Traffic Signals Being Installed at 11 Intersections
Wiring for a new boulevard traffic system is in place with 22 lights set for 11 intersections in Muscatine. Old signals on Second Street are being removed as work continues, and two signals per corner will be visible from all four directions. Installation could be completed by year’s start if weather allows.
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Muscatine
Ie Geet Pasaton
Babs Beens
Second Street
Iowa Avenue
Lions Club Gifts to Muscatine Nursery and County Home
The Lions club will deliver cheer with gifts to the Muscatine day nursery and county home inmates. Nursery items include six kindergarten chairs and assorted toys, while the county farm visit will feature name tagged gifts. The distribution committee includes Rev. Leland Lesh ér, J. L. Behrens, Ralph Romann, Robert Wilson and Clifford Minch.
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Santa Claus
Muscatine Day Nursery
Lions Club
Leland Leshér
J. L. Behrens
Ralph Romann
Robert Wilson
Clifford Minch
Pioneer league youth basketball slate at Y gym
Three Saturday games at the Y M C A gym feature McKinley versus Jackson seventh grade at 2 PM Lincoln versus Garfield at 2 45 PM and Jackson eighth grade against Franklin at 3 30 PM Washington school Pioneer club won a toy collecting contest prize presented at a club meeting last Saturday The McKinley Pioneer club gathered at the Y M C A Thursday for an extemporaneous debate Jefferson club Pioneer club to meet at the association building tonight
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McKinley
Jackson
Lincoln
Garfield
Franklin
Washington School
Pioneer Club
McKinley Pioneer Club
Jefferson Club
Association Building
White Christmas Hopes Dashed By State Forecast
Prospects for a white Christmas in this locality were shattered by the official weather forecast for the next 24 hours despite light snow. The forecast calls for unsettled weather tonight and Saturday with warmer conditions by Saturday. At 7 this morning the thermometer read 24 degrees. river level held at 5.3 feet.
Progress on Razing Second Street Buildings
Work of tearing down buildings on the site purchased by the International Harvester company for a warehouse is advancing rapidly. Contracts for the warehouse are expected to be awarded early in January.
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Second Street
International Harvester Company
New Era Church Plans Christmas Services and Sunday School
The Rev A Lack announces Christmas celebrations at Ziegler Memorial Lutheran Church New Era. Saturday 7:30 p m Sunday school starts 9 30 a m with a Christmas program. The 10 a m Sunday service will include the annual Christmas sermon and the Sunday school entertainment precedes Christmas treats.
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Ziegler Memorial Lutheran Church
New Era
A. Lack
Christmas Party Highlights Cedar Street Church Ladies Aid
The Cedar Street Methodist Episcopal Ladies' Aid held its Christmas party Thursday afternoon with ninety attendees. Lena Diercks presided as program director, a quartet performed, a playlet titled Mrs Jenkins Brilliant Idea was staged by nine members, and gifts were exchanged after a pound shower for Rev and Mrs Frey. The next gathering is set for January 5.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
Cedar Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Lena Diercks
O. C. Frey
Wesley Zeidler
Leonard Goetz
Jenkins
Geneva Golf Club to Host Christmas Party on Dec 28
The December committee of the Geneva Golf and Country Club has arranged the annual Christmas party for Wednesday evening December 28. A roast goose dinner will be served at seven followed by cards and dancing. Tony's Iowana Orchestra of Davenport will play. Each member may invite a guest. Reservations accepted until Monday evening. The committee includes Mr. and Mrs. W F Bishop and others.
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Geneva
R. S. Willis
D. A. Willis
Raymond Tipton
Elmer Bloom
Loretta Devitt
Ruth McKee
Marion Musser
John Musser
Harold McKee
Budworth Custer Wedding Solemnized at Parsonage
Miss Gwendolyn A Budworth and Walter F Custer wed at 8 30 p m Thursday in the Mulford Congregational church parsonage with Rev C W Hempstead presiding. Attendants were Mr and Mrs Ray Powell. The bride formerly worked at the local telephone exchange and the groom is employed at the Hotel Muscatine.
