar admission and rise in Europe
The report notes Belgian women now enter the bar while in Scotland women outnumber men by 185000. Over 600000 women and girls join the unemployed workforce. Russian noblewomen work in France. American women study at English universities, notably London University’s economics for postgraduate work. At Deauville a Paris actress reportedly changes outfits many times daily.
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France
London University School
Economics
Education Through Stories For Parental Reading Plans
The article urges parents to dedicate a daily half hour to reading with children, shaping it into an educational activity. It highlights using fables folklore poetry and myths, and suggests librarians can provide suitable juvenile lists and guides. It also notes planning a coherent reading scheme enhances learning with minimal effort.
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C. W. Hunt
Houghton, Miffin Co
Boston
Mass
Horace BE. Scudder
Helping Mothers Solve Their Problems
A letter to the editor extols kindergarten as a dual training site for children and mothers through Mothers Meetings. It urges establishing a local kindergarten if absent and notes the National Kindergarten Association in New York City can provide information and leaflets on request.
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The
National Kindergarten Association
W. 40Th St
New York City
Princess Marie Joe trains in painting talent noted
In Rhode Island four women manage farms while Cuban tobacco experts prepare and ship a special cigar brand for London's fashionable women smokers.
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Rhode Island
London
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington County
Des Moines
Women's Foreign Missionary Society
Methodist Church
Harry Montgomery
Bible Department of Portnightly
Leslie Mountford
Jilly Dow
Methodist
A Sullivan
Klein Klothing Kompany
Iowa
Belgium
Scotland
Deauville
Poliniere
Frances Angevine Gray
Marie Joe
Aditorials
Phoenix Mills
PHAT
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