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THE FRONT ROW* By ElizabethLOIS HARTUNK says, yes generation warning a lot in these puzzling times.But she wishes she could hear them worrying more about the lippies.* * ♦ +N ALTOONA. Mrs. Holier ITownsend snvs she wasn't ■named for the hat tic. because she doesn’t spell her first name. Shiln. with a final h”.Mrs. Townsend got her pretty name in a drawing.At the time of her birth her father, Harvey Hales, a retired Dos Moines printer, was working in a print shop in Grinned:-- —.......There he set, printed and posted the sign:NAMEMYCHILDEverybody working in the shop dropped an unusual name into a box that sat be* side the sign.Then Mr. Hales pulled outMrs. Townsend’s name —Shifo.She has no idea which person in the shop wrote down the name for her, nor where he had heard U before.♦ • ♦ ♦AS IT HAS been for several years, Indian fried bread was a hit at the Old Settlers and Threshers reunion in Mount Pleasant last week.Once again Mrs. Harvey Laslcy of the Mesquakie Settlement at Tania made the dough cakes and cooked them over an open fire in a big black kettleful of fat.The fritter-like piecesFront Row appears five times wClarkson Zwnrt(ft. you hear the more responsible about the hippies and the Yippiessizzled like French fries until they became the same goldenbrown,As they always do. old settlers ami visitors stood in line for what used to be called Squaw bread; served forth onpaper napkins for the customers to dash with salt.* * ♦ -■* rIII IK IOWA Department._of JL Public Safety quotes Robert Leber of Charles City, deputy stale fire marshall, on the questions most frequently Jisked_ in the department's booth during the 19(38 Jowa State Fair:11.1 Where are the restrooms?(2.1 Where do the Mountiescome from?■ lt;-(3.1 I've Inst my contacts. Will anybody siep on them?(4.) When Is the next movie?(5.) What is it about?(6.) Does the fire dog go to fires?(7.) Is it hot enough foryou?(8.) Wliat time is it?(9.) What are you givingaway?♦ ¥ ♦ *Three - yeah - old nlt;mHandley of Jefferson calls the supers tide at Des Moines’ Eastgate Shopping C enter “fun hill”.♦ * ♦ *MAY WE Present: William G. Downs of Sioux City keeps an eye out for fittin’ names. And now he comes up with one belonging to a Woodbury county farmer who lias posted this sign in his yard on Highway 20, says Mr. Dows:John MoosDairy Cattleekly In The l)cs Moines Tribune
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Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Sun, Sep 08, 1968
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