Say It With Flowers Birthday and Anniversary Service
A local florist promotes flower deliveries for birthdays anniversaries and special days. Call 173 for daily delivery ensuring timely expressions of celebration.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1949
Page
2
A local florist promotes flower deliveries for birthdays anniversaries and special days. Call 173 for daily delivery ensuring timely expressions of celebration.
Ruth Foster county home economist promotes YWCA officer training school at the YMCA Tuesday at 2 30 p m. She says rural homemaker and group officers across the county will gain valuable supplemental training through this community service project and invites club members to participate.
Sunday guests at the John Anderson home in Crawfordsville included Mr and Mrs Howard Anderson Nancy Phyllis Mrs Glen Anderson Mary Margaret and John Mr and Mrs Donald Sands and other relatives.
Family party honors Mabel Anderson before she leaves for George Iowa to teach. John Foster to teach in Blakesburg schools. Cedar Rapids visit to anniversary. Des Moines trip reports Carleton White better as a veteran’s hospital patient. Various relatives and friends visit, travel, and share weekends across Iowa and Missouri.
Report notes that applying recommended amounts of 2 4 D to pastures for weed control is harmless to livestock grazing those same pastures.
VFW edged Troop Nine 4-3 as Don Orr and Don Knight set up two runs in the first inning and Lou McFadden delivered a late two RBI Texas Leaguer. Dale Engle held the Troop to two hits before a seventh inning rally capped by Dave Browning and Bob Nicola. Freshwaters defeated the Cubs 3-1 in the second game as Art Edmondson scattered six hits behind steady defense.
Riverside August 22 the English River Valley turkey plant began processing for the fall market employing about 40 people including housewives, high schoolers and farmers. The operation by I W Schnoebelen highlights the labor behind the holiday birds. Mrs Franks Knotek installs city water after years with a hand pump.
Sixty three players reported for Washington high school Demons first practice under coaches Edger Steeg and Dick Gant. Despite first season for both coaches, observers noted better numbers and size than recent years. The squad will train twice daily ahead of Sept. 9 opener at Case field against West Chester.
A businessman asked Capital Gain 1 to review his insurance coverages. While reviewing policies he found two old twenty dollar bills in the safe. The discovery surprised him and nearly ended the interview. The piece ends with the moral to let an agent review policies.
A string of gatherings honored Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Holden and Lila, Mrs. Dorman Danville, and Jennifer Jo from Richmond. Hosts included Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Holden, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Iden, and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Holden of Davenport. Dozens attended dinners, picnics, and lawn entertainment across Keota and nearby homes, with guests from Shreveport and Minnesota en route from a Y's Men’s convention.
Brighton residents Mrs. John Pencil and Mrs. Leonard Worrell join Mrs. Joe Falk and Mrs. William Barth in birthday greetings today. August 25 honorees include Marcia Masson Leota Fishburn Donna Crone Darlene Custer Hal Longer Wisie Long and Mrs. Carlton Wilson plus Mrs. F R Mauthe. Names John Carson Jacob James Patterson Charles Vincent Ray Earl Goodwin and Robert Carroll Lee mark the day. Sammy Joe West is two years old.
Around Town notes a Wednesday hamburger fry at Sun Set Park hosted by families including Mr and Mrs Wayne Knupp Mr and Mrs Harold Strum Mr and Mrs Bill Walker Mr and Mrs Bob Eckels Mr and Mrs Keith Statler and Mr and Mrs Wayne Zeck.
Grasshoppers damage gardens. prevent with spraying using chlordane or toxaphene as reported.
The board of supervisors of Washington County Iowa will meet September 12 1949 at 10 A M at Court House to hear taxpayers for or against the proposed expenditures for the fiscal year beginning January 1 1950. Fred E Bourgeois County Auditor.
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