District 4 social notes and farm work updates
District No. 4 reports visiting neighbors five households with the Dares Kep hart Mc Council and others. Oats cutting continues with Francis and Will McConnell aided by Floyd Hamil and Billy Wittetoe. Captain LeRoy McGraw returns to Camp Hood Texas and his mother recovers from surgery in town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandra
Francis Ann McCouncil
Etta Swift
Raymond Whelan
John Wheelan
Floyd Crayne
Clement Griffith
Teddy
Bill Crayne
Eddie
Ray Whitehead
George Dares
Lester Hanan
Frank Kephart
Francis
Will McConnell
Floyd Hamil
Billy Wittetoe
LeRoy McGraw
Camp Hood
Texas
Joe McGraw
Fort Madison
Capt. McGraw
Town City
McGraw
George Dare
Val Fuhr
Drying and brining demonstration at Crawfordsville church
Ruth Foster will lead a drying and brining demo at the Crawfordsville Methodist church basement on Thursday July 22 from 2:00 to 4:30 PM. 4-H girls Mary Ellen Duensing and Margaret McCall will present vegetables ready for raw and cooked servings. Women and surrounding community urged to attend for wartime food variety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Extension Service
Civilian Defense
Methodist Church
Crawfordsville
Miss Foster
Mary Ellen Duensing
Margaret McCall
S. K. Orris
Dorothy
Paul Howell
Columbus Junction
Howell
Orris
Bruce
Oakdale
Illinois
Southern
Pacific
Georgia Gault
Alice Holmes
Crawfordsville Social News Highlights Local Visits
J C Wooley of Columbia Missouri visited Crawfordsville then traveled to Avoca. Staff Sergeant Maurice Maxwell, stationed in Deming New Mexico, returned for a week at home. Mildred Johnson teaches at Iowa State University and will resume summer term. Morris Crayne and son Donald of Iowa City visited with Mrs Lease. A refugee Loy from China accompanied them. Joe McCoy and cadet Bob Schmidt of Iowa Wesleyan College spent time with Rose Moorhead. Despain family visited New London and Betty Despain returned with them. Owens couple finished a two week vacation elsewhere. Dorothy Huston cared for the children during the absences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Manners
Crawfordsville
J. C. Wooley
Columbia
Avoca
Maurice Maxwell
Deming
New Mexico
Mildred Johnson
T. E. Maxwell
State University
Morris Crayne
Donald
Iowa City
Lee Lease
Bob Schmidt
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant
Rose Moorhead
California
Clarence Despain
New London
Mr. Despain
Betty
Denmark
D. D. Owens
Dorothy Huston
War widow Duchess faces royal tragedy anniversary
The British Royal Family marks over a year since the death of the young Duke of Kent in a Scottish plane crash. His widow and three children continue a quiet life at Coppins estate in Buckinghamshire as photographers capture Prince Michael’s birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ragedy
Duke of Kent
Coppins
Iver
Buckinghamshire
England
Prince Michael
Spring Is Firemen Headache
Spring brings peak fire danger for firefighters. Brush fires surge as cigarettes along roadsides, faulty outdoor incinerators, and careless brush burning rise as leading causes.
Hybrid corn topic thrills Ames Rotary audience
J W Chandler county agent explained hybrid seed corn and pollination methods to the Ames Rotary Club using a chart. Rev Wm Harless praised Rotary aims while urging renewal of Christian ethics to combat unemployment as war ends. Judge Harold Leavis lauded Rev Fred Miller, new Washington Methodist pastor from Chariton. Next meeting set for Congress hotel. Y M C A room undergoing improvements. Frank Kos presided in the president's absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Chandler
Rotary Club
Mid-West
Chandler
Wm. Harless
Presbyterian Synod
Ames
Iowa
Rotary
Harold Leavis
Chariton
Fred Miller
Washington Methodist
Miller
Congress Hotel
The Cumaru Tree and Tonka Bean Use
The cumaru tree in bloom carries bright rose colored blossoms and oily egg shaped fruits. Its seeds are tonka beans used for coumarin a vanilla substitute and a flavor in cigarettes perfumes and medicines.
Pre-nuptial Party for Amy Hemphill
Mrs Lee Hunt and daughter Hazel hosted a pre nuptial party for Amy Hemphill who will wed Stanley Shutts of Oakville on August 11. About twenty guests attended and games and contests provided entertainment. Little Billy Moore arrived with a wagon of pink and green presents for the bride to be. A one course luncheon with pink and green decor completed the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Morris
Ainsworth
Lee Hunt
Hazel
Amy Hemphill
Stanley Shutts
Oakville
Billy Moore
No Blood Vessels in Eye Refracting Parts
The lens and vitreous humor lack blood vessels. Light rays are interfered by vessels, so nourishment comes from transparent lymph flowing through the eye’s refracting tissues.
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John Loder
Eleanor Parker
Bruce Lester
FOX
Bill Edgar
Rank Macon
Cloyce Horsey
Frank Kep
Hart
Fen
Kellogg's
Libby
Lewissye
Farmers’ Co-operative Store
North
Iowa Ave
MR. Chip
MR. Prrt
Mr. Pitt
Friend Flicka
Robert
Phyllis Calvert
20Th Century-Fox
Wepnespaye Stfate
Ruth
Foster
County Home Economist
Cedar Rapids
T. M. Holmes
Russel Zickafoose
Olds
Prince Michael George Charles Franklin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Duchess of Kent
Princess Marina
Princess Alexandra
Prince Edward
the Fox
Dennis O'Keefe
Louise Allbritton
Universal
Judge
Mary Beth Hughes
Wes Libe
Frank Kos
Herb Ossinecup
Studebaker
COX Motor Company
W. Washington
Solomons
Rendova
McCawley
International Soundphotos
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