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FOX, IOWA, MONDAY KYKNTNO, (MTOBKR 12, 10511NT M BEK *204Fire Destroys Farm Home HereMerle Albright Family Occupied Booth Tenant HouseThe Merle Albright family was left homeless Sunday afternoon when their home on the Earl Booth farm was completely destroyed by fire.The Farm Mutual fire truck from Washington w as called to the scene but neighbors helping battle the ! blaze were unable to save any of the family's possessions from the i fire which burned the house to the ground.Mr. and Mrs. Albright and their four children were not injured in 1 the fire but were able to get out of their burning home. “ . . . with only what they had on their backs, according to Mrs Earl Booth.Mr Albright is employed on the Earl Booth farm, about eight miles northwest of Washington, and he and his family had been living in I the tenant home on that farm.Mrs. Booth related that the Albright family will live in the Booth home for several days until they are able to fix up and move into another tenant home locaton on the Booth farm.According to Mr Albright, a fire was somehow started in a coal shed on the west side of his family's home about four o'clock Sunday afternoon and the strong wind blew the fire onto the Albright home which burned to the ground before anything could be saved.Two Are Candidates For Park CommissionChest Drive Starts This Morning In Business DistrictTwo Escape Injury In Accident Near Kalonapi) — and the conven-annual ierence it took ? racialThe first phase of Washington’sannual Community Chest fund campaign got underway this morning as workers who will do the soliciting in the business district attended a kick-off breakfast in the Washington YMCA.Volunteer workers will not start tiie Chest drive in residential areas until next week.This morning's breakfast meet-• ing was in charge of Robert Everetts and Ralph Martin, co-chair-men of the business district solicitations this year The tw-o men briefed their workers on procedures to be used in I the annual drive and stressed some 1 important changes in the local Community Chest this year They pointed out that this is the first time the Red Cross has joined in the Chest and urged that every worker make it a point to emphasize this to donors The two chairmen also pointed out that the Community Chest, like everything else, has felt the trend of rising costs and asked workers to urge contributors to consider this when they decide on the size of their gift Everett Meeker, chairman of the Community Chest fund campaign this fall, also attended the breakfast meeting and spoke briefly to the men who will call on business men in the next few days.Workers who received their cam-Two Crawfordsville youths es caped injury when the car in which they were riding turned over on the highway south of Kalona late j Saturday afternoon.Local sheriff's officials who in vestigatcd the accident related that a car driven by Larry Allen Milli-man of Crawfordsville rolled over after it had passed another ear which had stopped on the highway just past the bridg^ about one mile south of Kalona at 4:50 Saturday afternooni Both Milliman. who was driving the car, and Shari Kay IJamil, a passenger in the car, escaped in-1 jury but damage to the 1955 model car was estimated at $500.Sheriff's officers stated a pick up truck had signaled to turn right and was turning very slowly and a second car behind the pick-up had come to a stop when the Milli-man car came up from behind Milliman related he could not slop in time and had pulled out and passed the tw*o vehicles.He apparently turned back in ' too quickly and the car rolled over I Neither of the other two vehicles were bothered in the accident.S. J. Boyd, 87,Dies This Morningnnion mntoriulv this mnrnino in.S. J. Boyd, 87, died today at his home. 709 West Main Street. He had been failing in health for thelast yearGRACING PARIS—Princess Grace of Monaco, the former you know who, holds daughter Princess Caroline and gives the camera a smile on arrival in Paris. She also brought her son. Prince Albert. Prince Rainier was arriving later.SPEAKS IN IOWA —Humphrey Blasts
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Washington Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa, US
Mon, Oct 12, 1959
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