Muscatine Scout Council Aims For Early Organization
H E Foyle heads a committee arranging a Muscatine area scout council to guide local troop work. An area council includes Muscatine Scott and Cedar counties with a trained executive to spend time in each county. A visit by Paul H Love and Vic Allen to explain duties and set a budget is being sought before Christmas.
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Muscatine
H. E. Foyle
Enport
Scott
Cedar
Fayle
Paul H. Love
Lincoln
Neb
Vic Allen
Davenport
Superior Dairy Prevails 30 28 Over Prairie Team
In Blue Grass Iowa on December 9 Superior Dairy of Davenport edged Pleasant Prairie Independent 30 to 28 in a tight contest. Rolfe led with six baskets, Faulhaber Holt and Zimmerman added two each, Platte paced Pleasant Prairie with five field goals and two free throws. Preliminary saw Fairport Juniors beat Pleasant Prairie Juniors 4 to 0.
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Blue Grass
Superior
Davenport
Pleasant Prairie Independent
Rolfe
Dairymen
Faulhaber
Holt
Zimmerman
Platte
Pleasant Prairie
Superior Daily
Rfee
Haulhaber
Clemens
Teen
Walton
SCHOOLS TO GET SHORT VACATION
Christmas and New Year fall on Sunday this year causing a shortened recess. Seven school days will be cut from the schedule. Superintendent E A Sparling has not fixed the exact closing and opening dates. If schools close Thursday afternoon they will reopen Monday January 2. if open through Friday December 23 they will reopen Tuesday.
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E. A. Sparling
Board of Education
Brookhart backs Hird for U.S. marshal post in Iowa
Senator Smith W. Brookhart favors appointing Fred S. Hird of Des Moines, a former world rifle shooting champion and lieutenant colonel of ordnance in the Iowa National Guard, for the United States marshal job in the southern district of Iowa.
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Des Moines
Smith W. Brookhart
Fred S. Hird
Iowa National Guard
Iowa
Hird
Moose Lodge Meeting and Banquet Draws 500 Attendees
Five hundred members attended the Loyal Order of Moose joint meeting of Muscatine and Tri- City lodges with a wild game feed after the business session. A 25 candidate initiation was led by the Moline drill team under William Smith. Speakers included O Nelson and R J Honzen. Willis J Pierson planned to speak at a later January meeting. A large delegation from West Liberty Moose attended.
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Loyal Order of Moose
Muscatine
Tri- City
Moline
William Smith
O. Nelson
R. J. Honzen
Rock Island
Willis J. Pierson
West Liberty Moose
Des Moines river dam project under study by state board
Central States Electric of Cedar Rapids seeks a permit to build a dam and power plant on the Des Moines River below Fort Dodge. The state board of conservation has it under advisement and will forward a recommendation to the state executive council within a month. Maquoketa fire destroys Sweeney block in Delmar with $6,000 loss. A. J. Siman of Sioux City dies of apoplexy after a day at Simon and Company. Claud Bowles of Cedar Rapids named captain of Coe College football 1928 eleven.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Central States Electric Company of
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines River
Fort Dodge
State Board of Conservation
State Executive Council
Claud Bowles
Coe
Des Moines Alumni Seek Ingwersen's Removal as Coach
Des Moines alumni press for change at the University of Iowa football program. Frank Comfort, president of the Des Moines Alumni association, led a trip to Iowa City after reports that members circulated a petition demanding head coach Burt Ingwersen resign.
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Des Moines
Ingwersen
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Frank Comfort
First Muscatine County School Officials Conference Mon
Two state officials speak at the Muscatine county school officers conference in Muscatine on Monday December 12. Morning events at Jefferson school include an assembly and building inspection followed by music and health demonstrations. Afternoon features talks on school law and cost efficiency with discussions in the courthouse.
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Muscatine County
Muscatine
New Jefferson School
Jackson School
A. ©. Springborn
Charles C. Hagermann
Muscatine Board
Jefferson Glee Club
Cora Mull
Ann Garrard
Jefferson
E. A. Sparling
Hiram Reed Case Before Grand Jury in Ottawa
Ottawa Illinois December 9 AP the county grand jury met to consider the Hiram Reed case a young farmer charged with plotting to kill his sweetheart Iola Bradford by dynamite in a school house store explosion wounded her seriously but she is expected to recover a grand jury report was anticipated tonight or tomorrow Drake and Creighton football teams to meet in Omaha on Thanksgiving Day 1928 in Des Moines announcemen t.
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Ottawa
Ill
Hiram Reed
Iola Bradford
Des Moines
Drake University
Creighton
Omaha
13 Year Old Confesses Killing Father in Camden
In Camden New Jersey a 13 year old boy named Joseph Cucinotta told Prosecutor Ethan P Westcott I killed my father saying there was nothing else I could do after he fired at my mother and threatened to shoot me. He was drunk and I knew he would have carried out his threats.
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Camden
N. J
Joseph Cucinotta
Ethan P. Westcott
Democrats Invite San Francisco to 1928 Convention
San Francisco officials report the Democratic National Committee is canvassing party committeemen after the Tourist and Convention League telegraphed representative John Shea in Washington to gauge support for bringing the 1928 Democratic convention to San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Retourist and Convention League
John Shea
Washington
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Superior Dairy
Prairie
Brookhart
Iowa News
Maquoketa
Sweeney
Delmar
Sioux City
A. J. Siman
Steele, Simon and Company
Jeffer
F. L. Mahannah
H. C. Moeller
Cedar Falls
FORD
Marvel
Henry Ford
Horst & Strieter CO
East 3Rd Street
Ing
Parfum Styx
Sam
Nix
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