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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1950
Page
8
Mrs. L. L. Loveless is expected to return home today following the first in a series of operations performed at Mercy hospital in Iowa City.
Mr and Mrs Pat Swift led their daughter Cora Ruth to Iowa City for a neurology department examination after ten days of illness. Mrs Hugh Hall and Mrs Stella Lartehem returned from a southern motor trip to Florida and Key West and a Nashua island plane visit. R J Rohrer QM1 and wife welcomed a daughter born Wednesday February in Portsmouth Virginia weighing five pounds fourteen ounces.
Mrs Rohrer formerly De lores Wallace is daughter of Mrs Everett Wallace of Washington. S N Sorrell, a patient in University hospital Iowa City, is in room 318W and would enjoy hearing from friends.
Margaret Cowden was guest speaker at the Prairie Flower Missionary society meeting at Mrs. Robert Roberts home. A cooperative dinner accompanied by devotions and prayers followed. Cowden discussed 34 years in Iran with the American Teheran missions and showed handmade Iran articles. The collection totaled 12.55 and the next meeting place is undecided.
Mrs. Helen Bowers of Harper will be the instructor at the OBS school of instruction March 16. The announcement came at the chapter meeting Thursday evening at the Masonic Temple. Mrs. Richard Hotle presided, with about 60 members in attendance. Initiation is planned for the March 9 meeting. Refreshments followed, tied to Valentine day, served by a committee led by Mrs. Paul Thayer.
Father H. J. Corcoran of St Paul’s Burlingtion Catholic church sails to Ireland as the first leg of a six week Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome. He formerly served at St James parish in Washington and plans shrine visits in Lourdes and Fatima before returning.
The 20th annual Louisa county musical festival will be at Wapello high school auditorium at 7 30 p m Saturday. Vocal groups and bands from Columbus Junction Cotter Morning Sun Letts Wyman Oakville and Wapello schools will participate.
Yesterday, Edwin and Evan Horn welcomed a son in Riverside at 1 55 p m. Also, John and (unnamed) Hixson of Columbus Junction had a son at 8 45 p m. Today, Ray Roberts and wife in Brighton have a son at 12 20 a m.
Pleasant Hill Ladies aid met in church parlors voting 25 to the March of Dimes and outlining a youth banquet at the church on February 14. Fifteen members and four guests attended including Mrs. Dwight Hayes. The meeting featured a devotional by Mrs. Howard Caldwell and a business session led by Mrs. Howard Benn.
The North American shrike known as the butcherbird earns its nickname from the way it kills and preserves prey. It seizes small birds, mice, and grasshoppers with a strong beak and impales them on thorns, fence barbs, or broken twigs.
Norman Simmering and his wife Betty Ruth Anderson are newly married and residing at 619 Van Buren St. in Fort Smith. Betty Ruth Anderson is the former Miss Betty Anderson of Spiro, Oklahoma, daughter of Mrs. Astella Anderson. The couple wed January 28 at the First Baptist Church in Fort Smith. Betty Ruth worked for Allied Transfer in Fort Smith for two years. Norman runs a cafe business in town.
West Chester Pythian Sisters hosts district deputy grand chief Mrs. Hubert Lehrer and Mrs. G A Reinert from Washington at KP hall. Twenty six members attend. altruistic work totals two hundred fifty dollars. An March 8 instruction school is announced. Nominees for February 28 party include Mrs. Merle Thrapp Mrs. Lester Laubach Mrs. Nelson Woodford and Mrs. Carl Peterson. Serving committee named: Mrs. Willard Hole Mrs. Harold Kloppenstein and Mrs. Thrapp.
When buying a dairy or beef cow at auction, farmers should insist on a health certificate to verify the animal’s health status and reduce risk of disease. This practice helps ensure market integrity and protects other buyers.
A quirky tip suggests securing cheese to a mousetrap with cellophane tare to ensure the mouse is captured and the cheese remains for the next victim.
Tim Plate and William McKinley demonstrated that tin plate manufacture was practical not occult. The experiment showed the process could produce badges and pie plates, which are still preserved as historical artifacts.
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