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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1931
Page
6
The 4H Jacksoniters met Tuesday afternoon July 28 with six members and one visitor present. Ruth Stewart and Ruth Speidel gave reports on the 4H convention. The group practiced the initiation ceremony performed at the farm bureau meeting on July 29.
The Women's Missionary Society of the Mo BR church met yesterday afternoon with Mrs. R. E. Brown hosting twenty members. A regular program included a reading by Evalyn Neter gall and a duet by Mary Catherine Widmer and Gwendolyn Hunter, with one guest Mrs. Bishop. Hostess served iced drinks at the close.
The Atlas Motor Oils brand will be sold to consumers at wholesale prices starting August 1 from Dick's Battery and Electric Service on Gasoline Alley. Prices listed: 15 cents per quart, 35 cents per gallon, 2.50 for five gallons. A maintenance paint offer is available at 65 cents per car top from August 1 to August 31.
The Bethel Presbyterian and the U.P. church announce an ice cream social on Tuesday evening August 4. Proceeds support calling delegates to the National convention at Lake Geneva Wisconsin this month. Call Margaret Stewart R4-24 14413 to donate or bring ice cream.
Neville Dependent Richland Mchland hosts a four day chautauqua starting Friday with strong talent. Road 77 work progresses and property claim adjustments satisfy most involved. Edwin Hanson and family visit from Miami, Florida. Mrs. Allie Trosstetter and son from Tennessee and Mrs. Robert Anderson of Nebraska visit their ill mother. Helen Bridger returns home after a library course. Church dedication attended by Rev Roach and others. Golf outings to Washington noted. Small grain looks good. Walter Nordyke and wife tour the west, visiting Ray Nordyke in Wyoming. News of Claud Davis death near Washington causes sorrow. Grareince Neville goes to Des Moines for a 20 ton truck scale purchase.
The Iowa Federation of Women's clubs will hold a full board meeting at Hotel Mort in Des Moines from September 22 to 25. About 200 officers directors and county chairs will attend to set policies and plan activities for more than 31 000 individual members across 100 clubs.
Route at Mrs Jo Corresani and many locals on sick list with summer flu. Families picnicked in Iowa City and visits to wellman, Amboy Illinois, and Clint Griges. Threshing dominates talks while Willie Lewis and Wilbur Eyestone workers, Ike McBeth visits, and kinfolk gather amid summer heat.
Dayton Grove reports S Warner and C E Mumper of Brighton visited race and Lyall Moore homes. Leo Oldfield and Paryl Oldfield spent Sunday with Aunt Ola Knotts. Mrs Crossett and family visited J A Walker. Hazel Wymore visited Sam mie Singminster near Keotu.
Riverside July 380 The Senior Needle club met at Mrs Ernest Salladays home with seventeen members and ten guests. Fortnightly club hosted by Mrs Norval Flynn with fourteen members and two Milwaukee guests. A baby boy was born July 30 to Dr Edward Wheelan and wife at Iowa City hospital. Several locals and visitors are noted including Miss Carrie Iden Cedar Rapids and Mrs William Sleichter Iowa City visiting relatives.
Irwin Cook of South English grinds feed in the vicinity. Grant Griffith’s son was run over by a car and died. A local resident shipped stock Sunday and Monday. Grandpa Eckerman visited Will and family. Mrs. John Wasson is ill near Wellman. News of C. Davis’s death unsettles friends. Sympathy offered to the family. Henry Wilkins loses a top horse. Fulton Donehey’s daughter breaks her arm and is taken to Iowa City for treatment.
Reonie Daw reports in Bethel about local visits Monday evening including Rey Parker and Rev. Parker with his crutch. Vic Walker and Nildren plan to travel to Manchester to visit relatives, while neighbors assisted with threshers and cooking. The Gallagher home hosted Jackson township farm bureau with about two hundred attending the July meeting organized by 4 club girls.
Long list of local notices includes funeral for 79 year old Mrs. J W Paine of Letts with burial in Letts cemetery. Born July 12 1852 in Brookville Indiana she came to Port Louisa as a child with her parents James Schofield R G Bowen and J J Frenzen. Other items note business openings and social visits across Columbus Junction Louisa County and nearby towns.
Prairie Center notes show visits among Ruebsams Zieglowskys and Wiegnans with relatives in Des Moines Ainsworth and Coane Lake. Funeral services were held for an infant son of Koehler. sympathy extended to the Koehler family. threshing finished and men swam at Coane Lake.
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