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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1963
Page
3
Abigail Van Buren presents readers asking about infidelity bachelor life and marriage pressures. Letters touch on marital fidelity, spousal thawing, and workplace conduct with varying degrees of clarity and humor. The column invites responses and offers Abby’s guidance.
Betty Beenblossom elected president of the local union cosmetologists club at a Tuesday meeting after a potluck with 21 members. Officers include Rich George as vp Virginia Lanning secretary Evelyn Lukavsky treasurer Judy Enfield historian and Betty Beenblossom among others. DAR members met with plans for Flag Day and a 100 year log cabin celebration at Sunset Park with a spinning wheel demonstration and memorial service scheduled for May 19.
The Catholic Daughters elected new officers at Tuesday’s St James meeting. Grand Regent Margaret Keyser View Grand Regent Geraldine Schulty Prophetess Celesta Horn Lecturer Irene Hock Historian Dorothy Gevock Treasurer Edna Whelan Monitor Lyle Schulty Sentinel Myrtle Steele Organist Hubert Redlinger Trustee Three Years Marcella Vittetoe Isea Schulty Gordon Secrest Plans for the Golden Anniversary in Des Moines on June 30 were made. A clothing box was sent to a Kentucky mission and a fund was sent to the Pope’s Warehouse Installation of officers will be at the June meeting.
The Washington County Nurses Association held a meeting at the County Home on Tuesday evening with 23 members and ten guests. New officers will take charge in September, including President Mrs. Ronald Gotf Vice President Virginia Knapp and Secretary Treasurer Evelyn Tweeten.
Regular 4 H Club meetings held at Cedar Chips and Peggy Statlers with 19 members and one visitor. Plans include tours on June 11 and June 21 to Moor Man's Feed Plant Quincy Illinois. bake sale May 11. project demos on yeast bread and box cake vs scratch cake. election of committees and remarks on future plans after high school.
The U Go Club met for an anniversary dinner with Lola DeLong hosting. Officers chosen for the coming year include President B.B. Ward, Vice President Charlie Mayer, and Secretary-Treasurer Dan Rollie.Pinochle winners were Mavel Holman high and Mayo Sorrell low. Handcraft 1 guests included Mrs. Keith Proctor and Mrs. Lillian Rosenberger. New members Scott Wilcox and Deta Humphrey joined. Good Will Club elected Mary Horning as president and Ethel Palmer as vice president, with Ruth Berger and Helen Goodin leading entertainment. New member Elsie Fox welcomed. June hostess will be Forest Henry.
The Marion Avenue United Presbyterian Women plan a Mother-Daughter salad supper and program Friday at 6 pm in Fellowship Hall. Donna Stout of Crawfordsville will speak on Youth Target. President Mrs. Richard Stewart will lead a brief UPW meeting. Circle VIE handles the meal. An all tag work meeting is set for next Wednesday May 15 to prepare clothing for mission fields, led by John Owen.
Mrs Wa Schoonover hosted the Shiloh Sunshine Sisters on a Tuesday afternoon with devotion by Wils. Jessie Schoonover led a roll call honoring Mothers Day with nine members and a special item by Mrs Homer Lowry featuring a song by the late Nellie Williams Van Horn titled Some Day Some Way. Plans were made to finish a quilt for July and hold a miscellaneous auction in August. A slower seed exchange occurred and the program closed with poems chosen by Mrs David Schantz. Mrs Kenneth Brown and Mrs Donald Iain attended. Mrs Ho Schantz will host the June 7 meeting with her Lowry cohostess.
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