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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1944
Page
8
Community notes describe library duties and program planning roles with thanks to librarians Grace Stephens and Ruth Lytle. It highlights volunteer efforts, theater and water pageant experiences, family updates, and health concerns affecting Mrs. H. H. McCleery.
Forty three attendees enjoyed the Better Riverside club dinner at St Marys hall. After a business meeting, Harry E Colvin showed a Father Flanagans Boys Home film. Jerome Schnoebelen, Seaman 2-C, transferred to Nat New Orleans for training. Ruby Prymek joined Montgomery Ward in Iowa City after high school graduation. Local residents and visitors noted.
Aunt Mrs May Alcorn and Mrs David Golden with son Glenn visited at the home of Mrs Jake Chapman northwest of Wellman. Mr and Mrs John Krotz and their children joined the gathering on Sunday.
Frank Jamison, a Bluff Road farmer near Columbus Junction, buys the former Butler farm of 365 acres in Indian Creek for 16 dollars per acre and plans to move March 1, 1945. He rents to Frank Orr and son.
Mr and Mrs John Bauer left Iowa City for Denver Colorado to spend a few weeks with their son Carl and family and with Mrs Toshi Winegarden and family The notes also mention local social visits and birthday celebrations with names including Mrs Edith Pribl and Mrs Marion Stransky The corn crop is ripening but needs warm weather and borers are present in several fields. Old and Mrs Wollrab with Verlie helped celebrate Mrs Pribl s birthday on Sunday. Sunday school begins at 10 am and preaching follows by Earl Erb.
Tommy James, jailed in Muscatine County for disturbing the peace, faces fraud charges in Sousa County District Court Wapello. He allegedly used the alias Lawrence Martin in drug dealing, after Muscatine police arrested him on Louisa County information. He was transported to answer the narcotics related charges.
Pvt. Bush of Columbus Junction now at Winfield community was seriously wounded in action in France on August 25. The War Department provided no further details. He enlisted in November 1943 and had a furlough in April 1944. His wife Louise Prent, daughter of Eugene and Brent, former residents, is staying with them on a farm near Muscatine.
Grandview notes report G G Griffith purchased the Mack Griffith farm. Social items list visits by Elmer Karnes and Perry Wagamon families, Mearl Enfield and Ward Wetrich at various local homes, with Sunday calls and visits noted around Lone Tree.
A sharp hoe kept just under the soil surface helps remove weeds with minimal disturbance. After weed removal, constant hoeing can harm shallow rooted plants, so stop hoeing once the bed is weed free.
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