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Brush Employees Picnic In Iowa City Park Move
Owens Brush Co employees from Iowa City held a company picnic in the city park but rain forced the gathering to relocate to the Johnson County 4-H grounds building. Attendees included local families and visitors tied to illness and a funeral in the Birka family. The 41st Army Division annual picnic followed at the Riverside Community Building with participants from multiple towns and states. A chicken dinner, trimmed by Blanche Havel and Dorothy Olson, fed forty two. twenty eight guests later joined at the Dale Burich home for an evening lunch.
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Riverside
Owens Brush Co
Iowa City
Johnson County
4-H
Dale Burich
Evelyn Knebel
Rosemary
John Metz
Elmer Kron
Alex Mehaffey
Vermilion
S. Dakota
Hubert Kron
Mary Schnoebelen
Lone Tree
Leo L. Birka
Merle Blieu
Clarence Wilson
Washington
Marge Luckey
41St Army Division
Kinross
Letts
Oelwein
Ottumwa
New London
Burlington
Davenport
Nichols
Millersburg
Pella
Port Byron
Rockford
Ill
Blanche Havel
Dorothy Olson