Passing Years in Washington Chronicle Local Notes
A roundup of small town items including Ray Pierce leaving for Sioux Rapids to work as a printer, and Troop D of the mechanized cavalry visiting Washington for an oyster supper at the YMCA. Madrid entries recount pilots Marjorie Smith and Wanda Casper visiting, a Horseshoe club dissolving, a Brighton merchant missing since September, Billy Cox in Hollywood, a mattress program for farmers, a wedding prep, and a Pleasant Plain fire tragedy. Includes plane and airport use, hospital work, and local births, letters from Japan and China, and local shop staffing changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Pierce
Sioux Rapids
John Applegate
Washington
American Army
Texas
Leon Beatty
American Legion
YMCA
Marjorie Smith
Iowa City
Wanda Casper
Davenport
Charles Casper
Miss Casper
St. Luke’s Hospital
Washington Horseshoe Club
Brighton
A. B. Clark
Billy Cox
J. W. Cox
Hollywood
Clarice Meek
Cathryn McConaughey
R. A. Hender
Kalona
T. R. Phillips
R. E. Arthur
Sunshine Committee appeals for toys and books
Mrs. Leser Orr leads the YW CA Sunshine Committee urging donations of toys and books for the annual Christmas party. The county supports a poultry drive to aid Chicago as Dec 17 is set aside for Poultry Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leser Orr
Sunshine Committee
YWCA
Billy Cox
J. W. Cox
West Main Street
Hosea FE. Case
Washington County
Chicago
Reisters
H. B. Masson
J. P. Huskins
South Marion
McFadden
Adam Page
South Second Ave
Huskins
Helen Melinski
Joe Melinski
Thieves Target Warren Grocery Fire Suspected
Thieves entered the Warren grocery in West Washington and are suspected of starting the fire. They stole $50, placed bags of green coffee around the safe to muffle a dynamite blast. The building is owned by Julius Conger in California. Mrs. W. A. Gibson was named county Red Cross head. Miss
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
West
Washington
Julius Conger
California
W. A. Gibson
Red Cross
Widow J A Cunningham Dies After Long Illness
Mrs. J. A. Cunningham aged 67 died December 12 from pernicious anemia after years of suffering. She and her husband celebrated their golden wedding in January and came to town in 1874.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Cunningham
Mr. Cunningham
Frank Brindley
Dave McLaughlin
W. P. Wells
Missouri
Jim Daniels
Milt Godfrey
Wayland
J. A. Work
West Washington Street
M. J. Gillespie
Work
Great Falls
Montana
Hayes Crayton
Tupelo
Miss
Winter
Carrie
Fannie
Ruth
Frank Stewart
Real estate sale for delinquent taxes held at courthouse
Tuesday saw eight properties sold for delinquent taxes at the county courthouse. Leo Shelangoski returned from Idaho to visit family. Dr. Bernard Bancroft spoke at Prairie Flower Baptist Church and is on furlough from Manila missions. Mrs. Harold Morris arrived from Bozeman to care for her ill father. The Elite storefront to open on South Iowa Avenue offering Green's cream candies. The Mace child, five, is critically ill with pneumonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Bancroft
Muscatine
Prairie Flower Baptist Church
Bancroft
Baptist
Manila
Philippine Islands
Iowa Avenue
Star Theatre
Neighbors reflect on winter season and community happenings
The piece notes harsh weather, holiday cheer, and moral support for troops in Korea. It highlights local meetings on poultry and swine, the Community Forum series with Dr. L. L. Donington, new Chamber directors Irvin Whitham John Hedberg and George Stewart, a Rural Youth event, and parish bazaar activities. It also mentions taxes outlook, carrier fatigue, and a VW Christmas party with broad local support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irv Whitham
John Hedberg
George Stewart
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Ymyca
L. L. Donington
Town City
Chamber of Commerce
Irvin Whitham
Columbus Junction Club Honors Safest Student Driver
The Junction Club in Columbus Junction will award $5 to the safest student driver at Columbus High School. The presentation will occur later this school year with three faculty members assisting Richie Orr Warren McConahay and Jill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Club of
