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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1943
Page
8
The article notes rural schools ready for Monday start and Washington public schools set to begin. It mentions Capt Maynard Brown at Jefferson Barracks MO after promotion, a marriage license for Marvin Widmer and Ethel Roth, and social events including a cooperative family dinner, a dessert bridge party, and a blood donor event.
A series of admissions and discharges reported from local hospitals. Notable entries include the birth of a daughter to Rev. and Mrs. George Kerr at 1:00 AM weighing seven pounds, fourteen ounces, and several patients undergoing tonsillectomies, appendectomies, and minor surgeries.
Ruth Hussey, former stage star who left for film work in 1937, assists at service camps. In private life she is married to U S Army Lieutenant Robert Longenecker and is a college educated daughter of an old New England family.
Announcement from Columbus Junction notes the August 15 wedding of Eunice Scholze daughter of M E Scholze Burlington and Donald R White son of Milton White Columbus Junction. They will reside at Asbury Park New Jersey where the groom is stationed.
Wayland residents travel for medical care, teaching posts, and family visits. Larry Jo Sharpe goes to Rochester clinic. others visit Elkhart Indiana and Milford Nebraska. John Christner sells farm southeast of town, possession set for March 1, 1944. Reverent Schuman dies in Prussia born minister, services in Grand Island Nebraska.
Riverside August 26 plans are under way for St Marys parish summer social to be held Sunday evening August 29 on church grounds starting at 8 with home made ice cream as the specialty replacing the Labor Day celebration. Rev J J Fath will chair the general committee with several assistant chairmen named.
Robert Halferty underwent a surgical procedure at Brighton noon. Doloral Adams of 1305 East Washington had a tonsillectomy this morning. Mrs. Helen Chamberlin of Winfield and Clarence Jackson were discharged yesterday afternoon. East Washington also discharged yesterday afternoon.
The frame lists officers with Herr as president Mrs Wilma Northey as vice president Pearl Leonhard as secretary and Edith Reaney as treasurer in a formal community group notice.
Castor bean oil derived powder replaces pyrethrum in shipments destined for North African troops and U S personnel overseas. The two ounce cans serve as a body dusting powder to combat typhus carrying pests, with substantial quantities saved by the synthetic based on castor oil.
List your needs and garden surpluses with the OCD and you will be given help in making proper contacts. Telephone 880.
Dorothy Kenney of Iowa City visited this week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kenney and family, while Mrs Wes Hart of Riverside is noted as a former married name.
The Misses Louise and Maude Barnes visited their sister Mrs E K Olson in Decatur. Dorothy and Ruth Orris joined Jay Orris in Williamsburg to see his son. Lieut J J Barnes at Harvard was chosen to organize and direct the Harvard band and sings in the Harvard choir. Mr and Mrs Max Mitchell moved into the H J Cheney home. the Cheneys plan to return to Chicago where he works as a fireman on the Northwestern R R.
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