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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1938
Page
6
Mrs. L A Meredith reports a crowd of visits across towns including Wellston Hillsboro Des Moines and Richland. Local households welcomed guests from Iowa City Keota Riverside Donnelson Harper Davenport and Leaf River while births and employment notes appear among the weekend calls.
In Columbus Junction May 25 Dr L L Weis pastor of Muscatine First Methodist will deliver the Memorial Day address in Conesville at the home of Mr and Mrs Earl Eversmeyer. The piece notes local residents visiting, a Mayo Clinic visit, a school picnic, and other community updates.
City spent the weekend with her mother Mrs. W. H. Brinning. They with Mr. and Mrs. F. G. McClelland and son of Brighton, and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Wolfe and daughter of Ainsworth were Sunday visitors at the J. W. McClelland home.
Riverside May 24 Baccalaureate exercises were held at the Methodist Church with a processional and choral numbers led by H C Borup. Rev Stuart C Peterson delivered the address titled A Stone for a Pillow and the class motto Life Is What We Make. Graduates include Bette Cress Rhets Herring Gwendolyn Marner Ferne Meeks Richard Buchwalter Gail Kern and Robert Workman.
Community notes report a henhouse burglary near Wayland where thieves took 40 hens after a prior loss of 200 baby chicks to smoke in a brooder fire. Other items cover local unrest over Sunday gravel hauling, a music contest honor, and local visits and gatherings through late May.
A Brighton notice dated May 25 lists visits and social calls among residents and visitors. Mrs. R. P. Alexander of Tokyo, and numerous local families including the Lemleys, Gordons, Helmicks, and Shiebels are mentioned with gatherings, funerals, and travels across Iowa communities.
Harmony residents share visits with Ed Heck and Nick Schmidtt households. Everette Schmidtt and family spent Sunday with the Nick Schmidtt home. Leland stayed for a time.
The popular radio hero moves to cinema with The Lone Ranger serial from Republic Studios now playing at Fox Theatre. The masked star remains unidentified until the final chapter as the Texas post Civil War reclamation tale unfolds for the family audience.
The Sargasso Sea contains two vast banks of floating weed in the Atlantic, an area seven times larger than Germany. Little has changed since Columbus sailed in 1492, though the weed has drawn scant attention until now.
The speaker notes that seven years have passed since the Diamond Inn and the Diamond Service Station opened, marking an anniversary for the local business and its facilities.
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