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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1941
Page
6
The Valley schoolhouse interior was repainted by LeRoy Richardson of near Keota. School opens Monday September 1 with Eloise Hadley as teacher. Residents report various social visits and local travel news. road improvements near the Valley church are completed and ready for gravel.
West Sunset column reports Dallas Bailey and son from Nebraska and William Bailey and family from Washington as supper guests of Frank Bailey family. Billy McCune visited friends Donald and Ryvette Baker. Henry Kiene and family joined a Muscatine reunion at Wead Park. Hayden Thomas family also attended the Columbus gathering.
Riverside relatives report the death of Ida K Marchand at age 73, occurring August 7 at her Metamora home after a six week illness. She was daughter of Peter and Anna Streb, longtime Riverside residents who moved to Metamora after her father’s death. Ida Strebd wed in 1891.
Juanita Baker spent last week with her sister Mrs Warren Schlatter of Wayland. Gerald Wehr visited Elmer Kiene. Cleo McCoy returned home from the hospital and is recovering well from surgery. Grandmother McCoy and families Gardner Lee Frances McCoy and Everette Sommers visited on various evenings this week.
The clipping records a Metamora marriage tied to the Marchand family with survivors and grandchildren, plus extended Streb relatives in Iowa and Illinois. It notes teachers positions in Selma, a Navy furlough for Kenneth Kallaus, and visits by S F Critz and others, ending with Riverside residents visiting friends and family.
In a crowded Richard Garrison party Jane arrives with Mat Breana, while detective tension grows over Carlie Bream’s murder. Breana’s gun-running schemes loom as Kurt Helm presses for leverage, and David Farland faces Fan Rubley’s volatile schemes amid shifting loyalties.
In a tense New York apartment, David faces guilt over a murder tied to a stolen envelope while Bill questions connections to Kurl Helm and Brean. Fan Rubley, entangled with Garrison and Farland, prepares to attend a party as a mysterious Sweitzer case emerges, bringing a distressed visitor and police pressure into a web of secrets.
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