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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
11
Classified notice offers funeral wreaths and sprays from Park Greenhouse Casper Hine. For sale ad presents a seeing eye as a playful phrase with contact by phone.
In Des Moines Harold Steinman returned $4,000 of $10,000 to promoter Pinkie George after a split dispute over Johnny Paychek vs Maurice Strickland. George dropped a $10,000 damage suit and retained Iowa promotional rights while Paychek won a 10 round decision before 14,000 fans who paid an estimated $21,500.
A stream of town notices includes Mrs. J A Lorber hosting visitors from Albany and Perry Iowa, hospital admissions and dismissals at Bellevue and Hershey, and local moves. Marriage licenses issued in Kalamazoo and Davenport, public meetings and social visits across Muscatine inform residents of coming events and health updates.
Bud Parmelee narrowly missed a perfect game, settling for a one hitter as Louisville defeated Toledo 13 to 0. Kansas City and Minneapolis split a key doubleheader with the Millers winning 3 to 0, closing within a half game of the league lead. Milwaukee lost the nightcap while Milwaukee’s Buck Marrow held six shutout innings in a 2 to 12 doubleheader loss. Indianapolis beat Columbus 2 to 1 as Barrett drove in Jesse Newman in the seventh.
Muscatine county received two state checks today through County Treasurer A. J. Nicholson totaling just over 5,000 dollars. The gasoline fund allocation brought in 4,700.16 dollars from State Treasurer W. G. C. Bagley and 822.10 dollars came from State Comptroller C. Fred Porter for carrier tax collections.
Last rites for William A. Sprague were held at the Fairbanks home chapel at 1 30 p.m. and 3 p.m. at Toolesboro Methodist Church with Rev. Fay Marriott officiating. Burial followed in Parsons Cemetery Toolesboro. Vocalists Mrs. Aaron James and Mrs. Raynard James with accompanist Mrs. William Fisher. Flower attendants Mrs. Guy Moore Mrs. Frank Painter and Mrs. Hohenadel. Pallbearers Frank Stroh Taylor Phillips Carl Brown George Rink John White Charles Reed.
The weather bureau warned the Bahama islands and the southeast Florida coast that a tropical storm of moderate intensity was moving toward them. Forecasters reported the storm centered at 6 a.m. CST about 450 miles east southeast of Miami and advancing west northwest at around 12 miles per hour toward the Bahama islands.
Gasoline and coal were carried in barges towed through Muscatine locks by the Husky and Patsy H early today. The Husky bound from Cairo Illinois to Minneapolis carried 1000 gallons of gasoline on one barge and 950 gallons on two others when locking through at 4 50 a m. The Patsy H carried coal on each barge, locking through at 5 40 a m on its trip from Laverton Missouri to St Paul.
Frank Albert Jr and his family depart Muscatine for Akron Ohio to compete in the national soap box derby. The youth racer that won July Fourth in Muscatine travels in a trailer attached to the car as sponsors Henderson Garage and Muscatine Journal prepare to join others for the event.
Additional corn parity payment applications may be signed Friday at the agriculture conservation office in the courthouse by farmers in the AAA program. Applications will be accepted only from those notified by card. Wheat parity payments may still be applied for by farmers who missed the Wednesday deadline.
Rome officials ban Time Magazine until further notice for an July 24 article about Countess Edda Ciano wife of the foreign minister. Similar bans remain on Esquire Collier's and The New Republic for articles deemed detrimental to Italy and Fascism.
Mrs Homer S Cummings wife of the former attorney general died Wednesday night after an illness of several months. She was 40 years old.
In Decorah Iowa Roberta Underbakke 11 was hospitalized after a Shetland pony gave birth to a colt. While playing with the foal the mare collapsed and bit her nose, severing it from her face. The incident happened last week and Roberta was reported in Rochester hospital today.
The War Department awarded contracts totaling 85.978 million dollars to expand the army air forces with aircraft and engine orders.
Warren E. Doerres of the U S S Omaha left Lone Tree Tuesday night for Portsmouth Virginia to rejoin his ship after visiting relatives since July 22 The Fountain family from Delphi Indiana visited relatives in Lone Tree Iowa City Muscatine River Junction Mrs Lizzie Higgins accompanied them Home Aug 9 a son was born to Mr and Mrs Ralph Hudachek at Mercy hospital Iowa City Mrs Hudachek is formerly Adrelle Kirkpatrick Dr and Mrs C M Cantrell were mentioned in the same notice.
J Richard Dixie Davis once served as the mouthpiece for the Schultz crime ring and now seeks peacetime contentment with wife Hope Dave in a small town. He dreams of raising a family and becoming a serious writer, avoiding gangland storytelling.
Bloomington friends surprised Lois Birkhofer on her seventeenth birthday with a girl and family party at the Birkhofer home Tuesday evening. Sisters Mrs. Willard Smull and Mrs. Gerald Chambliss organized the event with games and a late lunch. A three tiered cake by Mrs. Smull centered the table, and guests included many Birkhofer relatives and local residents.
Edna P. Carlisle was granted a divorce from William L. Carlisle in district court on Wednesday. The petition cites cruelty as grounds. The couple wed in Memphis Missouri on October 19 1931 and separated July 5 1939.
Rose Agnes Self filed for divorce from Paul Barl Self in district court today alleging cruel and inhuman treatment. The couple married June 12 1931.
Leicester England AP reports 78 year old Joseph Gamble was killed when a steel shelter he built against a wall collapsed while he walked by to fetch a stick of wood. The wartime shelter failed and caused his death.
Rep. Jacobsen of Iowa protested to Sec. Ickes that Illinois coal price schedules would raise the second Iowa district fuel bill by about 2 million dollars yearly. He called the plans discriminatory and said Ickes promised full consideration.
Col. Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch, the army chief of staff, told Germans that Reichsfuehrer Hitler would never frivolously endanger soldiers, delivering what was described as a sacred assurance in Duesseldorf.
The Nurses Alumni association of Hershey hospital entertained the hospital staff at a Wednesday night picnic supper.
V I McKillip of the Muscatine Building and Construction Trades council announced picketing of three projects in Muscatine the Bellevue hospital addition the Second and Cedar street store improvement and the Park avenue gasoline station. Two pickets are assigned among the sites. Ed Blaesing leads the hospital project while Ben and Will Blaesing oversee the store and gas station work. The hospital site employs brick layers as the only union crafts, and no union workers are at the Second and Cedar street project.
S W Edgecombe extension horticulturist demonstrated top working commercial apple varieties on hardy Virginia Crab stocks at J Clay Bruner orchard. He urged budded grafts about a foot from the trunk for strong trunks and crotches and noted winter hardiness. Clean vegetation around trunks, bait for pine mice, and sweet clover as a cover crop were advised. Rubber bands for budding available at the Farm Bureau office.
Members of the Muscatine county Beef club and 4 H boys will meet at the Wilmont Hendrix farm north of Letts at 6 30 tonight to view 59 calves bought three weeks ago from the Brown ranch in Texas for the Eastern Iowa Cattle Feeders project. Calves will be allotted to the boys on October first and are now pastured at the Hendrix farm.
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