Wellman Couple Marks Golden Anniversary With Dinner
William Stricker and Pearl Fuller Stricker of Wellman celebrated 50 years of marriage with a dinner at the Captain's Table. The Cedar Rapids July 31, 1913 nuptials at Grace Episcopal were noted, listing four daughters, nine grandchildren, hobbies, and winters in Brownsville and Fort Pierce. The observance honored the couple as guests of honor, with a cake by Mrs. Burdette Stover as centerpiece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ym Stricker
Wellman
Burdette Stover
William Stricker
Pearl Fuller
Grace Episcopal Church
Cedar Rapids
LeRoy
Wilma) Ross
Toledo
Ohio
Jack
Helen) Ross
Tucson
Howard
Virginia) Walker
William
Hazel) Sitler
Washington
Mercy Hospital patient and visitors noted in Iowa City
Local news item lists Mrs. Ivan Cummings visiting at sister Bessie Tucker’s home while various relatives and friends, including Maude Herring and the Andersons, share meals and greetings. Other notes mention birthdays, travel, military service, and community happenings around Keota, Washington, Muscatine, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivan Cummings
Sacramento
Calif
Bessie Tucker
Hospital Admits and Births Reported Across Washington Area
On the record hospital notes admit a list of patients from Washington including Tom Duncan and Mrs Bessie Keneh in medical, Jene Ann Wittetoe also in medical, Jacqueline Wear in surgical at Columbus Junction, plus Tom Lowe in medical. Births today to Ronald Miller and wife in Washington. Discharges include Geneva Mabb in Brighton Darrell Bandy and son in Keota John Tucker E R Van Nostrand and William Potter in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Duncan
Washington
Bessie Keneh
Jene ‘Ann Wittetoe
Jacqueline Wear
Columbus Junction
Tom Lowe
Ronald Miller
Geneva Mabb
Brighton
Darrell Bandy
Keota
John Tucker
E.R. van Nostrand
William Potter
Social Calendar Notices for Community Events
Social column lists events with deadlines for notices by 19 a.m. on publication day. Shiloh Sunshine Sisters meet Friday at 1 30 p.m. Mrs Homer Lowry hosts. Miscel laneous Auction and 8th Annual Swift Reunion at Sunset Park noon with basket dinner. Davison Reunion noon at Sunset Park with basket dinner. West Chester Python Lodge 6 30 p.m. Sunset Park picnic with baskets. Golden Age Club 10 a.m. YWCA rooms sack lunch at noon.
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Shiloh Sunshine Sisters
Homer Lowry
Swift
Sunset Park
Davison
West Chester Python Lodge
Golden Age Club
Ywca Rooms
Sunshine Community Club holds summer meeting and picnics
Sunshine Community Club members met at Mrs. Cames Ort for a 9 30 a m coffee with 13 attendees including guest Mrs. Wilma Hunt. Mrs George P Koehler presided and roll call covered How I keep cool. A picnic was planned for August 14 at 4 20 p m in Sunset Park and a second picnic for August 26 at 6 30 p m in Sunset Park with basket suppers. Officers were elected with Oren Romine president Karl Parcell vice president Fern Carr secretary treasurer and reporter. Reminder committee named Ted Kiesey and Laurel Stater. Hostesses Dusenbery and Mangold assisted. next meeting with Dusenbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine Community
Sunshine Community Club
Cames Ort
Wilma Hunt
George P. Koehler
Sunset Park
Lester Beenblossom
Merry Mixers Club
Karl Parcell
Mollie Tierney
Oren Romine
Fern Carr
Secre
Ary
Ted Kiesey
Laurel Stater
Lee Mangold
Harry Dale Dusenbery
TV Highlights Friday Television Highlights By United Press International
United Press International lists Friday TV highlights across ABC NBC CBS showing college all star football game at Solider Field with Curt Gowdy Paul Christman and Johnny Lu. NBC movie producer Hal Roach Sr features. Route 66 and Alfred Hitchcock Hour repeats. Eyewitness on Korea ten years after truce. NBC Tonight hosts Kennedy brothers with Skitch Henderson and Ed McMahon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Roach
