Local Family Travel, Births, and Visits Reported
Local notes reveal Carol Jean Powell returning to Lancaster Missouri after summer with aunt and family. Ottumwa visitors Mr and Mrs Howard Edgar and children saw relatives in Fayette and traveled to Austin Minnesota and Prairie du Chien Wisconsin. Bobby Sorrell Jr of Decatur Illinois came home with parents after two week visit with grandparents and kin. Grandsons born July 18 and July 26 to Gillespie and Hofmann families. Grace Wareham and Lucy Margaret Hoeffner en route through Washington and Sigourney. George Sojke route 2 Ainsworth welcomed a son at Mercy hospital Iowa City. Lucille Simon is the mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Jean Powell
Lancaster
Missouri
Walter Sojka
Bobby Sorrell Jr
Decatur
Ill
Robert Sorrell
Frank Snider
Grace Wareham
Davenport
Washington
Sigourney
Lucy Margaret Hoeffner
George Sojke
Ainsworth
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Sojka
Lucille Simon
Certa Vin Gas Relief Advert Says It Eases Stomach Gas
An Washington ad promotes Certa Vin a scientific formula with ten herbs plus vitamin B and iron. It claims before meals use expels gas from meals and improves blood iron levels and nerve energy. The copy targets gas victims with promises of relief and better digestion at Pioneer Cut Rate Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Certa-Vin Pioneer
West Chester Glimpses of July Notices and Visits
July notes from West Chester list Mary Ann Bauer registering for State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, visits to Waterloo and Ames for TV 4-H plans, family updates from the Wrights and Lundells, a Goshen Hesston alumni ice cream social, and birthdays including Carol Baker on July 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Chester
Mary Ann Bauer
Cedar Falls
State Teacher’s College
Merle Gardner
Waterloo
Tom Butler
Deborah Elaine
Gerald DeLong
Micheal LaMonte
Howard Wright
Aleph Hites
Indianapolis
Ind
Jack Hotle Ir
Ray Hough
Richard Fisher
Orville Coakley
Washington
Carl Walton
Clinton
Springville
Lutch Fellendorf
Cedar Rapids
Clinton Walton
Alf Fellendorf
Arthur Peters
Betty
United Presbyterian Synod
Clear Lake
Sam Weave
Ronnie
Leonard
Richard
Carol
Well Nan Park
Wallace's brief pro debut and Sunset park vote tale
Pollok Wallace of Des Moines once drew the notice of Charles Comiskey after a 1899 St. Paul tryout ended early when an attorney halted his major league path due to underage status. The piece also notes Washington Iowa residents’ 16 000 shelter house and toilets vote for Sunset park with strong turnout and a small minority opposing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pollok
Washington
Monmouth College
Charles Comiskey
Chicago White Sox
Comiskey
St. Paul
Indianapoli
Wallace
Indianapolis
Iowa
Honus Wagner
Pittsburgh
Louisville
Wagner
Charles J. Wilson
Sunset Park
July 1950 Temperatures Show Unusually Cool Month
Weather figures indicate July 1950 was exceptionally cool with only three 90 degree days all in the final weekend. The monthly low dropped to 49 and total rainfall 3.61 inches, near normal compared with 4.18 inches in July 1949.
Former Residents Celebrate 56th Wedding Anniversary
In the United Presbyterian church publication Dr John Ferguson 86 and Frances M Ferguson 79 longtime Washington residents are noted for their 56th wedding anniversary They are both active in interdenominational work Mrs Ferguson was a pioneer on church women boards and leaders Their Europe and South America religious travels are mentioned Dr Ferguson helped start two WUP churches in Buffalo New York Also Mary J Campbell writes on a world airplane trip with Grace Lytle related to the Lytles of Washington Other local ties include Miss Lytle visiting cousin Miss Ella Gordon
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Presbyterian
John Ferguson
Frances M. Ferguson
Washington
Ferguson
W. A. Gibson
Eva Livingston
S. W. Livingston
Mary J. Campbell
Grace Lytle
India
Lytles
Miss Lytle
Ella Gordon
Birthday Celebrants Celebrate Milestones Across Town
Pleasant Hill and Ainsworth families mark birthdays as ten year olds Mrs. Tom Duncan and Mrs. Wilmer Lauderman join relatives Mrs. Sue Thoma and Mrs. Harold Rathmel. Twin daughters Nancy Ellen Frances Ann Pratt turn ten. Robert Michael Suter lights three. Patricia Gastman also celebrates a birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Duncan
Bob Birney
Lloyd Anderson
Richard Johnson Jr
Wilmer Lauderman
Sue Thoma
Harold Rathmel
Pleasant Hill
Irowulf
Ainsworth
Nancy Ellen
Frances Ann
Frank Pratt
Robert Michael Suter
Patricia Gastman
Ira Gastman
Rotary club hears Mace on Washington trip
Glenn Mace described his Washington D C trip and the capital's 150th anniversary events to Rotarians. He outlined the organized program for distinguished guests mayors of Washington towns and noted Korean War tension. next week Ralph Shannon will discuss his Missouri battleship cruise.
