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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1951
Page
5
A compact item notes Hugh Williams and nurse staff planning in spring with a formal paren exercise and certification steps for the hospital team. The brief highlights credentialing, training, and expected roles in upcoming months.
Keokuk county supervisors scheduled a June 26 election on a $400000 county hospital bond issue for Sigourney. A booster group disclosed 56 signatures to push the plan and listed Irvin Reynolds as chairman with Mrs Kay Statler Manatt Warren Statler and L McGuire among organizers. The project envisions a 380 bed unit funded by bonds and grants, with a total cost around $400000.
Louis Calhern repeats his stage role as Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee a sprawling screen adaptation of Emmet Lavery in which Ann Harding stars as Fanny Merrill. The film traces Holmes’s life from 1902 Washington to his clashes with Theodore Roosevelt reflecting a portrait of a brilliant jurist and his devoted wife.
Columbia Pictures announces Prairie Roundup will debut Thursday at the Fox Theatre starring Charles Starrett and Smiley Burnette as they crack down on a gang.
Joseph O'Donnell wrote the script with Fred F. Sears directing for Colbert Clark. Harper attended the Oscar Magneson funeral in Davenport on Monday. Magneson was a brother in law of the Wehr family.
Mr and Mrs James Nolan and their son Mark of Denver Colorado are spending the summer in Washington. Mr Nolan recently graduated from Regis College in Denver and plans to attend Iowa University in the fall. Mrs Nolan is the former Margaret Ragan. Mark Campbell has left Stanley Rest Home for his own home at 1114 East Main Street. Mr and Mrs Matt Wehr Raymond Dorothy and Clarence Mr and Mrs Harold Wehr and son Roney and Cletus Strugel are mentioned in the local notes.
The list includes Genevieve Van Trump of West Chester Wilma Hughes James Lyle Schulty and Harry G Simp son celebrating birthdays today Mrs J T Pease and now nown sister Mrs Terry Marsh of Davenport marked June 6 Vivian Stover and Clifford LeRoy Horak are honored as well Carolyn Ann Jones Ubelore Ann Martin share the same birth day and age six John William McCartney of Ainsworth is seven Carmen Leigh Bell daughter of Mr and Mrs Stewart Bell is nine Fred D Stewart also marks a birthday anniversary today.
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