Lawyers Forecast A Busy Week For County Legal Aid
Muscatine county’s legal advisory board expects heavy workload after Dev 5 as the government issues registration questionnaires. About 4700 forms cover home life, morals, mental ability, and court involvement, with lawyers volunteering to assist registrants who may need help answering complex questions.
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Alusvaline County
Borevnment
Exemption Board
Muscatine
Legal Advisory Board
Lawyer workload to surge after questionnaires go out
Lawyers expect the biggest rush of business in years as questionnaires are mailed. The attorney who has pressed witnesses with questions notes the anticipated impact and form of inquiry.
Relative Lost on Destroyer Jacob Jones
Washington Iowa December 1 Col and Mrs OG B J Wilson received a telegram bearing the sad news that their grandnephew Jin alyn Stanton Kalk an officer on the US destroyer Jacob Jones torpedoed by a German submarine died of exposure after the sinking Ensign Kalk a Annapolis Naval Academy graduate of 1914 was about twenty years old His mother was a niece of Mrs Wilson and he was grandson of General J H Stanton former paymaster general of the army His father a West Point graduate and former instructor at Town Wesleyan College Mt Pleasant was killed by a train Kalk often visited Washington as a boy but had not been there since the family moved to Washington DC Several other local items follow including a derailment accident in Denver with fatalities
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Washington
Iowa
Mra. OG. J. Wilson
Jinalyn Stanton Kalk
United States
Jacob Jones
Ensign Kulk
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Navy
Are
Mia
Wilson
Flo
J. H. Stanton
Army
West Point
Town Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant
Burlington
Stanton Kaik
Mily
Washington, D. C
Christmas at Nursery Plan for Annual Day
Miss Seifert will visit the nursery each morning to oversee health and care of about twenty children. A Christmas observance with two trees and a large dinner will be held the day before Christmas, organized by the Day Nursery committee. The committee met at Mrs. D. W. Jackson’s home to approve extending the nursery and to engage Miss Seifert, the local visiting nurse, in daily oversight. Committee members actively in charge include Mrs. O. V. Jackson, Mrs. J. Wh. Ranking, Mrs. Esther Holls, Mr. Robert Thompson, Mrs. George Boynton, Mrs. Mark Anson, Mrs. Weary Kath, Mrs. Pred Beach, and Mrs. L. P. Loomis.
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D. W. Jackson
0. V. Jackson
J. Wh. Ranking
Esther Holls
Robert Thompson
George Boynton
Mark Anson
Weary Kath
Pred Beach
L. P. Loomis
Ranoah
Fragmentary list names and duties from a washing notice
Fragmentary OCR shows a list of women and titles including Mrs and Miss tied to a washing instruction. The readable text suggests a household or organization note, mentioning Wash and Bend the washing to Magnus with several named individuals.
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Magnus
Virgil Ketchum Headed for France in Marine Corps
Virgil Ketchum son of Mr and Mrs G Ketchum of Maple Grove Road is en route to France a telegram dated December 7 from Philadelphia says the marine corps member is expected to sail that evening He was in Paris Inland South Carolina for three months training in the marine corps and qualified in long range practice as a sharp shooter in November.
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Virgil Ketchum
8. G. Ketchum
Maple Grove Road
France
Philadelphia
Marine Corps
Ketchum
Paris
South Carolina
Trafalne
Marina Corps
Liberty Campaign Club forms Muscatine directorate
A Muscatine meeting of the Liberty Campaign Club directors discussed marchership and war fund work. The group, recently organized to direct campaigns and weed out unworthy efforts, will be a permanent body to prevent duplication and oversee government appointed committees. Membership is sought among trusted, loyal workers. an elaborate badge is planned.
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Muscatine
Liberty
Directory Board
War campaign badge system to simplify patriotism signals
A proposal to replace all buttons issued for war campaigns with a single system. It aims to avoid the need to wear multiple buttons to prove a person’s patriotism and simplify public display of support.
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V. Ketchum
Hotel Magentina
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Scheel Shoes
Fischer Bros. & Co
Selz Shoen
Volger
Bissell
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