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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1916
Page
8
Officers report that the unit will be mustered out this Saturday with soldiers to return home by Saturday noon The notice emphasizes orderly demobilization and early release for service members and their families.
Children of Trinity Episcopal Sunday school donated gifts for Belgian children to the Belgian Relief fund after a Christmas program at their church. The event also featured a cantata at First Presbyterian titled Santa's Christmas Bargain with Gustav Adlbee as Santa, admired by many attendees.
The Yeomen lodge held a Hard Times Farewell Leap Year party at the hall last evening. Attendees dressed in hard times attire resembling a hobo camp. Fines were levied for forgotten rules or modern costumes. Dancing and games followed, with refreshments served by the women of the order.
The Dutch section of the World Union of Churches held a crowded meeting in the citys largest church. Speakers endorsed President Wilsons act of faith in sending his note to belligerents and urged their brethren in war zones to foster a peaceable atmosphere.
Dan Smith was elected to lead the local Socialist party for the ensuing year at the election of officers held in the evening. Named were Chairman Dan Smith Recording secretary John Carshe Treasurer H Sehwalm Executive committee Lee WW Lang George M. Dowell C M Els and Fred Reightenauer Trustees C Hufford HH Washburn and A Hamilton
Nantucket December 27 The steamship Maryland reported sinking Christmas night but has not been located. Coast guard cutters Acushnet and Gresham from Woods Hole and Boston scanned waters about 200 miles southeast of Nantucket for hours, finding no trace as wireless systems failed from water intrusion.
Dr. J Gibson state veterinarian asks the Iowa Legislature for a substantial budget increase. He proposes raising assistant state veterinarians' pay from $6 to $8 a day and elevating the state veterinarian salary to $8,600, with a total appropriation of $190,000 to combat tuberculosis in cattle and hogs, fund herd testing, and support hog cholera control, to strengthen Iowa's livestock industry.
Dex Moines Dec 27 With Republican consent Senator C C Hetmer caucus chairman appointed a committee to consider legislative positions for the session opening January 1917 The panel to report to the Republican senatorial caucus meets January 6 at Savery hotel Des Moines Parker chair of the committee to name senate clerks and report members Fraley Kimball Blaffx Holdohel and Lo Compte The panel will meet January 6 to prepare its report It will not decide the number of clerks or doorkeepers Each senator may name a clerk The group weighs candidates Wu Arney of Marshalltown and Rankin Thompson of Burlington as possible president pro tem for the Thirty seventh assembly
An Elks meeting announced no immediate opening for an annex additions to the B P O Elks home on East Front Street. Work likely won’t finish before March with no opening date set. Several candidates were approved and will be invited to the next session. Meeting adjourned to January 2 with no New Year’s Night gathering.
Joseph B., Major and Kansas pioneer, aged 86, a famed survivor of the Quantrell raid on Lawrence during the Civil War, died at his daughter’s home in Kansas City. He recalled how his wife saved him and his brother by rolling them in carpet and dragging them to safety as raiders burned their house.
The Philharmonic society plans another opera after the Mikado success. Mrs Amalia Schmidt Gobble will direct vocalists. A frat meeting at Schmidt Music House January 2 will outline plans. Toasts celebrate the chorus’s Sullivan triumph and future productions.
This description notes Captain Nemo in a film adaptation of Jules Verne's voyage beneath the sea. The production claims dramatic underwater effects using submarine inventions by the Williamson Brothers. The Universal presentation opens a three day engagement at the Orpheum starting Thursday, December.
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