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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1909
Page
8
The Lucas celebration will now be held May fifth instead of July third. President White of the United Mine Workers will speak, with outdoor games and a picnic under trees in McGee pasture. Local committees arrange a day of patriotic demonstrations for all ages and a community dinner.
Benton reports showing a large turnout as Otterbein young people hosted Children’s Day exercises in a packed church. The event was praised as unusually good with many attendees unable to enter.
The Rev Dr William R Huntington of Grace Church New York proposes a garden on the church south lot at Broadway and Tenth for the centennial. The 50 by 110 foot site, formerly a bakery, will be fenced low and open to neighbors. Easter funds totaling 40000 will finish paying for the lot and an ornamental wall now rising along the south wall.
A Berlin dispatch reports Messrs Slaby and Arco, chief engineers of a German wireless telegraphy company, have perfected a system called singing sparks. The device sends messages as pure musical tones, enabling receivers to hear them even when imperfectly tuned. It claims to maintain communication amid violent atmospheric disturbances and to be noiseless in air.
A Cedar Rapids firm, the Redpath Chautauqua System, sends thousands of letters weekly from its sixth floor offices in the Cedar Rapids Savings Bank building. The system operates with special mail permits, delivering tens of thousands of letters across the United States and Canada while coordinating 100 Chautauquas starting mid June. Keith Vawter of Chicago heads the operation, boosting Cedar Rapids publicity and local commerce.
A reflective, archaic admonition urges self scrutiny over others judgments. It counsels integrity and righteous conduct as the measure of character, noting that the hardest judge is oneself and that one should not overvalue others opinions.
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