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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1965
Page
2
Fall pests return as mice invade homes prompting families to seek control. Lytle's offers a range of anti mouse supplies to help residents curb infestations and protect households this season.
St James Home and School met at the school house Tuesday evening to start the fall program with a potluck. Richard Shuck led a program on What Are You Teaching Your Child, with Father Lew and Father Grubb as guests. Father Grubb led a Hootenanny. Mrs Bernard McCarthy presided at the business meeting and new members were introduced. Father Lew spoke briefly to the parents. Door prize won by Mrs Francis Reed and attendance prize to Sister Mary St Theodore.
Women may register for two series starting September 30 with deadlines by September 23. Knitting classes run 1:30 p.m. each Thursday through December 9, costs 3 dollars for members 3.50 for non members. Tailoring sessions run 7 to 9 p.m. on the same dates at 10 dollars per person with instructor Mrs Delbert Soper and class size of eight to twelve.
A district court handed down a directed verdict in favor of the defendant in the $20,000 lawsuit of Clarence H. Ross Sr. against Fred Carlson Co Inc. The case stemmed from an October 8, 1963 accident on Riverside road.
Relative of Keota residents Mr and Mrs Walter Sieren announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Mariellen to Charles Bower son of Mr and Mrs Fred Bower of Keota Bower is a 1959 English Valley High School graduate recently returned from two years in Germany and now farms with his father Mariellen is a 1963 Keota Community High School graduate who worked at Bell Telephone in Iowa City and at Keota Spray Service The wedding is set for November 20.
Social calendar lists many gatherings with times and hosts including St Rita Circle Little Flower Circle Double Deck Club St James Circle Friday Methodist WSCS Rebekah Lodge IOOF Hall Bethlehem Commandery First Presbyterian UPW Circles I II III Baptist classes DAR Constitution Day program Marion Ave UPW Circles I II III IV V Rainbow Girls Practice Cyrus Chapter RAM weekend events Monday Wash-away Tops Junior High PTG Rainbow Girls Bible II Garden I Baptist Friendly Bible Class White Shrine Bridge and more events scheduled across venues with potlucks dinners and memberships noted.
Weather vigilantes forecast a tough winter with an early season. Mrs. Howard Van Ness sighted a caterpillar, long cited as a weather barometer, crawling toward warmth inside a local store. Rob ert Kleese, a West Chester farmer, received a one year suspended sentence for breaking and entering the White House Dairy on June 8, 1965, and was paroled to probation officer Burrell Smith.
The Catholic Daughters met Wednesday evening at the school social rooms with Mrs. Leo Marie presiding. Initiation was held for new members Lucille Altenhofen Shirley Dahl Dorothy Dold Rosemary Elliott Shirley Friese Winifred Friese Ben George Barb Horak Marlene Hornung Anna Lukavsky Amelia McGannon Mary Peiffer Hezel Redlinger. Three members were reinstated: Mary Peiffer Dorothy Worley Mary Friese Mary Catherine Escher and Joan Gent. Mrs. Redlinger spoke on St. Cosmos and St. Damian. A quartet sang and the year’s program was announced. A safety film and public program are planned for Oct 12 at the high school. Refreshments followed.
Dr. W. J. Grossheim pastor of First Presbyterian Church Washington from 1948 to 1960 is in satisfactory condition after a heart attack in Davenport Mercy Hospital. Visitors not admitted. Also noted are local items: Mrs. Bonnie Stout of Crawfordsville won a mink stole in a Tupperware recruiting contest. church planning session in southeast Iowa. and word of Donald Harlan's death in Miami. He formerly resided in Richland. funeral set for Friday in Miami. surviving wife son Steve and brother Paul.
The Wesleyan Service Guild led by Mrs. Don Statler met with fifteen members at Mrs. John Schenk’s home for world missions devotions by Mrs. Daryl Dodder and hostess duties by Mrs. Charles Crone. Other groups, Just Us Club and Public Affairs, held social gatherings and programs with guests, officers, and upcoming events noted, including an October district meeting plan and a November church dinner. The Thirty Niners shared Europe trip photos, and the Snowball Club hosted a wiener roast for ten families with a life-in-Africa talk by Rev. Ron Genheimer.
The local VFW and Auxiliary welcomed over 100 district members on Sunday with floor-work pointers given. A joint supper closed the gathering for both groups.
Mrs Dean Schmitt and children Sherri and Gary traveled from Des Moines to Washington to attend Toni Rae Meths funeral. They are visiting Mrs Schmitts mother Olive Watson. T Sgt and Mrs Carl Campbell and family of Travis Air Force Base California left after visiting the E R Meeks grandparents en route to a new home in Michigan. Mrs Ernest Gingerich of Moline Illinois also visited the Meeks home. Bernice Dittmer returned to Chicago after visiting aunt Orley Page to help prepare for a sale. Helen Jackson returned from Alton Illinois after visiting cousin Mary Margaret Brady. Cyrus Chapter No 13 Royal Arch Masons will host a district meeting Saturday September 18 at the Masonic Temple with work at 2 pm and a paid dinner at 6:30 pm.
One application of T-4-L stops itch and burning in minutes or your 48c back. In 3 to 5 days, infected skin sloughs off to expose more germs for the kill. Then watch healthy skin appear today at Osin Cup Drug Store.
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