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Newspaper

Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 25, 1914

Page

15

Joint Session Proceedings Muscatine Louisa District 13 1914

Joint Board sessions in Muscatine and Louisa Counties address Muscatine Louisa Drainage District No. 13 and Muscatine Island Levee with committee reports, bills, and pumping plant engineer appointments. Objections to assessment reports are heard, with hearings scheduled and executive sessions held.

Muscatine Co Louisa Co Wilson Sophy B. Dallas Ehrecke Luisa Co Peoria Muscatine-Louisa iTo C. D. Butchart Co Muscatine Slough R. S tAmount Muscatine- Louisa Jacob A. Harman Swpy Jones F. S. Hobbs S. A. Crivil ACH Keesler Nelson Buser Flater Phillips Daut H. S. McKinney Wapello Towa Dr. D. No Suny Frater H. B. Phillips H. C. Scoemaker Sec’y Joint Board Boards of Supervisors Louisa Court House Muscatine On Cal Muscatine Island Dant Muscatins County Louisa Drainate District No Supy Louisa County P. Lynch J. Lynch J. Newkirk A. C. Neipert Robi. Mittman Est John Mittman Mrs. F. Mittman George Mittman Thos. Middleton J. Reed Frank Shoultz A. P. Swanson Anna Putney D. D. Siineman D. D. Schipfer W. H. Wetcher J. P. Diercks H. J. Gravink GN. Grosjean J. A. Haas V. Hackett Hagermann & Ryan B. Il. Hahn Et al Charles ‘Kleist M. Lynch Newkirk A. P. ‘Swanson D. D. Stineman A. 0. Schipfer R. B. Smalley Morris W. Strouse M. Thomson Webster Louisa Gounty Louis Blaul Briggs & Erwin Theo. Drake Lem. Dickerson Begsie Farnsworth H. O. Weaver A. J. Wheeler FE. Weber Sung. Buser Plater Whrecke

Foster Christmas programs and school closings reported

Foster Illinois December 24 reports several local schools closing for holidays. Pine Bluff M E Wrayville M E and Baptist church plan Christmas programs Thursday night. Miss Verne Erwin will leave district No 818 to spend holidays with her parents at Biggsville Illinois. Missionary society hosts gathering January 6 at Mrs F C Mewes home. C L Ginnett remains ill with pleuro-pneumonia. Civil War veteran John Lane dies in Lewiston Idaho at home, a former major general under Robert E Lee and son of General Joseph Lane.

Foster Ill Pine Bluff M. E Wrayville M. E Baptist Church Verne Erwin Biggsville Til The Foreign Missionary Society M. E. Church F. C. Mewes C. L. Ginett Lewiston Idaho John Lane Robert E. Lee Northwest

Plan for Iowa militia proposes five year enlistments

Adjutant General Guy E. Logan submits biennial report advocating a tactical unit for Iowa Guard. Five year enlistments would create a three year active and two year reserve system, ending about 6,000 total with 3,700 active and 2,400 reserve. Proposes reducing infantry regiments from four to three, reorganizing into a brigade with staff, cavalry, artillery, engineers, signal corps, hospital and ambulance units. Disbands one infantry regiment. promotes officers by seniority. seeks fireproof armory and appropriations for batteries and engineer company.

Iowa Logan Logans Signal Corps

Ice Harvest Ready As River Ice Replaces Slough Ice

Ice dealers in the city report river ice more than ten inches thick after snow removal and say harvesting will begin tomorrow. River ice will fill the Rock Island ice house this year, replacing slough ice due to better quality and easier access. Farmers along Muscatine slough have been producing rough slough ice, but overall supply this winter is expected to be better and easier to obtain than in recent years.

Rock Island Muscatine

Railroad Traffic Heavy At Present

Railroad traffic runs behind schedule due to heavy shipments. For the past week local and division railroad men report a strong increase in passenger traffic and in mail and express movement. Through trains add one to three Pullman coaches. local trains add two or three extra coaches to handle demand.

Real Cabaret Planned for Red Men Home Coming

Carl Kuehnie accepts invitation to speak at Red Men Home Coming banquet on New Year’s Eve. Herbert G. Thompson announces cabaret show with Third street playhouse acts, a five piece orchestra, and stage at Red Men hall for diners.

Herbert G. Thompson Tom Sigourney Orpheum Theater Third Street Playhouse Red Men Hall Thompson Carl Kuebnle Denison Iowa Kuehnle Order of Red Men

Luxembourgs peace move eyed by French mediators

Paris, Dec. 25. M Eyschen of Luxembourg urged the Swiss federal council to mediate between France and Germany, aiming to open a new peace channel. The Berne correspondent of Petit Parisien reported the move as a potential diplomatic avenue.

Associated Prees Paris M. Eyschen Luxemberg Berne Petit . Parisien Federal Council France Ger

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