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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1913
Page
2
The June 1915 weather report shows unusually heavy rainfall totaling 7.31 inches, far above the prior year’s 1.41 inches. The heaviest daily falls were 2.50 and 1.66 inches on the first and twenty-fifth. River stage peaked at 10 feet 1 inch on the third and dropped to four feet seven inches on the thirtieth, with the month containing the full report of conditions.
June 1913 through May 1914 notes show monthly figures for rainfall and conditions. Entries list months with values such as 1.89 in March and 3.64 in May, alongside days of cloudy or clear weather and total observed days in each month. Observations were taken at 7 o'clock a m.
An unusually fine art exhibit is staged at the New Era gym for New Art Social club members. The show runs four weeks, opened last Friday, with about fifty five paintings on view by artists including Wharney and Hofstrup. Additional works will be added for the Fourth, with notes of genuine Inness, Austin, and Mowell pieces among loans from Davenport owners.
The Rev. Bryant C. Preston former Muscatine pastor of First Congregational, now at Plymouth Congregational in Spokane, Wash., and his wife are expected to visit Muscatine briefly this summer. They have been named delegates from Washington to the National Congregational Council in Kansas City and plan a short stopover here.
New Era Club unveils its upcoming program with acts including Miss Malinda Rhoek piano solo and Recitation by Robert Mish. The lineup features vocal duets, quartets, and various recitations by Misses Eather Brel and Coe, with A D Preden and others.
The International Operatic company presented most of the evening with bel canto pieces and the opera Martha in costume. Dr Weslar Hunsberger spoke on war and peace, urging arbitration. Miss Rose Heidenreich and Miss Margaret Day starred in select numbers and a full cast included Mrs Burt McKinnie and J Allen Grubb.
Enthusiasts faced a rain postponement as Dr. Wesley Hunsberger’s lecture The Passing of War was moved to the evening. The afternoon crowd enjoyed The Man for the Hour, praising its moral themes and the speaker’s call for strong leadership in all sectors. Dr. Hunsberger tours chautauquas nationwide and is executive VP of the International Peace Forum in New York.
Muscatine city council awarded the contract for the new West Hill fire station to Antone Barsch as the lowest bidder. Barsch presented two price figures with the accepted bid at 5890 for a brick faced building, while a second figure of 6823.90 proposed a different faced design. Construction will begin on or before July 45 and be completed early in the fall.
The cruising season opens unusually early with cabin cruisers passing the city before the usual fourth of July. Water conditions and a postponed regatta by the M V P B A push crews to cruise sooner, eight vessels have docked locally in the past week. Popular trips include the Illinois River to Chicago and the canal to the Mississippi, or the Illinois to Chicago via the Honea canal, with many boats coming from downstream clubs гэтым.
The fiscal school year ended yesterday and county wide school board meetings will be held tonight. The local board of education will convene in annual session to hear reports from officials and elect a secretary. Township officers will be chosen and final reports submitted to County Superintendent of Schools D. Bradley. The census figures and annual superintendent’s report will be announced.
Muscatine county farmers are told hog cholera serum is available at the county crop advisor’s office. A shipment from the state veterinary department arrived for distribution to farmers with sick hogs at about one third the usual cost. County leaders seek wider cooperation with Ames and other groups to curb disease spread. Also noted, Whitemound merchant fills stock of Chamberlain remedies and reports personal illness eased by a bottle of Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
A large turnout at the old settlers picnic at River Tunstion marks Lone Tree's summer scene. California visitor Newell Reynolds meets longtime peers from Pennsylvania, while Postmaster H R L Hinkley travels from Sigourney to visit family in Salem. Teachers, institute attendees, and townsfolk enjoy neighborly calls and gatherings across town.
The Muscatine Iowa Independent School District invites sealed bids for supplying coal for the next year. About 900 tons are needed for delivery to district buildings. Bids must state coal kind and grade and price per ton. Bids due noon July 11 1913 with weighing paid by bidder. district may reject any bid and may require bond.
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