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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1930
Page
3
Society pages report Miss Anna Marie Anderson announced her engagement to Milburn McKay during a BRM Bridge Co. dinner. The June wedding is planned with parchment scrolls and sunburst roses as place favors amid a yellow and white decor.
A calendar of Christmas candy making with English toffee purses candied orange peel and various fudge recipes. Includes uncooked fudge uncooked fudge and minty taffy methods with details for making toffee brandy and panoche cakes and notes from Ames and Kewaunee guidance.
Fire destroyed Bibb county's oldest building the 1832 original courthouse in Centerville. At the blaze residents say the 1832 structure housed Frank Meigs as a residence when the fire broke out.
The Iowa Federation of Women's clubs offers eight thousand one hundred dollars in prizes for a seventh annual soap sculpture competition. Prizes span junior to senior classes with a scholarship and art-school tuition among awards. jurors include Lorado Taft Gutzon Borglum and Charles Dana Gibson. Tools are a paring knife and an orange stick.
The article suggests ideal presents for mother including handbags luggage bathrobes slippers silk hose and wrist watches. It notes personal gifts such as makeup compacts jewelry and books as well as family purchases like radios or cars, balancing individual needs with shared purchases.
Announcements list Christmastide and December gatherings across West Chester M E church, Rural Women’s Club, Heights PLOT, Jackson Township bureau, Baptist choir, Pleasant school program, Washington Chapter No 98 O E S, and Kings Herald Christmas exchange involving Virginia and Rozella Sheetz with dates from December 2 to December 13.
Roanoke Virginia farmer solves a garage issue by parking his Bantam car on his front porch.
The article suggests easy gift ideas for fathers including coordinated gift boxes with suits robes and accessories such as jewelry and smoking items. It highlights radios fashion items and time together as valued presents and notes Washington’s festive business district decorated for the holidays.
Local clubs plan Thursday meetings including HH. d. club with Mrs. Knotek, Walnut Women’s chair with Mrs. Gates, W. CC. T. A. with Mrs. Atkinson, and a Christ mas exchange. Baptist church Missionary tea, Linger Longer club, U P church Ladies Aid, P OH. club oyster supper at J P Wenger, and Daughters of Union Veterans to host veterans and widows.
Sections I and II of the Fort nightly Club American Home department met to plan Christmas programs. Meetings featured talks on household duties, music in the home, Christmas sweets, sociable books for family reading, gift displays, menus, and a round robin of holiday activities with refreshments and Santa Claus gifts.
A Christmas gathering is planned at the United Presbyterian Church on Saturday December 13 with dinner served promptly at noon and an interesting program arranged for attendees.
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