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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1954
Page
6
In Chicago markets hogs showed 6 500 receipts with mixed, mostly higher bids. Cattle moved steady to higher with prime fed steers at 24.50 to 27. Vealers and sheep showed varied changes, spring lambs steady to weak. Grain futures for corn soybeans and oats mixed with July prices around 156 157 and Sept corn near 152 153.
Carol Sandburg representing the Working Wuasnettes Club of Henry County won the solo tryouts at the state 4-H convention contest in Ames. She sang Dreaming and 4 Seat Clover Song and My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice, previously earning a high rating at Newton. Frances Erwin, Patricia Butcher, Jackie Foster and Robert Peterson attended the LEP convention in Grinnell, while Herbert Purvis and family visited Denver relatives.
Estate sales announce closing out auctions for Mrs Nettie Statler at her Keota residence starting 12 50 pm and a series of closings on June 28 and July at addresses including 215 East Washington 502 South Second Avenue and adjacent South Iowa Avenue.
The Elsworth Anderson family and Mrs E A Sodergren attended a reunion at Riverview Park in Marshalltown on Sunday. John Peterson of the Wayne Soil Savers 4 H club will be a delegate to the State 4 H convention in Ames this week. Richard Huston and Alice Jean Webr were wed and left for Camp Le Jeune NC where he is transferred as a Marine lieutenant.
Members gathered at Mrs. Kenneth Rhea's home on June 16 for the final breakfast before summer recess. Mere K. R. MacDonald assisted. The program titled Mrs America Builds by Doing What She Can revealed talents among members. Mrs KK MacDonald and Mere Franklin Cooles were honored with a handkerchief shower as they leave Crawfordsville, guest Mre J EO Atkinson of Detroit attended.
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