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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1948
Page
5
Funeral services were held at 9 o'clock Thursday morning in St Marys church for Louis A. Rose aged 89 who died Tuesday morning at his Riverside home after a thirteen week illness The Rev Thomas L Wolfe officiated at the service in Riverside Michigan with a local community gathering paying final respects.
A pocket gift item for outdoorsmen sold at Pocket Stores. Priced at 8.95, described as natural and useful on every outing. Portable and easy to carry, appealing to hunters and fishermen alike.
Funeral rites for a pastor and local mourners were held at St. Mary's with Michael Ryan and others as acolytes and the St. Mary's school choir performing. Burial took place at Mount Olivet with Rev. Wolfe officiating. Various relatives hosted dinners and card parties honoring veterans and community members, including Pvt. Kenneth Kenney and Pvt. Verne Schnoebelen, as well as Thanksgiving gatherings and hospital visits among Riverside, Cosgrove, and Iowa City residents.
Two basketball games on the YMCA floor tonight start with the Fly-High facing Shoreline in the seven o'clock opener. Local fans expected a lively evening of fast break play and close contests.
Mrs Reid led a Shrine ritual as regular officers conducted the closing ceremony. Nell Frost of Ottumwa sang The Perfect Prayer. A 100-person cooperative dinner preceded the ceremony in the dining room, with Mrs Alvin Rommell as hostess. Names of officers and visiting members listed from Ottumwa and Davenport among others.
The ers will face West Chester in an Independent League matchup. At eight o'clock the Y team will play a Brighton quintet.
West Chester Trojans defeated Pleasant Plain 42 to 13 after a slow start. Kenneth Young scored 21 points for West Chester while Ledger led Pleasant Plain with 6. Trojan reserves added a 30 to 6 win. Kalona visits West Chester Friday for a Ke-Wash league contest.
Mrs. Clark Bell purchases the 820 acre Sam Longwell farm in Dublin on December 4. The item notes other local social activity including Thanksgiving gatherings and community events at Dutch Creek Center with various local families attending.
Damascus Shrine No. 10 held a Christmas ceremonial and guest officer night at the Masonite Temple Tuesday after a cooperative supper. Mrs. Claude Rhodebeck and Mr. Rhodebeck presided as the ritual was exemplified to candidates including Rose Reid Beulah Bowers Verona Nordyke, with district and supreme committee members noted.
Mr and Mrs Stanley Mangold and family were Friday evening dinner guests in the Mangold home. Mr and Mrs Perry Deal were Friday evening dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Dewey Coffman.
The document lists names and roles including Holmes and Fairfield as principals, Beulah Bowers as queen, Gladys Hartman as king, and a sequence of handmaids and attendants from Muscatine Ottumwa Oskaloosa and Ottumwa. Pro tem officers are mentioned with various titles and a flower girl.
New sodium vapor lights along the Columbus Junction viaduct have been turned on as part of the street lighting project installed last winter. Seven lamps run from the Doudna plant east to the B and M restaurant west with an intermittent flash at Second Street and highway. The project aims to improve local illumination.
Dr Elmer S Groben of Columbus Junction spoke on nerves at the Presbyterian church family night in Wapello Sunday evening November 28 after a church dinner. Graveside rites for Mrs Elmer Sweaney formerly Etta Mae Smith were held in Columbus City cemetery Tuesday after noon following Des Moines funeral services. Relatives from Des Moines joined the families at the Spaethes home after the rites.
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