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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1933
Page
5
Principal Frei G Messenger announces Musca High School will hold Friday and Saturday registration to prevent delays in class schedules. Rural eighth graders and others entering or returning to school may sign up. those who missed the 1932 33 year closing may do so now. Hours are 8 30 a m to noon and 1 to 5 p m with registration equipment provided.
Ben Davis colored waived preliminary examination in Justice J C Costers court on a charge of maintaining a liquor nuisance and was bound over to the grand jury under bonds of $1000. He could not furnish the bonds. Davis was arrested recently by police on a like charge and the case was continued. He was arrested at 620 p m by Officers Mark Taylor and Harold Wickey Tuesday on the river front.
Tourists flock to Nira Iowa as the town gains attention for the sale of new National Industrial Recovery Act postage stamps. The stamps, whose initials spell Nira, go on sale Thursday and are expected to draw customers from across the state and beyond. An estimated 200000 stamps will be requested this week.
Oe W. C. Sharp, about 60, a former Muscatine jewelry maker with Lowe and Company, died at Providence R I at 5 30 p m Tuesday. He lived in Muscatine from 1909 to 1918 then worked in real estate in Providence. Survived by widow three sons Max Harold Robert and daughter Dorothy. He belonged to Masonic order and Shrine in Davenport. No funeral details available.
Forty people were killed in an electric storm that flooded Kingston and St Andrew, Jamaica, Tuesday night. The six hour storm caused about 2000 in damage with Kingston streets flooded up to six feet.
Vern Parker 44 husband and father of several children drowned in the Mississippi River when a flat boat with John F. Brown swamped by high waves. Brown swam to shore. This marks the second drowning in Clinton within a short period.
Funeral services for Mrs. Karo line Dollries Metzger who died Monday night at 312 East South Street will be held Thursday at 2 30 pm at Walnut Street Baptist Church. Elder A L Miller of Davenport to officiate with burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
Continental Oil company offers complete free travel service at its stations and travel bureau led by W. F. Hird. The division manager visited Muscatine to publicize the program and assist customers with travel needs.
A reading or gathering is planned at Hotel Muscatine tonight at 6 30 PM. Details remain scant but attendees are encouraged to arrive on time for the event.
Three new divorce actions were on file in the clerk of court today. Louis Hintermeister seeks alimony of 2600 against Jessie Hintermeister over alleged theft from a lock box and cruelty. The Hin termister marriage date is noted as September 23, 1919 in Muscatine. Edith M Greenwald filed suit but papers were withdrawn. attorney F L Bihlmeier represents both plaintiffs.
United States Engineers at Rock Island opened bids for repairing levees. The Mt. Sterling Indiana firm won with a base bid of 1331.55 to place 5918 cubic yards of material. Cost may drop about 300 if district commissioners fund enlarging the levees.
Five additional Muscatine employers joined NRA code arrangements in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 375 firms. A city hall NRA committee meeting is set for 8 pm with delegates from over 100 organizations invited. Tonight also features a Button Workers union meeting at 7:30 and painters and decorators gathering at city hall.
Plans for a county Democratic Picnic at Weed Park have been abandoned after committee review. Arrangements for the Jackson Day banquet program remain set for January 8, 1934, at the Elks Hall.
The bureau provides proved roads and other valuable information to all applicants. It also arranges service stations to steer travel. Last year 211 groups from Muscatine received travel information.
County breeders announce livestock entries for Des Moines fair Aug 23. Muscatine members show Duroc routes Hereford and fat Hereford cattle while Holstein and Guernsey cows appear. Over a million dollars in stock from 20 states and about 6 000 animals expected, including 1 500 junior livestock entries and 550 head in the baby beef show from Iowa farm youth.
H Hays Carson formerly connected with the Huttig Manufacturing company died in Iowa City Tuesday after a lingering illness. He later operated the Hotel Washington at Iowa City. Funeral services are expected Friday afternoon in Iowa City.
Special services marked the Feast of the Assumption at St Mathias Church with masses at 6 7 and 9 am followed by Benediction. The altar was decoratively lit for the ceremony and the lesson drew from Ecclesiastes 7 11 13 and 15 to 30 while Luke 10 38 42 guided the gospel. The choir performed Our Lady of Mt Carmel and Mary How Sweetly Sounds Thy Name during the rites and Holy Communion.
Mrs. L. L. McCalley of Aledo Illinois and her daughter Marie nine suffered brain concussion and cuts in a Tuesday night interstate collision in Cedar Rapids. The party, en route to Waterloo, were treated at a doctor's office and then taken to a Fairfax relative's home. The crash occurred when their car driven by Mr. McCalley struck a car driven by F R Schindler of Cedar Rapids shortly after visiting W C McCalley at his brother's home.
