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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1950
Page
4
A crowded reflection on home chores and daily life spans eras from old washboards to modern machines. The piece notes Texas washday scenes among Mexican households, quips about 4H Rally day and porch gardens, and closes with reflections on happiness and changing Woodsheds in America.
The piece ponders a father’s claim that a woodshed’s vanishing echoes rising juvenile delinquency and recalls a makeshift throne of justice with a hickory scepter as a symbolic reminder of discipline.
John Andersons hosts Wednesday callers including Mrs E F Bauer West Chester Mrs Frank Whee Detroit Michigan and Mr and Mrs Carl Johnson Los Angeles California. Local families host dinners picnics and birthday celebrations across Burlington Danville Cedar Rapids and Wayland with relatives visiting in multiple households. A birth at Mount Pleasant hospital adds Paul George to the Henss family.
Sunday afternoon at the Metho dist Church in Ainsworth saw many locals attend the Elliott Roberts wedding. Attendees included Clarence and Mrs Hering Richard and Mrs Stephens Richard Allen and Boyd Glenn Beenblossom and Lloyd Marilyn Miller and Mr and Mrs Glen Anderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. Cress observed their 25th anniversary at home in Riverside on June 4. Married in Miami on June 4, 1925, they lived there five years before returning to Riverside in 1930 and have three sons, Hal, David, and Don. Guests included numerous relatives from Iowa and beyond, and both are active Methodist church members and longtime school board participants.
A group including Mrs Earl Schuerman Mrs Claude Kilgore Mrs Lloyd Edwards and Mrs Ana Gordon spent a flower loving day in Roundgrove on June 5. They visited nurseries southwest of Mt Pleasant then Olds to an African violet fan. Houseguest visits and cattle shipment details follow among local social notes.
Percy Kilbride, 69, gains 24 ounces since his Broadway days as Marjorie Main co stars in Universal International's Ma and Pa Kettle Go To Town. The film, showing at the Fox Theatre, casts Kilbride as the gagging gangling king of the Kettle clan in its third outing.
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