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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1949
Page
6
Attorney listing for W. Livingston and Robert Day with Abstract Department in office at 203 West Main. Phone numbers 147 or 964 provided for contact.
The Board of Supervisors met on call of the Chairman with Morrow Welte and Fulton present. Homestead Credit Applications numbered 1 to 1472 were allowed except for 189 143 222 468 925 941 1013 1023 1109 1170 1171 1191. adjourned subject to call of chairman.
The Board met on call of the Chairman with all members present. Numbers 1473 to 2589 were allowed except 1541 1675 2480.
Community sale listings through September include weekly Friday sales at Whittaker sale barn and Wednesday sales at Midway Sales Company in Columbus Junction Iowa. Kalona Iowa hosts Thursday sales at Kalona Sales Barn and Ollie Iowa hosts Tuesday 1 pm sales at Ollie Livestock Exchange. September 10 dairy cattle sale at Keota starts 1 pm. September 13 closing out sale of 218 acre farm 114g miles east of Brighton starts 1 30. September 27 closing out sale 4 miles SE of Washington on the Wayland road starts 11 am. Van Nostrand and Sowash.
Ned Morrow attests Fred Bourgeois on call of the Chairman with all members present. Numbers 2590 to 3929 were allowed. Chairman.
On the Chairman's call with Mor row Welte and Fulton present the board approved the 1950 Washington County budget. A hearing was set for September 12 1949 at 10 00 AM at the courthouse. The County Auditor was ordered to publish the estimate and hearing notice in official county newspapers with one insertion at least ten days before the hearing. Adjourned subject to call of the chairman. Attest Fred Bourgeois.
Marlene Buster daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Buster serves as associate justice for the Girls Nation citizenship school at Washington DC. The article also notes a western motor trip by Mr and Mrs W F Edmondson and Mr and Mrs Holland Burch and visits by Alma Johnston and Mrs Geneva Johnston. John Summerville returns from University Hospital Iowa City. L Hill buys back his grocery store from Don Morgan who now serves as janitor at the high school.
Funeral services for Staff Sergeant William R Williams age 23 killed in the South Pacific on May 11 1943 were conducted at the George M Wittich funeral home Muscatine with Dr Joseph Kennedy of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial was at Greenwood cemetery. He was the son of Mr and Mrs John Williams formerly of the community with surviving parents three brothers Hugh Thomas and John and a sister Marian. Williams was a Cotter high school graduate.
A garbled sports and schedule snippet lists teams including Philadelphia, Cleveland, New York, Boston and Detroit with matchups and night games. It reads like a tenant of a sports wire listing results, venues, and dates, though several fragments are unclear.
A tropical American mahogany tree has elm like bark and ash or hickory like compound leaves. It often shows a spreading buttressed base and can reach 150 feet tall with 8 to 9 foot trunk diameter. Typical height is 100 to 125 feet and thickness 3 to 5 feet. Mahogany yields long wide defect free lumber and veneer. Some shrubs and trees are highly susceptible to 2 4 D. indirect exposure can be fatal.
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