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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1964
Page
3
Readers submit questions on office parties with restricted guest lists, courting a shy neighbor, and a foul mouthed talker. Abby advises against drunken office gatherings for married couples, suggests befriending the sister in law to get closer, and tells the complainant to bow out of crude company. The column ends with Abby inviting further letters and offering wedding guidance.
Mr and Mrs Roy Steele observed their 45th wedding anniversary on August 20 as their children and grandchildren gathered at the Steele home. Leighton Kelly Brent Kent Clif ford Steele Bonnie Randy Sara James Steele Bonnie Kelly all of Sigourney Wapello Iowa City were present with a decorated cake ice cream a floral piece and a group gift from the family.
Mr and Mrs Joe Koenigs mark Barbara and Joe of Elk Grove Village Ill are spending a few days in the Howard Lins home in Brighton Mrs Koenigsmark is the former Mildred Music Barbara Bennett is a new employee at Phillips Drug Store Mr and Mrs Lowell Ballou of Independence were overnight guests of Mr and Mrs Dallas Kinney and little Allison Mr Bailou teaches music at Fayette Mrs Albert Lay has just returned from a trip to southern Illinois Kentucky and Missouri She attended the wedding of her nephew James M Bailey to Dorothy Marshall at Murphysboro Ill Mr Bailey is a teacher in Alton Ill and his bride is in nurses training at the Methodist Hospital there Mrs Flossie Holmes has been dismissed from Mercy Hospital Iowa City after recent surgery and is now at the Donald Holmes home Rural Route 2 Washington Visiting in the Holmes residence are Mr and Mrs Herbert Wedeking of Clarksville Ia Mr and Mrs Richard Minick and family have been here the past week visiting his mother Mrs Mary Reister and other relatives and friends They left this morning for Chicago to visit Mrs Minick's sisters until Tuesday when they will return to Washington for another two weeks Alice McDaniel and George McDaniel of the McDaniel Drug Store have returned from Kansas City where they attended a gift and toy show and the Cosmetics showing They went to do Christmas buying for the store Mr and Mrs Ray Sewenky Eric and Alix of Keota were Sunday evening dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Lee Baird Mr and Mrs Stanly Zager are in Chicago for a few days on a business trip
In this hand from the Masters Championship, North opens 2NT and South, after a sequence and defensive shifts, faces a choice. The expert move is to cash the KQJ of hearts then play a low spade from dummy to force out West’s last trump, allowing declarer to win ten tricks despite dangerous defense.
Wayland clergy and pastors led by Bishop Simon Gingerich left August 17 to attend a conference in Milford Nebraska. Other notes include Berdyne Herig heading to Goshen Indiana, Miss Herig teaching third grade near Goshen, and local families visiting relatives across Iowa Indiana and Canada with church activities and a class reunion.
A roundup of social visits and dinners in Augustine households includes Wayne Arnold and family from Tempe staying a week, Canton Ohio guests James Rohrig, various local relatives and friends sharing meals, birthday celebrations for Paula Wehr, and hospital improvements noted at Burling-ton. Dennis and Gary Hixson enjoy a Minnesota retreat, while Clarence Lynn remains under care in Washington County hospital.
Keota and Sigourney social notices describe visits by Mrs. Har old Hutchinson and Ed Adam to relatives, Clara Hammen hosting St Marys Reading Circle with Rita Miller back after illness, and gatherings at the MacMillians and Fosdicks. Utah and Denver trips are noted, plus a Cedar Rapids trip for the All Iowa Fair. The Forest Service allocates over 5 million dollars yearly for sanitation on national forests and 1.5 million for litter cleanup in the National Park system.
Mrs. Edna S. Witting will travel Friday morning to Canton South Dakota for granddaughter Mary Carolyn Witting's wedding to Loren A. Rodway at the First Methodist Church in Canton August 22 at 3 p.m. The couple will reside in Brookings where they are seniors at South Dakota State College. Other items note families visiting cities and a VFW Lite-A Bike program distributing reflective tape strips for bicycle safety.
UPI reports from the U.S. Children's Bureau in Accidents and Children advise supervising children when using matches to prevent fires. Demonstrate how to extinguish a match, involve the child in dousing a small fire, and practice under close observation during activities like picnics or camping.
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