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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1966
Page
7
Hopewell Sewing club met at Mary Ellen Detweiler's home with eleven members and one visitor Annette Weber. Bernice Dill led the business session and members shared summer joys. The group discussed an October tour to Cedar Rapids and noted illness among Mrs Harold Pepper and Mike Vincent. Birthday gifts were given for Rosie Pepper and Esther Vin.
The column lists several sales scheduled for October 8 across Iowa including Crawfordsville Kalona Oskaloosa and Washington venues. Items feature household goods livestock and farm equipment with start times from 12:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Names include C A Lowe Ray Brenneman Eva Mouser Milo Patterson Estate Walter Meredith and others.
An extensive list of items for sale includes living room and dining suites, bedroom furniture, mattresses, lamps, rockers, desks, chairs, and storage units. Also listed are appliances, garden tools, sporting equipment, a riding lawn mower, tools, a pressure canner, and numerous other articles not mentioned.
A compact grouping of antiques includes a decorative cake stand a lamp an iron kettle several fruit jars with glass lids a small trunk an iron skillet two sad irons a stone cracked item a jar set and an old chest of drawers.
Delmar Schlabaugh, executor, lists estate consignments including a small electric heater and fan, two radios, a 17 inch portable television, couch, rocker, folding cot, breakfast set with four chairs, luggage, bedding, lawn chairs, dishes, cooking utensils, beds, air conditioner, utility cabinet, full length mirror, car a 1960 Fiat 1100 four door with about 22 000 miles.
Crawfordsville area outings include a Cedar Rapids visit to relatives and a Proctor and Gamble tour with West Branch dinner. Members and spouses attended a Town City trip. upcoming meeting on October 26. Birthday dinner honors Mrs Mary Lord and Miss Grace Stone with a large group present. Also reports travel from California and Navy leave, plus local visits to Mason City and the Dairy Cattle Congress.
The Pythian Sisters of Brighton met at the hall with M E C Mrs Kay Custer in charge and delegates Mrs Clifford Leeper and Mrs Ira Saunders reporting from the Grand Temple Convention in Cedar Rapids. They discussed attending the District Convention in Douds on October 7 and ongoing club activities.
Candy Shalla daughter of Clifford and Mrs Shalla was honored at a surprise eighth birthday party Wednesday afternoon September 28 with school friends and family in Kalona. Guests included Sandra Beranek Jenny Strabala Barbara Stumpf Angela Murphy Lori Escher Ann McAndrew Nancy Schaefer Cindy Malichky Coleen Chalupa and Becky Stumpf along with relatives. Activities included games and refreshments and gifts from friends. Also noted are visits by relatives and friends from Ankeny and Mason City and a birth notice from Kalona with Kathleen Marie born September 21 in Fort Francis Canada to Ronald and Mrs Grout with grandparents Mr and Mrs Walter Speas. The Kalona social scene lists many local families and a move by the Lewis family to Queen City Missouri.
Miss Monica Murphy a State University of Iowa graduate and teacher spent the weekend with Mrs. E D Miller in Wellman. Mrs Pauline Swartzendruber returned from Indiana to reunite with relatives. The Becklers welcomed a son in West Point Nebraska with grandparents in Wellman. Rev Archie Patrick guest minister at English River Church of the Brethren. A 62nd wedding anniversary was observed for Henry J Miller and his wife. Dedication services occurred at First Baptist Church with four babies dedicated and memorial gifts noted. Several local visitors and funerals are recorded.
The Keofa Lions Club met at Lagos Acres on Monday evening with 19 members present. Committee members Leland Roessner and Lloyd Criss prepared the calendar name lists, priced at one dollar with a twenty five cent listing fee for birthdays or anniversaries without family. The meeting also covered a boys baseball project for ages 15 to 18 led by Crim Potter, while Mark DeLong Steve Beck and Jim Trier, with Ned Gingerich, spent the weekend on a Muscatine river houseboat trip from Muscatine to Rock Island fishing and boating.
Iowa City social notes list Mr and Mrs Louis Pruess hosting dinners with Kenneth and Brenda Pruess and visitors from Parkersburg California and Washington. Local calls include Osseo Minnesota and Fairfield bound visits. a R C S Club meeting, bridge prizes, and the next gathering on October 25. Also mentions hospital releases and a hand injury, plus a NBC Lutherans program on Believe.
Last Monday a robust sale moved over 500 head of feeder pigs with prices topping 27.40 per head on 18 head. Lighter pigs sold well as stock cattle began moving, including 200 head of fresh local cattle and several die steer calves 200 to 300 pounds at 29.50 per cwt. Angus steers 462 pounds brought 27.30 per cwt, stock heifers 25.00, 16 solid mouth ewes at 19.35 per head, feeder lambs to 23.00 per cwt, and fat lambs at 22.90 per cwt. Next Sat Oct 8 at 7:00 p.m. Horse Sale. Ph 256 3120 Steve Greenfield, Mgr. Max Roth, Office.
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