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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1933
Page
7
Local notes from Homestead Farm and English River townships describe river waters lower than ever, community meetings to rebuild the South Prairie schoolhouse after a fire, and social updates. Entries include oblique humor on wealth and light, farm talks, and multiple local family movements, births, and anniversaries.
Kalona December meeting of the Kalona Independent Telephone Company elected officers led by President Ben Boone and Secretary Treasurer Belle D. Davis. Directors named were J. L. Fry C. E. Hershberger V. D. Hoehsteller and Rufus Gingerich.
A Winter Fashion Book presents an Easy-to-Make black velvet gown with stiff lace accents for holiday dances. It highlights double ruffles to shape shoulders and lips, a potential rhinestone clip at the neckline, and a back drape with a deep decolletage. Pattern No. 5389 fits sizes 12 through 40 bust.
In Lima the nine oclock dinner hour marks the citys most appetizing dish papas rellenas a fried mash of potatoes onions eggs olives and raisins celebrated as a local specialty.
United Presbyterian and Methodist societies met with leaders Mrs Alma Walker Mrs Doris Orris Mrs Ray Townsend and Mrs Jessie Pressly discussing The Never Failing Light and the Basis of Brotherhood The Medical Work in China and Japan was presented by Mrs Mildred Stephens and devotional leaders included Mrs Ralph Kelsey Grandma Olinger is ill in Oklahoma City plans for a Christmas pot luck supper were announced by the Soro sis club Thirty two rural routes were consolidated with route shifts involving Clyde Keiper Orville Thoma and others Mrs McCreedy returned from Mayo Clinic surgery and Mrs Smylie hosted a United Presbyterian meeting in town.
Patricia Haverholt rises in New York society during a major bridge tournament she enters with partner Haverholt. Clark Tracy returns from Aiken, causing tension as Pat navigates fame, romance, and rivalries, with Reuben Blair’s absence fueling talk at the Winston Hotel.
Patricia Warren, facing rivals Sanderson and Marr, compels a tense crowd as she debuts in a high stakes bridge tournament. Partnered with Julian Haverholt, she overcomes nerves to display prodigious skill, rising as a rising star in the competition for Blair’s silver cup.
An authority on guinea pigs clarifies the name is misleading. He states these tailless rodents are not pigs and do not originate from Guinea. Native to South America, they are more closely related to porcupines rabbits and mice than to pigs.
Mrs Lloyd Nelson notes afternoon visitors at the Ed Nelson home include Mr and Mrs Howard Darnel and Mr and Mrs Charles Schamp. The Walnut club outlines a pig roast at Ralph Chorpening home and a corn shuckers event. Walnut school children received Red Cross badges Tuesday. Delbert Wells butchered Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Henry Finke of Morning Sun visited Delbert Wells over the weekend. The Walnut club meeting set for next Thursday.
The sage Hi Ho says people seek wiser men but when those chosen fail to meet tasks they are blamed for the error of the public.
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