Girls Busy Baking Mud Pies and Local Events
In Salem on May 16 Mrs. Dewey Weeks notes a shift from ball team to sewing dresses and baking mud pies by girls and Norma Jean Krotz. Mother's Day gatherings flourish with dinners for relatives, birthdays, and garden florals. school play day wins mark an athletic highlight. A fire near Verne Escher’s home and soy bean planting by Ray Krotz are also mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey Weeks
Salem
Norma Jean Krotz
Roy Krots
Mary Wrote
Waliam Livingston
Lone ‘Pres
John Horak
Frank Shebeck
Frank Krotz
Agnes Krotz
Lena
Horak
Lena Krotz
Salim School
Pleasant Plains School
Max Sheetz
Mutual
Verne Escher
Ray Krotz
Florida Law Ties Married Women to Court Review for Business
Collier's notes a Florida statute that bars a married woman from managing a business until a court of inquiry determines her competency. The law also requires the woman to pay all costs of the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Collier's
Family dinner gathering across many households
Highland Center May 16 families and friends gathered for Mother's Day visits at homes in Washington Riverside Ainsworth Iowa City and Danville sharing meals and social hours Many relatives attended local events including a fiftieth wedding anniversary and a Snowball social club gathering Finke and Schoevel families noted for travel and school events with several health and church group appearances mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FE. L. Smith
Wyatt Marbourg
Prairie Flower School
Kalona
B. J. Hamilton
Martha Thrasher
Wayne Rowe
Iowa City
Ed Squire
Squire
J. C. Rowe
Purdue
Shalla
Riverside
Danville
Milo Patterson
KE. L. Smith
Orley Pace
Chicago
Robert Schoevel
Harry Campbell
Henry Fredrickson
Junior
Orley Page
Mt. Pleasant
Edwardville
Ellis Finke
Dean Harland Mead
Des Moines
Everette
William Finke
Earl Booth
Joseph Shalla
Washington
Joseph Knotek
Bonnie Dettwiler Hospital Patient in East Sunset
East Sunset May 17 Bonnie Jean Dettwiler taken by her parents Gerald and wife to Dr Steiner at an Iowa City hospital. Local social notes record visitors, family dinners, and congratulations to Crawfordsville graduates Ruth Martin Paul Martin LaVerne Graber Edna Rieh Anna Sommer Dwight Graber plus many hometown names and wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Hering
Gerald Dettwiler
Bonnie Jean
Steiner
Iowa City
A. (. Schmidt
Cedar Rapids
Harry Jones
Ralph Scott
Washington
Jake Sommer
Dick Stephens
Waterloo
Iowa Falls
Ainsworth
Walter Reaney
Lemley
Virgil
Viola Hering
Paul Howell
Walter Jarrard
Near Washington
Joe Rich
Shirley Escher
Betty Schlatter
Jake Graber
Crawfordsville
Ruth
Paul Martin
Mary Davis
Laverne Graber
Edna Rieh
Anna Sommer
Dwight Graber
Prairie Flower May Mother’s Day Dinner and Tulip Trip
Prairie Flower reports a family dinner for Mrs Elizabeth Young hosted by Mr and Mrs Milford Anderson and son Richard. The Turnipseeds visited Pella to view the tulip display and Lake Keomak, then Mrs Louis Reller of Chicago began her homeward journey early Sunday morning with Dr W J Masson Mia Eric Smith and Dave Masson noted in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Shalla
George Shalla
Glenn Miller
Blanche Shalla
May Carlson
Marjorie
Shalla
Weeks
Ba Petit
Davenport
Merle Eckels
MacMurray
Arlene
Martha Thrasher
Prairie Flower
Milford Anderson
Richard
Harley Davidson
Elizabeth Young
Lloyd Turnipseed
Dorothy
Merl
Junior
Pella
Lake Keomak
Louis Reller
Chicago
W. J. Masson
Mia
Frederic Smith
Dave Masson
Widow of Representative Smith Wins Maine Nomination
Mrs. Margaret Chase Smith, 39, widow of Representative C. H. Smith of Augusta, easily secures the Republican nomination for the unexpired Maine term. The nomination is tantamount to election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H., Smith
Augusta
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Sixteen Receive School Diplomas in Crawfordsville
In Crawfordsville on May 16 the high school ceremony honored sixteen graduates. Keith Norton led as class president with district support, while Mary Lillian Moorhead posted the highest four year average and Ruth E Baker near top. Out-of-town attendees included families from Washington South English Cedar Rapids Columbus Junction and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Manners
Crawfordsville
Keith Norton
Paul Harms
Supt
Rauscher
Irlene Benson
N. F. Chapman
Clyde Finke
Dorothy Rees
Ruth Baker
Mary L. Moorhead
Girls Sextet
Donald Mallitt
University of Iowa
W. C. Rauscher
D. C. Davies
Lee McCall
C. H
Mary Lillian Moorhead
Mildred Whiting
Doreen Lease
LaVerne Graber
Robert Miller
Keith Ivan Norton
Mary Evalene Davis
Edna V. Rich
Mildred E. Whiting
Ruth E. Baker
Ruth Martin
Elsie J. Griffith
M. Leroy Conrad
Doreen P. Lease
Laverne Loris Graber
Marion Jeschiey
Paul E. Martin
Donald F. Sands
Kenneth W. Long
Floyd Hamil and Sons
Lester and Lafe
Washington
W. H. Miller
William Long
Paul Hawath
Cedar Rapids
Eli White
Carl Caldwell
Columbus Junction
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John Shalla
Leo Te Bockhorst
Joe TeBockhorst
Norbert TeBockhorst
John Shalla, Jr
Darlene, Mer
Charles Marek
Business Women
William Boyd
Hepalong Cassidy
Paty
Berlin
Maastricht, Hol
Mrs. F. Salladay
Kula Mae Coon
Highland Center
Ernest Salladay
Glen Green
Lewis Rath
Joe Krote
Anna Krotz
Rodger Colthurst
Betty
George
Percy Skubal
Burke McCreedy
Jimmy
Delbert Holtes
Olive Lewis
William
Floyd Martin
Arnold Nicholson
Duane McCreedy
Near Rubio
Wm. Murphy
Lucille Murphy
Karl Steele
Lilian Endicott
Leo Grat
Moline
Illinois
Charlie Merrifield
Melvin Soukups
June Arlene
MacMurray School
Mary Donaldson
Frieda Witthoft
Singne Finke
Anna Landan
Dorcas Society
Bonnie Dettwiler
East Sunset
J. E. Lemley
Joe Schlatter
James Lemley
George Lemley
Tom Carris
Winnie
Shirley
Ronald
Dale Beenblossom
Larry
Lyman Johnson
Marie
Velma
Seth Carris
Keith
Martha Escher
Lester Beenblossom
John Sherman
Betty Lowe
Cleo McCoy
Richard Lease
Boyd Twinam
Oscar Hughes
Arden
Mildred
Latimer Davis
Henry
Mary
Martha
George Yeager
Vera
Harold Littrer
Warren Bishop
Lexington
Moss Home
W. J. Hartzell
Verne Moss
Clarence Fulton
Maxine
W. C. Ho Tle
Pleasant Hill
Dick Blanchard
Fred Orris
S. K. Orris
France
Air Force
Mrs
Margaret Smith
Holland
I. I. N. Radiophoto
Chawepordsville
Catty
New Yorker
Rita Ross
New York
American Magazine
Finanse CO
Soall Loan
Washington County
Danking Phepet
Iin Bates
PTT
reEyyreay
Chevrolet
Eure
Flint
Mich
West Washington If
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