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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1944
Page
8
Margaret Doolittle at the P B 0 home in Mt Pleasant shares joy over cards letters and gifts for her sab birthday after readers wrote to the Journal. Mrs J A McCall seeks entry in the Three Quarters of a Century club. Dr and Mrs Beeb Stutsman enjoy a Denver vacation plan.
Prairie Flower Martha Thrasher notes social visits with the Stransky and Shalla families in Lowr City Riverside. Guests included Mr and Mrs Frank Stransky Mrs Melo Stransky and baby Mrs Emily Shalle and Joe Shalla. B L Smith hosted and Frederic Smith of Cleveland visited for two months. Word from A C Merle Turning seed stationed at San Marcos.
Community captions cover training plans for a Texas youth with Las Vegas flight work, school repairs at Prairie Flower, teaching assignments for Patricia Griffith, and local visits and funerals. West-side notes include East Sunset social visits, army draft departure for Warren Schaeffer, hospital news, and farm workers' carpentry projects alongside various local family updates.
Mrs Joyce Lowry and her son Michael have gone to Bode where Mrs Lowry will teach music in the schools. Enoch Linder returns from Minnesota. Mrs Mary Chihak lives with Mrs Hilda Olds as neighborhood notes include visits by Miss Wedlein, Miss Utterback, and Joyce Linn. The Lincoln Street club enjoyed a social afternoon at Mrs W R Crawford’s home. Clifford Campbell and family of Washington visited here with his father W I Smylie.
Washing spinach turnip greens and mustard in slightly warm water loosens grit and frees any bugs or worms clinging to leaves.
Kathryn Nebel, student nurse at Mennonite hospital Bloomington, enjoys a two week vacation. She spent Friday with her brother Milton and family. Relatives in Washington and nearby towns visited, dined, or stayed with Nebel and other families over Labor Day weekend.
West Chester Consolidated School started the term with 144 pupils, including 53 in high school and 31 in the lower grades. The opening program featured Flag Raising Exercises, invocations, the American Creed, and a school-wide singing of the Star Spangled Banner.
Orlin Frey of Iowa City spent the weekend at the parental Frey home with relatives while another local family resident in Harm Westen’s household hosted guests.
Linn County Auditor Otto Hanzlik announced a $30 check will be mailed to former County Auditor Robert M. Vesely who resigned April 6 due to an office shortage. The reimbursement follows state examiners finding an overpayment in restitution and directing the payment.
Washington county registered nurses held a summer picnic at Sunset Park with 21 nurses and two children. After a short meeting plans for future gatherings were discussed. Meetings will occur quarterly and county nurses invite all registered pets to attend at the Nurses home with the next gathering planned for December.
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