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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1946
Page
4
The April meetings of Fort nightly club's American Home departments elected officers for the new year. Section leaders include Mrs. Harding, Mrs. Morrison, and Mrs. Weldin. May meeting plans and hostess roles were announced with programs on home care, menu building, and hobbies.
Ethel Anderson led the evening program in the Y M C A rooms. Edna Mercer presided at the business session and Eliabeth Dawson presented the nominating slate with Thelma Luther as leader Anna Mae Saskett as assistant and Margaret Applegate as secretary.
Knights of Pythias will meet at o'clock Thursday evenings at K. C. hall. A note suggests giving children drinking straws to make milk drinking more pleasant and add a party touch to a chore.
Notices list numerous gatherings for the week including Red Horsers club Pythian Sisters Wesleyan Service Guild Pilotburg Ladies Aid Prairie Flower Missionary society Rural Women's club and various church and W.S.C.S units with times locations and hostesses. A mix of flower seed exchanges poems and potluck details appear throughout the schedule.
Community celebrates birthdays and anniversaries across Keota Riverside Ainsworth Sandy Hook Pilot Grove and Washington. Honorees include J B Lockwood in the Three Quarter Century club, Linda Rae Hesseltine Evelyn Teslik James Shana and Mary Louise Hill among others with well wishes from relatives neighbors and local residents.
Mrs Wilk Mitchell joined Mr and Mrs C Wittmer for church Sunday services and dinner at the Wittmer home. Visitors included Noah Wittmer, Harm Westen and Donald, Carla Jean Zieglowsky, Mary Joe Bitting, and Scott Welch who dehorned cattle nearby Thursday. The Stout family shared Sunday dinner with the Wengers, while Evert Westen and family spent Saturday evening there. Apology for contact delays.
Mrs. J. H. Campbell hosted twelve members of the Past Noble Grand Circle at her home last evening. Mrs. Paul Harvey led the business session and a $5 contribution to the Red Cross was approved. The gathering included games and visiting with refreshments served in an Easter motif by Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Edith Weidner.
Mr and Mrs J B Moore hosted a large family gathering in Dayton Grove on April 8 to mark their 50th wedding anniversary. Relatives from Lafayette Indiana Brighton Minner Wellman and Wellman area joined meals and greetings including Lyall Moore, Virginia Schafer, Juanita Schafer, Robert Stephens and Ernest Crawford. Belated thanks were sent for the many cards received on the anniversary.
Normal peacetime sales mainly to younger buyers average about a million bicycles annually, reflecting strong demand across age groups and steady market growth.
Mrs C C Reister hosted a welcome home dinner for her three sons Raymond Donald and Richard all honorably discharged from service The 1945 Christmas dinner was postponed until the family could be together Ray was in the navy in California Donald recently returned from the Pacific and Richard came home from Europe after 38 months in service Also present were Mrs Glen Durkinan and her daughters Phyllis and Barbara Crawfordsville Mrs Albert Benda Fairfield Mrs Raymond Minick and two daughters Mrs Don Minick and Mr and Mrs Howard
Mrs Glenn B Holden of Richmond Virginia was honored at a 6:30 PM dinner party hosted by Mrs Charles Palmer at 808 West Jefferson Street. Sixteen friends from Washington era attended the cooperative gathering and spent the evening visiting.
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