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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1946
Page
8
Lucy Leet was feted by fifteen relatives at her brother Walter Leet’s Westchester home to celebrate a birthday occurring the next day. Ice cream and cake were served as part of a small reception.
A smoker sensitive individual experiences heart pain as tobacco irritates nerves feeding the heart. The text notes smoking acts like poison, triggering crushing chest pain and warns that cessation is necessary to overcome the condition.
Mr and Mrs G B Holden and Mrs Joe Knotek with daughter Arlene are in Ames to attend the Ames 4 H club convention. TRY ANTURAT THE NEW AND BETTER RAT KILLER CONTAINS ANTU IS A DR HESS PRODUCT SAFE TO USE 65 CENTS SIZE KILLS 200
James M. Ragen Jr., head of Nationwide News Service, was shot while stopping at a traffic light on a Chicago street. He is hospitalized with shotgun wounds that may paralyze his right arm. Ragen had previously escaped an April assassination by fleeing into a police station.
Mrs. Edward Janda Geraldine and Jimmy and Mrs. John Braje and Dennis of Chicago spent Friday to Sunday in the Nelson Woodford home Gracehill. Geraldine and Jimmy stayed for the summer. Visitors included Lyle Hayes Sandra Howard Zihlmen Coppock and Max Waterhouse C A Strohm Brighton.
Juanita and granddaughter visited Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Stroh while Sandra joined Mr. and Mrs. Cloyce Hayes for Sunday dinner. The Waterhouse family celebrated a wedding anniversary and Jimmy’s upcoming fourth birthday. Sonny Bittner of Brighton spent Monday with his aunt, Mrs. C. C. Strohm. Rev. Floyd Smith preached Sunday morning and accepted a pastorate at Gracehill and New Haven. evening services at Gracehill set for June 30. Sunday school was held in the morning. Mr Suchulze fell from a 12 foot scaffold while adding brick siding, broke his leg, and was hospitalized. Floyd Dake of Casper, Wyoming visited the Kron and Blythe homes. L. F. Hartwell and daughter-in-law Mrs. Robert Hartwell of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cray and Arlen and Verle of Edinburgh, Texas, visited Bert Cray. Catherine Baschangel of Cedar Rapids was a weekend visitor with her sister and brother Mary and Francis Baschnagel.
Riverside Garden club members met at Mrs. Rachel Gerot's home as Mrs. Carl Luckey led a program on Roses. A July 10 Riverside park picnic is planned with a potluck dinner. Sisters Mary Rosalie and Bernadette visited from St. Mary's convent. family notes also mention local residents.
Announcement includes marriages and travel notes of local residents. Adeline Elizabeth Koderbek wed James B. Helmick of Columbus Junction at Cresco, Helmick recently discharged from service. Other items cover relocations, illnesses, travel to Spokane and Goldendale, and births and visits across Iowa City Riverside and surrounding towns.
Mrs. Fred Kron of Riverside with Mrs. William H. Cress and Mrs. Hazel Blythe of Town City attended the Dubuque wedding of Miss Joyce Nessler daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Nessler, former Riverside residents.
Raw potatoes are being trialed by New England dairy farmers as a cattle feed. They should be introduced gradually and fed at 18 to 25 pounds per cow per day once the animals are accustomed to them.
Long growing crops like carrots, celery and beets should be side dressed every three to five weeks. Apply plant food equally on both sides of the row, two to three inches from stems. Lightly work into soil with a rake. Watering before feeding is best.
Delbert Jordan and family relocate from Mt. Pleasant to a 1 0 C F building apartment. Mrs Nellie Schlichting and daughter Lois plus Maxin Greene return from a motor trip to Nebraska and Colorado. Mr and Mrs W D Lewis plan their 61st wedding anniversary June 28. A small porch fire at the Moore sisters home in Columbus City is controlled before the fire truck arrives. Dr F A Hubbard is receiving treatment in a Muscatine hospital. The Hubbards recently moved from Columbus Junction to a home in Fredonia. Mrs Roger Peters hosted a postnuptial shower for Mrs Don.
Army veterans with certain Military Occupational Specialties may reenlist at a grade commensurate with skill if honorably discharged on or after May 12 1945 and reenlisting before July 1 1946. Over three quarters of a million men have joined the Regular Army already. Full facts are at any Army Camp Post or Recruiting Station.
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