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Budworth-Custer
Gwendolyn A. Budworth
Walter F. Custer
Mulford Congregational Church
C. W. Hempstead
Ray Powell
Custer
Muscatine
Miss Detthof Supervises Music For Play Presentation
Miss Dorothy M Detthof music supervisor in Dysart Ia returned Thursday to spend Christmas holidays at her home 419 West Eighth street Her mother Mrs H G Detthof accompanied her home after attending The Gypsy Rover a musical comedy presented Tuesday evening by a cast of 82 with overture and orchestral accompaniment under the direction of Miss Detthof
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Miss Detthof
Dorothy M.detthof
Dysart
West Eighth Street
H. G. Detthof
Dyeart
Ladies of the Elks plan Christmas party
The Ladies of the Elks set their annual Christmas party for December 29 at the Elks club rooms. Reservations close Tuesday evening with Mrs. Fred Funck. Hostesses for the Thursday card party were Mesdames Clara Hann, J. B. Gingery, G. A. Chaudoin, Fay Hawkins and Everett Clay.
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Ladies OF the Elks
Forty Children on Auxiliary Program at Eagles Hall
Forty children participated in the Christmas program of the Lady Auxiliary 815 Fraternal Order of Eagles at the Eagles hall. The event featured exercises songs and recitations with Christmas treats distributed to the attendees.
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Lady Auxiliary 815
Order of Eagles
Eagles Hall
Twin sisters to observe seventieth birthdays
Mrs. Anna Belle Shannon and Mrs. Isabelle Mohnsen, twins, plan a birthday party at 816 Cedar Street on Jan 20 to celebrate their seventieth birthday. They were born on a farm eight miles from Muscatine and have spent their lives in this county.
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Anna Belle Shannon
Isabelle Mohnsen
Cedar Street
Muscatine
Mr and Mrs Idle Celebrate Silver Anniversary
The silver wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Earl V Idle was celebrated at their home on Sycamore Street. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holtz and about 50 others were invited to the Mona council Degree of Pocahontas Christmas party.
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Mrs. Idle
Earl V. Idle
Sycamore Street
Henry Holtz
Mona Council
Pocahon
Christmas church programs fill Muscatine with pageants
Bloomington and Muscatine churches announce a slew of Christmas services and concerts. Trinity Episcopal will host a midnight Christmas Eve program with soloists. First Baptist presents a cantata The Uninvited Christmas Guests featuring 38 children. First Presbyterian stages the Keeping Christ in Christmas pageant. Other churches hold Sunday school services and carol events.
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Muscatine
Trinity Episcopal Church
Nelle M Johnson
Milford Guthrie
Paul Barry
Louis Parsons
Clyde Gray
Clifford C. Hakes
Bloomington
First Baptist Church
Holidays Bring Visits Births And Travel In City
City residents greet holidays with family visits and travel across Illinois and Iowa. Moody Bible Institute student Tiana Eltman returns from Chicago. Ann Garrard and Mary Louise Dailey head to Mt. Pleasant for Christmas with Dailey relatives. Barbara Aldin is born to Clyde and Mrs Hartshorn. Alma Kretschmar suffers a stroke. Harold Hoefflin and wife announce a daughter Geraldine Ruth. Local officials note post office work and school vacations while Bollards, Narvis, and others recover or prepare for holidays.
Caution Urged on Christmas Tree Fire Risk by Chief Brown
Muscatine police chief J J Brown warns residents to be careful with Christmas decorations and tree lighting. He notes past safety success, urges using fire proof snow, electric lights, and candles away from curtains, and advises not keeping trees too long indoors to prevent fires.
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J. J. Brown
Muscatine
Wapello Defeats New London Five In County Night Clash
Wapello defeated New London 31 to 17 as the two basketball teams met at Redmen hall. Wapello showed superior team offense to secure the win in the Thursday night game, part of a council hosted event for local children.
