Food prices surge as January CPI hits 20-year high
In January retail food prices jumped 2.1 percent, the fastest one month rise in over two decades, led by meats, poultry, eggs, fresh produce and milk. The overall price index rose 0.3 percent. President Nixon urged stabilization efforts and warned of continued food price rises before leveling off later in the year.
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Funeral Friday for Lora Darbyshire 90
Funeral services for Lora E. Darbyshire aged 90 will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Sherman-Eden Funeral Home with Rev. William Kettlitz presiding. Burial will follow in Elm Grove Cemetery. She resided at United Presbyterian Home since 1962 and died February 21, 1973 after a long illness. Born May 13, 1882 in Kellerton Iowa, she lived in Des Moines from 1922 to 1962, selling fine china for Younkers for forty years. Surviving is nephew Howard Darbyshire of East Grand Forks, Minn, with brother Harry E. preceding her in death.
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Younkers
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Howard Darbyshire
East Grand Forks
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Grand Lodge degree team to visit IOOF Hall Tuesday
The Grand Lodge degree team will perform the initiatory degree at IOOF Hall on Tuesday February 27 at 7 30 p m. State police or city reports detail a Washington County Hospital treatment for chest injuries and facial cuts after a two vehicle crash on East Washington near Jack and Jill Store. Frank L Sanders of Washington rear ended Julie Ann Talbot with $2 200 in damage and Sanders faced a charge of failure to stop in the assured clear distance ahead. Liz Foster of Keota will join pinning ceremonies at Kirkwood Community College Cedar Rapids Friday as part of the licensed practical nurse graduating class.
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ISU Alumni Banquet to Feature Gary Mulhall Speaker
Gary Mulhall director of field activities at the Iowa State University Foundation will speak at the ISU Alumni Banquet on Saturday March 3 at 6 30 p m at the Captain's Table The Keokuk County alumni are invited Reservations can be made by calling Mrs Gary Murphy Washington Peter Bell Keota or J H Jones Ainsworth Tickets cost 3 25
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Fox Hunters Hold Annual Oyster and Chili Supper
The Tri-County Fox Hunters Association met at Crawfordsville Legion Hall on Feb. 17 with 47 attendees. Officers named for the year include Ernest Meyer president and Charles Friese captain among others. nine foxes were killed this season with Art Hoefer of Marion earning two in one day and Friese noted as the oldest hunter to take a fox.
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Shirts and Skirts Square Dance Club Dance Night
The Shirts and Skirts Square Dance Club invites all to a 8 to 11 p.m. dance on Saturday at the Legion Hall. Bruno Zeni will call the figures and members should bring refreshments. Everyone is welcome.
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Demons Aim to Tie for Second in Southeast Seven Showdown
Mount Pleasant hosts the Washington Demons in a pivotal regular season finale that could produce a three way tie for second with Fort Madison if both teams win. Oskaloosa clinched the league title with a 10 2 record, while Mount Pleasant sits at 8 3 and Fort Madison 7 4. Washington seeks to derail Mount Pleasant as the rivalry renews with Holtgrove leading the Panthers and Speece restoring a key starting lineup for the showdown.
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Women's Bowling Pepsi 3 Bryn Maw Roe's 3 Jack and Jill Ainsworth 2
Roe's tops team series with 2467 and Ainsworth leads team game at 876 while Pansy McGill and Joy Crossett top individual charts with series 567 and 566 and games 206 and 202 respectively.
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Baker refuses marriage demands triggers coastwise fallout
Arthur Baker refused Laura Alderman's demands they wed, ending their affair. Local court orders Baker to keep the peace for two years as Alderman, aged 74, states she will never marry him. Baker, 69, reportedly caused an upsetting scene before the ruling. Weekend livestock prices and hog market data follow, with cattle receipts estimated at 80,000 and prior-week figures noted.
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TV Listings February 22 23 Channel 2 3 4 6 9 12
Local television guide outlines Thursday and Friday schedules across channels 2 3 4 6 9 12. Programs include News Tell Truth Waltons CBS Movie Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Last Word Mission Impossible Wait Until Dark and various dramas comedies and late night features.
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