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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1932
Page
5
The West Chester M E church Women’s Foreign Missionary Society met at Mrs L Allison’s home on August 6. Mrs Bessie Bauer led devotions and after discussion of the lesson the mite box was opened. The group planned a forthcoming luncheon and nine members plus two guests attended.
Ella Gordon led a program featuring Mr Knife Farm on display at Mrs Hewitt's store. The pen knife cut house, barn, and grounds were completed in detail as a unique artwork. Attendees enjoyed the evening.
Coreus Society of St Pauls church meets Tuesday evening August 9 at 7 30. Alma Hearne Holland missionary society gathers at 6 15 Tuesday at Sunset Park with Mrs A Anderson leading. The E O W eclub meets with Mrs Belle Miller Tuesday evening. Members asked to bring a pickle or relish recipe.
The Rosemary club will meet with Mrs. Shirley Augustine on Wednesday afternoon. The Pansy Hill cub will meet with Mrs. Roy Kephart Wednesday afternoon Aug. 10. A good attendance is desired to plan the annual family picnic. The Harmony club hosts a precine dinner at Sunset Park Wednesday. The Ladies Aid of West Chester M. E. church holds their regular monthly social this Wednesday afternoon Aug. 10. The Just Us club will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Howard Kerr.
The Zieglowskys held their first family reunion at Randpark Keokuk on Sunday August 7 with 91 attendees. Guests included Carl Zieglowsky 77 and Eldon Eugene Oltmann 1, plus 34 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren, as they toured the park power house and enjoyed a basket dinner. The group plans to meet again next year.
Six pupils of Miss Carolyn Hamilton performed a Friday afternoon voice recital at her studio starting at four o clock. Accompaniments were by Charlotte Squire and Helen Melinski. The program featured works by Schubert Hawley Woodman and Spross among others performed by Helen Melinski Ruth Davis Velda Parcell Wilma Walker and others.
The Sunshine Community club meets Friday August 12 with Mrs Wiebree Weerman. Units of the Ladies Aid of the Methodist church meet at 2 30 with Mrs J P Thomas at 433 E Washington Unit 5 with Mrs Howard Sigafoose miles south Unit 9 with Mrs Walter 5 Brown 6 12 miles northeast Unit 7 holds a picnic supper at 630 in the Sunset park southwest corner A business meeting is at 4 o clock Families are invited to the picnic Bring dishes sandwiches and a dish to pass If rain the supper moves to the parsonage.
Pleasant Hill proposes a community picnic at the springs west of the church this Saturday August 13. Everyone is invited to attend.
A collection of tomato based dishes and other recipes includes Tomatoes Stuffed with Bags and Deviled Ham Fried Tomatoes and a Seafood and Vegetables casserole. It features Crabmeat Shrimp dishes Potatoes Peanut Butter Cream Toast Blueberry Planners Apricot Cream Moll and several fruit desserts.
The Beaty and Henderson reunions gathered about 75 members at Sunset Park on Sunday. President 8. P. Beatty led the meeting after a picnic, with plans set for next year’s gathering on the first Sunday in August in Washington. A long list of attendees from Keokuk, Keota, West Chester, Wellman, Oxford, Davenport, Monroe, Oskaloosa, Salina, and Washington attended. A recipe for Concord Punch was included in the page.
Palmer Mendelson proposes distributing surplus fruits and vegetables to the destitute with Red Cross cooperation. Growers and shippers would set aside unsold food, railroads move it, relief agencies receive it, and the government would fund containers and picking.
Canadian officials stopped Gilbert Hamilton at the Windsor border with a gallon of Detroit best moonshine in his car. He was fined 60 dollars and the liquor was seized.
In Newton Iowa officials announced a production schedule boost at One Minute Manufacturing. The firm will begin mass production of a new low priced washing machine and has orders to keep 400 new workers on two eight hour shifts for 60 days starting next Monday.
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