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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1939
Page
8
Ruth Gideon reports Bethel sees plum trees bud and leaf out early as residents comment on springlike weather. Farmers plow and prepare fences while residents burn cornstalks and discuss Christmas events and weekend visits amid Iowa town life.
The text notes Mr. and Mrs Charley Horak and Norma were Sunday dinner guests at John Horak's. Mr and Mrs Lon Burris were Washington callers and Mrs Ben Fitzgerald visited Ainsworth. Sandra Ornduff stayed with Emma Schroder while the Orn duff family took a baby to a doctor for an infection in the cheek from a fall two weeks earlier on toys.
Canadian wrestler Whiskers Blake, six feet seven inches tall and wiry, arrived in Africa for a two week stay but remains there after three years, saying he likes the locale and plans to stay beyond the initial 14 days.
A flour testing device operated by the electric eye has been perfected in Russia to determine the brain content of any flour sample within five minutes.
VEO reports a Christmas party for neighborhood children at the Pleasant Plain church. Mrs. Moses Hoskins hosted their Sunday school class last Tuesday evening. Busy Bee club met at Mrs. Sylvia Dana’s Thursday afternoon. Mrs. W. F. Leppert of Washington visits with her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Woodard visited Fred Snyder’s home Sunday. Beverly Coffin enjoyed a birthday surprise with friends Monday evening.
In Brighton on Sunday, the Hinkle family hosted a pre Christmas gathering with thirty three attendees from Cedar Rapids to Salina and nearby areas. Guests presented two rocking chairs to Mr and Mrs Henry Hinkle. Illness updates noted R J Whitacre and Kate Snyder showing improvement.
Audrey and Frances Sales visited Ottumwa and Columbus Junction in a weekend of local visits. An antique artifact linked to John Wesley, a white cotton night cap left in Newton Abbot, England nearly 200 years ago, was found valuable and sent to the Wesley museum by the innkeeper’s family.
Mrs. Combs asks to adopt Burford Loney after the hunting accident killed Arthur Combs Jr. Loney is a court ward. She hopes adoption will let him “take Arthur’s place” in their home.
Mrs Thomas E Dewey wife of the New York district attorney is entertained at tea in New York by Republican leader Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms. Mrs Simms sits at right with her daughter Ruth McCormick on the left.
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