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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
3
A local wartime warning denounces rumors that Red Cross leaders are paid. It explains salaries are unsupported, details local fund division, urges readers to donate and report libel, and promotes the Partners of Santa Claus effort to aid poor children before Christmas.
Members of Boy Scout troop number one will deliver Christmas presents the day before Christmas and on Christmas morning free of charge. Requests for deliveries can be made by calling 1147 before the Monday evening deadline. Scouts will also assist at the Community Christmas celebration Monday afternoon under Assistant Scoutmaster Stockfield.
The Exemption Board, led by Dr. F d H Little, reports a flood of work as high school girls are drafted to assist with mailing questionnaires. Volunteers from the school will help prepare materials and handle clerical duties as registrants surge for information.
The Sunday school of the German Baptist church will observe Christmas Sunday evening with readings recitations exercises and songs. The program begins at 7 o'clock and includes an opening song by the school responsive reading a male quartet selection a responsorium with Raw Peter Geissler, welcome address by the superintendent, and a declaration by Ralph Toborg.
A readable list of performances from a school program includes declamations by Clare Newell Marie Wedekind Viola Tilgnar and others, songs by the School and Infant class, dialogues by Harold Brandau and Miss Othmer, and a closing benediction with Rev P Geissler.
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