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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1950
Page
8
Brighton Good Luck 4-H club will stage the Gay Nineties Revue at the high school auditorium on March 21 and 22. The program features readings, musical numbers, and skits with 4-H members and family participating.
A wife finds a note in her husband’s pocket reading Susie Smith Maple 821 and is told Susie is a race horse. He explains Maple is the street where his bookie lives and 21 are odds. The horse can’t make it tonight.
West Chester junior girls were guests of Joyce Kleese after school for a roller skating party at Kalona with chaperones Mr and Mrs Frank Kleese. The week included visits by families to friends in Seventy Six township and Wellman, with several small gatherings noted among neighbors and relatives.
The State Conservation Commission backs a privately financed Youth Center on Lake Darling shore with sewer and water facilities. A temporary committee aims to form permanent trustees from each community to guide the project. Lake Darling will be Iowa’s largest artificial lake, aiding swimming boating fishing and camping within reach of 75 000 to 80 000 residents. Local representatives from Chautauqua I W L A Washington Fairfield Keota Crawfordsville and Riverside participate in initial plans. Mrs Everette Coon visited Mrs John Tucker Tuesday morning.
A long list of individuals and surnames associated with various towns across Iowa appears: Richland Blaine DeVarman Lawrence Barnquist Olds East Pleasant Plain Wayland and many others including Fathers Budreau Rex Levert Wellman Kalona and Fairfield. The snippet reads as a names-and-places roster without context or events.
West Chester the music department under Frank Angerer will present a program at a P T A meeting March 21. The iris glee club will sing Home and Children s Prayer. The boys glee club will sing Goodbye Old Paint and The Bells of Saint Mary s. A girls sextet will sing Old Master Painter and Sleep Kentucky Babe. Small group contest selections include three piano solos, a cornet solo, and a tuba solo. Mr and Mrs Lester Hanan returned from San Diego after wintering with their son Keith.
Two tickets have been filed for mayor and councilmen in Brighton town elections set for Monday March 27. Incumbent Mayor E M Elmore seeks reelection with councilmen Chris Mann Ralph Wikoff D J Kyle and Andy Farrier on the ticket. Opposing slate lists mayoral candidate Richard Hudson and councilmen Leo Jack Dunbar Glen Pringle Warren Nash Bernard Singleton and Walter Ruggles.
A brief line notes a family from Roswell New Mexico mentioning their son Donald and his wife in connection with the local coverage. The fragment provides no further context or identifying details.
Alabama recorded the highest grade index among southeastern states in 1949 using Middling White as 100 with an average of 95.6. Georgia followed at 94.1, North Carolina 92.4, and South Carolina 92.0.
A failed robbery at West Chester Savings Bank left the bank vault unopened as the would be robbers bungled their plan. No arrests reported. Local investigators described the incident as an unsuccessful bank crime attempt.
A weather notice indicates light snow will gradually end tonight. Tomorrow brings partly cloudy skies and a mildly warmer temperature.
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