Hollywood
Showtime
NBC
Don Ameche
CBS
South
Viet Nam
Michael Rennie
Phyllis Thaxter
South Korea
Kennedy
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Skitch Henderson
Ed McMahon
News Briefs Fined For Unattended Vehicle Collision
Cloyd Gardner was fined $25 and costs in the court of Glenn Holden on a charge of striking an unattended vehicle. He was charged by city police after his car ran into a parked car owned by Leon Hilfman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cloyd Gardner
Glenn Holden
Justice of the Peace
Gardner
Leon Hilfman
Local News and Community Briefs From Town City Area
Galen Weaver of rural Keota underwent surgery at Mercy Hospital in Town City on Monday and is progressing as expected. Mr and Mrs Detmar Lend of Clarence are parents of a baby girl Amy Jo born July 21 weighing 8 lbs 10 ozs with four sisters Mildred Thelma Roberta and Delmira to welcome her home. Pamela Kay Hite of Washington received a $200 scholarship from the Iowa Department of the American Legion Auxiliary the award was announced by Mrs Richard B Monk department executive secretary treasurer. Hite is a Washington High School graduate and will attend State College of Iowa in Cedar Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Gardner
Rhonda
Pam
Dover
Dela
Everette Gardner
Dean Garrett
Washington
Arthur Hahnbaum
Loramie Finley
Wellman
Janet Rae
Glen Dunbar
Boyd Dunbar
Keota
Miss Finley
Mid-Prairie High School
Commercial College
Iowa City
Keota High School
Keota Spray Service
Iowa State University
Ames
Galen Weaver
Mercy Hosital
Town City
Detmar Lend
Clarence
Amy Jo
Clarence Goodwin
West Chester
Mildred
Thelma
Roberta
Delmira
Pamela Kay Hite
Iowa Department of the American Legion Auxiliary
Miss Hite
Richard B. Monk
Pimela
Washington High School
Pauline Hite
State College of Iowa
Cedar Falls
Governor Won’t Talk To Tower-Top Convict Bradley
William Bradley, 46, perched atop a 125 foot water tower inside Iowa State Penitentiary since Sunday, awaits Gov. Harold E. Hughes' action. Hughes says no action will be taken and guards wait for the inmate to descend. Bradley, from Sion City, plans to stay until Oct. 1, raises money from spectators, and has sparked a telescope viewing niche outside the wall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ort Madison
Iowa
UPD
Iowa State Penitentiary
Harold E. Hughes
Hughes
Des Moines
William Braley
Bradley
Sion City
Asa
Robbery suspect nabbed after early motel wake up
A Des Moines license tied robbery suspect Ryan to a Rock Island trip after he woke a motel operator to pay his bill. Police traced the car renter to obtain his real name, then followed leads to his arrest following a late Saturday stay near the Oskaloosa supermarket. He admitted the nervous wakefulness caused by the pursuit.
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Ryan
Des Moines
Rock Island
Irl
Rites for Mrs McCoy Held at Crawfordsville
Funeral services for Mrs Nina McCoy were held in the Crawfordsville Methodist Church with Rev. Chester Custer and Rev. Tom Hotle officiating. Organist Kathy Fletcher played, and pallbearers included Howard Anderson and J C Huston. Relatives from Shenandoah Grinnell Moline Iowa City and Washington attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Nina McCoy
Methodist
Loren Moorhead
Shenandoah
Moorhead
Joe McCoy
Grinnell
G. C. Rhea
Judy
Lori
Moline
Ethel de Harpoort
Claude McCoy
Washington
Grinnell and
Mollie
Dunshee Dies in Iowa City Sudden heart attack ends life of local resident
Charles Eugene Dunshee, 74, died suddenly at his Iowa City home after a heart attack. Born October 31, 1888 in Keokuk County, he lived on farms in Nellman, moved to Washington, then Iowa City where he worked as an insurance agent. Survived by three sons, one daughter, nine grandchildren, one sister Mrs. Bessie Bell of Keota, and one brother Roy of Indianapolis. Funeral tentatively set at Beckman’s in Iowa City.
