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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1965
Page
3
Abigail Van Buren offers brief responses to multiple readers. A couple wonders about visiting friends with past bedbug issues. A widow seeks guidance on a troubling in-law dynamic. A grandmother shares hardship after 25 years of marriage and childcare, asking for insight and possible work options.
Pat Alliman was honored at three showers in Wayland over August. Hostesses included Mrs. Lester Alliman Mrs. Mea Hester and Lulla Kaufman at Mennonite Church as Pat's mother and many relatives attended. Gifts were opened and mint green and yellow refreshments served.
The writer uncovers keepsakes from earlier years including a 1911 Harvard University summer school English composition certificate and a Washington County Normal Association letterhead. They recall Professor Edwin A. Greenlaw, a small Boston trip, and a teachers college push with local officials and long lists of officers. Other notes praise Miss Anna Dawson and memories of Marion Avenue church members Mrs. Will Eldridge and George Paul.
W L Wade and wife transfer 26 2 3 rods and 53 1 3 rods south 50 rods of East 50 rods S x NW W Wade deed to Cleo Trier worth property described in section 28 township 75 range 9. Hosetler executors in Ida Hosetler estate transfer NW / NE and NE / NW of section 1 township 77 range 8 to Edwin R Hosetler.
John Stoltxfus and wife transfer land in sections 28 29 32 33 and 77 8 to Vernie W Lowry and wife. Fred D Yoder and wife convey NE quarter of section 10 and NW quarter of NW quarter of section 11 in township 78 range 8 to Henry Beachy.
The Washington Evening Journal of Washington Iowa lists staff roles including David Elder editor and business manager William Shannon vice president and advertising director Charles Morris news editor Bob Shaffer local advertising Bruce Dowd editor and Howard Hazen production superintendent The paper publishes afternoons except Sunday Christmas and July 4th and is entered as second class matter under Act of March 38 1879 at the Washington post office It is a member of United Press Leased Wire Inland Daily Press Assn Iowa Daily Press Assn Iowa Press Assn and Audit Bureau of Circulations It notes mail rates
Members of the IOOF in Wellman completed a garage project for Mrs. John Marek whose husband was rebuilding a partly framed structure. Dinner was provided by local women and several Wellman residents visited relatives and traveled for family events while ongoing gas line work progresses.
George Allen Johnson of Washington Robert Lee Simmons of Cedar Rapids Lia Jean Critchlow of Ottumwa and William Leon Miller of Fairfield were fined in the court of justice of the peace Glenn Holden on speeding charges.
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