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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1941
Page
5
A local column recounts neighbors sharing sweet peas and stories in town. L B Ward writes from Charlotte about the Three Quarter Century Mob and aging friends laugh over teeth jokes. The piece honors Charles C. Owen of Washington and the community’s quiet, supportive life.
Mrs. Charlie Scheibel and Mrs. Leslie Gates helped Mrs. Fred Longer's cook for threshers Wednesday. Gail Davis visits Leslie Gates home. Mrs. Earl Burroughs hosts Walnut club. Dorothy Libe and Kathryn Latta travel with Mrs. John Libe and Mrs. Dessie Libe to Burlington to view ammunition plant work and visit the Stanley Baird home in their new residence with Mike Lewis noting the return.
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery plays Wednesday and Thursday at the Fox Theatre. Ralph Bellamy stars as Ellery Queen with Margaret Lindsay as Nikki Porter in a globe spanning thriller involving a ventriloquist’s disappearance, stolen jewels, an international thieves ring, and multiple murder attempts.
Dr H L Gordon and wife plan a two week camping and fishing trip at Eagle River Wisconsin with Mrs Charles Carter of Abingdon Illinois to join them in the last week. Also noted are visits by Glen Gowey to his mother in Medford and Mrs Latta of Cedar Falls staying with her daughter Mrs Wentworth. Local events include Louisa Weidner's hospital visit and Kenneth Olson's family staying with Olson Crusher company head. the firm has raised rock output for the M and St L railroad from 12 to 18 loads.
Eben Ashby from Chicago visits his parents in Pilotburg bringing his step-daughter Judy. Grandchildren Jun ior and Jimmie, sons of Wilson Ashby near Des Moines, summer on the farm with a tent and a pony. Harvesting and threshing begin as locals report hay making and machine work. The Lexington Aid society hosted Pilotburg members with a talk on a woman’s role in farming.
Mrs Eva Mouser visited her son Stanley and family this week. Winnie Chalupa visited from her duties at Bob Wiley home last week. Road north of Pilotburg to Wellman receives second coat of oil.
Catherine Sreshkovsky forsook noble life and her aristocratic husband to travel with a cobbler and roam Russia. She urged reform and revolution while facing Siberian prisons privation and exile, never regretting her renunciation.
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