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Charies
Eugene Dunshee
Iowa City
Beckman
Bessie Bell
Keota
Roy
Indianapolis
Oil Company Plants Closed by Tax Agents
Colonial Supply and Oil Co. faced padlocks on eight service stations two warehouses and a propane plant after federal agents accused nonpayment of 48000 in gasoline taxes. IRS posted seizure notices at multiple locations including Des Moines Council Bluffs Creston Hazleton Red Oak and Stuart. Back taxes due trigger possible full seizure and inventory sale if unpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
UPI
Colonial Supply and Oil Co
Des Moines Company
Ths
Interim Revenue Service
Colonial Service
Council Bluffs
Creston
Hazleton
Red Oak
Stuart
Menlo
Mike Burroughs
IRS
Patrol Chief Vows Drive on Accidents in Des Moines
Col. Ted Mikesch, 50, Des Moines, took over as chief of the Town Highway Patrol and pledged a vigorous campaign against deadly highway accidents. He was sworn in by safety commissioner William Sueppel, with his wife Frances and son John present. Mikesch, a 26 year patrol veteran, leads District No. 1 and succeeds Col. David Herrick who resigned to run for regional office.
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Des Moines
UPI
T.R
Ted) Mikesch
Mikesch
State Safety
William Suegel
Suepupel
Ew Patrol
Frances
John
St. Ambrose College
Davenport
Dane Dubois
Sueppel
Iowa
Polk
Boone, Dallas
Jas
Col
David Herrick
Funeral services for Henry Sommers held at Mennonite Church
Funeral services for Henry Sommers were held at 10 30 a m Tuesday in Eicher Mennonite Church with Rev T A van der Smissen in charge. Peter Graber was soloist with Mrs Erwen Graber as organist. Pallbearers were Ed and Wilmer Kauffman Erwen Graber Maurice Krabill John Grimes and Floyd Smith. Burial was in Eicher Cemetery. Jones Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Burglary Ring Broken in Keosauqua Iowa
A Des Moines area ring pled guilty to breaking and entering with 123 burglaries cleared up state wide. Virgil Hoskins 19 Des Moines received 10 years at Anamosa reform school. Francis Davenport 35 Des Moines got postponed sentencing to Aug 24. Co-defendants Marion Black 22 Avon Lake Jerry Simmons 25 Maxwell and James Rock 33 Des Moines held on 10 000 bond each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keosauqua
UPI
Iowa
Will
Des Moines
van Buren
Orville Ce
Charles Pettit
Virgil Hoskins
Anamosa
Francis Eugene Davenport
Marion Kent Black
Avon Lake
Jerry Leroy Simmons
Maxwell
James Edwin Rock
Liu
Ten Die In Dual Vehicle Ohio Crash Near Toledo
Ten people including eight children died in a two vehicle collision on Ohio 1 near Elmore. Felix Campos 41 of Florida City and family, the Chicos Camilo and Maria, migrant workers, were traveling in a wagon that failed to overtake a tractor trailer and collided head on with Charles Strong 38 from Swanton driving another rig. The wreck occurred five miles north of Elmore on a straight stretch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Ohio
UPI
Feix Campos
Florida City
Fla
Catherina
Joseph
Rosa
David
Teresa
Guadaloupe Chico
Raoul
Jaime
Ma’ria
Camilo Chico
Emil Webert
Elmore
Clayton Magsig
Webert
Here
Charles Strong
Swanton
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William Strickers
Andrs
John Farner
Mercy Hospital
Harry Kemball
Mina Branwen
Maude Herring
Jaanita
Charles Anderson
Herrings
Kemballs
Lisa Libe
Don Libe
Libe
Lawrence Libe
Paul Wolfe
Charles Goodwin
Maynard
Charles
Leland Funston
Richard Harvey
Paul Goodwin
California
JV. Manussier
Joseph Victor II
Manussier
Minneapolis
G.W. Manussier
B.L. Rees
Bloomfield
Max Goodlander
Mooseheart Committee of the Women of the Moose
Moose Home
Robert Dodder
Guthrie Center
J.P. Larson
Richard Dodders
Hattiesburg
Miss
Daryl Dodder
Comrie Speak
Blue Grass
Norman Schoonover
Franklin of
Olney, I
Walter Beckenhaur
Boyd Sanders
Willis Richards
Harold Stevens
East
Jefferson
Skeetz
Ainsworth
Pepperettes
Cedar Clippers
Connelly
IFYE
Washington County
Sherman-Eden
Olympia
Ashington
Washington Rauer
Wolf's Flower Shop
McCoy
Marian Waters
Charles E. Dunshee
Oil Company
Don Kiesey
Marshall Furniture
Atlantic
Herrick
Gal James R. Machel
Bisie
Schoonover Drugs
Ruth's Antiques
Ruth Schulty
Washington Co
Baby Reeves
Leo’s
Standard Service
Hotle Feed & Grain Co
State & National Bank
Washington Municipal
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