Muscatine Hopes Barge Line Boosts River Port Status
Muscatine could become a major upper Mississippi port if a new barge service materializes. At a Minneapolis conference, private interests backed a St. Louis to Minneapolis line with $200,000 of $250,000 needed, aiming to cut coal costs and feed valleys served by Rock Island and Milwaukee rail lines.
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Muscatine
Mississippi River
Minneapolis
Charles E. Fox
Association of Commerce
St. Louis
The
River Transit Company
St. Paul
C. H. Krause
Fifth
Ninth District
Coal Operators’ Association of Illinois
Southern Illinois Coal
Mississippi
Iowa
Fox
Davenport
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Oskaloosa
Burlington
Fort Dodge
Mupscatine
Farm Bureau Girls Headed to State Contest in Des Moines
Miss Bernice Shepard and Miss Johanna Bartenhagen of Fruitland township will leave Monday for Des Moines to represent Muscatine county in the state girls club demonstration contest titled Collars. They travel with club leader Miss A. C. Shepherd. County Agent Joseph J. Wilson and Miss Henrietta Safley home demonstration agent, along with Mrs. L. E. Downer county women’s work chair, are already at the fair. Safley and Downer oversee the Muscatine county women's booth and Downer will demonstrate Color and Line in Dress.
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Bernice Shepard
Johanna Bartenhagen
Fruitland Township
Des Moines
Muscatine County
A. C. Shepherd
Farm Bureau
Joseph J. Wilson
Henrietta Safley
L. E. Downer
Letts
Interior improvements finish at First Presbyterian Church
The auditorium of the First Presbyterian Church has been redecorated with cream walls and green blue stencil designs. The M F Eaton firm did the painting and decorating, six electric fans were installed, and side lights replace old gas jets as cleaning resumes for September services.
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First Presbyterian Church
M. F. Eaton
Henry Otto
Farm Bureau Board to Meet at Court House Tomorrow
Directors of the Muscatine county farm bureau will hold their regular monthly meeting tomorrow afternoon at the court house. County Agent Joseph J. Wilson will not be present and nothing outside routine business is expected to come before the board. Read the classified ada.
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Muscatine
Dangers of Carbon Monoxide Gas Warns Safety Council
The National Safety Council warns motorists carbon monoxide is deadly and odorless. Running engines in closed garages can kill quickly. keep doors open or ventilate. If headache or faintness occurs, go outside immediately and call for help. If unconscious, drag to fresh air if possible and seek rapid resuscitation.
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National Safety Council
Electric
Fine Specimens of Corn Shown by Lake Township Farmer
Henry Unkel of Lake township presented two ears from this year’s crop. The large, well formed ears are already dented, indicating a promising harvest. If the rest of the corn is as far along, frost danger may be minimal this year.
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Henry Uukel
Lake Township
Unkel
Corn Grower Keeps Ear Crop Streak in One Field
Mr. Ankel has grown corn on the land for 18 consecutive years and harvested two ears from that field each season. Polo jumpers are a clothing note mentioned in London.
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Ankel
London
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