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New London
Green Parasol Stolen From Patterson School
A green silk parasol was taken from Patterson School near Pleasant Prairie two miles away on Thursday after a school event. No further details available in the fragment.
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Patterson
Pleasant Prairie
Hammill Seeks Court Ruling On Road Bond Law
Governor Hammill asserted any road bond measure must be tested by the Iowa Supreme Court before bonds are sold, ensuring no rise in property taxes. If the court rules unconstitutional, he would call an extraordinary session to repeal the law. The Iowa highway commission endorsed awaiting court guidance.
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Des Moines In
Hammill
Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
Executive Council
Commission
United States Supreme Court
State Highway Commission
State Road Funds Held Until Supreme Court Rule
The text states that funds for the state primary road must not be awarded or used until the state primary road law is declared valid by the state supreme court.
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Own & To
Supreme Court
Christmas program at Musservile Methodist-Episcopal Church
The Musservile Methodist Episcopal church will present a Christmas entertainment Sunday evening at 7 30 replacing regular services. The program features songs recitations and exercises in which children participate.
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Musservile Methodist - Episcopal Church
Parasol Stolen From School Teacher Miss Healey
Miss Florence Healey, a teacher, reported a parasol stolen. The parasol had been a Christmas gift to her shortly before the theft.
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Florence Healey
Miss Healey
Striking Pupils Return at Plant High School
Milton W. Carothers principal of Plant high school in Tampa says all but 40 of the 200 pupils who struck yesterday have returned to class today and apologized. The walkout began over reducing the Christmas holiday to one week from two.
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W. N. Atkinson
Leo Schmitz
Fred Messenger
Salem
San Mankota
Minn
Wellman
Elmer Schmidt
Elkhart
Ind
Muscatine
Arthur Schmidt
Newell Avenue
Tampa
Fla
Milton W. Carothers
The
Plant High School
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AID Society
Country Club
Trinity Episcopal Churc
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Christ
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Grace English Lutheran Church
Louis Elfers
Frederick Boldt
Muscatine Theological
Zion Lutheran Church
City News
Tiana
Wiss Wiss
Florence Eltman
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
Joe. Eltman
Hershey Avenue
Ann Garrard
Mary Louise Dailey
Mt. Pleasant
Mrs. Garrard
W. E. Dailey
Ivan Lockwood
Oregon Street
Clyde L. Hartshorn
East Seventh Street
Barbara Aldin
M B. Crampton
Webster Hakes
Parkington Drive
Oak Park
Ill
Arthur Huntley
Huntley
Glen Slater
Walter Morris
Nichols
Slater
Toronto
Vortex Manufacturing Company
Chica
Standard Oil Company
Davenport
Richard
Dick Anderson
Chestnut Street
Canada
Clayton Reeves
Still ‘College of Osteopathy
Des Moines
J. Reeves
Beggs Street
Alma Kretschmar
Harold W. C. Hoefflin
Geraldine Ruth
Nathan Hoefflin
Logan Street
Gertrude Thomson
Clinton
Earl McGinnis
Pine Street
Montezuma
East Second Street
Grant School
Iam M. Narvis
West Fourth Street
Record Printing Company
Masonic Temple
Rl Riemcke
Men Lodge
Fred Jarvis
Norbert Liebbe
New Hampshire Street
Paul Grossklaus
Hershey Hospital
Harold McCormick
Letts
Bellevue Hospital
Martha Daéschner
Concordia
Kas
Grant
James McCracken
Thornburg
D. C. Blain
Barnes City
H. W. Durian
C. H. Smith
Iowa City
C. Westfall
Lone Tree
Chief Brown
Wapello
NEW London Five
Redmen Hall
Council For Children
Rosanne Brand
Brown’s Business College
Muscatine, Iowa
East Third Street
South End
Wilson
East Second St
Lexington
Mass
Pam
Lear
Fred J
Hartman
Ewing Jewelry Store
Tropics
Eichenaur
Pleasure Island Chocolates
Sam
Tory
Kitty
Mr.howdy
Evie
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