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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 13, 1948

Page

3

Community clubs plan Christmas events and potlucks

Local groups list a busy slate of holiday gatherings and activities from Monday through Thursday. Includes Y W party hosting by Mrs. Clifford Thorne and multiple potlucks, gift exchanges, and craft sessions at churches and halls with varied times and meeting places.

Y. W Helen Levis Elizabeth Irwin Evelyn Galbraith Clifford Thorne K. P DeMolay Masonic Temple U. P. Church DeMolay Mothers Circle D.U.V Pansy Hill Club Walter Bruty Earl Davis K. C VFW Hall Dept. of Handcraft Wilda Busby

Birthday Greetings for Local Residents and Children

Special greetings go to Addie M Harmon Fred Burger Mrs May McFar land Jeanne Ellen Burger and Mrs Sidney Coon. Best wishes to three seven year olds Patrick Hurley Stanton Lane Boyer Jeri Lee Snider. Rae Lee Latehem Des Moines is six Billy Kleese turns fifteen. Special salute to Mrs Owen Cnossen sr who is 86 today.

Addie M. Harmon Fred Burger May McFarland Jeanne Ellen Burger Sidney Coon Patrick Hurley Stanton Lane Boyer Jeri Lee Snider Rae Lee Latehem Des Moines Billy Kleese Owen Cnossen, Sr

Music Students Present Recital At Sorden Studio Tonight

Twenty three piano students two vocalists and four trombone players perform an 8 pm recital at the Sorden studio. Mrs Bagge and Elouise Sor den teach the performers with a Christmas themed program. A trombone quartet led by Milo Sorden appears, using a Wurlitzer piano loaned for the occasion.

Sorden Studio F. G. Bagge Margaret Ahrens Evelyn Roselyn Mayer Connie Skubal Mary Young Kay MccCreedy Ardythe Wead Janet Crone Don Slayes Sharon Moothart Claudine Kilgore Tommy Morrison Karen Foster Barbara Black Elaine Sturgis Jim Sherman Carol Sandra Ornduff Caroline Smith Carol Anderson Barbara Alice Shirley Owen Donna Vetere Georgia Wyse Sybil Bagge Elouise RR Sorden Bob Kleese Dick Wiley Harvey Timmons Gerry Murphys Milo Sorden

New Orleans Sprawls Across Vast Territory

The article notes New Orleans ranks fifteenth in population but covers 363.2 square miles, enough to accommodate all of Chicago across its spread.

New Orleans United States Chicago

Early Christmas Baking Plans for Fruit Cakes and Puddings

Readable text outlines multiple fruit cake and pudding recipes, including White or Light fruit cake and Dark Fruit Cake, with stepwise mixing, ingredients like butter sugar eggs flour nuts candied fruit and spices, plus steaming or baking times and oven temps, plus a simple fruit cake and a roast duck serving suggestion with side garnishes.

WNU

Garnishes Make Food Appear More Attracting And Digestive Aid

Garnishes simple fresh and appropriate enhance appeal and digestion. Edible garnishes are superior to decorative ones. Lattice potatoes work for fish or chops, while velarsley color adds flair if desired.

Velaarsley

Sugar Orchard Practices Boost Sap Flow

Orchard management tips suggest early tapping using bucket covers and adequate bucket numbers, and removing shading evergreens to improve sap flow in sugar trees.

Shirley Brown Bride-to-Be Feted at Kalona Shower

Mrs Kimbal Gates hosted a miscellaneous shower for Shirley Brown who will wed Warren Dare Dee. Bridge was played at two tables with Margaret DeLashmutt high and Mrs Gifford Morrison low. Guests later gathered in the Gates home den as gifts were opened.

Kimbal Gates Kalona Shirley Brown Warren Dare Dee Margaret DeLashmutt Gifford Morrison Gates

Guest of honor at shower hosted with local guests

Refreshments were served by the hostess with help from Mrs. Jes Dunlap. An out-of-town guest at the shower was Rosie Martin from Ottumwa City.

Jes Dunlap Rosie Martin Owa City

Hospital Admit List Briefly Updates Residents

At The Hospital Admitted Saturday Howard Jones Columbus Junction medical Sunday Thomas Stewart 321 FE 2nd surgical Today Charles Lord Ains

Howard Jones Columbus Junction Thomas Stewart Charles Lord

Missed Dismissals and Births Mentioned in Local Notes

A fragmentary local notices list names and events including dismissals, a tonsillectomy, and family mentions. It records on Sundays and Saturdays: Mrs John Jeffrie and daughter, Richland, Mrs Clarence Statler and daughter, Kalona, plus Mrs Mahlon Miller, and current day entries for Mrs Harry Suter, Mr Pleasant, and Mrs D W Harvey. A high Saturday entry notes Herman Freeman family at 411 WN Iowa with a 10:28 p.m. daughter event.

John Jeffrie Clarence Statler Richland Mahlon Miller Kalona Harry Suter Pleasant D. W. Harvey Herman Freeman Iowa

Nighttime Driving Death Toll Highlighted in U.S. Traffic Study

A study notes that although night travel accounts for about one third of US road use, about sixty percent of traffic fatalities occur after dark, underscoring safety concerns for nighttime driving.

United States

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