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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1915
Page
4
Police court blotter shows no arrests for drunkenness or public disorder as New Year’s Eve passes quietly. Seven or eight vagrants sought shelter in pine caches and box cars, but official records report no violations of city codes or ordinances in the celebratory night.
R Bruce Wilson of Davenport is visiting friends in the city today. Miss Maude Paxton, a nurse at Bellevue hospital, left for Dubuque for a short visit. Mrs C Z Jimann of Lucas Street left for a few weeks visiting relatives and friends in Moline. Miss Effida Stears of Davenport returned home after visiting Miss Gladys Denson on East Tenth street. Mrs EB Stein and Mrs Winifred Baldwin of Ottumwa left last evening for home after Christmas with Mrs W C Norton at 126 Lucas Street. Wilbur Stein also spent Christmas at the Norton home and left Sunday for Ottumwa.
Staite Central Committee meets as Quilines Plan of Campaign is withheld for 1915. Hoag of Muscatine attends state central committee meeting in Marshalltown with plans to cooperate with other anti liquor groups for statewide prohibition via legislation, with another meeting set for January to finalize strategy.
The Muscatine County Crop Society will hold a meeting at the county building tomorrow at 2 PM to select an adviser for the current year. Prof. Sferri, highly recommended by Dean C. J. Curtis of Iowa State College, will visit Muscatine Saturday. Members seek to fill the position left vacant by Prof. Kirkpatrick’s resignation last summer.
A court without lawyers where people plead their own cases will be created in Chicago later this January as a branch of the municipal court, Chief Justice Harry Olgon announced today. The move aims to simplify justice and cut costs. Bloomington Council No 175 Preternal Aid Association will elect officers Friday at the Red Men Building West Second Street with refreshments, a musical program, and a general-officer read that will interest Benedictary members. Few establishments open as Muscatine marks New Year with extended closures. public buildings shut and industry quiet while families gather and city amusements remain active.
Associated Press dispatch from Topeka reports Harry G. McCain Ex tension secretary of the Methodist Temperance Society tells Intercollegiate Temperance Association convention that trade in liquor causes social poverty and waste. Frances Beauchamp president of the Kentucky W C T U asserts women can push national prohibition and suffrage. Dr David Faulson of Wixsdale TU discusses alcohol’s impact on the human system.
Emperor Nicholas toured the army front reviewing troops and distributing insignia of honor to distinguished soldiers. He met with General Ruzsky and thanked units for their service before departing the front. Separately, a two cent postage rate to the Bahamas took effect, part of a western hemisphere rate extension.
Major Hoffman of Jock Island says the reduced federal appropriation for upper Mississippi improvement will not halt work. The bill carries 1.2 million dollars for the division, and Rock Island government engineers say routine projects and current efforts will proceed despite less funding. The report notes prior allocations and a strong demand for extension above the Ohio mouth, with levees altering land use and water management affecting crops.
Churches across Muscatine held New Year religious observances with watch parties and services. United Brethren offered a brief devotional and collection, Grace Lutheran hosted a watch party and later a Ladies Aid supper, while St Marys St Matthias and German churches conducted Masses and prayers for peace in Europe. An New Era social and oyster supper occurred yesterday evening. Basketball games between Little Cobros and Little New Erans are planned today.
Ambassador Page cabled from London that British authorities will permit only charity ships carrying whole cargoes of cod for Belgian relief to Rotterdam. He noted some societies still ship food in ships with other cargoes, stressing relief ships must be reported by the relief committee’s New York representative to the British ambassador in Washington.
Mrs. Shester Van Horn aged 28 was jailed in Mason City Iowa pending investigation of her husband a Clear Lake farmer found dead with a bullet wound in bed on November 20. She was arrested in Des Moines last night.
society news snapshot describes Alala Blakeslee hosting a watch party at 1125 Felham Avenue with holiday decor games and a supper. Fred Pentzer and wife hosted a New Year watch party at West Third Street with cards four tables and a repast. John Niehling hosted a watch party with games and a midnight refreshment and short musical program. Nine Kentucky counties become dry at midnight with only 15 of 120 remaining wet.
Mrs. H. G. Letts mother of Judge F. D. Letts died at 10 39 this morning at her Davenport home. A native of Virginia she was married in 1878 to David Letts at Misenling and thereafter resided for years at Ainsworth.
The funeral for Mrs Erma Puhlman who died suddenly last Tuesday will be Sunday with a home service at 1 30 and church services at 2 at the German Evangelical Lutheran church. Interment follows at Greenwood cemetery conducted by Rev William Martens. Relatives arriving include daughters Mrs Arthur Padget Center Colorado and Mrs Chamberlain with Mr Chamberlain and Myra Wrank Tuttle of Cuvoir South Dakota, and sons Pow Ful timan of Peoria and Will Phiman of Portland Oregon.
Ten people died and many were injured in a morning train collision on the Great Eastern Railway near Ilford five miles from London. Several cars were ripped apart and reduced to splinters. Most victims were city clerks.
Delegates from nearly every state attend the eighteenth annual Knights of Zion convention opened in St Louis with Nathan D. Kaplan of Chicago presiding. Today’s session included the president’s report committee appointments and standing committee reports. Louis D Brandeis of Boston will speak Sunday on Zionist aims to reestablish Palestine as Jewish homeland.
An unofficial Wolff Agency dispatch from Berlin via London states that in the Argonne fighting in December our troops took about 2,950 prisoners. The report also claims 27 machine guns 14 mine throwers and one bronze mortar were captured.
Eliz abeth Yrotter longtime superintendent of Ottumwa Hospital and a well known figure in Iowa died in Norfolk Virginia after a weeklong illness following a nervous breakdown. The 20 year tenure at the Ottumwa hospital and her prominence in the state are noted.
The article discusses foreign secretary Grey and the US Wilson administration in a dispute over belligerent powers. It notes possible House of Lords debate when Parliament reassembles and hints at a forthcoming note clarifying positions and concessions. The piece emphasizes courtesy and firmness in the response and the aim to balance war aims with diplomacy.
An Associated Press dispatch datelined Berlin and London reports the slaying of the chancellor's son in Prussia with early morning details from The Hague. The wire notes swift political reaction and ongoing investigations.
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