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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1929
Page
8
The Fortnightly Club lit erature section plans a Monday meeting with Mrs. W. F. Kyle. Band rehearsals are halted until after holidays with the next practice set for January 6. A pot luck supper and a Bethel Presbyterian church Christmas program are on December 23 at 6 p.m. All welcome.
Miss Boneta Sarby leaves for Olin Iowa to spend the holidays. Hoyt Williams and Miss Isenberg travel to Lohrville for Christmas with Miss Isenberg. Edna Mercer heads to Des Moines for the break. Ruth Miner goes to Fort Madison for Christmas. Mrs Weldin from Hedrick visits the Philethea class party and stays with Mrs Gates. Jessie Kerr returns from Chicago for two weeks at Kerr home. Anna Marie Anderson returns from Iowa University to spend holidays with her parents. Margaret Alice Stewart travels from Grinnell to stay with her father on South Iowa avenue. Notice K of P work in the 3rd Rank Monday evening.
The report notes Roy Ellis Walton of Brighton and Lavina L. Galles of Fairmont Minn obtaining a marriage license. Several residents travel for holidays including Betty Benson to Davenport to stay with sister Mrs R S Anderson and Mrs Minnie Smith to Davenport to visit the Sterling White home. Mary Kerr from Iowa City to spend three days with her parents Dr and Mrs G S Kerr. Local shoppers Miss Vera Stumpf Kalona Mrs A P Jeffrey Ainsworth and others frequent town. The narrative also covers a family dispute scene with Sam, Chad, Uncle Sam, and Danny, revealing clues about a missing or uncertain incident and a possible ventriloquist ploy. the section ends with Alice McCreedy of Haskins shopping locally.
Baja Boller from Columbia Missouri where she attends Stephens College arrived last night to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents Dr and Mrs O Boller at their home.
Mrs Hazel Alberson, a teacher from Asheville North Carolina, will arrive Monday to spend Christmas at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Fred L Stewart. Miss Dorothy Libe, a teacher from Oskaloosa, will spend Christmas at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs J W Libe.
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