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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1949
Page
6
Mrs W H Jackson and Marie visited during the weekend in the home of her son and daughter in Kalona. The brief note records a family social call with no further details or dates.
Kalona Baptist church members and guests held a cooperative dinner in the church parlors on Sunday. A miscellaneous shower honored Marilyn Strickler who will wed Edwin Grout on Monday, May 23. Other local visits and meetings are noted with neighbors and ministers in the Kalona area.
Donald McAllister’s anger at Wilson erupts in the factory after a tense car ride with Kay Farnham. As pressure mounts before a government hearing, McAllister confronts management, pledging to work his own way while plotting a lunch with Cornelia Adkins.
Tests on 5 708 hogs by the Live Stock Sanitary Committee at Sioux City Iowa show hams bear the most bruises followed by bellies shoulders and backs. Driving and handling practices cause many injuries including ham bruises from nails boards and gate hinges in yards chutes and trucks alike.
Antarctica is nearly as vast as South America and sits high above the sea. The continent averages about 6,000 feet in elevation, with the South Pole region near 9,000 feet above sea level.
Bobby V Bruegger 15 of Plymouth earns Midwest Barley Improvement Association prize for best essay How Can We Make the Barley Crop Bring More Dollars Per Acre He also wins Wisconsin state prize 25 and Sheboygan county prize 5 In 4 H and Future Farmers of America active on family 40 acre farm with grains and alfalfa.
Prof Frank E Mussehl of the University of Nebraska poultry department says tuberculosis in chickens can be eradicated in one year. He urges clean housing and ground, rotating the range yearly, and to eliminate or sell older hens by June 1 unless they are high grade breeders.
Ninety two percent of all women sew producing clothing and household items. A vast number work about three forty hour weeks yearly sewing every conceivable garment and accessory.
The report notes planting at the parsonage grounds on Tuesday and that Mr. and Mrs. August Zieglow Sky of Haskins were business callers in Noble on Saturday.
Those from here enjoying fishing trips at Oakland Mills include Oscar Miller Leonard Leich ty and Lee Swartzendruber. The Oscar Miller and Henry Leichty families held a fish fry at Amasa Miller's Wayland home last Thursday. Robert Roth married Helen McKune in Washington last Saturday May 14 and will live in Washington. Gladys Widmer returned to Elkhart after attending her uncle Aaron Wyse's funeral. Visitors Glenn Rothani and K W Goll visited Effie Leichty and children. John Garrick visited Perry Beatty. Ficher pupils hosted Stringtown pupils last Friday with visitors defeated.
Multiple weekly livestock sale times listed for Whittaker Kalona Midway Columbus Junction Ollie and Keota area venues. Includes a closing out household goods sale May 21 and an auction May 23 for the Keota Junction Sales business with executor Theodore Turner.
Readable notes describe a tense baseball game at home between schools with a one point margin signaling a close contest. A separate line notes wedding bells returning to the Noble community as a group at Wieher church cleans and prepares for a ceremony.
In Carson City Nevada a small capital with under 2500 residents is cited as the nation’s smallest state capital. Breeders debate the bloodhound name origin from “blooded” aristocracy or from training methods using wounded deer trails and later men with deer blood on shoes and the dry foot of a man.
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