Local residents travel to Chicago for relatives and the Century of Progress exposition. Californians visit Muscatine kin. button workers plan a meeting. Various town updates include fines for speeding, hospitalizations, house parties, and NRA discussions. Building permits issued. church activities scheduled.
Davenport Iowa today disclosed that Insurance Commissioner W E Clark directed an investigation of the Modern Brotherhood of America merger with the Independent Order of Foresters after May 1932 rumors of secret arrangements. He denies any secret payment or oral agreement and asks dismissal of the suit seeking $328 199.80.
Kresge store young women hosted a surprise party at Mrs. Clinton Thomas home Mulberry avenue Tuesday night in honor of Miss Imogene Conley and Miss Mildred Messier. Bunco awarded first prize to Miss Mabel Battenhagen and consolation to Miss Marjorie Peck. Out of town guests included Miss Peck and Miss Josephine Brassington of Ottumwa Iowa.
Wilson W. Mills former chairman of First National Bank Detroit testified before a Detroit bank jury praising Herbert Hoover for his cooperative spirit during Michigan's banking holiday. Mills said Hoover sought to open banks promptly despite opposition from Senator James Couzens and recounted a telephone exchange in which Hoover expressed hope to reopen banks to avoid injustice.
Justice Joseph Cox of the District of Columbia supreme court ruled the national industrial recovery act endures its first court test. The decision supports the act as emergency law in necessity, amid challenges from oil refiners led by F. W. Fischer of Tyler Texas seeking to block Ickes orders limiting interstate oil shipments.
Harold Essex of West Sixth Street will face a larceny charge in Justice H D Horst s court at 9 a m Thursday. Marion Frizzell of Iowa Avenue barber filed charges claiming a revolver was taken from his shop.
Des Moines reports Mexican exhibitor Don Alverez from Mexico City Star will present exhibition bull fights at the Iowa State Fair this year. He will perform each night from August 25 to August 31 without assistants and will use the red cape to provoke the bull.
Rev. Floyd R. Hoole opened a revival at the Full Gospel tabernacle with the message Take Ye Away the Stone. His saxophone and vocal program featured his brother John. A visiting delegation from Moline attends tonight as the topic shifts to Gods Challenge to the Churches of Muscatine.
More than 100 Muscatine County employees and families gathered at Weed Park for the second annual picnic chaired by J. Henry Schaefer. Kittenball games, other outdoor entertainments and contests followed a 1:30 fish fry as the first event of the afternoon.
The 7,000,000 locks and dam were opened to form a pool on the Rock Island rapids aiding inland barges during difficult Mississippi navigation. The U S naval reserves cruiser of the 31st division led the first passage as rollers lowered to deepen the pool. Engineers cited wood and silt near the gate sill as causing initial closure delays with noon completion. Lieut. Col. Glen E. Edgerton and staff observed the operation.
Seven Springs Farm at Muscatine swept the Holstein division at the Mississippi Valley Fair and Exposition in Davenport. The farm earned junior and grand champion female, junior champion male, and 13 blue ribbons, named premier exhibitor and breeder. Robert Naber’s two year old heifer, undefeated last season, took a blue ribbon and junior and grand champion titles, with his junior heifer also winning first in class.
Burlington reports two men, Clyde Wheatly and Stanley Smith, detained in a corn crib by farmers near Middletown at midnight. Sheriff Hunt jailed them in justice court on corn theft charges. Wheatly previously served two years for burglary in Missouri and five years for larceny in Fort Madison.
Attorney from Akron Mark H. Shank admitted poisoning four members of the Colley family near Malvern Arkansas after a car crash. Police report a note urging the family to “keep your eyes open, mouth shut” and promising wealth once joined by Shank. The victims included Mrs Hel Colley and her husband Alvin plus two sons.
Genevieve Rita Naber of Seven Springs farm captured the grand champion Four H Holstein heifer calf at the Davenport fair. She won blue ribbon in a class of 17, earned a purple ribbon against prize yearling and two year olds, and claimed the Charles Vogt loving cup. Muscatine county breeders also placed in Guernsey classes.
Committees from the First Methodist Episcopal and Cedar Street Methodist Episcopal churches met at First Church Tuesday night in conference about plans to merge. Officials said the gathering was purely conference and details must be worked out before any consolidation action.
Henry Lansing and Elizabeth Lansing transfer the south 70 feet of lot 9 block 75 to George L. Jehring. William M. Riemcke transfers the southerly 35 feet of lot 10 block 73 to A I Nietzel in Muscatine.
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