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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1931
Page
3
At the Snowball Social Club, members presented recipes titled My Mother's Favorite. The collection, mainly for cakes and cookies, was printed for Journal Woman's page with contributors including Mrs. John Shebeck, Mrs. Carl Jarrard, Mrs. Stanley Fishburn, and others.
A fragment listing several cookie recipes and contributors including Mrs Ralph Oldfield daughter of Mrs Charles Adams and Mrs Val Fuhr daughter Mrs Schmidt. It mentions ingredients like cocoa butter eggs milk flour vanilla and baking powder and notes on cream and brown sugar quantities.
The Jubilee Oingers of the Prentiss Normal and Industrial Institute will perform at the Methodist church in West Chester on Wednesday evening July 22 at eight o'clock. Ice cream social by the Presbyterian ladies on the church lawn Friday evening. Public invited.
Betty Crouch daughter of the Des Moines mayor broke a bottle over the radiator of the first auto coach leaving the new bus terminal. The bottle contained water from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence river marking the event.
A garden picnic at Mrs. M W Fhailey’s home honors two former Nineteenth Century Club members from California and Illinois. The issue also covers weddings in Rock Island and Washington, church society meetings, and family gatherings across Fairfield and Morning Sun with notes on attendees and attire.
In Braden on a cool Monday morning residents report delayed threshing due to rain. Claud McCoy oats yield 69 bushels per acre surprises neighbors while Frank Bailey and others discuss local harvest results. Visitors and relatives attend funerals, visits, and gatherings across Washington Crawfordsville Keota Sigourney and Kalona communities.
Mrs. Harry Ross of Washington visited Friday with Mrs. Dan Rohrer. Mrs. H. Messer of Washington aided Mrs. Eunice Sprague in organizing a new Larkin club on Friday afternoon.
The Welah club meets with Mrs D Quinn Wednesday afternoon. Legion Auxiliary gathers with Mrs Charles Ragan Wednesday at 2 to sew carpet rags for the Knoxville Veterans Hospital. bring needle thread and rags. Just Us club meets Mrs J H Campbell 1204 N Marion Wednesday afternoon. Past Noble Grand Circle and families host picnic at Sunset Park Thursday near the cabin at 6 with dish to pass. Horning picnic at Wilson Park Keota Sunday July 26 1931 relatives invited.
A visit to pig and cattle clubs near Wellman and Washington highlights pig and Hereford projects led by John Combs Keith and Allie Gail among others. The report notes abundant shade and water for livestock, threshing harvest advances, and plans for August showings.
A head on crash near Moose Lake Minnesota raised the death toll to three with 10 year old Phillis Curfman among the dead. W W Curfman superintendent of Lawrence Kansas schools and W G Frazee of Cedar Rapids Iowa died. injures include Mrs Curfman and Mr and Mrs John D Aldrich Cedar Rapids.
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