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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1927
Page
9
Miss Henrietta Safley the Muscatine County Farm Bureau home demonstration agent will resign effective December 31. She will depart December 17 for two weeks vacation then pursue post graduate work in home demonstration, later going to Tipton and Detroit to begin school February 1. Her tenure saw growth of Four-H clubs for girls and expanded project enrollment.
The article portrays Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig at a Notre Dame versus Southern California game, mingling with sports stars and receiving sideline access. It notes Ruth's football flirtation during barnstorming tours, his 20 pound gain post season, Gehrig's four ounce weight rise, and Ruth predicting 60 home runs as a major league record while praising Gehrig as a top rival.
Members met at Miss Flora J. Manlove's studio in Hershey building to study Handel's The Messiah with Mrs. Otis Peck presenting a paper on its composition. Mrs. Earl Kinney discussed Christmas carols and Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, followed by organ and piano selections and a singing session. Plans were made for another meeting on Tuesday Jan. 17.
FC chapter of the P. E. O. Sisterhood invites members to a Saturday luncheon at 1 PM at 410 Park Drive honoring Mrs. Mary W. Begeman of Cedar Falls, organizer of the Iowa State Sisterhood. The afternoon includes a regular meeting at the host home.
The Rose Croix Shrine and White Shrine of Jerusalem have invited Davenport’s Oriental shrine to hold a ceremonial in the Gothic room of the new Masonic temple Friday December 16. A number from Muscatine will attend.
Wapello Iowa December items report a W C T U group conference December 14 in Burlington led by Ida B Wise Smith with several county unions attending. Also covered are local church youth officers, Daughters of Union Veterans nominations, a grab bag lunch, visitors in Chicago and St Louis, college attendance, a nurse in training, a syrup accident, surgery recovery, car shipments, and recent high school grade recipients.
The region experienced brief relief from a Wednesday cold snap as official projections warn of colder weather returning Saturday. Temperatures stood at 8 degrees above zero at 7 am, with clouds and local snow likely tonight and Saturday in the eastern and southern areas. The river sits at 4 feet. the Thiessen farm purchase is noted. Nearby, the Ormsbys marked their tenth wedding anniversary at Turner Hall with 150 relatives and friends. A 10-pound son Vernon Louis arrived last Saturday at Mercy Hospital Davenport to Mr and Mrs Al Guerink, with Mrs Guerink now out of danger.
Stockton Iowa residents share club games at Ernest Otto home with Progressive 500 wins for Weise Messer Paustian and Anderson. Upcoming party set for Jan 4 at Emma Ditmer residence. Local visits include Swanson of Omaha and Herbst birthday tributes. auctions attract large crowds as Duncan and Thiessen sales draw neighbors.
West Branch Ia December report shows 21 carloads of livestock shipped in the month seven cattle 13 hogs and one sheep totaling 37063.90 dollars. Since January 1 the local freight office handled 1042 carloads of freight in the year. In the first three weeks of November 266 carloads were moved.
West Branch adds an electric stop and go signal at the busy Main and Downey streets intersection. Main Street is part of primary road 139, known as the Hoover highway, making this the town’s busiest crossing.
Mrs. Minerva Cochran was granted a divorce from David A. Cochran in a decree signed Thursday afternoon.
District Judge W. W. Scott granted custody of the three children in a divorce suit filed by Cochran. Mrs. Cochran answered with a cross petition alleging cruelty. Attorneys listed as H. M. Bartlett for Cochran and Thompson & Thompson with G. Allbee for Mrs. Cochran. Adriatic shipyards are idle.
Carbon monoxide gas killed William H. Rush 60 as he worked on his car in a closed Murdock Nebraska garage last night. A Kansas City show attendee yelled what sounded like sixty dollars mistaking it for a hog calling contest. Czechoslovakia price increases noted.
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