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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1954
Page
7
An overstuffed ad style summary touts Kand tee coolant substitutes and various food and beverage items. It promotes easy freezing, reusable cans, and long shelf life while naming vendors like Van Camp Park Deane and Dish Queen Watermelons. The piece reads like a quirky catalog highlight with exaggerated claims.
West Chester Pythian Sisters meet at 7 30 pm at the Moose Hall. Women of Moose gather 8 pm at the Moose Hall Thursday. Installation of officers. Men cordially invited to attend. Mary Martha Sunday school class hosts party and officer election in church parlors. HJ Club at 1 50 pm with Mrs. William Prebyl. GOP Women host tea at Legion hall with Mrs. Anna Lomas as guest. VEW Auxiliary breakfast club gathers. Family night dinner 6 50 pm at the country club. United Presbyterian Builders Youth picnic at Lake Darling transport arranged. bring wieners buns and dish to pass. Homemakers club social at David Kleese home with ice cream. Christian Women’s Fellowship meeting 7 50 pm at the church. YWCA swim group at 9 am with note on time change. Loyal Womans Sunday school class meets 8 20 pm with Mrs. Stella Genkinger. Friendly Circle club 6 30 pm at Sunset Park.
The second division of the United Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Society met at Mrs. Russell Bell’s home with 25 members. Jessie Stewart co-hosted. The program featured a round table discussion on the church’s mission fields. Light refreshments followed. West Chester couple Mr and Mrs M J Tandy celebrate silver anniversary with open house on June 27 at Reinbeek home. Fourteen Snowball Social Club families attended an ice cream social at Prairie Flower School Tuesday evening. Mrs Glenn Fuhr presided briefly and set date for next meeting with Mrs Lloyd Enke.
Marilyn Lorraine Scott daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Scott married St Gene Francise Yoder son of Mr and Mrs Glenn C Yoder at Bethlehem Lutheran Lost Nation. Rev Walter Pfeiffer officiated a double ring ceremony with organ music and a singing by the bride’s uncle. Flowers, gowns, and a reception followed in church rooms with many relatives and friends in attendance.
Yegey and Couillard exchanged vows at St Mary Church Riverside on Saturday June. The bride Mary Lois Yegey wore an organdy gown with nylon lace and a pearl necklace. Couple will honeymoon at Niagara Falls then travel the East before resuming studies in Bradford Vermont area.
The bride and groom both graduated from Washington High School in 1952. She enters her senior year of nursing training at University Hospital Iowa City and plans to continue her studies. He attended the University of Iowa at Iowa City for one year before entering service in February and is now stationed at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri.
Local notice reports the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Fred Minden of Matami Florida named Connie Sue. Ken Tucker, former Dayton Grove resident, is a patient in Iowa City Veterans Hospital in room 8K and would welcome cards from friends as he anticipates several weeks’ stay.
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