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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1943
Page
3
A school lunch feature suggests using a hot potato cheese soup as a milk substitute. It provides a recipe for potato cheese soup serving four, plus tips on using electric range speeds, keeping soup hot in a vacuum bottle, and packing attractive lunch gear and raw vegetables to entice children.
About forty attended the annual Booster Club picnic last evening at Sunset Park Pavilion. A feast of fried chicken turkey meat loaf and ice cream followed by floral centerpieces and a farewell gift from the club to Mrs Henry Amidon. Mr and Mrs Amidon are leaving the community.
A worker accumulates static electricity through normal rubber heels until a spark strong enough to pass the heel forms. The same spark also poses a dangerous shock risk to the worker.
A single voyage can move 6000 barrels of dried whole milk from 500 farms, equating to about a year’s production. The operation enables large scale dairy export and reflects extensive farming capacity.
Notice for this calendar must be in by 10 a.m. Thursday. Friendly Neighbor club picnic 7 p.m. Suniset Park. Old members and families invited. Bring meat dish dish to pass sandwiches pie and table service. Harmony club picnic 6 30 Sunset Park. Bring chicken sandwiches two dishes to pass and table service. Rosemary club picnic 6 30 Mawne Supset Park. Friday Baptist Women's Missionary Society 1 o'clock guest day luncheon at the church. Prayer table service dish to pass and sandwiches. Mrs E H Messer Mrs Bessie Brown and Mrs Dewis co hostesses Friendship club 12 noon Sunset Park Basket dinner.
Pleasant Hill holds a Thursday picnic August 26 at the pasture spring near the church with basket dinner at noon. Relief Corps meets Thursday at 2 PM at the K P hall. New Haven Ladies Aid hosts a noon August 27 picnic for members and families. St Pauls Evangelical Guild annual ice cream social August 25 from 8 to 10 PM. Parker and Shalla reunions set for Sunset Park on Sunday September 5 with basket dinners at noon.
Mr and Mrs E Rich entertained Sunday evening in honor of Captain LaVerne B Eicher and wife of Sheppard Field Texas. The social hour featured dainty refreshments served by Mrs Rich. Guests included Mr and Mrs Max Kauffman Mr and Mrs Vere Boshart of Wayland and Mr and Mrs Irvan Rich of Olds.
The list marks birthdays today for Jacob James Patterson of Ka lona at age two, John Carson age three, and numerous others including Mrs. F R Mauthe, Mrs. Marguerite Crail of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Joe Falk, Mrs. William Barth, Fred Cold of Coppock and his twin Frank in Rome, Janice and Joan Henry of Tallerrand, Darlene Custer, Beverly Ann Evans, Donne Crone, Leota Pishburn, Shirley Ann Fry, and Marcia Jeanne Masson, with notes of remembrance for the latter group.
Parents face lunch logistics as war work keeps children from coming home. Mothers pack lunches with milk, soup, crackers, sandwiches, fruit, cookies, and graham crackers to sustain energy. Suggestions include varied fillings and hot soup in a thermos, plus light snacks like graham crackers and track ers to power them through the afternoon.
Threshing has started in Cotter with Tuesday work driving progress. Norma Clegg and her mother cook meals for twenty men, earning thanks for fine hospitality. The piece also lists visitors, family news, and a note about a 4-H champion from Louisa County.
In Bettendorf at the tank arsenal plant absenteeism climbs as CLO Local 149 blames plant management for failing to address critical problems. The union denies that workers lack patriotism or willingness to stay on the job as the cause.
Cpl and Mrs Custer were honored at a picnic dinner at Weed Park Muscatine. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Ed Custer of Washington and local families. The couple, on an eleven day furlough from Camp Carson Colorado, departed Iowa City Monday to return.
Mrs. Howard Lins and Libbie Musil hosted the Merry Maid club meeting with two guests Mildred Musil of Chicago and Mrs. John Mapel. Alice Richardson chaired a brief business session while Dorothy Salladay led entertainment and refreshments were served.
The passage notes a buffet style event hosted by hostesses assisted by Mildred Musil. The next club meeting is indefinite and will be announced later.
ROCK RAPIDS Iowa C C Brinkman a 48 year old retired cafe owner was killed by lightning at 515 pm Tuesday. It was the second lightning death in the area in a week as he and his wife worked in a shed behind an old house they were remodeling. Mrs Brinkman escaped injury and the shed suffered no damage.
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