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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1968
Page
12
Summertime housekeeping shortcuts promote a relaxed home life for mom and family. Divide chores by rooms, use easy wash fabrics and slip covers, and keep decor minimal. Emphasizes safe outdoor play, water safety, bicycle rules, sunburn prevention, and barbecue carbon monoxide hazards with clear warnings against indoor or enclosed-space grilling.
Pick a pair of aprons from remnants for gifts and personal use. Patterns include transfers and printed designs with mailing options to Alice Brooks in Muscatine Journal. Catalogs and booklets advertise dozens of patterns, quilts, and crafts for 50 cents to a dollar. Also a safety note warns indoor grills lack full ventilation. avoid indoor barbecuing with charcoal.
A miscellaneous bridal shower honored Miss Donna Reesink in the Wilton Bank meeting room with about forty guests. Moss green and yellow decor surrounded the serving table where Mrs. Carl Swenson and Mrs. Elva Reesink poured. Miss Reesink is to wed Thomas Swenson on Sunday August 18 at Wesley United Methodist church at 2 p.m. Hostesses were Mrs. L C Cole Mrs. Clayton Rost Mrs. Rosalie Hafner Mrs. Edward Brown and Mrs. Reuben McCormick.
The Federated Republican Women's club of Louisa County met Tuesday afternoon in the Methodist church basement at Letts, hosted by Mrs. Gertrude Lieberknecht and Mrs. Robert Barnes. Attending from Grandview were Mrs. Ira Graham and Mrs. Edith Fulton. Also noted is the serious condition of Mrs. Eilert Albers of Golden Illinois, mother of Ernest Albers of Grandview, hospitalized in Quincy, Illinois. Ernest Albers and family are spending their vacation in Golden to be with his father, and guests Mr. and Mrs. Fred Icke and Miss Marguerite Ann Marooney of Victoria Texas were luncheon guests.
An advertisement offers Printed Pattern 9157 for Misses' dress in sizes 10 through 20 with size 14 requiring 2M yards of 39 inch fabric. Priced 65 cents plus 15 cents mailing. mail form to Marian Martin Pattern Dept New York. Free pattern clip coupon in Spring-Summer catalog. Also offers an Instant Sewing Book for $1 with 500 pictures.
Guests of their aunt Mrs Mildred Courtney spent Tuesday afternoon visiting at the Marguerite Beckman Duncan home in Muscatine and at the Bill Courtney home near Letts.
The marriage announcement lists Greta Raye Gehrke and Marlin Gustav Thomas Schauland with matron of honor Mrs Lucretia Van Olst Collingswood NJ and bridesmaids Judy Lewison New Lenox IL Kristin Summerwill Iowa City Valerie Pierce Elmhurst IL Donna Parry West Liberty IA. Best man Lin Schauland Muscatine with groomsmen Dunton III Westmont IL Whisnant Iowa City Carver Muscatine Jolliffe Iowa City. Ushers Krieger Muscatine Scott Bogguss Iowa City. Acolytes Susan Schauland Muscatine and Ann Van Olst Collingswood NJ. The wedding is Saturday August 10 at 2:30 p.m. at Gloria Dei Lutheran church in Iowa City.
Miss Mary Chaudoin daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Chaudoin of 822 Pine Street and John E Wagner of Wilton have chosen Sunday August 4 for their wedding. The 4 p.m. ceremony will be at St Mathias Catholic Church with Gerianne Reeves as matron of honor Sheila Chaudoin as maid of honor Carole Wagner as bridesmaid Kenneth Moore as best man James Schaer and Ted Blaesing as groomsmen ushers Robert Noland Thomas Noll altar boys Joseph Blaesing Dennis Miller inviting friends and relatives to attend
Linda Bothell daughter of Floyd and Mrs Bothell of West Liberty and Robert Joe Thompson son of George and Mrs Thompson of Muscatine have set August 4 for their wedding at 3 pm in the First Presbyterian Church West Liberty Invitations have been sent and all relatives and friends are invited A reception will follow at the church
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