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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1963
Page
3
Dear Abby shares a collage of readers asking about godmother roles marriage hopes and a widowed man seeking a new partner. Advice touches on church records dating etiquette and how a mature man should pursue a lasting relationship.
Keota Fortnightly Club met Monday afternoon with Miss May Marr hosting. The 4H Lucky Lassies and TTT clubs held sessions featuring demonstrations, bake sale plans, and a Christmas giving report. Birthdays, hospital visits, family updates, and new arrival news from local families fill the community notes.
The Iowa Mennonite Benevolent Association met January 15 at Pleasantview Home Kalona with twenty five members present. Officers and committees were reelected and plans discussed for expanding Pleasantview Home to add a new wing as funds allow. Indebtedness dropped from 126000 to 57000 with all payments from donated funds.
Clyde Garbers visit Kalona with son in Manson returns from Indiana. Local diners include the Burkley and Brenneman households with guests from Brighton Washington and Arizona. University of Dubuque students on break join Yoder families. A quilting bee hosted by Mrs. Sherman Miller features many neighbors. Tobe Bontrager shows improvement at University of Iowa Hospital. The Ways host dinner with O L Rogers Velma Way H J Bigelow. Sally Skola and Tarry Skola spend weekend with Kalona parents.
About fifty attended the joint installation at the K P hall as Pythian Sisters and Knights of Pythias installed new officers. Marion Renoux as G C and Nelson Woodford as G S presided. numerous Sisters and Knights received offices and pins amid a reception by Ottumwa guests.
A birthday dinner was held at the Duane FE Yoder home near Kalona honoring Sherman Miller and family. Guests included the Miller and Daniel D. Miller families and the Yoder extended kin. Page notes also mention bridge club events, visits to Iowa City and Cedar Rapids, and a move by the Spicher family to Iowa City.
Kalona Iowa starts February 2 with a Reading Room run by Kalona Girl Scouts. Saturday 2 to 3 pm the Scouts and Troop members read to children ages four to seven. Parents invited. library staff and leaders Mrs. C. W. Beckman, Mrs. Dale K. Gingerich, and librarian Mrs. Claude Preston sponsor the service project.
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