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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1938
Page
4
In Placentia California a traveling correspondent recounts visits with friends and neighbors including William Walker of Long Beach, Nellie Dewey Mohr, Hattie Chiledte, Frank and Edna Webb, Martha Darbyshire and daughters, Kate Hamilton, and others. The piece shares social calls, household details, flower shows, and local gossip from a spring outing, with mentions of anxieties about flood losses and community life.
Mrs Bowman, though very thin on a starch cream and egg free diet, remains in charge of the Girl Scout Little House and cherishes contact with the girls. She shares an apartment with her brother A T Stewart, while Mrs A T Stewart resides in Arizona near Prescott and knows Dr Florence Brookhart Yount. Stewart spends August vacation with his wife who is healthy as long as she stays in Arizona. She raises angora goats for sale.
More than 300 Civil War veterans and families expected at Cedar Rapids G A R encampment this week with 275 marching in the parade. Community notes include travel from Fayetteville Ark and local health nurse work, plus local events and social items from Washington county.
Snappy Come Back Lykke Brewer pays 15 cents for a holiday shave at Mart White’s shop. The barber crew’s holiday nickel rule leads to a milk bill dispute as a new cattle issue quietly raises prices.
Forty years ago Lew Dawson showed a patriotic lawn with grass cut to reveal the names Dewey Hobson and Sampson. Picnic at Brown's Peak features Ola Hamilton and Edythe Shields chaperoning youths at Coppock's Brown's Park. Prof Grumbling from Mt Pleasant Iowa Wesleyan was invited to be principal of the Academy next year. Mrs J Al Hull and family returned from Chicago with Henry now an M D practicing locally.
At the hospital Saturday Mrs Maurice Gowey Brighton was discharged this morning Mrs O G Gowey Richland had major surgery this morning Mrs Elwyn Gardner and daughter Beverly Ann were discharged this morning Audrey James Columbus Junction had an appendectomy yesterday afternoon Lyle and Verna Thomas Columbus Junction had tonsillectomies this morning Mrs Theresa West was discharged yesterday afternoon Other births and admissions noted in brief press excerpts from local residents and towns.
Ruth Portmess seeks genealogical details on Hiram Thomas and related Thomas family members who migrated to Iowa in 1855. The letter requests names, birth and death dates, and cemetery records for Joseph Thomas, Margaret McDonald Thomas, and siblings, with contacts near Pilotsboro.
A roundup notes prizes at a flower show won by Mrs Blanche McCleery and various local events. It cites travels by the Zaring family from Kankakee, WPA project plans, long-time doctor Dr Henry C Hull and family ties, playground openings, legal notices, weddings and anniversaries, school and civic activities, a major Mt Pleasant fire, and local sports notes including a golf hero.
This morning Priday Bonnie Jean Bartz of Ainsworth was admitted for a tonsillectomy. Mrs John Wilson of Wellman underwent a minor operation. Mrs Lorin Rueggseger of Parnell had a minor operation yesterday afternoon. Velma Taylor of Wellman was dismissed yesterday.
Mrs Edith MacAnulty Gillespie formerly of Washington died at her Omaha home Sunday evening and will be brought here Thursday. She was sister of the late Mrs George Griffith with no further particulars learned.
W A Crane aged 61 died at his Pierce City Maryland home from a heart attack. John Riley former Ainsworth boy son of T Riley Burlington died Monday night at Burlington aged about 56. Frank Pulsifer aged 77 died at the county home Wednesday night unmarried resident since 1929. Mrs Christian C Gingerich died of pneumonia and complications at Kalona Wednesday aged 77 maiden name Swart. Zendruber Robert Goodin father of Russell Goodin died Monday Hedrick Indiana burial at Canton Illinois.
Wednesday Lyle and Verna Thomas of Columbus Junction were discharged this morning. Noah Wieland of Riverside reports the birth of a daughter at 1 10 p m yesterday weighing eight pounds eight and a half ounces. Mrs Lawrence Wilson of Ainsworth admitted last night. William Crayne of Washington welcomed a son born this morning at 10 20 weighing seven pounds two. Mrs Francis McConnell and baby Frances Ann were discharged this morning. W L Bishop of Washington.
Helen Coffey who has been teaching at Miami Arizona arrived here Monday but has gone to Wellman to visit her parents.
Georgia Swenka and Raymond Mathes of Riverside were married on Monday morning in a simple ceremony. The couple exchanged vows in the presence of family and friends and began their life together.
Mrs. Marie Brock and her granddaughter Shirley Ann Allbricht from Iowa City travel to Denver Colorado for a visit.
Virginia Moore and Charles Barclay were quietly married on a late Saturday. The couple, both from prominent local families, plans to reside in a Lemmon apartment.
Martha Shetungosx, long time employee of the Morrison and Morrison law office, married Richard Johnston of Pairfield last Sunday. The couple will reside in Fairfield.
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