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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1966
Page
8
A reader shares a conflict over a brother in law raiding the house and consuming neighbor-supplied cat food mash. Elsie offers humor but cautions restraint. a believer responds with a Bible anecdote about Sarah and faith in marriage.
Wilton park shelter house hosted a candle tight ceremony where 17 members of the O Ki Bi group received the Group Torch Bearer rank. Advisors Mrs. C M Peterson and Miss Linda Ringgenberg presented awards to Patty Barkalow Lenore Blanchard Peggy Campbell Kathy Conrad Deanna Hinfeldt Barbara Elder Jenny Gorsuch Lorrie Kellenberger Janet Lundgren Cindy Mann Karen Norris Debbie Petersen Renee Rebedeaux Linda Ryder Teddy Sellers JoAnn Voss Vicki Zdychnec. Sylvia Perry spoke on Camp Fire Girls work and Horizon club prospects for high school. Parents attended.
Airman Third Class Russell A. Huesmann assigned to Dover Air Force Base Delaware for on the job training in civil engineering. His new address is 3/C Russell A. Huesmann AF 16896372 436 Civil Engineering Squadron Dover AFB Delaware 19901.
Obituaries for William Alderman 75 and John McClenning 30, with services at First Evangelical United Brethren and Ralph J. Wiltich funeral home. West Sacramento death of Mrs William Riexinger 76. Henry J Holscher 77 of Aledo. Velma VanCamp 95 of Wilton. funeral details, interments, and survivors listed. Daily hospital notes, births, marriages, and court notices follow, including adoptions, divorces, and local legal actions.
Columbus Junction notes tell of Mr and Mrs William Fowler of Lauderdale Florida visiting his parents Rev and Mrs William Fowler. Mr and Mrs Lloyd Moran take a vacation to Washington DC and plan a stop to visit their son Ronnie in the Navy in Florida. Mrs Ocle Moran returns home from Iowa City where she works during the school year.
Illinois City residents Marian McGreer Vera Krueger Jeanette Feldman Clarice Peterson Bernice Hays Lillie Keller Verda Danner and Gertrude Thomas attended the 4th annual Homemakers Extension Association meeting in the Holiday Inn Moline starting at 9 a.m. A smorgasbord luncheon followed at 12 30. State President Mrs Herman Stiehr spoke of the Trennial Conference in Ireland and experiences with Associated Country Women of the World. Also noted were visits between Mrs Joe Hoogerwerf and sister Mrs Georgia Dungan Mr and Mrs Clarence Schave and son Gregg who plan a ten day fishing trip to Ignace Ontario Canada.
An explosion in a Missouri sales tent destroyed a stock of fireworks Friday across the river from Keokuk. Two youths selling the explosives fled unharmed. Missouri allows fireworks while Iowa bans them, and tents appear yearly before July 4 near Keokuk.
Columbus Junction mayor appoints Lyrel Norris and Marie Spaeth to six year terms on the library board. Norris reappointed secretary treasurer. Spaeth succeeds resigned member Marie Letts. Other board members include Robertson, Paxton, Merritt, with Isabelle Sellers librarian. Also notes American Legion Auxiliary officers elected at Chautauqua Park meeting.
Larry James Harper, 18, of Grandview, sustained arm and shoulder injuries at 4:20 p.m. Friday after his motorcycle collided with a passenger car at East Mississippi drive and Cedar street. Police report both drivers claimed green lights in their favor. the Strause car suffered right side damage.
Monday noon June 27 at the S Bar S luncheons. Mr and Mrs Forrest Johnston and their three children Kim Robin and Darrin have moved to Nichols and taken over the Nichols Locker, recently managed by his father.
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