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Newspaper
Moulton Weekly Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1932
Page
6
The M. H. 8 school column celebrates a renewed push to study over play after a string of failures. It notes teachers and students pledging effort, improved behavior, and better grades while recounting light gossip about students, a mock murder rumor, and a spiked sense of humor in the newsroom.
The Moulton High School football banquet announced Earl Harrelson as honorary captain for the year and Paul Hill as captain for the 1933 season. Coach Lester Affleman spoke, with J M Garrett absent as toastmaster. The team posted two defeats, and basketball plans arose with gym repairs needed before practices. Local community support for basketball remains a goal, with admission kept low. The girls’ winter schedule remains undecided as plans continue.
Senior Class enjoyed a party at Mary Louise West home with games and sandwiches. Freshmen gathered at the school house Friday night at 7 30 with 35 attendees including Mr. Johnson and Miss Gutmann for games and cocoa and pie.
The Junior class play Sound Your Horn a three act farce will be shown at the Colonial Theatre at eight o clock Wednesday Dec 21. Admission is fifteen and twenty five cents. Christine portrays a stand vendor amid comic plots with Mrs Van Dyke contesting the lease while families and local characters provide the humor.
Tonight at 7 30 p m the P T A meeting connects with the Farm Bureau program at the Colonial Theatre. An extensive prepared program and cast await, with complete details in this week’s Tribune front page.
A group led by Miss Goudy toured Ottumwa visiting Morrells packing plant to see meat prep lard filling and packing. They watched ice plant storage floors of sectional 338 sections each holding 800 pounds and an ice cutting demonstration before visiting the water plant with four pumps and storage tanks totaling about four million gallons daily.
Grade News reports First Grade counting by tens to 100 and by twos, Christmas story discussions, a new holiday border, and color work. Three new teachers joined. several students earned perfect papers. Fourth and fifth grades note visiting mothers and spelling honors, with magazine contest totals showing High Hats leading Somberers.
Six hundred forty nine Christmas seals were sold by week end in the campaign. Eighth graders led by Lois Edwards and Keith Wilder topped their grades with high counts. The school gets half the proceeds, funding playground gear, thermometers, scales and dental care for indigent children. The piece traces the history of Christmas seals from Denmark in 1904 to a national spread, highlighting tuberculosis and child health work funded by the sale. The local TB committee uses funds for nursing, dental inspections, immunizations, health education, clinics, fresh air camps and milk programs.
August Tilligkeit, a youthful rioter, fled to Wisconsin to face extradition and a forged check charge for 620.80. The county board, by Judge Daughert, funds unpaid liquor search fees, while Centerville officers conduct a four month “clean house” campaign amid robberies and thefts. A Unionville Methodist minister’s car thefts recur, and a Levee Lunch raid adds to the spate of law enforcement activity. Davis county arrests follow a Luther Morrison holdup, binding him with wire and robbing about 170. Bloomfield’s per person bonded debt sits near two dollars, while M N Hinkle, a former gas station manager, dies by shotgun discharge while hunting near Selma.
The article explains two main roles for food: growth and energy for work. It notes vitamins shift caloric value, yet overall food value depends on more than calories. It warns against gluttony and extreme weight loss diets, offers two safe weight reduction tips, and stresses individualized needs and avoiding unauthentic advertising.
Dayton woman Betty Luedeke reports using Kruschen to drop ten pounds in seven days. Take a half teaspoon in hot water each morning before breakfast and reduce fatty foods. One bottle lasts four weeks and costs little. If not satisfied, money back. Buy Kruschen Salts at W F Berry Co or any drugstore.
For sale a young Duroc Jersey pig eligible to register. Contact Merle Norton for details.
For sale or trade a powerfully useful item described as an electric radio offered by Hackathorn Hamburger Shop. The note mentions a price or value in 2k portions and references Miketsita 8 as a possible term or model. The fragmentary ad seeks a good cow in trade.
Iowa theatre manager Redfield touts December as a month of hits at Bloomfield showing three major pictures. Chan du the Magician opens Friday and Saturday with Bela Lugosi Edmund Lowe Irene Ware and Henry B. Walthall. Six Hours to Live runs Sunday through Monday starring Warner Baxter John Boles and Miriam Jordan. Red Dust with Clark Gable Jean Harlow opens next week Tuesday alongside Hey Pop. The page includes a Milton Herald quip about dividends from Lee Brown.
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