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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1961
Page
3
The Muscatine public schools present a Christmas concert at 7 30 tonight in the Muscatine High School auditorium. An all city band and the Central and West junior high bands join the senior high School musicians. Students admitted free. adults pay 50 cents.
Oakland Township schedules a December 14 Farm Bureau pot luck at the Oakland Community Building with entertainment by the Forbes, Yocum, and Brown families. The Double Eight Club plans a December 29 gift exchange at Mrs. Russell Adams’s home. The Conesville Women’s Society of Christian Service meets December 20 at 2 pm hosted by Mrs. Winifred Brown and Mrs. Edith Baker.
The Muscatine Business and Professional Women will meet on Wednesday December 13 at 6 30 p m at the Hotel Muscatine. The program features the Notables Quartet from the Elks Chanters and a Christmas feature by Keith Larson. Members should reserve dinner by calling the library by Tuesday noon. The regular board meeting is set for 3 25 p m Monday at the Civic Center.
Miriam Rebekah lodge No. 27 held its regular meeting Friday evening with 31 members present. Officers elected include Betty Thompson noble grand Jessie Davis vice noble grand Betty Jones recording secretary Eva Chelf financial secretary Amy Predmore treasurer Lydia Weeks trustee for three years Darlene Gray drill captain. Applications for new memberships were read. Christmas gifts were to be exchanged by Betty Thompson and Lois Weggen. A donation was made to the Mason City home. Next meeting is December 22 with a gift exchange and Christmas party.
The High Prairie Methodist Church WSCS gathered Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Harold Van Zandt and others serving on the dessert committee. Rev Stephen Root announced CROP collections for Saturday Dec 16 and January 4 is set for the next meeting with a Christmas program on December 18.
Attendees at the dinner are asked to bring a gift to be used as prizes during the social time after the meal. The event emphasizes shared participation and a communal spirit.
Wilton Methodist WSCS held a Christmas dinner and party for about twenty members at the church on Thursday evening December 7. Mrs Ren Meisinger, Mrs Lyle Johnson, Mrs Paul Drumm, and Mrs Lyle Marcus led the committee. After dinner, Mrs Perry Taylor Jr led devotions. A short business meeting followed, with games and social hour guided by the committee.
The MEC Club met at Mrs Harold Grunder's Wilton home on Wednesday evening December 6 with co host Mrs Alvin Jipp. Members shared Christmas customs and heard a meditation on The Municipal Christmas Tree. Plans were made for a lesson Let’s Get the Christmas Spirit. Centerpieces and decorations were shown and guests included Eleanor Haskins Leo Maurer and others. The next meeting will be January 3 1962 at Mrs J E B Walton's home.
Pythian Sisters held a Wednesday evening meeting at the West Liberty P hall to elect officers for the coming year. Elected officers include Vaughn Sanders as chief and Al Jarvis as junior, Violet Passmore as manager, Clark Wolf as treasurer, Dorothy Chell as secretary, Mae Hogan as protector, Maureen McGown as guard, Robert Brayton as captain of degree staff, John Rehrbehn as reporter, Ralph Wolf as installing officer, Esie Bullum as past chief, John Rehbebn as trustee for three years, and Pauline Misel as trustee for two years. Reports followed, with thanks for icull plates delivered to sivutins. Next meeting set for December 20, with lunch committee Mrs. Ted Brown and Mrs. Ray Gehrke.
West Liberty high school students present their annual Christmas concert in the high school auditorium on December 13. Mixed chorus boys and girls glee clubs West Liberty singers and eighth grade chorus perform with an organ music program preceding the concert. Vocal music director Mrs Lorena Martin leads the group as features depict the Nativity during several numbers.
The Lincoln school PTA will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday at the school. Harold Ogilvie will present a program on industrial development. Refreshments will be served by the fourth grade mothers.
