Larry Sthrom Breaks Collar Bone on School Slide
HASKINS November 28 Larry Sthrom broke his collar bone Monday while playing on a new school slide. The report notes a minor injury with details of the incident and local observations.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1940
Page
6
HASKINS November 28 Larry Sthrom broke his collar bone Monday while playing on a new school slide. The report notes a minor injury with details of the incident and local observations.
Prices for hogs rose to 6.10 as the market closed with a cloudy cold outlook. Weather forecast calls for colder conditions tonight and snow possible by Saturday.
Thanksgiving weekend visits mark the week in the community. Marjorie Edwards returned to Washington to work at the calendar factory. Rev N F P Chapman preached his farewell sermon and will move to Nyola Illinois for a lighter assignment. About 50 people attended a farewell party with a chenille bedspread presented to the couple.
Noble notes celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Dave Richard with a Sunday evening luncheon at their home. Attendees include relatives from Fry Rich Freeman Weston and Widmer families, plus neighbors from Olds Wayland Muscatine and Mt. Pleasant. Choir plans Christmas pageant and Bluffton college gospel team visit details. Edith Rich visited Wayland family.
Mr and Mrs John Birkey departed Monday for Arizona to spend the winter. They were honored at a turkey dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Oren Birkey and daughter Ann. Attending were Harve Freel Calvin Griffith Will Brown and Theodore Zillmer. Betty Bock and Dave Humke visited over the weekend with relatives L W Durst and others.
Mr and Mrs H E Ash and others hosted and visited in Iowa City with relatives and friends. Corrine Semler from Kirksville joined family visits with Henry Semler and Chase Millice households. Juanita and Virginia Schaffer returned from Philadelphia where Mr Schaffer recuperates in hospital.
Mrs. Schaffer and daughters visited Washington D. C. to see Mr. Schaffer’s sister. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Ross drove to Rock Island after Mrs. Ross’s mother, Mrs. Marie Ross, joined them from there and went home to Washington.
Clarence Miller and W P Miller consign 246 head to a three herd Miller Purebred Shorthorn sale in Abingdon Illinois with calves sold to a South American firm. Attendees included Karl Schhnerman of Haskins and the Coon family and others from the area.
Daily and weekend train departures for the CR. LL & P line and No. 8 Golden State Limited with stops in Washington and Knoxville Branch details. Burlington Railways buses run Washington to OmahaChicago with multiple daily departures and a note on ticket purchase at the local depot.
Joe Krotz and children spent Sunday at the Samuel Murphy home. Miss Ruby Wilkin visited Lucille Murphy in Cedar Rapids. Ira Coon and family hosted visitors including Br est Warner and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Soukup. Frank Florang hosted relatives Chas Frolek and his cousin Frolek after fifty years. Una Lewis visited Olive Lewis in Washington while Ira Coon drives a new Studebaker.
Mrs. R S White learns her brother Henry Kh Green of Glendive Mont has been reelected to the Montana state representative seat on the Republican ticket. Yarmouth high school teams defeated Crawfordsville with girls 40 to 16 and boys 27 to 20. Angus Moore of Mt Pleasant refereed.
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