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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1938
Page
5
Glenn Thompson won the score prize in an all afternoon bridge session at the Rosemary Club hosted by Mrs Charles Wi. Widge played from two until five with nine bets present. Mrs Wi was assisted by her son in refreshments. next meeting date to be announced.
Mrs. S. P. Finch hosted the Good Will club at her home with eleven members and two guests, Mrs. Josephine Roush of Shafter, Minn., and Sarah Conrad. Roll call featured each member sharing pet hobbies and preferred work, followed by needlework and social time. Mrs. Finch was assisted by Mrs. William Bealer in refreshments. The next meeting is August 10 hosted by Mrs. Mary Fisher.
Mrs. George Miller hosted a birthday party for her son Jackie turning one. Guests included mothers and children who played with toys and posed by a decorated angel food cake as photographs were taken.
The hero of Longfellow's Hiawatha is a Sixteenth century Mohawk chief though portrayed in the poem as an Algonquin.
Friday events include a picnic at Sunset Park at 6:30 notify Mrs. Howard Messer or Mrs. Cy Bush if unable to attend. Past Worthy Advisors Club 6:30 Elizabeth Brown Co op dinner Rebekah lodge regular meeting 7 p m at the C O F hall Presbytera Woman's Missionary society 12:30 at church Saturday W R C meeting 2:30 at G A R hall.
Multiple individuals celebrate birthdays today across the area. Billy Cox, Jack Ronald Moore four, Mrs. Joe Lohberger, Mrs. Wilbur McClelland, Mrs. Edgar Rotz inger, Charley McKay, Richard Minick, Mrs. Gus Strum, Mrs. Will Sehully, Joan Margaret Glasgow, Louie Schrader, Clinton Boshart nine, Dick Maxwell seven, son of Don and 502 West Main, and Beulah Jackson are all noted in today’s community birthday notices.
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid society will serve dinners to threshers with the first meal set for next Monday in the church basement. Mrs. William Matucha is chairman of the dinner arrangements and plans.
Historical view held that sewer gas caused diphtheria while medical understanding lagged. The era linked illness to miasma and indoor smells, reflecting limited science before modern germ theory.
The dinner at the country club set for next Thursday, July 21, has been indefinitely postponed. The postponement follows a dinner to be given by Congressman BE Wiecher and Mrs Eicher after the first district congressional convention in Washington.
Riverside on July 14 hosted a Birrer family reunion with over one hundred relatives honoring Martin Birrer 95. Birrer has lived near Riverside for 93 years and now resides with his daughter Mrs. Joseph W Mellecker. The gathering included a basket lunch and games with 33 of his 56 great grandchildren present.
Mrs. Clarence Moorhead invited the women of the Presbyterian church to a July Willing Workers gathering at her Moorhead home. Mrs. Georgia Williams led, Olive Moore gave devotions, hymns by Fannie J. Crosby and Elizabeth J. Clephane, short biographical readings, a white elephant exchange aiding the fund, 22 attendees, refreshments by Circle No. 2 with sweetpeas as favors.
Medical advice urges finding the cause of constipation and avoiding quick fixes. It promotes high fiber breakfast cereals like Kellogg's All Bran for bulk in the diet, plus ample water, noting Kellogg in Battle Creek as the maker.
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