Columbus High School
Richie Orr
Warren McConahay
Jill
Out-of-State Guests In Walter Bray Home
Mrs. R. D. Gomez and daughters Carol Jean and Dolores of Oxnard California visit Walter Bray. Mr Gomez attends school in Indianapolis and will return for holidays. Several other families visit or stay with Bray and nearby residents. Pleasant Plain Consolidated school closes this week due to water shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Bray
WEO
R. D. Gomez
Carol Jean
Dolores
Oxnard
Calif
Howard Lucas
Zella Lucas
Brookville
Cleo Meister
Ottumwa
Glen Hosler
W. R.chiles
Beverly
Herman Gowey
Roy Rogers
H. E. Ingham
W. L. Bray
Pleasant Plain Consolidated School
Outstanding soil conservationists named in Wieffersop county
From Our County Papers Brighton Enterprise reports Mr. and Mrs. Merle Bekel on a 100 acre farm southwest of Germanville honored as the county’s outstanding soil conservationists for 1950. The Winfield Beacon notes social guests at the Robert Briggs home during a Sunday duck dinner. Columbus Junction introduces a special Santa Claus mail box sponsored by the Columbus Christmas committee to let children write to Santa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bd. J. Ross
The
Commercial Bank
Paul MacKacheron
China
St. James Church
J. B. Crooks
Lyle Nicola
Norfolk
Neb
Hattie Gordon
Blanche
California
Ella Reister
Fair
Carl Weinard Sr
West Liberty
Leonard Pohren
Washington
Ray Stalder
Stalder’s
LaWayne Weinard
Michael
Iowa City
Rebecca Shebeck
Lawrence Howell
Alvin Shebeck
Bob Emke
Columbus Junction
Max Boone
Marvin Yoder
Kalona
Brighton Enterprise
Merle Bekel
Germanville
Wieffersop County
Winfield
Columbus Gazette
Santa Claus
Columbus
Hospital News and Obituaries Summary
Admitted today are Leo Greiner and Jacqueline Horn with dectomy procedures noted. Dismissals include several named families from Washington and surrounding towns. Births list multiple families in Washington Wellman Keota Crawfordsville and Pleasant. Funeral services are set for Mrs Mattie Shoemaker at Sherman's funeral home in Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Mattie Shoemaker
Cedar Rapids
Local Social Notices Include Horn Stutzman Crone Entrants
A brief social column lists Jacqueline Horn of Washington Mrs E H Stutzman of Kalona and Mrs Douglas Crone with her son in Keota reflecting community notices and names of residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacqueline Horn
Washington
E. H. Stutzman
Kalona
Douglas Crone
Keota
Local Births and Names Reported in Yesterday’s Notes
Yesterday entries list Grace Dunshee of Keota in medical matters and Mrs Willits Jones in Washington. Today notes include Mrs Henrietta Salmon of Columbus Junction Mrs Roy Stuart of Ainsworth and Marjorie Lines of rl. Birth details also record Mr and Mrs How.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Dunshee
Keota
Medical
Willits Jones
Washington
Henrietta Salmon
Columbus Junction
Roy Stuart
Ainsworth
Marjorie Lines
Local births and hospital notices recap
Yesterday and today several entries list names and places connected to medical events in Washington and nearby towns. Individuals include Mrs. Joe Simmering in Washington, Ernest Arnold in Richland, and families in Keota Wellman Ainsworth and Wellman with newborns born at 2 55 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Simmering
Washington
Medical
Ernest Arnold
Richland
Deaths This Week in Wellman and Area
Mrs Sophia V Longwell widow of Albert F Longwell druggist in Wellman died at her home this morning. Infant son of Robert B and Darla Ivy Martin McLaughlin died suddenly at 314 West Second street at 22 days old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellman
Sophia V. Longwell
David Donald McLaughlin
Robert B
Darla Ivy Martin McLaughlin
West Second Street
Deaths of Jennie S Strum and Godfrey Sommers
Jennie S Strum aged 69 died at McClintic Nursing home Wayland after seven months of health decline. She lived in Washington 17 years with sister Mrs O M Himmelrich. Godfrey Sommers aged 84, a retired farmer, died after a lingering illness at his home south of Kalona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie S. Strum
