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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1963
Page
3
A list of 47 new charter members announced for the Courtesy Club with eligibility to receive votes as the contest continues. Winners to be announced August 8. Names include Lady Keller, Janet Roberts, Barbara Osborn, and many others across local businesses and organizations. Uniform milk price set at 3.60 per hundredweight with regional differentials and adjustments to butterfat content.
Deeds recorded show Ronald L and Janet C Malret transferring land to Muscatine Savings and Loan Association in section 19 76 2W and large D and Bona M Martin transferring part of lots six and seven in subdivision of outlet 2 in section 36.
Three men led the Muscatine Plumbing and Heating Co with Roo Conkling as president and general manager Harold Troxel as president and treasurer and Fred Othmer as vice president and secretary. The trio purchased the firm.
Mr and Mrs Dick Jayeques and family from Bynumville Missouri arrived Tuesday to stay with Mrs McCormick's parents Mr and Mrs Joe McCormick for several days. The Parekert family hosted a cookout with guests the Dacey ques family. Others visiting included Joe McCormick Ma and Eve cit McCormick Janet Curt Loui Debeyeel and Donal Hessman from Reynalds Alabama Ralph Keller and family. Neal looked part in a Wacwor operating con at the State Fair in Springfield at 10 o'clock. Mr and Mrs Louis Bier and their two children are on a vacation trip.
Proceeds from a Martha Circle dinner on Wednesday totaled 160.83. The group voted to donate 50 toward new Sunday School song books and named a committee to investigate purchasing a newPrecitie stove for the kitchen. (Names and positions of local officials and workers appear in the article.)
The 4H club met Tuesday evening at New Era gym with 3 members and 3 teachers. Steve ToShake presided, fall activities planned, record books due Sept 4, club pictures distributed, demonstrations on Safe and Wise Gag Storage and How to Build a Concrete Feeding Floor given by members. Lunch by Mrs Beck and Mrs Drumm.
Dr Weber and family completed a two week journey through the Eastern states visiting Vermont New Hampshire Cape Cod and Canada before returning via Michigan Mrs L 2 Weber Sr left Wednesday for Vinton to visit her daughter at the Garton home and to meet her new granddaughter Heather Howard the Garton family is the former Ann Weber
Gloria Dei Lutheran and St Pauls Episcopal list services for August 18. Gloria Dei offers family worship with nursery for preschoolers at 10:15 and Sunday school through adults. St Pauls Episcopal presents a 8:15 a m family worship and a choral Eucharist led by Father John W. Kross at Trinity Church Iowa City, with coffee in the undercroft after.
A fragment notes spiny lobsters arriving from Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic before a 1961 volcanic eruption. The entry is from a Muscatine Journal issue dated Friday Sugar 16 1963, with garbled wording around origin and event.
West Liberty hosts senior 4 H demonstrations Monday August 19 at 9 a m CST with boys agricultural and girls home economics displays. Top two teams in each division earn a chance to showcase at the State Fair Friday August 24 and Waterloo Dairy Cadle Congress in September. Trophy prizes announced by Muscatine Journal with engraved weights for second place entries.
The junior and senior girls will demonstrate Monday August 179 with Lois Albrecht and Judy Collier presiding. The day features early rounds of desserts and baked goods from groups including Milky Way and Conventional Cake, judges to include Rosetta Eller and Katha Dotson with Mrs Ron Werling and Emogene Brown as observers.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bayne and three daughters returned Tuesday from a vacation in Detroit Michigan and Canada. They were joined by his mother Mrs. Leroy Bayne who remained in Detroit with her. Mrs. Belle Ross.
SOWARD RILEY discusses why even elite players suffer inexplicable slumps. He argues slumps are largely mental, and not cured by thinking positively, ending only when the slump ends as suddenly as it began.
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