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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1950
Page
3
Washington Public Library announces the addition of ninety-three new titles for patron use. The list includes fifty fiction volumes and forty-three non fiction works led by Milk Glass and Belknap Gift.
A long catalog of memorial and gift books honoring Mrs Frances Wall ace and Mrs P L Wilson includes works by Burns Mantle Sheean Higginbottom and McCormack among many others, with gifts from Mrs A W Errett and family. The list features biographies poetry histories and religious and children's titles across multiple authors and publishers.
Mrs. Lester Hanft and her son were discharged from the hospital today in Columbus Junction.
The Future Homemakers of America hosted a Valentine party at 4 pm Thursday in the high school. President Clydene Nicola led the business meeting before the event. Committee members Joan Week Marilou Marston Luella Rathmel and Charlene Romine helped plan activities while Miss Heek and Miss Rathmel assisted. Carol Weeks reported on tonight’s after game dance with refreshments in the homemaking rooms and red and white decorations completed the scene.
The W W K club met Monday evening at Mrs. Carlton White’s Crawfordsville home with seven members present. Vice president Mrs. Chester Spangler led a brief session. Duane Henss was elected president for the coming year. Other officers named include Mrs. White as vice president, Mrs. Oren Harrell as treasurer secretary, and Mrs. William Hensseard plus a flower committee. The evening opened with social visiting, followed by a game of Banasta won by Mrs. Henry Cheney with high prize and Mrs. Duane Henss as consolation. A dessert lunch was served by the hostess.
A long birthday and anniversary notice lists numerous individuals celebrating on February 17. Names include Mrs G FE Montgomery, B Frostwick Jr, Mrs Frederick Reid Jr, Don Sands of Ainsworth, Claire Darbyshire, Patricia Patterson, Ray Forbes, and Joe Schmeltzer among others with various candle counts noted for children Brenda Mapel Tommy Waters Bobby Allbaugh Richard Campbell Gordon Coon Keith Thomas Jeanette Chalupa Michael Farrier Richard Eyestone.
Whip Wilson stars in the western Fence Riders at the Fox Theatre playing a frontier lawman who outwits rustlers. The film co stars Ada Clyde and Reno Browne with a backstory of a Texas deputy sheriff detained for speeding near the California Arizona border. Carryover corn from last season may total a billion bushels next fall.
Ralph Byrd, famous for playing Dick Tracy on screen, stars as a federal radar agent in Radar Secret Service from Lippert Production at the Pox Theatre. He is praised for civic work with the Boy Scouts and leads a Cub troop in Northridge, California.
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