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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1932
Page
3
A wedding took place yesterday in Washington at the office of Justice Ed Bovee. Edith Stout and Randolph Hoover, both of Brighton, will reside on a nearby farm. This was Mr. Bovee’s first officiated ceremony with several friends attending.
The nineteenth annual Hotle Shockley reunion was held at Sunset park with about seventy four attendees. Out of town guests included Mr. and Mrs. Henry Singmaster of Sebastopol California and Dr. and Mrs. Ira Hoge of Pittsburgh. A business meeting elected officers for the year and a chicken dinner plus ice cream and cake were served.
The third Henderson-Knotts reunion gathered about forty seven at Sunset Park in Washington on Sunday August 28. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Art Stenmer Everett Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lambert Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Green and many Henderson relatives. The event featured cafe ria style dining, games for men and children, and an afternoon program with officer elections won by Mrs. Floyd Green president and Mrs. Wm Shaffer vice president. The reunion will be held at Sunset Park in Washington next year on the last Sunday in August.
The Friendship 4H club announces a bake sale Saturday morning at Washington Cleaners 17013. An EBicher pleate will be held at Crapo Park in Burlington Iowa on September 7 starting about 2:30 PM. Public invitation extended. Please bring basket suppers.
The weekly NIRA update notes Sunday church services, a smaller Little Creek picnic crowd, Otto Dennison and Otto Swicke at Lake Okoboji, Calvin Griffith and bride’s reception at the Grant Griffith home, and best wishes from friends. Also mentions Jake Litchlers guests, Will Eitermiller and family, Jim Herr and family, Arthur Jones Ree Shepherd, and a hog shipment last Friday.
A recital of Schubert voice and piano numbers was presented at Miss Carolyn Hamilton's studio by Miss Wilma Walker and Miss Carolyn McCleery. They performed songs and a Schubert-Rachmaninoff piece with piano accompaniments, followed by a brief life sketch of the composer. Lawrence Meacham of Richland visited his cousin Don C. Davis over the weekend.
Scientists bring 35 expeditions and international teams to Maine to study the solar eclipse. Observers set up at rope enclosures under police guard along the path from Parent, Quebec to Gray near Portland, timing totality from 3:18 to 3:39 P M. and partial phases from 2:19 to 4:33 P M. Local weather remains a worry, with planes, unmanned balloons and radio experiments aimed at capturing atmospheric effects.
August events from Washington area include the Pleasant Hill school opening with teacher Miss Madge Keegan of Brighton. Reports detail visits by the Cordells from Rock Island and extended family gatherings at the Simmering and Lambert homes, plus a stroke illness affecting Mrs. Simmering and nearby daily activities at the farm.
Snakes retreat to rock fissures to hibernate through winter. They endure cold but freezing temperatures can be fatal. They instinctively choose shelters that stay above dangerous low temperatures.
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