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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1965

Page

3

Dear Abby Mistletoe caution and Busy Bees meet

A letter warns mistletoe berries can be poisonous after a child’s near miss. Abby answers questions on dating and household dynamics. Busy Bees 4 H Club wraps gifts at the County Home with officers installed and a home tour for the girls.

Abby San Bruno

Christmas club activities and Daughters of the American Colonists notes

Thirty two Past Matrons and twenty one guests gathered at the Masonic Temple for the annual Christmas dinner served by Wite Shrine members. Officers elected include Dona Birlingmair as president Verne Landers as vice president and J F Larson as secretary treasurer. Also noted are the Sigourney chapter events at Winga Cafe with donations to multiple funds and a genealogy note. Earle Libe hosted a HEO Club luncheon with secret sisters. Cedar Township Farm Bureau Women held a November meeting with a film on home improvement and a planned December installation of county officers.

Busy Bees 4-H Mildred Kupka Charlie Davison Derald Edwards Sandy Blodgett Carol Wilson Jane Wittetoe Donna Wilson Carol Fox Charlotte Hiller David Bauer Masonic Temple Wite Shrine Hal Dunham Harold Strum Dona Birlingmair Verne Landers J. F. Larson Sigourney Chapter The Daughters of the American Colonists Winga Cafe John Cherry Arthur Wead Howard Shaffer Royal Robertson Brighton Charles Ragan Washington Robert Kurtz H.W. Statler School of the Ozarks National Defense National Endowment Fund National Building and Furnishing Fund Kurtz Ireland Pennsylvania State Historical Library Des Moines Iowa City Earle Libe HEO Club Elwyn Corey Wayne Norman Cedar Township Farm Bureau David Norman Maurice Crawford

Midwest Poets Honor Helen Waters For Lifelong Poetry Work

Helen Waters a retired Nebraska Iowa teacher receives an honorary life membership from the Midwest Federated Chaparral Poets in recognition of her poetry and creative writing work in schools and her encouragement to aspiring writers. Mildred Nye Dewey, former Grand Island Nebraska resident now in Tucson Arizona, announces new regional director and editor duties for the magazine.

Helen Waters Nebraska Iowa Midwest Federated Chaparral Mildred Nye Dewey Grand Island Tuscon Arizona

Snakebite Ice Pack As Effective As Tourniquet

An Alpine Texas doctor reports ice applied to snakebite can limit venom absorption, possibly more protective than a tourniquet suction or antivenom, with cooling continuing up to six days if the body stays warm. Local cooling constricts vessels near the bite.

Alpine Tex E. Lockhart Brewster County Memorial Hospital

Fosdick Named President of Iowa Ammonia Distrib

Donald J. Fosdick district manager for Sinclair Petrochemicals Inc was named president of the Iowa Agricultural Ammonia Distributors for the coming year The group held its annual convention in Des Moines last week

Visitors and visits noted at United Presbyterian Home

Members and relatives visited the United Presbyterian Home in Ackley and nearby towns. Gertrude Upton and daughter in De Kalb, Illinois, with sons in Joliet and Bloomington. Ann Pratt's Iowa visit. Several trips by Megchelsens, Horton, Brehmer, Hunt, and others to the Ackley home. Willing and Gillis families also noted. plans for housing cottages and a Florida stay for four months.

Gertrude Upton Illinois Robert Everetts DeKalb Joliet Bloomington

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