Farmland meeting attendees and local community notices
Douglas D. Derscheid and family joined 18,000 attendees at Farmland Industries annual meeting in Kansas City December 1 3. Speakers included Rep Thomas Foley and Joyce Brothers among others. Also notes on Birth Timothy Jay Bean October 30 and hospital stay, Ainsworth Evening Circle meeting details, church event plans, driver lists, and January meetings for ACCW and related groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duane White Ainsworth
Douglas D. Derscheid
Ainsworth Farmers Cooperative
Derscheid
Paul Klein
Carl Roberts
Tom Shepherd
Farmland Industries
Kansas City
Ernest Lindsey
Farmland
Thomas S. Foley
House Agriculture Committee
Jimmy Carter
George Voth
Far-Mar Co., Inc
Hugh Sidney
Washington
Time Magazine
Robert D. Partridge
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Joyce Brothers
Roy Chelf
Farmland Board
Brenda
Dennis Bean
Timothy Jay Bean
Washington Hospital
University Hospital
Larry
Kathy) Bean
Ainsworth Community
Louis Koehler
Eldon Conry
Joe White
Ainsworth Community Church
ACCW
South Church
Project Circle
Ed Miller
Leon McNeil
Koehler
Jack Hooten
Stan McCreedy
Tops
Mary O’connor
Shennie Buck
Senior Citizens meal December 15 at Brighton church
Brighton December 6. The congregate meal for seniors over 60 will be served Wednesday December 15 at the Brighton United Methodist Church with serving starting at 11 a.m. Menu includes ham baked potatoes green beans cranberry sauce hot rolls coffee milk and gingerbread with whipped topping. Meanwhile a birth announced Debbie Mullikin Holden daughter born December 7 weighing 9 pounds. Grandparents and great-grandparents listed. Harmony club held Christmas supper with ten members, guest Rex Widmer and others. dues raised to 1.00. Secret Sisters drawn for 1977.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laton Schooley
Brighton
Brighton United Methodist Church
Jeff Holden
King City
Holden
Debbie Mullikin
Josephine Mullikin
Clarence Brown Sr
Washington
Missouri
Harmony Club
Allen Lauderdale
Rex Widmer
Larry Widmer
Ben Crandall
Lewis Krewson
Roy Bence
Tara Widmer
Secret Sisters
Rush to share in jobless aid funds
Washington reports nearly 25 000 applications totaling 23.6 billion have been filed from all 50 states for a 2 billion public works program approved by Congress. Projects range from municipal offices and libraries to stadiums and a Bronx Zoo building, with an expected 80 000 direct construction jobs and faster economy impact beginning in April.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Congress
Ford
Commerce Department
Economic Development Administration
Bronx Zoo
New York City
Atlantic City
N.J
EDA
Ed Warrens Leave for California Home
Brighton Iowa reports Ed Warren and wife left Moline by plane for Redwood City California after Thanksgiving with Eunice Gowey and relatives. Also noted are a hospital discharge, fire department call for fumes from a defective furnace, a death in Indianola, a wedding in Wichita and a chapter T T T meeting with Christmas gift exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laton Schooley
Brighton
Ed Warren
Moline
Redwood City
Calif
Eunice Gowey
Raymond Stacy
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Harold Rebling Sr
Max Giltner
Agency
Clara Carothers
Batavia
Brighton Volunteer Firermen
Keith Reighard
Reighard
Washington Co. Hospital
Florence Willits
Indianola
Westview
Avery
Myrtle Robison Horton
Glen Willits
Theodore
Hot Springs
Ark
Robert Maynard
Elon Wilkerson
Mildred Gibson
Osceola
Leland
Willis
Eau Claire
Wis
Trinity U.P. Church
P.E.O
Overton
Ray Deutsch
Debbie Wolff
Wichita
Kan
St. Jospehs Hall
East Pleasant Plain
Deutsch
Joe Deutsch
Skubals Host Thanksgiving Dinner Family Gatherings
Highland Township on December 7 reports Mr. and Mrs. Joe Skubal hosting Thanksgiving Day dinner with guests including Bob Scranton and family, Lynn Blanchard and Muscatine relatives, Francis Pruty of Washington, and John Skubal of Ainsworth. Extended visits and birthday celebrations followed with neighbors and relatives such as Lyle Stacy family, Jim and Stan McCreedy clans, Brenda and Kevin McCreedy, and Ed Miller family joining in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim McCreedy
Highland Township
Joe Skubal
Bob Scranton
Sarah
Lynn Blanchard
Muscatine
Francis Pruty
Washington
John Skubal
Ainsworth
Lyle Stacy
Brighton
Stan McCreedy
Burke McCreedy
Brenda McCreedy
Kevin McCreedy
Ed Miller
Matt
Marty
Art Gorsh
John
Cindy
Dan Gorsh
Oxford
John Nissley
Iowa City
Boyd Dunbar
Brighton Legion Auxiliary Christmas meeting report
Brighton area clubs held multiple holiday events. The Edgar C. Davison Unit of the American Legion Auxiliary met at Mrs. Leland Horton’s home for a Christmas pot dinner with 13 members, plus sewing plans for VA hospital gifts and a brief program. Other groups hosted tea and potluck gatherings, with Christmas readings, carols, and expressions of thanks. A Thanksgiving dinner celebrated an 81st birthday and a village couple’s ties. News rounds out with regional visits and a note on New York City’s colonial origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Larry Hunter
Leo Mullikin
Auxiliary Treasury
Leo Dunbar
Laton Schooley
Eugene Engel
Esther Morgan
United Presbyterian Women
Lyle Stacy
Luke
Dale Gegner
Delbert Lowe
L.E. McAfee
McAfees
Brighton Sundries
Josephine Mullikin
Clarence Brown Sr
Washington
Dale Brown
Bonn
Germany
Brown Jr
Doyle Brown
Virginia Carris
Packwood
Kenneth Brown
New London
Glen Mullikin Jr
Theodore Horton
Eau Claire
Wis
Leland Horton
Iowa
Florence Willits
Indianola
Ross Day
Larry Day
Marietta
James Stanton
Keokuk
Ralph Wanerus
Tampa
Fla
Also Mentioned on This Page
Derscheids
Ed Warrens
California
T.T.T
Lloyd Gray
Gray
Skubals
Washington Evening Journal
Brighton Legion Auxiliary
Stacy
Dave Erwin
Ben Leeper
Leroy Mineart
Edgar Rotzinger
Gerald Pacha
Ed Mineart
Chris Mineart
Davenport
Scott Turnipseed
Ill
United Methodist
Shutins
U.M.W
Don Mullikin
Karen Schafer
Beverley Kephart
Mildred Guy
New York
New Amsterdam
Manhattan Island
Nada
Monte Carlo
Oldsmobile
Washington County
Ford-Mercury
Ford Motor Credit CO
MAMA
Melvin Schneider
Steamex
U.S. Floor Systems, Inc
Raleigh
N.C
Golden Tech Fe
Southwest Corner Square
Washington, Iowa
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