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Mace
Washington
Cloud Willits
Tom Fultz
Pella
Rotary
Washington County
Washington Club
Glenn Mace
Weekend Hospital Roundup and Alaska Domino Tale
Admitted yesterday Ed Davis of the city along with medical notes, Mrs Charles Bennett from Brigh ton is listed. Dismissed today Mrs Myron White and daughter from route 3, Mrs Wilma Smith of the city. Births yesterday Mr and Mrs Kenneth Peiffer of West Chester welcome a daughter at 1 55 pm. In far north Alaska Eskimos play dominoes with bone pieces and wagering wives on the outcome.
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Ed Davis
City, Medical
Charles Bennett
Brighton
Myron White
Route 3
Wilma Smith
City
Kenneth Peiffer
West Chester
Alaska
Malik to chair United Nations as world eyes Korea crisis
Jacob Alexandrovitch Malik, a mild‑mannered Russian diplomat, prepares to chair the United Nations Security Council for one month. A veteran expert on the Far East and the atomic bomb, Malik has been trusted to steer discussions amid Japan, Korea, and Moscow’s evolving strategy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Korea
Moscow
Malik
U. N
Soviet Union
Far East
Tokyo
Council of Foreign Ministers
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
College of Diplomacy
University of Moscow
United States
New York
Tam
Chaplain Hero Shot in Korean War Battlefield
Rev. Father Herman Felhoelter aged 37, a Franciscan from Cincinnati and Louisville, was reported killed by North Koreans while tending 30 wounded American soldiers on a Kum river battlefield near Taejon. He reportedly flipped a coin with a Baptist chaplain to decide who would stay with the wounded. Felhoelter won.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Herman Felhoelter
Kum River
Taejon
Cincinnati
Louisville
Felhoelter
Felhwelter
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Howard Edgar
Ottumwa
Oscar Gardner
Walter H. Carr
Ileene Shull
Fayette
Austin
Minn
Prairie du Chien
Wis
T. R. Gillespie
James Alan
Burke Gillespie
Council Bluffs
Gary Edward
Donald Hofmann
West
Cus
Andy Clyde
Winchester
Olivia de Havilland Montgomery Cliff Ralph Richardson
Miriam Hopkins
Wolf's Flower Shop
Elmer Berggren
Stanhope
Milton Ross
Richard Ross
Joesen Ollinger
Ames
Clifford Bauer
Myron
Alan
Chicago
Eldin Bauer
Clark Bauer
Joy
Gene
Kenneth
Stanley
Lou Bauer
Bill Robertson
Carl Walton i
Ben Goodwin
Connie
Raymond Baker
Karen
U.S. Treasury
Europe
Roger Sherman
Bruce Cowden
Pollok Wallace
Des Moines
White Sox
Billy Sullivan
Sullivan
Shriners
Washington, D. C
Kaaba Temple
Lavenport
Washington, Iowa
Kiple & Deprenger Furniture CO
War Committee
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Senate
Harry S Truman
International
George C. Stewart
Harold Johnson
Washington Rotary Club
Harry Ferguson
United Press Foreign News
Winston Churchill
Hitler
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Duke of Windsor
Jacob Alexandrovitch Malik
Lumber Industry
Maxim Litvinov
Chaplain Hero
Sunshine
Washington Dairy
Ott
Bartlett
Hormel
Happy Vale
Nature
Dole
Muscatine
North Iowa
R.C. Wead
Robert Krotz
Mace Motor
FORD
Mercury
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