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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1966
Page
7
Local residents hosted guests from Indiana and Nebraska over the weekend and into Monday. A car owned by Dennis Boshart was destroyed by fire after a collision near Wayland. The Wayland Mennonite church youth held a treasure hunt and dessert at West Wayland Park.
Nancy Slemmons visits family in Westchester while moving Urbana to Paxton. Coakley reunion at Glenwood Park Macomb. Washington gatherings include WCTU breakfast and social circles. Pink and blue shower honors Dean Hobbs. travel memories shared. Aug 23 breakfast hosted by Mrs. Tom West for Chicago visitors. reminiscences mark a busy local scene.
Maxwell couple in Brighton visit Keith Willis home and shared details of a Harmony Club meeting hosted by Mrs Beatrice Tracy. Several Cedar Rapids relatives, Burlington and Manchester visitors, anniversaries, and weekend family visits are noted, with multiple sets of extended family gatherings and dinners across town.
Gary Knights of Brighton and Mrs Gary Knight of Evergreen Park Illinois visited Sunday at Clyde Little home. Grandmother Mrs Ima Dawson also present. Larry Hanshaw and family arrived later. Knights had visited Cedar Rapids over Saturday with Larry Knight and daughter. Mrs Michael Meade of Town will visit Nellie Hagan's with son Timothy. she is former Miriam Horner. Alanna Elmore attended Town Yearly Meeting in Oskaloosa, will stay with Aunt Joyce Elmore and Jimmie at University Park. Des Moines guests Dean Elmore and Joyce Elmore visited mother Dessie Elmore. Pauline Giles and son from Glendale Arizona visiting her parents Harold Coop. Ronald Coop and two Minneapolis boys will visit Coop home for a week. Dawson reunion Aug 14 at Sunset Park Washington attended by Carl Johnson West Chicago, Cordelia Whitacre West Chicago, Alma Dawson. Lucille Brier Collidge Arizona and Jenny Madden were guests at Clifford Leeper. Earl Neal left for Des Moines State Fair. Jack Stauffer Bobby and Christy from Milwaukee visited Lula Smith.
Mr and Mrs R H Peterseim who wed August 6 at Nashua will receive guests at a 3 to 5 p m Sunday reception in Fellowship Hall United Christian and Baptist church Kalona. The couple request no gifts and families invite friends to share the event.
Aug 23 reports Mrs Wanda Brinton of Iowa City visiting her parents and attending the Shaffer reunion at the Brighton Park Pavilion. Carl Rotzinger family picnic at Lake Darling with extended relatives and friends. gathering included Roger and Michael Rotzinger and several Rotzinger in laws. Also notes a miscellaneous shower for Miss Robin Bueghly of Towa Falls and a later visit by the Glenn Hagans family of West Liberty to Mrs Nellie Hagans and the Berry family.
The record details funeral attendance for Mrs Eugene Gray in West Branch after an automobile accident in West Liberty. It lists visits and gatherings among local families including Cherryholmes, Williams, Stott, Wilson, Marlatt, Orris, Phillips, and Dade. Also mentions the Russell Reunion at Mt Pleasant air and Cedar Rapids dining.
The advertisement promotes a Purina cattle demonstration showing automatic feeding with Purina Steer Fatena BIR and Purina Cattle starters. Cattle were fed hay then placed on self feeders after a 24 hour rest. the next weigh date is Tuesday September 20.
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