Dear Aunt Agatha week in Washington notes fall hints
In Washington Iowa a rainy period brings a record crop forecast while ground broke on Crane Company factory and a Washington Manufacturing Co building earns top year status. Local changes include a new orange W cap for De Men’s club and elections to school boards and choral board. Community Chest sets a 35625 budget as newcomers Ivorys arrive, Drake design student Gus crafts a silver chess set, and August weddings outpace June with 25 to 16, plus a September start.
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Iowa
Washington County
Crane Company
Washington Manufacturing Co
Armco Company
Earl Rae
Leonard Tindal
Jess Knight
American Choral Directors
Community Chest
Washington
Robert Ivory
Week on the Farm notes rain and harvest pace
The column reports a week of showers refreshing soil moisture in the area and notes the first locally harvested soybeans shipped to a processing plant with excellent quality. It mentions plowing trends, chisel tillage benefits, and the value of demonstration plots by seed companies. Scheeler Brothers host a beef barbecue using the 1967 Grand Champion 4 H Baby Beef from the Iowa State Fair.
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Scheeler Brothers
Morris wins 50 lap race at West Liberty for hometown gladness
The past week in Washington reports Mel Morris winning the 50 lap championship stock car race at West Liberty Saturday night. Crooks and Hemsted exit after collisions, with Crooks forced into the pits. The piece also lists community events, birthdays, reunions, and trips from Keota to Iowa City, Des Moines, and beyond, including family visits and college enrollments spanning Sept. 11.
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West Liberty
Mel Morris
MVSC
Stan Crooks
Crooks
Ron Hemsted
Local school election yields light turnout with few contests
In Washington Community School district Earl Rae defeated Leonard Tindal for a school board seat as turnout remained light. Rural areas saw Dean Luers re elected unopposed and Frank Kos named school treasurer. Other notes include a 50th wedding anniversary for Rodney and Mrs. Arnold, a small roof fire in Ainsworth, and a birth announcement in Dubuque for Karin Ann Kreisa.
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Washington
Earl Rae
Leonard Tindal
Rae
Tindal
Dean Luers
Frank Kos
Karin Ann
Earl Kreisa
Dubuque
Kreisa
Marion Avenue United Presbyterian Church
Budget approved by Washington Community Chest board
A $35 625 budget was approved at a joint meeting of the Washington Community Chest Board of Directors and Chest Budget Committee. The plan shows a 13 percent increase from last year and adds one new agency, the Washington Senior Citizens Council, to the grants list with Red Feather Campaign involvement.
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Washington Community Chest Board of Directors
Chest
Richard Horak
Board of
Community Chest
Washington Senior Citizens Council
Red Feather
Local women honored at awards and gatherings across Iowa
Mrs. Harry Ramseyer received the National Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of World War I top award at the Indianapolis convention. A 69 relative group honored Mrs. Bertha Dunbar on her 89th birthday in Keota. Five Gold Star Mothers were saluted at a Legion Auxiliary tea. Daughters of the American Revolution marked Constitution Day at Sunset Park with guest state regent Mrs. Walsh. Also noted are hospital observation for Mrs. Jarrard, birthday wishes for Mrs. Underwood, a wedding in Muscatine, and community updates from Ames and area residents including educational pursuits and an insurance course graduate.
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Harry W. Ramseyer
Washington
National Ladies Auxiliary of the
Indianapolis
VFW
Keota
Bertha Dunbar
Mrs. Dunbar
Rest Haven Nursing Home
Sigourney
Daughters of the American Revolution
Sunset Park
Edgar Stewart
J. W. Helscher
W. E. Walsh
Hawkeye, In
J M Knight named ACDA Southeast Iowa District chairman
Jesse M Knight vocal music director at Washington High School and minister of music at the Washington Methodist church has been appointed ACDA chairman of the Southeast Iowa District. ACDA promotes artistic choral singing in Iowa, the U.S. and Canada. Knight holds BMEd from Simpson College and MA from the University of South Dakota after 12 years teaching vocal and instrumental music in Iowa.
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Jesse M. Knight
Washington High School
Washington Methodist Church
American Choral Directors Association
ACDA
Iowa
United States
Canada
Mr. Knight
Simpson College
University of South Dakota
Hospital and birth notices from Washington area
Hospital admitted Saturday includes Mrs Donald Schantz and Eli Cook in Washington. Births yesterday to Mr and Mrs Joe Coblentz Kalona a son. Dismissed yesterday James Koehler Crawfordsville. Today many entries list patients in Washington Kalona Columbus Junction Crawfordsville and Ainsworth with multiple names including Mrs Virgil Davis Clyle Mason and others. Twin birth noted for Mr and Mrs Robert Megceisen of Ainsworth.
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Robert J. McFarland
Ainsworth
Donald Schantz
Washington
Eli Cook
Joe Coblentz
Kalona
James Koehler
Crawfordsville
Virgil Davis
Clyle Mason
Columbus Junction
Robert Bonar
Alvin Zieglowsky
Surgical
Ernest Whiting
Ethan Todd Crist
Daryl Dunbar
William Orris
Doris Buck
Alvin Miller
Kalena
Clyde Johnson
Dale Booth
Robert Megceisen
Jessie Long
Mary Hyde
Brighton
Rodney James Sommer
Donald Lee Sommer
Deaths reach Muscatine and nearby towns this week
Mrs. Paul Fischer 64 of Muscatine died in University Hospital Iowa City after a Sunday illness. She was a Wash ington High School alumna and daughter of the late Charles Skipton of West Chester. James E. Reaney 78 a Columbus Junction attorney and civic leader died Sunday at University Hospitals Iowa City. Elizabeth Eschelman, at Parkview Home Wayland, died Tuesday. Mrs. Earnest Whiting 49 Crawfordsville died Sept 13 1967 at Washington County Hospital after a period of illness.
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Paul Fischer
Muscatine
University Hospital
Iowa City
Fischer
Charles Skipton
West Chester
Washington High School
Columbus Junction
James E. Reaney
University Hospitals
Wayland
Elizabeth Eschelman
Parkview
Earnest Whiting
Crawfordsville
Washington County Hospital
Risk Dies This Morning in El Centro Hospital
Robert C. Risk died this morning at El Centro Community Hospital in El Centro California.
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Robert C. Risk
el Centro Community Hospital
el Centro
Calif
Local Birth Announcements From Washington Journal 1967
The Evening Journal in Washington Iowa lists births with parents and rural route addresses including Glen da Dore ne Miller Rodney James Sommer David Alan Miller Ronnie Albert Chalupa Alorah Janette Blair Richard Earl Barlow Jr Richard Lain Bonar Bertha A Miller Merlin J Coblentz all noted as children of named parents with rural routes and city addresses in the Sept 9 1967 issue.
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