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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1940
Page
4
Lucy Dempsey and Mrs H Mtn nam co hosted the Chapter Y T T T social evening at Miss Dempsey's home. Ten members attended with dessert refreshments before bridge at two tables. High score prize went to Mrs Raymond Dayton.
S and C club members and families honored Mrs Bert Cray with a potluck supper at her Riverside home for her birthday. Bid euchre winners were Mr Milt Wolrob, Verle Wolroeb and Mrs Charles Schnoeb elen. Members presented a handkerchief shower.
Mrs Birdie Godlove travels to Chicago to visit brother Paul Geret and family. Delta Delta bridge club hosted by Mrs Norval Flynn at her country home southeast of Riverside. Rev Joseph J Fath from Kiyn Iowa visits at his parents home. Milo Shalla and Agnes Metz visit Iowa City relatives. Bernard Kleopfer, Chicago employee, visits his Riverside parents. Donald Frank of Des Moines spends weekend with mother Emma Frank.
In Brighton on Sunday November 27 the Clarence Brown and Seth Carris families and Helen Baker joined the Glen Mull kin household for a family dinner. Also visiting were Mr and Mrs D N Kleinschmidt from near Harper and the Leo Shaw family from What.
Editorial style ad copy claims Adlerika provides quick relief for bloating gas bad breath sour stomach and delayed bowel action. It urges readers to buy today and attributes the product to Geo. L. McDaniel.
Katherine Kaney and Robert B Young were married last evening at 6:30 in Trinity Methodist church Cedar Rapids. The ceremony was followed by a dinner for ten at the Hotel Roosevelt. The couple will reside in Washington with Mrs Young a Lincoln school teacher and Mr Young employed by Tucker Chevrolet.
Cheer also spent the day there after a bounteous dinner. Mrs Mada Dickinson returned home that week after visiting relatives in Long Beach and California. Clarence Brown lost a horse last week. Homer Brinton trucked cattle to Ottumwa last Saturday. Donald Neal caught a fox Sunday morning. Kosmer Borkoski was a Rubio caller Monday afternoon. Sell with a Classified.
Friday W R C meeting at 2 30 p m at G A R hall. Monday D of V meeting with potluck supper at 6 30 p m G A R hall including election of officers and Christmas exchange. Literature dept meets 2 30 p m at Mrs W I Dwyer 516 West Washington street.
The Eastern Star sponsors a food sale on Saturday at Washington cleaners. City Council PTA plans a rummage sale at City Hall with drop off Friday from 2 to 5 PM and 7 to 9 PM.
A birthday column lists celebrants including Anna Schwimley eight and one, Mrs. Lloyd Nelson, Wayne Mangold, James Birney, Wanda Casper, and Bobby Logan ten. Gertrude Mae Smith turns seven. Doyle and Gertrude Smith of West Chester are highlighted. Tony Redeker and spouse Keota celebrate seven years of marriage. Melvin Dean Snyder senior mentioned.
In Westchester on November 28 Mr and Mrs Roy Bauer hosted a pheasant dinner for the school faculty at their home. Mrs Bauer and her mother Mrs Sadie Dusenberry prepared a variety of dishes including butterscotch pie with whipped cream. The group, including Mrs Calkins wife of Superintendent J L Calkins, spent the evening playing bridge and the pheasant dinner remains an annual event.
East Highland in a Thanksgiving column lists Mr and Mrs John Weber hosting a turkey dinner. Various visits are recounted including Hester Mincer with grandmother and Marie Swailes over the weekend, Linwood Heck delivering hogs, and farewells for Miss Ruby Bruegge as she moves to Cedar Rapids.
Ostend's oyster parks gained renown before the war as oysters were fattened with stock from England, boosting yields and trade. The practice highlighted cross channel links in early aquaculture and local industry.
Mr and Mrs Curtis Snyder observe a birthday today while Mr and Mrs Henry Tebeek Horst celebrate their thirty fifth wedding anniversary in the same notice.
The diary notes a 9:00 p.m. dance at the auditorium corner of Front and Jefferson Streets with music by Boyd Raeburn and his orchestra. The program ends at 1:00 a.m. with That's All Folks.
Funeral services for Virginia Knight Logan 92 longtime concert soprano and lyric composer will be held at Powers Funeral Home in Oskaloosa. Logan gained fame as a coloratura soprano in opera and as a composer of song lyrics.
Funeral arrangements set for Mrs. Logan at Forest Cemetery in the Knight family plot. The burial honors her son Frederic Knight Logan, famed composer of the Missouri Waltz, with pallbearers drawn from the glee club he once directed.
A crowded refrigerator hinders air circulation and forces the unit to work harder. It uses more ice, electricity, gas, or kerosene to chill extra containers and foods that do not require refrigeration.
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