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Newspaper
Mt Pleasant News
Location
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1947
Page
2
Robert Jordan was picked up by the highway patrol on Highway 218 about two miles south of Mt. Pleasant for speeding. He pled guilty before Justice G. A. Hallowell and was fined $2,006 plus costs.
The First Methodist church in Mt Pleasant hosted a formal June 8 wedding for Miss Maisie Taeger daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Taeger New London and Mr James Green son of Mr and Mrs Harry Green Mt Pleasant. Dr George G Hunt officiated the double ring ceremony. The church featured candleabra and garden flower decorations. Organist Mrs Dan Winter played nuptial selections and Miss Julia Koehler sang Through the Years. Stanley Heck Crawfordsville sang The Lord's Prayer. The bride wore a floor length white satin gown with a net yoke and venetian lace. Her veil was an illusion net edged with pleated net. She carried white roses and gardenias. The maid of honor was Miss Bea Butler Morning Sun with bridesmaids Miss Dorothy Shaw Morning Sun and Patty Stutker New London in pastel gowns and matching veils. The bridesmaids carried colonial bouquets. Mary Jo Apple Mr Pleasant and Billy Gordon Burlington were candle lighters. Sheila Gordon Burlington was maid of honor. Lucian Conn Mt Pleasant was best man with ushers Kennell Hark and Bob Loli. The bride's mother wore navy blue.
The couple shared a church ceremony with yellow and white decor. a four tiered cake adorned with yellow carnations complemented a reception in the church basement. Attending relatives and friends from Yarmouth Mt Pleasant Burlington New London Morning Sun Des Moines Cedar Rapids Wayland and other towns joined the celebration.
R A M notes a convocation Thursday evening June 12 at 7 40 for Royal Arch degree with refreshments. Contact H E Vuien for further details.
Juvenile competitors begin crafting Soap Box Derby cars for Mt Pleasant on July 13. Ervin Motors ships official wheel assemblies, Derby specs promise faster safer cars. The tenth anniversary Derby at Barby Downs Akron August 17 attracts more cities, heightening competition and prompting careful methods to extract speed. The kit includes wheels axles steering cable and a guide with build tips.
Des Moines In Standard Oil at Indiana Thursday announced that effective Monday it would advance tank wagon prices of all distillate fuels a half cent per gallon and a heavy residual fuels three tenths of a cent per gallon. The distillates include kerosene heater oil Stanolex furnace oil light Diesel fuels Stanolex Diesel fuel High Speed Diesel fuel and Standard Power fuel for tractors. The increase will apply in Michigan.
Dick Ives, twice All-American and a famed Iowa Hoosier, was named to Parsons College coaching staff as head basketball and baseball mentor. He will also teach physical education, with duties in football and track under a new setup.
The Future Farmer Chapter held a picnic at Grape Park in Burlington on Sunday afternoon June 8. Attendees listed include John Payne Don Mickey Dale Hazen Hazen Stipe Merlin Evans Bill Lachmann Max Strothman Jack Jacobs Jimmie Bales Luther French Carlo Moghie Ed Smith Ben Seartl Johnny Woline John Taglebright Bob Mickey Wendell Kinney Roger Anderson and adviser Mr Everett Clover.
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