Multiple families are listed as new residents in Muscatine. Joseph and Mary Cunningham of 407 Roscoe bring four children and seven grandchildren. Mr. Cunningham works as a forge maker at Home-O-Nize Co and pursues hunting woodworking and photography. Other arrivals include the Carpenter family from Brookfield Illinois at 1914 Sterneman Blvd and Roy Auffrey and family relocating from Carroll, Virginia to Trinity Episcopal church duties. Alvin Marble and family relocate from the Quad-Cities. Powers family moves from West Branch with Powers employed at XSca tine Buick.
Members of Grace Lutheran Church Chapter I are asked to call the church office by Monday to reserve spots for a Christmas party on December 14 at 6 p.m. at the Elks lodge. A Cardinal Christmas program and a De Molay Mothers Circle meeting at the Masonic Temple are noted, with reservations through Mrs. Lewis Liebbe or Mrs. Harry Haxder by the stated deadline.
The YWCA outlines a varied schedule for the week of December 16 with daily programs. Activities include teen plunge, girls and mothers programs, swim and life saving classes, dance and exercise sessions, life and leadership classes, private parties, and a youth dance event at multiple times and venues throughout the week.
Durant churches announce a weekly schedule with services and meetings. The list includes St Pauls Episcopal family worship at 9:30 a.m. with nursery, church school at 10:45 a.m., Episcopal Women meeting 7:30 p.m. undercroft, and Inquirers class at the vicarage. Lutheran events include a Dec 9 marriage and Dec 12 ALCW gathering with Mrs Claus Grimm.
Members of the Fortnightly Club met Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. C. Bishop 411 West Second Street. A reading Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kids was presented by Mrs. Lanny Miller. A Christmas tea followed the program.
The Wilton Zion Lutheran church Ladies Aid met in the church hall for its regular monthly gathering. Hostesses were Mrs. John Van Atta and Mrs. Louis Timmsen. After devotions, discussion on helping the underprivileged followed. A film on Social and Welfare Work was shown. New library books were added, The Burning Bush and The Savage, My Kinson. Plans for the Christmas party were set for Thursday, Dec. 14 with a noon potluck. Gifts for the Children's Hospital and Oakdale Tuberculosis Sanatorium were to be collected.
The second annual crops show and banquet will be held at Knights of Pythias hall in West Liberty on Thursday evening December 14 starting at 7 p.m. with a dinner. Sponsored by Muscatine County Bankers Association. Ivan Wikner will present a crop production program after awards. Boys exhibit a 10 ear corn sample or a gallon of soybeans with production records. projects scored on management and yields.
Bloomington Farm Bureau held a turkey supper during a Thursday meeting at Spangler Chapel with about eight attendees. Committee members organized decorations and program. Richard Holliday opened with Dennis Mosier, farm service manager, present. 4-H and Homemakers reports featured. election of Warren Owen as director.
Mona council will nominate and elect pollivers at a Christmas party Tuesday at the Eagles hall. Verna McFadden and Ann Downey lead the 6 30 p.m. pollock supper with meat and coffee provided by the lodge. Alice Pace and Amy Predmore organize the 50 cent gift exchange.
The Wilton engagement of Judith Grade and Jack Pirkey is announced. Grade is the daughter of Harry and Mrs Grade of Atlantic City, N J, studying radiologic technology at Long Island College Hospital in New York. Pirkey is a chemical engineer at Fort Monmouth, N J.
The Wapello Township Farm Bureau plans a potluck dinner Monday December 11 at the home of Mrs Floyd Reif with hostesses Mrs Chester Colvin Mrs Glen Beik and Mrs John Otto. Members should bring two dozen cookies for a cookie exchange and an article for the Farm Products for Christmas Giving demonstration plus a grab bag gift. The Kappa Tau Beta club met Thursday for dinner at Highway Pantry and a Christmas party at Mrs Merle Hook s home with twelve members and one guest Mrs Mildred Witler of Mediapolis. A gift exchange and three tables of bridge followed with white elephants as prizes. Jimmy and Mary Dixon of Biggsville Illinois visited their grandmother Mrs Lena Small for the weekend. Mr and Mrs Earl Eversmeser visited Town City to see their son-in-law Robert Gavin of Monmouth, Illinois and called on Mrs Edith McCullough a patient at the University hospital.
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