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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1933
Page
8
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Merle Dodder suffered a painful fall Tuesday when a rope caused him to jump about six feet from a barn upper floor. He was bruised but able to move with a crutch and cane.
Numerous local families enjoyed a picnic at Weed park in Muscatine on Sunday with many attendees. Residents and visitors shared meals, reported visitors to relatives, and noted community events and personal updates across Eliza and Atalissa areas.
Trenton Missouri native Lincoln Barnett now Rock Island Railway chief dispatcher visits Letts with family. Ethan Barnett en route to the Chicago world’s fair. Denver visitors Artell Shellabarger and 50 Denver high school students plan to attend the Chicago fair next week. Mrs Nan Small returns home with Shellabargers after two years westward. Additional notes detail visits by Mr Bert Johnson cattle raiser of Stevenville Texas and friends, Mrs Ralph Lowe bridge party, and W H H club activities led by Dessa Weaver with a group of girls including Harriet and Marian Herrick and Charlaine Austin.
In Fruitland area reports guests and social visits. Mr and Mrs Harold McIntyre visited the Jess Solomon home in Conesville. Mrs Frank McGroft and son Donnie from Marshfield Missouri spent a week at G C Roland and Glen Foster homes. Election judges included Mrs E P Corwin, Miss Inez Cross and R T Hummel.
Funeral services for Mrs. Charlies Cox were held at her Wapello home conducted by Dr. John R. Fraser. Burial followed in Wapello cemetery with pallbearers named Elmer Pulver A J Matson H O Pease William Archibald William Davis and Samuel Simons.
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Harmon were conducted at the West Hill home by Rev. T. M. Balcoff with burial in Columbus City cemetery. Social items note the Shellbark club gathering at Mrs. Ed Gabriel's for June with 40 attendees and local visits including Mr and Mrs Charles Howell hosting guests from Muscatine and others.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Danner and relatives visited. Andrew Kleist called on his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Jackson and Mr. Otis Randolph hosted guests. Mrs. Otis Randolph and Miss Sophia Klebe called on Mrs. Bowser. Delores Kleist visits Bowser family. A Pine Bluff church meeting will explain the Illinois cooperative creamery system by B. H. Bollman.
Mr and Mrs A Nester were callers at the John Bartenhagen home Tuesday night.
A reading of a 98 percent figure shows exhausted women report fatigue from daily duties. Researchers note stress and caregiving roles contribute to tiredness among housewives. The report highlights the need for rest and social support.
Mercer County Home Bureau stages a wedding gowns pageant and Tom Thumb wedding Friday evening on the First Presbyterian church lawn in Aledo with rain plan for Aledo high school. performances include five singers, a quartet, and the Album of Gowns featuring nearly 100 year old dresses from Miss Elsie Epperly and Mrs. James Clarke of Keithsburg.
Stockton plans a Sunday double header on the local diamond featuring Blue Grass and Durant teams. Families and residents share social visits across nearby towns including Walcott Durant Hartley and Minnesota. Local happenings include Mrs H C Lange and family attending a Wilton game and Ed Grimm's family visiting Charles Beatty in New Era. Robert Tom Genevieve Lange also joins trips with relatives in South Dakota.
Mrs J S Sonza of Waco Texas claims rapid fat loss using Kruschen Salts. She reports losing 37 pounds in three months and recommends the daily dose to others for slimming and renewed energy.
Wilton four H club members met at Miss June Collier home to sew uniforms and plan. Highlights included a Home Safety talk by Miss Gladys West, a roll call, and a program with picture study, demonstrations, and readings. Next meeting set for July 11 at Miss Leota Herr’s home.
Concord Columbus Junction Mr and Mrs Russell McConahay and family of near Morning Sun along with Mr and Mrs Russell Wykert of Cairo and Columbus City visited the parental W S McConahay home on Sunday. Miss Opal Bonnichsen visited Miss Helen Dallmeyer Monday afternoon. Miss Marie Goode entertained the H W Four H club at her home Tuesday afternoon.
Three field meetings in Cedar county led by W S Peterson exten sion ag engineer from Ames will host a binder adjustment school on July 7 and 8. Peterson will demonstrate binder adjustments in the field and answer farmers questions about binder troubles. Meeting locations to be announced. Sodium chlorate touted for eradicating Canada thistle quack grass and devil's shoestring in Cedar county at 7 per 100 pounds. A special sheep course in animal husbandry will be conducted by the Farm Bureau with four meetings next year including drenching demonstrations and later culling and feeding. Four H club members and Farm Bureau families will tour Baby Beef farms June 28 starting West Branch at 9 am with visits to multiple farms and a noon picnic at Rochester park.
A charivari for newly married Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Townsley drew about 80 guests at the Townsley farm. The Cranston A B church Ladies Aid hosted an ice cream social on the school house lawn with all ice cream sold, raising a little over 16 dollars for parsonage upkeep. Mr. Dale Willets and family visited in Fairfield and Washington, with Bert Willets hosting supper. Roy Estle of Chicago visiting.
Mrs Eugene Lester of 1740 Penn St Mason City Iowa credits Gly Cas with curing long standing digestion and rheumatism issues after taking one box She reports stomach bowels regulated and no rheumatic pain for over a week Gly Cas sold at J Haverkamp's Drug Store and other local druggists.
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