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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1930
Page
2
Letts consolidated school presents a two act operetta The Kidnapping of Santa at 7 45 this evening in the high school auditorium. Cast includes Socrates the Wise Cat Santa Claus and many named pupils with roles like Christmas Fairy Gobbins and Radio Fairies amid a crowd of junior cast and helpers.
The Ainsworth grade pupils rehearse the cantata The Old Woman Who Lives in a Shoe. Cast includes Santa Claus Warren Pratt Mother Goose Joyce Butterworth Fairy Godmother Carol Stephens Sleep Fairy Esther Wolfe and many pupil roles with Fairies Dorothy Work Wilma Marsh Thelma Gosling Jean Sands Grace Pearson Mary Crawford Santa helpers Richard Lopshire Cecil Hethcote Lloyd Edmondson Billy Sands Dale McFarland.
Montpelier hosts Mr and Mrs Frank Schroeder and daughters Alice Esther Leona from Montpelier and visitors Mr Pancrest and Mr Ferden of Toronto Ia. Carl Rylander Walter Russell of Muscatine and Fred Baer were callers at Fred Rinnert Jr home Sunday.
Pupils of Goshen Valley No. 3 school under teacher Mabel V. Smith perform a 2 pm program Friday featuring Welcome, songs and recitations. Students include Louis Shetler Agnes Agnew Carl Ehrich Wilma Johnson Vernon Parry Herbert Parry Lois Johnson Junior Newman and others in a sequence of readings and dialogues.
Over six hundred attend the December meeting in the high school auditorium where T A Moore is named president and C A Pilkington vice president. Miss Hazel Barnes is secretary and W S Maxson treasurer with an executive board including Mrs Ed Kadera and others. A welfare committee chaired by Mrs Laura Gray and others is appointed to work through holidays.
Letts-Mrs. Winifred Lieberknecht elected worthy matron of Letts chapter 370 O S at the regular meeting. Officers chosen include Roy Hildebrand worthy patron and Maude Lieberknecht conductress. Installation set for Jan 13. In other news Triangular lodge 245 Letts names officers with installation next meeting.
U S Department of Commerce reports 208 357 airplane passengers carried in the first six months of 1930 surpassing the 173 405 moved in all of 1929. Italy anticipates a downward revision of agricultural wage scales.
At the Claussen home Mrs. Katherine Claussen and Mrs. Bernice Thede hosted the Wilton Woman's Club. A surprise program titled A Baby Show featured participants including Mrs. Ella Ayres Mrs. Catherine Looney and Miss Dorothy Richards. Lullabies entertained and Mrs. Ella Ayres won as prize baby. Decorations and luncheon used Christmas motifs.
Public hearing in Rock Island Illinois will present plans for a dam to create a nine foot navigation channel. Representatives from navigation companies municipalities and chambers of commerce will argue before the board of engineers for rivers and harbors.
Washington county farmers sent 1200 dressed chickens to Chicago for unemployed families. County Farm Bureau funded the project with businessmen paid for dressing the birds. County Agent Harold Montgomery said the effort also clears surplus meat from the local market.
After a previous defeat the $1 273 000 bond plan to asphalt 50 9 miles of Clay county primary roads won approval. With 22 to 23 precincts reporting the vote favored 2 348 to 1 444. The project covers U S 71 seven miles, U S 18 twenty four miles across the county and a 1 5 mile stub to Everly. Subscribe for The Journal.
Fire at Fort Des Moines destroyed a brick veneer barracks housing E and F Troops of the Fourteenth Cavalry, driving 200 men into the snow. Loss pegged at $50,000 with ammunition explosions heard as crews fought the blaze starting in a store room flue. Troop E previously suffered a similar blaze two years earlier with $100,000 loss.
Nichols Nichols-B. L. Metcalf and son shipped four cars of cattle Tuesday and Nichols Shipping association one car of hogs Wednesday to the Chicago market Clar ence Metcalf accompanied the cattle shipment. Mrs D R Randleman of Muscatine is visiting with Mr and Mrs P F Ryan. The Red Cross will hold a meeting this evening in the high school assembly room. School closes Friday for a one week Christmas vacation.
Wapello Epworth league to stage the musical pageant The Abiding Christ at the Methodist church next Wednesday directed by Mrs R D McCullough. Sunday evening will feature junior church music and Christmas carols with department programs and parties. Lela Eversmeyer to entertain intermediates Saturday afternoon at the church home. Tuesday afternoon Mrs Herbert Tillman to lead beginners and primary department meeting in the church home. junior department frolic in the parlors. Sunday gifts for the poor accepted. Mrs George Deihl to host the Women's Home Missionary Society Friday. Ben Stevenson from Ames spoke to Farm Bureau members at the high school for year records. Thirty in attendance from Wapello and Oakville schools. Up-to-Dates held its Christmas party at Mrs Lloyd Roach’s country home with luncheon and gift exchange. Will Colip of Berwyn, Illinois visited D C Thomas. Revs R J Arms and C E Burdine visited Burlington. Burdine attended Iowa Presbytery meeting.
Ziegler Memorial Lutheran church choir directed by Mrs. E J Sywassink sinks presents The Song and the Star a Christmas cantata by Fred B Holt on Sunday at 7 30 PM. The performance features solos duets and mixed chorus with a long list of choir members and the organist Wilma Crow.
Holland statisticians report world population exceeding one billion, with about one in every twenty five people residing in the United States.
Greece has ordered several all metal military biplanes marking a push to modernize its air force. The purchase signals a shift toward advanced, durable aircraft for potential regional deployment and defense.
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