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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1947
Page
3
Mrs Ruth Lytle hosted a lawn supper at her West Washington street home in honor of Mr and Mrs Charles Berdeo celebrating their third wedding anniversary. The Berdeos were married in Cambridge England on August 5, 1944, with guests served in the Hollingsworth yard.
A Keota birthday list honors Nora Bennett in the Three Quarter Century club as 8 and 3 candles would be needed. Havre records Ruth Marilyn Donaldson turning 16 as relatives extend best wishes. Other couples celebrate wedding anniversaries and birthdays including Albert and Orcutt, Ivan Hahn, and Linda Lee Loveless among neighbors.
The annual Maxwell reunion will be held Thursday at Sunset Park. A basket dinner is planned to begin at noon.
Brighton reports Harry Newlon returned home Friday from Muscatine hospital where he had been after a car crash that damaged the vehicle he traded with his son Roy Newlon. He was knocked unconscious but suffered no broken bones.
Notices list club meetings and events through the week. Red Horses club hosts at Harold Brock home. Harmony picnic postponed. Linger Longer co op picnic at Sunset Park. H E club picnic at Sunset Park. Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid Bible study at church. Friendly Circle roll call. Vacation discussion. West Chester Methodist O C class at Mrs Gertie Stewart. Country club dinner. F H J club afternoon. Friendship club. Women’s Council of Christian Church groups meet with transportation. Walnut Women’s Club basket dinner at Sunset Park. rain plan Legion hall.
Mrs. Harold Coop traveled to Ames for Donna Rae Taylor and Sherman K Arnold Jr. wedding at Collegiate Presbyterian church. The Coops visited Des Moines and Grinnell relatives. Other trips include the Mungers eastbound via Kentucky Virginia West Virginia Washington and Boston to Ashby Mass and Detroit before returning.
The 13th annual Davison reunion drew 90 attendees at Sunset park. Officers elected at the business meeting were Floyd Wagner president Homer Davison vice president and Mrs Dale Bain secretary treasurer. The next reunion is planned again at Sunset park with Mrs Howard Wagner coordinating tables. Numerous Davison relatives from Washington Wayland Kalona and Brighton attended with extended family lists named.
Connor and family join Mr and Mrs Tommy Wolf of Elgin Illinois for a weekend with Mrs Wolf’s parents Mr and Mrs Homer Rotzinger. Several locals visit relatives in New London Davenport Clinton and Osceola as 4 H Good Luck holds achievement day August 9 at the Methodist church.
In Kimball county and across western Nebraska panhandle, elevator operators report large quantities of wheat dumped on the ground due to a box car shortage. Kimball elevators blocked for a week as trucks move wheat. Alliance and Scottsbluff crews also struggle to move grain, fearing a flood of harvest cars this season.
Alliance elevator operators note Box Butte farmers yield from half to two thirds of last year while tests on this year's wheat are sparse. They say overall quality looks acceptable despite lower output in parts of the Panhandle.
Onawa Iowa August 6 Bonds totaling forty thousand dollars for construction of an addition to the municipal light plant were sold to the Wachob Bender Co of Omaha City attorney John D Beardsley reported the bond issue was sold for two percent annual interest at eight hundred dollars premium
Edison used a locomotive whistle as a telegraph across the river between Sarnia Ontario and Port Huron Michigan when a cable broke.
J Edgar Hoover says crime costs the United States 41 million dollars each day. He attributes the rise to insufficient character development in early childhood and calls for reforms in youth upbringing.
The census records about eight million horses and three million mules on U S farms plus nearly half a million in towns and cities. In cities about 150 000 horses are reported for riding use.
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