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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1975
Page
2
Marian Waters reports 287 pupils at Waco Elementary this year up from last. Kindergarten 50, first 46, second 54, third 43, fourth 42, fifth 52. Local social notes cover reunions, visits, club meetings, family plans, and medical news in Crawfordsville and nearby towns.
Labor Day weekend visitors include Mr and Mrs James Pierce of Dundee Illinois and Mr and Mrs Robert Beebe Cedar Rapids. Roy Hauenstein will drive to Wartburg College in Waverly for Jay. Kurt Smylie returns to Iowa City for college duties. PEO Sisterhood holds first meeting Sept 18 at Mrs Robert Shellmyer home with Arlene Davis assisting. UMW meets Sept 3 at church on Feed My Sheep with Global Concerns program. Booster Club announces 1975 76 officers Cleo Orris president Don Clark VP Bill Wellington secretary LeRoy Hughes treasurer. Half Hour members meet Sept 9 at Ben Rohrets home with program by Althea Ganfield Proclaim Liberty. Tom Huston begins duties as State Superintendent of Banking in Des Moines and will stay weekdays in Des Moines and weekends in Junction.
Keota residents welcomed relatives and friends from Harper Washington Iowa Scotch Grove Kirksville Davenport Burlington and beyond for Labor Day weekend visits dinners and social calls. Guests included the Merz Lechner Flynn and Flynn families along with local cousins and guests from Illinois and Wisconsin. Frequent travels covered Oak Park Tooele Utah Jamesville Geneseo Arlington Heights Greenfield Sigourney and Los Angeles as families shared meals and updates.
Washington hosts International Women's Year events on Sept 19 with a YWCA public affairs panel. Eleanor Anstey of Iowa reports on the Mexico City conference, followed by a foreign students panel from the University of Iowa. A 6:30 p.m. potluck precedes the program in the community room.
The Cedar Rapids Extension Area schedules a dairy tour on Monday. Eldon Hans notes bus transport will visit Maynard Lang and Son farm near Brooklyn and Jim Tompkins farm in Marengo with pickups at Kalona Sale Barn at 9 15 p m and Seven Villages lot at 10 15 a.m. Noon meal and transport cost six dollars. Lang farm features Holsteins Ayrshires free stall barn bunker silo and high moisture corn. Tomkins runs a high producing Holstein herd with calf housing. ISU’s Dr Kent Nelson will discuss feeding management calf rearing.
Local notice offers a seasonal thought about giving over leading with a playful line about costs. It highlights fall décor ideas using straw flowers and colorful dried materials to create an autumn motif indoors.
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