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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1946
Page
5
Local shoppers see Bridges & Co listing fur coats silk hose winter coats and a wide range of holiday goods. Items include Evinrude outboard motors, purses, scarves, purses and jewelry with multiple mentions of Strutwear silk hose and mink furs. Several social notes mention weddings and travel by plane, plus clerks aiding post office rush season.
The Order of Rainbow Girls completed plans for an invitational dance to be held Monday at Legion hall. The regular Rainbow meeting was in the Masonic temple with Marie Blattner presiding and Mrs Victor Blattner Mrs M L Brown and Fred J Longer present with board members.
Blencoe Iowa officials estimate damage at $6000 after a fire destroyed two planes and a hangar at Oliver airport northeast of town. Fire started from a short circuit.
Emilia Touffie and Herbert Mishler wed Sept. 6 in the Anglo American church in Beirut Syria. Rev James Nicol officiated. The bride worked as a hostess for Middle East Airlines. Mishler, a former Ames student, served 3.5 years in the air transport command and was discharged in Cairo. He now works as a company engineer for Middle East Airlines in Beirut.
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