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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1938
Page
6
Rev J H Krenmyre pastor of Ainsworth and painter Gene Annas fell from a scaffold while decorating the M B E church at Ainsworth. They were injured in the incident and the accident occurred during routine interior work.
Three trailer houses parked along the road near East 76 where grading began last week. Mr and Mrs Frank Washburn with son and Mr and Mrs Clarence Roberts occupy the No 6 school yard while Mr and Mrs Harvey Parkhurst live on the Art Romine farm. Much work has been done.
The report lists visits by Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Parkhurst and Wilma Romine to Ottumwa on business, Clark Willis family staying with Roy Argo while Argo couple vacation in Wyoming, and Bill Shaffer recovering from a throat infection under Dr. Stutsman. It notes wind and hail damage across the territory, with some farms suffering torn limbs, and mentions several small social visits across Mt. Pleasant Keosauna and Keota.
The term budget comes from old French bougette meaning wallet. Its current sense arose from bringing expenditure papers into the house of commons and laying them on the table for review.
The Oswalt family reunion was held Sunday at the Eldon fairgrounds with about 100 attendees. Rain and storm damage earlier gave way to a brief clearing as officers were retained for another year and a long list of relatives from Iowa and Missouri joined a post-dinner program.
The annual Kephart reunion drew about 110 relatives and friends to Sunset Park on Sunday for a basket dinner and an afternoon program and business meeting. Florence Jean Nicholson led a singing feature. Officers for the coming year include President Velma Kephart and Vice President Mrs.
The fifth annual O Loughlin Marsh reunion gathered about sixty at Sunset Park on August 7. Theodore Bailey chaired, the meal was praised, and George F. Ault of Detroit attended as a speaker with a history of the Marsh family. Ault traced the lineage to Valentine Ault who settled near York Pennsylvania two centuries ago under William Penn.
A large Davidson reunion at Crapo park in Burlington featured a program with speeches and songs by relatives from Iowa and Illinois. Dale Atkinson and Shirley Anne Lyle led plans for 1939 with a vote of thanks to Mr Ault, and a second gathering was scheduled at the same park location.
A camp tall tale describes the feared high behind a legendary beast. A tenderfoot guards the site while the creature uses a stiff talk to open condensed milk cans and spins on its tail, calming after three drinks for a peaceful night.
The tale centers on Joel Barlow a lawyer diplomat and poet whose 1787 sale of 3 968 400 acres to a French Scioto company spurred emigration to Ohio and the Northwest Territory. Land debts sparked actions by William Duer and the founding of Gallipolis in October 1790 amid waning promises and bankruptcy by 1792 as titles tangled and settlers faced hardship.
Visitors reach Mont St Michel by a causeway from the mainland but the incoming tide roars in with foam that seems faster than horses, changing the landscape as the sea advances.
Puritan infants were fed partly on hickory nut milk and corn meal gruel. Colonial parents, facing scarce milk cows, adopted a formula from Indian mothers combining corn meal gruel with hickory nut milk.
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