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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1962
Page
5
A neighbor’s Easter basket with cactus pots brings cheer to a bedfast man. A woman notes missing six large coat buttons on her winter coat and recounts tiny daily efforts to spot them. Wild violets bloom beside rhubarb and asparagus as caring tasks and daily routines unfold. See You, Marge.
Prairie Flower news notes a co operative Easter dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Don Cave and relatives including Bleitz Cave and George Cave. Baptisms were performed at Prairie Flower Baptist Church for Myrna Cave Rita Jones and Jimmie Leet by Rev. Charles Hawkins.
Keota May meetings feature the Past Matrons Club of the Order of Eastern Star at Mrs. James Davis’s home with 14 members and one guest Douglas Wright. Dorothy Davis led a question and answer program on famous mothers and Mrs Helen Mayer presented an article on scenic US spots. Tray favors were May baskets. TLS Club held its May meeting at Mrs. Leo Greiner’s home with quiz games and a flower bulb exchange. Rebekah Lodge honored Mothers Day with corsages for members.
L. D. Bishop returned home from hospital on Sunday. Members were urged to bring a pie to the Guest Gavel meeting night. Elizabeth Leitsinger was nominated as a delegate to the District 54 Rebekah Assembly. Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Fitzsimmons reported on the Muscatine convention. Irene Baughman read a poem The Meaning of Life. Daisy Chambers and Margarita Bond were named oldest and youngest mothers. LaRue Conklin closed with a poem about Mothers. Irene Baughman announced the Past Noble Grand Club would meet at her home May 10.
Keota May 3 The WSCS met at the church with District President Sarah Millikin to install 1962 officers. Mrs Elizabeth Leitsinger praised mothers. Troop 54 Scout outing to Trier Pond was reported. Miss Ella Kelly, retiring teacher, will join Fairfield Public Library. Forty three Bibles were presented to Federated Church youth.
The Keota Community Vacation Church School runs June 4 to 15 with Rev. David Van Wagner directing. Bible materials come from the National Council of Churches. A teachers meeting is set for May 7 at the Federated Church. Also listed are local club meetings, a Cole Brothers Circus stop at the city park on May 16 with two performances, and various weekend visits and gatherings among area residents.
Jean Radtke and Jean Hunger depart Burlington for San Francisco to report aboard the Hospital Ship Hope on May 6. Hunger, a former operating nurse, and Radtke, a medical secretary, will assist at the Peru mission with a new medical school in Trujillo.
A solemn pontifical high Mass for six priests ordained in 1937 in the Davenport Diocese was celebrated at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport. Attending Riverside guests included Rev J J Fath now at St Josephs West Liberty and local residents at a luncheon in the Hotel Black Hawk. Twin girls Valerie Dee and Michelle Marie were born May 2 at Washington County Hospital to Mr and Mrs David Toland with paternal grandparents named.
Mr. and Mrs. John Black of Pueblo, Colorado left Thursday after a week visiting Claude Dautrement and other relatives in Iowa. They traveled by car with Mrs. Black, the former Esther Swift of Riverside, and their two children Sharon and Davie Toland Sr. of Toledo Iowa, and maternal grandmother Mrs. Harry Luethje of Gladbrook are also listed among relatives.
Miss Mary Young of Washington will be inducted into the American Home Economics Association during the Home Economics Club banquet at the State University of Iowa. Keith Wells of Keota will serve as a voting delegate from the Keota Federated Church at the 174th General Assembly in New York City May 17 to 24. Wells is an elder in the Keota Church.
A chartered bus carrying 40 southern Iowa Methodist Women departs Des Moines on May 13 for the quadrennial national assembly in Atlantic City New Jersey. From Washington Mrs. Lloyd Neiswanger and Mrs. Maude Atkinson will attend.
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