Washington
O. M. Himmelrich
McClintic Nursing Home
Wayland
Kalona
Godfrey Sommers
Alfred T Erickson Dies After Ill Health at 65
Alfred T. Erickson, 65, of 677 South Ninth Avenue, died Tuesday morning in a Burlington hospital after two years of poor health and several months of serious illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred T. Erickson
South Ninth Avenue
Burlington
Mr. Erickson
Death notices for Julia Ostrus and Abner Kin
Word reached Mr and Mrs Elmer Guenther of Julia Ostrus death in Wiota former Coast to Coast store owners in Washington. Kalona Mrs Abner Kin singer 76 died at her Johnson county home after being bedfast seven nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leyburn Lewis
Spring Hill
Ala
Marsha Pearl
W. B. Edwards
Elmer Guenther
Julia Ostrus
Wiota
Mrs. Osterus
Washington
Kalona
Abner Kinsinger
Johnson County
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Lydia Eicher
Pleasant Plain
Anna Kaska
Harry Lamansky
Lamansky
N. W. Speidel
Japan
Tokyo
Ralph Livingston
Jim Crout
Jeff Armstrong
Democrat
Ada Jenkins
Jesse Ashby
Eugene Anderson
Stanley Miller
Merle Lytle
Wake Neal
Amos Alderson
Mr. White
Charles Cunningham
Ralph Kellar
M. E. Dicken
News Review of the
G. Grecian
Blue Lodge Masons
Ina McDowell
Ross Apts
E. L. Edmonson
Kenton Mangold
Betty Morgan
Wayne Kendrick
Charlotte Earls
Des Moines
Y.W.C.A
Kansas City
Kan
American Farm Bureau Federation
Merle Twinam
Crawfordsville
A. K. Stoutner
Mary Knotek
Marjorie Gamon
Leo Sturgeon
Mt. Pleasant
State Guernsey Breeders Association
Sturgeon
Adel
D. J. Ricket
Montgomery Ward
Grand Island
Nebr
Gwen Telford
James Telford
William Beal
Ralph Beal
Stronghurst
Dick Holmes
Klein Klothing Company
Be.l. Folker
Ft. Madison
Rarph Wright
Montrose
James E. Wahrer
J. C. McKay
Tampa
Jla
Cleveland Street
Fla
Carl Kos
William Marek
Rose Sojka
George Kos
Restopia
Pinete
Ralph Ryan
Floyd Murrock
Donald Dill
Zelinsky Hardware Store
Glen Halk
Christian Church Men’s Brotherhood
Men's Brotherhood of the Baptist Church
Robert Nicola
Harold Cumming
McCleery Cumming Calendar Company
Washington High School
Melvin Hill
Claire Buck
San Francisco
James KE. Buck
John Wittrig
Emerson Wittiig
Harold R. Gamon
John R. Gamon
Route 1
Harry Ramseyer Jr
Iowa State College
Tolbert MacRae
John Rath
M. T. Coon
Tucson
Ariz
J. A. Ross
Cleveland
Ohio
Ben Kepler
J. A. Cochran
Rev
University Hospital
G. J. Rickert
Grand Island, Neb
Taylor Stout
Harry Kyle
Mission
Tex
Mrs
Lewis Soukup
Joe M. Soukup
John Caruthers
Atlanta, Ga
N. M. Speidel
Frank Hart of
Sigourney
Harry Barker
Francis Mangold
Marguerite Dixon
Ban Waters
Dixon
Gertrude Kelley
Roger Arnold
Max Lee
Arnold
D. W. McClure
Grinnell
Don McClure
Frances Miller
Frank B. Miller
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Olivia
Jim Kaster
Livingston & Day
Washington Title & Juaranty Co
John Deere
North
Marion Avenue
George Baker
Lydia Ann Barton
Spencer
Western Union
Sac City
Arthur Gorsh
Mr. Gorsh
Mary McCulley
Jews City
T. A. Michels
Wyatt Marbourg
George Foster
Florida
Clarence Brown
Wesley Mullikin
Paw Fern
Ralph Martin
Cloud Willits
Carl Imhof
Paul Imhof
Wayne Weaver
San Bernadino Calif
Mr. Weaver
Ota Weaver
Henry Miller
Rosemary Cupp
Donna Henderson
Carolyn Kracaw
Sellman-Richardson
Don Kiesey
Mercy Hospital
Bob McFarlane
Donald Boyer
Wiley Anderson
South Second Avenue
Howard Johnston
Stanley Rest Home
Los Angeles
Margaret Martyn
Santa Monica
Johnston
R. C. Ferguson
Tina Holt
D. H. Whitehead
West Chester
C. C. Niffeneger
Home Art Club
Leo Shelangoski
Twin Falls
Idaho
Raymond
Harold Morris
Bozman
M. L. McCreedy
Jim Pineto
Maverick, Arizona
Arthur Mace
Korea
Washington County Rural Youth
St. James
Shaw
O.K
Walter B. Cannon
Junction Club
Martha Butler
Hospital News
Leo Greiner
Jacqueine Horn
Raymond Edwards
Mr. Pleasant
Leo Keifer
James Reschley
Richard Ruggles
Arthur Ruegsegger
Ora Parry
Edgar Whetstine
Haskins
Donald Stagner
Leroy McGraw
Fred Wade
Henry Davis
Schafer
Howard Eddie Bower
Kinross
W. P. Rawn
Clem Eagle
Fairfield
Tay A.m
William Gray
David W. Gregory
Sven‘ Esday
Mrs. How
Fred W. Wade
Willis Jones
Lester Forbes
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