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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1928
Page
3
The Just Us club shares favorite dessert recipes for light summer treats. Sunshine Pudding uses milk, egg, butter and a cream sauce. a gelatin pineapple mold with maraschino cherries and nuts chills several hours. A pineapple cherry pudding batter combines sugar butter and sour milk, baked with cherry topping and served with whipped cream.
A recipe fragment lists Mrs. W. E. Sickels and Mrs. Ray Cox with ingredients for a date based dessert and a cherry pudding. Instructions include dissolving soda in boiling water, soaking dates, creaming sugar and butter, beating eggs, and combining flour baking powder and nut meats before baking. A second note uses pitted cherries for a pudding base and sweetening.
A collection of vintage recipe fragments includes lemon tapioca pudding with meringue topping, a banana vanilla custard dessert baked in layers, an unidentified gelatin rice dish with dates and vanilla, and Billy Sunday Pudding with pearl tapioca and dates.
The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the M E Church will meet with Mrs. R. C. Brown on Friday afternoon. Mrs. J. P. Thomas will lead the gathering. 13613 rl Ware
Twenty eight members met to hem tablecloths for the church dining room and craft items for a November bazaar. A bake sale was reported a success and a play set for August third. A fan was installed for the choir and minister. Visitors included Mrs McQuire and relatives. Prairie Center 4H hosted a picnic and games. Red Cross sewing and WWI relief efforts continued. Tickets for the Fox film We Americans were urged.
The Sunshine Community club will meet Wednesday July 25 at the home of Mrs Walter Gardner with Miss Weebra Weerman. Attendees are asked to bring written questions for the question box.
Irene Yard daughter of Mr and Mrs Bert Yard is among a dozen Iowa State college students from Ames taking a seven week traveling course of study. Led by Prof B S Pickett and chaperoned by Prof and Mrs Pickett the group visits nurseries orchards and truck gardens from Ames eastward through the Midwest and returns via New York Massachusetts and Canada. The program credits eight hours and aims to show practical fruit growing flower culture and market gardening through real sites and experts.
Word from the Y W C A camp director indicates Washington girls may still register for the Girl Reserve camp August 7 to 14. Anyone wishing to attend should call Mrs Hebner by today July 27.
Wayne notes record several visits in Wayne and nearby towns. Forrest Davidson spent a day in Iowa City while Lloyd Vollmer and family were in Mt Pleasant. Eli Saltzman brothers visited Edwin Saltzman with Eli’s wife and children there. Clyde Maxwell and daughter Doris visited R W Carson house with Lloyd Vollmer and Pauline. Paul Maxwell in Munice Indiana had a factory accident but is expected to recover and return to Warner Gear work.
The funeral for Wenzel Horak who died at his home near Katona Saturday was held Monday July 23 at Richmond Catholic church. He was 82, emigrated from Bohemia sixty years ago, and built a prosperous 40 acre farm near Pilotsburg and later near English River's gravel road. He and his wife raised four children and left a large family. burial followed in the Catholic cemetery east of Richmond. A Bohemian priest from Iowa City assisted at the altar. Pallbearers included Joseph Kolesick and Joseph Pieper among others.
The Baptist Ladies will hold their regular monthly meeting at the church Friday afternoon at 2 30.
Miss Mary Lukavsay announces plans to start a six week dressmaking course in Washington beginning August 13. The class will be at North Marion Avenue, with room for six to eight girls who wish to stay as roomers from the country. The program covers pattern cutting designing planning pressing and various sewing techniques to speed up work. Miss Lukovsky, formerly of Lone Tree, brings substantial experience to the school.
Classified ad fragment lists a furnished room for rent about one and a half blocks from the square with contact phone 1435 blue. Also seeks a position as a bookkeeper and typist by a business college graduate with phone 242 black. Includes sale note for linoleum pieces and a 6x9 rug with phone numbers 302 red and other digits.
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