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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1952
Page
4
The piece blends reflections on faith and fate with local notes about a heifer sale at $6,000 and a makeshift wiper from a necktie. It cites Davenport art-center dreams, a retirement tome plan, and fears of an overreaching income tax while urging local fiscal restraint and home defense of liberty.
The wedding of Joan Smith and Kenneth Jones occurred at Woolson Friends church at 2 pm on Sunday. Joan, daughter of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Smith of Stockport Iowa, and Kenneth, son of Mrs Vera Jones of Richland, are college graduates. They will live in Brighton. An oil store explosion at Dick Stager’s oil station set Conoco aflame Mondays morning. Mrs Nelle Kent fractured her arm after a fall on ice and is hospitalised in Fairfield.
A large gathering honors Mrs Lucy Jones north of Richland for her 89th birthday. She has four children, 11 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren with many relatives attending a cooperative dinner at her home. Various locals and visitors were noted in the day’s social roundup including visits to Kirksville and hospital, and relatives in Richland.
Thrifty housewives flocked to Vollar Way this week to snapped up bargains as early as Wednesday morning. Overnight visitors at the Foster Bickel home were Mr and Mrs W L Bernhard of Monona Iowa.
Two men who knew each other in boyhood days are mentioned. Nancy Conley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Conley, is celebrating her 12th birthday. Mrs. Isaac Kleese, a Cedar Rapids hospital patient, is staying with her sister Mrs. Harry Haney in Marion, with Mrs. Clarence Johnson assisting at the Kleese home for two to three weeks.
A prehistoric man in America almost universally used pigments of different colors to decorate his face and body. The practice is commonly seen as adornment but may have served to protect the skin from the sun’s rays.
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