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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1947
Page
5
E. Bigsti sells his Brown Swiss dairy herd of 22 years and rents the Wayland farm to his son Orlin. He will join Funk Bros Seed as district sales supervisor for nine southeast counties. Local buyers purchase several animals. many residents attend events and visits across Iowa and Illinois.
Spring Run Evangelical United Brethren Church in Columbus Junction marks its 75th anniversary with events September 9 to 12. Speakers include Rev. George J. Roths and Rev. JL Woods. Rev. R. H. Aurand leads Friday services. Rev. G A Stauftocher and Rev. G H Bamford chair Sunday events.
A single company produced about two million baseball bats between 1884 and the war and uses more than five million board feet of ash annually. The standard bat weighs about 35 ounces and measures roughly 34 to 35 inches in length.
Jerry Deaton spends a week with his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Ethan Brooks while his parents Mr. and Mrs. Bill Deaton take a vacation south. The town's social scene includes visits among families, dinners, and local events at various addresses around Washington, Pleasant Plain, and Cedar Rapids.
A Cedar report lists Sunday dinner guests at the Eugene Martin home including Robert Martin Tommy and Dickie Joe of Moline Illinois and J B D Martin of Washington. Afternoon callers were Lewis Steckman Dean Don and Denny of Davenport. Additional visitors were Sam Stockman Charlie Howell and Lois of Davenport.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service gathered Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Albert Saunders residence with I F Kraemer as devotional leader and Homer Rotzinger leading the lesson. Edna Crile directed entertainment and L A Horton with committee served refreshments.
Tommy joined Mr Kraemer in Iowa City for the Iowa Illinois game and visited relatives including Mr and Mrs David Wentworth and their daughter. Ira Schafer returned from Rochester Minnesota after surgery. Several residents attended district Federated clubs in Washington. A funeral was held for John Grove, 73, in South English after injuries from a wagon accident. Continuations note visits, moves, and local gatherings across Fairfield Osceola Wayland and Mt. Pleasant communities.
At Crawfordsville John Anderson says his road was rocked last week. That is something to be proud of after.
In Living Lake on October 9 residents report the Drake family adding a new basement room and furnace, Donald Brown receiving a Farmall tractor, demand for tractors and farming supplies, hedge removal troubles, and local children visiting. Geraldine Drake turns six with a birthday party while Dorothy Walker recovers after a school basketball injury.
The entry recalls absence from school due to illness and a doctor's advice to rest. It also records visits by Mr and Mrs Vernon Wittriz to Rennie Dawson's home on October 1 to celebrate Rennie's birthday, with mentions of Ella Gordon and Anna Scott, and a Monday call by Miss Bulig to Maurice Meyer and Rennie Dawson homes.
Morris Morris well known cattle feeder in Louisa Washington county west of Cotter will be one of three town stock men to judge at the third annual Chicago feeders cattle show at Union stock yards Chicago Oct 30 2011. Cattle will be judged and sold in car load lots with total prizes of 6000 for yearling steers steer calves yearling heifers and heifer calves.
Floyd Vetter district soil conservationist will lead a soil demonstration at the Kenneth Fuller farm southwest of Columbus City. Ed Fullerton was chosen as a delegate from the United Presbyterian church at Columbus City to the synod meeting at College Springs October 7 to 9, with Eli White named as alternate. The Whatsoever society met Tuesday evening in the Methodist church with Mrs. F. E. Groben and Mrs. R. C. Smith as hostesses.
Merle Colton family visited Sunday at the Imath home in Winfield. Dean Zaks spent the day with home folks near Riverside. Andresen family of Decatur Illinois were Sunday guests of Hilton Coon. Coon family received 40 head cattle shipped from Alliance Nebraska. Larry Colton visited Herb Ellingson in Cedar Rapids. Pot luck at Hilton Coon featured Albis Alfred Robert Mendon and others. A pigeon found perched on a potato bin died before the children could study it. Has kins Ladies Aid hosted by Mrs Joe Podaril Thursday afternoon.
Percherons make up half of all registered horses in the United States, including Ught horses, highlighting their prominence in the national horse registry.
Johnny Meyer, press agent for Meyer Howard Hughes, posted a $500 bond in a New York City jail after an arrest at a nightclub on a charge of failing to support an alleged illegitimate son of Pat Miles. Miles sues for $100,000, claiming Meyer fathered the child.
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