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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 24, 1977

Page

11

Farm wagon overturns injuring Bob Huff in Crawfordsville

News notes report Bob Huff hospitalized at Washington County Hospital with a fractured vertebra after a wagon he was fixing tipped. He faces about ten days in hospital and wearing a back brace afterward. Other items cover school enrollment, local Legion dinner, and community visits.

Crawfordsville Bob Huff Washington County Bob Harlan (Kaye) Winter Riverside Carla Baum

Howard Wengers Visit at Wayland

Wayland notes report a visit by Mr and Mrs Howard Wenger and a Hamburg Iowa guest at the Allen Wenger home on Sunday morning. The piece also records a September 10 barbecued pork chop supper hosted by Mr and Mrs Urban Roth for anniversary celebrants with many local families attending and a birthday cake dessert for Debbie Leichty and Jim Conrad. Jaime Leigh Pefferman born September 10 at Henry County Health Center Mt Pleasant weighs 7 lb 6 oz with grandparents Ann and Paul Martin and Marguerite Pefferman noted. Mary Kay Wenger Headings gives birth to Bruce Emery Headings on September 8 1977 with siblings Lisa and Leon. Grandparents Emery Wenger and Headings listed. great-grandmothers named.

Waunita Magdefray Wayland Howard Wenger Hamburg Iowa Allen Wenger Urban Roth Brad Roth Dick Yoder Benjie Roth Rod Roth Cary Ron Boshart Don Yoder Russ Leune Kantophone Wilbur Leichty Gary Conrad Jim Conrad John Swartzendruber Roths Debbie Leichty Jaime Leigh Jeri Curt Pefferman Noble Ar5 Mt. Pleasant Henry County Health Center Ann Paul Martin Fairfield Marguerite Pefferman Wayland Headings Halsey Oregon Kropf

FHA Members Plan for District Meet

The Washington Chapter of FHA will attend the District Meeting at Wapello High School on Saturday October 1. Sponsored by Washington High School Home Economics Dept with advisor Mary Atwood, the district includes 14 southeast Iowa schools. Connie Stalder of Washington is the current district officer. The chapter will sell Demon balloons for the home game Friday night.

Washington FHA Future Homemakers of America Wapello High School Home Economics Dept Washington High School Mary Atwood Iowa Connie Stalder

PEO Chapter CX meets in Clem Cecil home in September

Columbus Junction community notes record Chapter CX PEO Sisterhood meeting at Mrs Clem Cecil home with 24 members and two guests. Upcoming Oct 3 program at Peoples National Bank lounge features Mrs Glen Bloom reporting on Supreme Chapter convention. Additional items cover officers for 1977-78, local church events, hunger walk for CROP, Miriam Circle activities, and local visits and plans.

Helene B. Dillon Columbus Junction P.E.O. Sisterhood Clem Cecil George Pennington Dan Wilson Peoples National Bank Ralph Ortberg Francis Fullerton Glen Bloom Muscatine Nita Abbott Mary Frances Paulding Dorothy Drinkall Robert Shelliyer Ronald Murry Hope Dunn Helen Edith Orr Anna Robertson Helen Dillon Wm. D. Dillon Jr Centerville John L. Dillon Minnesota Dillon Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Arnaldo Quismundo Philippines United Presbyterian Church Quismundo Newport Miriam Circle United Methodist Church Lola Whistler Ocie Moran Circle Business Viola Clark Helen Thornton Opal McQueen Paul Hasel Wilma Henson Julia Hawkins Peg Hillman Evelyn Peters James Pierce Dundee Illinois C. E. Pierce Colonial Manor J. Kelly McKee Olin Jennings John Dillon Iowa

A Bridge Too Far heads to State Theater in Washington

The Washington Evening Journal reports the State Theater will feature A Bridge Too Far a chronicle of Operation Market Garden the 1944 airborne assault led by Montgomery and Eisenhower. The review notes the operation s scale casualties and the film s star studded cast including Bogarde Caan Caine Connery Fox Gould Hackman Hopkins Kruger Olivier O Neal Redford Schell and Ullmann among others in a drama about Allied failures and perseverance.

Washington Field Bernard Montgomery Dwight D. Eisenhower U.S Holland Belgium Arnhem Rhine Ruhr Germany Third Reich Cornelius Ryan Normandy Levine Bogarde Dirk Caan James Caine Michael Connery Sean Fox Edward Gould Elliott Hackman Gene Hopkins Anthony Kruger Hardy Olivier Laurence O'Neal Ryan Redford Robert Schell Maximilian Ullmann Liv

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