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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1950
Page
3
Washington Golf and Country Club plans a twilight golf league starting after June 1 with one weekly evening. Players will submit names and form four rider rosters plus one alternate by the club pro using handicap ratings. Captain leads four players. scoring allocates points from foursomes and match play across Nos. 1 to 4 players.
Washington Golf and Country club plans a three day blind bogey nine hole tournament over Memorial Weekend. Club pro Charles Wiele announced play will run May 28 29 and 30 with golfers urged to enter as often as they wish. On Monday May 29 golf will continue.
An all day event features continued play and a stag dinner at 7 pm. Reservations for the dinner are due by Sunday at 7:30 pm. Contact telephone 43 for booking and details.
Clarissa Gibson stays with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reid in West Des Moines while Frances Hinkehouse prepares to travel with her parents to Montreal for a fellowship year in Spain and summer studies at William and Mary. Other entries note John Pratt’s improving recovery from surgery, Nora Hicks visiting Hampton, Mrs. A. J. Pool in Ottumwa, Finneys in Kalona and Winfield for church work, and Ivan Norton attending a Kiwanis meeting in Iowa City where scholarships were awarded.
Jimmy Logan two and a half, son of Mr. and Mrs John Logan, spent 30 days in hospital with a fractured leg. He was brought home in casts and shows splendid progress though the cast remains.
A Mason City party joined Mrs. Etta Brinton for dinner today, hosted at her residence with local guests in attendance.
The Columbus Independent district will take its biennial census as of June 1 in two parts. One counts all persons aged five to 21, regardless of marital status school or employment. The other records children from one day to five years to guide the board of education. Martha Butler will be the enumerator.
The Columbus Junction library board elected D A Marker as president R W Merritt as vice president M E Fisher as secretary and Anna Robertson as librarian. Plans include summer story hours for children with the first meeting set for June 1 from 2 30 to 3 p m. A postnuptial shower for Mrs Dean Cowger was hosted by Mrs Manford Gentzler and Mrs Irvin White with guests being mothers of Carson school pupils taught by the bride.
The Berean class of Central Presbyterian Sunday school held a picnic Tuesday evening May 23 in Columbus Chautauqua park. William Griffin sustained a broken right wrist in a fall at the skating rink and was cast at Bellevue hospital Muscatine. Mrs Wilbur Long sustained fracture of her right ankle in a fall at her home and has been a patient at Bellevue hospital Muscatine.
The 53 automobile manufacturers in the United States produced 6 250 000 cars trucks and buses in 1949 surpassing the 1929 record by nearly a million vehicles, marking a new nationwide production high.
In 1624 Francis Bacon described a Turkish beverage named caffa made from a berry of the same name. He claimed it was dark as soot with a strong scent and that it comforted the brain and heart and aided digestion.
Slow digestion causes gas buildup pressing on the heart and misery. Certa Vin, taken before meals, aids digestion, reduces gas and bloating, and enriches blood with iron while strengthening nerves with vitamin B. Pioneer Drug Store offers this herbal remedy with vitamins and iron.
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