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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
12
Ady reports a night gathering at Naw Armory on December 20 featuring Dancer Mavielatis and a union event. Attendees invited to join the performance and discussion.
Twenty six new members were inducted into the local lodge as the first steps of a massive campaign. Twenty six more await initiation next meeting, bringing new members to over one hundred for the year. Final plans covered a grand banquet at the Hotel Magentine with entertainment and a farewell event scheduled, all amid a large turnout and party atmosphere.
Washington quintet meets Coach Walron's Xagad in a record crowd booster game at the new armory Friday evening. Attendance already strong as pets are disposed of and proceeds expected at around 8230 or 34 per ovctock.
The union committee announced a fourteen piece orchestra will furnish music for the annual dance at the new armory tonight. A large number of tickets have already been sold by union members, and turnout is expected to be heavier than usual.
In Iowa a motion picture theatre manager plans to distribute potatoes to the poor as a charitable act. Potatoes, once priced high, are noted as nearly “worth their weight in gold” but will be accepted as payment tomorrow with no cash or fish accepted.
Jame J. Keppler, former Kalona postmaster aide in Washington county Iowa, bound over to the grand jury in the Southern District of Iowa. He was arraigned before U S Commissioner A G Bush, waived preliminary hearing, with a $1000 bond. Keppler faces charges of ambexsing letters from his position. He was arrested yesterday and sent to Avonport for trial. He had served as Kalona postmaster helper for years until two months ago.
The Avolan Literary Society presents a student run program tomorrow afternoon featuring students Keller Walton Adams Annahel Runngard Moronce Nighthysade Leth Dixon and Ruth Johnson Barton. The Scotian Society will debate capital versus labor arbitration with OhMed Will and George Sycheainis for affirmative and Worley Kettlekamp Ida Bamford for negative. A Christmas party follows the program.
The Borly Lokal An velgar reports Major General Wrust Von Aalto, commander of the Seventeenth Teanerve Division, died at Dantalg following an operation. The London via Amsterdam notice confirms the general’s death on December 20.
The Boy Scouts of America East III patrol announce a three day display in the downtown district to show gallantry and chivalry in action. Eight scouts per day will assist riders in streetcars and help older people enter and exit vehicles with special courtesy. A Christmas basket distribution will also be provided through the Salvation Army.
Shells fetch notable value in shops though rarely noted, a key supply linked to industries like kid gloves and other leather goods. The fragment hints at shells being valuable for manufacturing beyond their expected use.
Notes show plans for a Jackson day banquet by the local Democratic group at the Floral Muscntine with committee appointments to be made at a December 26 session. Also mentions a Musicians' Union Dance tonight and an estimate of annual shell usage tied to local mills.
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