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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1935
Page
6
Relief expenditures in Muscatine County dropped for the first half of July compared with June, totaling 10,512.32 through July 15. Direct federal relief accounted for 5,301.91, work relief 4,063.62, and county costs 1,146.79, with month allotment set at 21,494 for all relief programs.
Keokuk, Mary Burk a 15 year old Mr Pleasant high school girl came to the Keokuk police station at noon today with a story of having been kidnaped this morning. She walked carrying a halter for a neighbor s cow. A man and a woman in a sedan stopped her and asked if she knew the Charles Wandling residence. She directed them and was then asked to go along and show the way. Acquiescing she entered the rear seat with the woman and the driver started for Keokuk. They refused to say where they intended taking her or to talk until they reached the outskirts of Keokuk where they stopped and ordered her out. They said they did not want the girl they told her. The police notified the sheriff at Mt. Pleasant.
Cranston hosts a 6 o clock dinner at the W. L. Shellabarger residence with guests including Bruce Ellis family and Pendleton visitors. A Sunday call hour at Phillip Wagner’s near Letts features George Bailey and Elna Shellabarger among others, with a birthday party for Sam Altekruse and Richard Shellabarger.
City residents travel to Chicago and northern Michigan while several births occur at Hershey and Belle Vue hospitals. Health board postpones Muscatine meeting, finance committee handles bills, and local residents visit Cedar Rapids and Denver areas. Hog receipts at the stockyards total 214 head and new vehicle registrations are recorded for Charles Hendricks and William Berry.
The girls band performed the twelfth concert Tuesday night on the St Mathias church lawn as part of the church’s lawn social entertainment series.
Representatives from the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Federal Housing Administration spoke at the Southeastern Iowa Conservation Association meeting. CCC leaders highlighted low discharges and training at Oakville drainage camps. FHA official Beckett explained loan programs, including up to 2000 for homes and up to 50000 for schools and commercial buildings, with a five to twenty year term and a five percent interest rate plus a half percent insurance charge.
The New Era Favorites 4 H club met Tuesday afternoon at Blanche Fitchner’s home. Iris McCullough attended as a guest. all but one member were present. Verda Luedtke gave a health talk. Bernice McEvoy spoke on fruit in the diet. Clara Vermorelle shared a trip to Ames.
City council in Seymour asked the mayor and marshal to resign amid alleged dealings with slot machine operators. In Washington the Senate reversed a prior vote and struck price fixing provisions from the administration's AAA amendments in a 44 to 41 vote.
A Tuesday tour by contest officials Carl Rylander Edgar Rogers C T McCabe and Lindley B Hoopes examined corn plots cultivated by Wayne Bieri Lauren Freyermuth George Unkel and Ellis Carter. Judges will inspect again in August and September to test hybrid strains and evaluate yield and quality.
The weekly card party at St Marys school hall Tuesday night announced five hundred winners with Mrs. Russell first and Mrs. Ed Hoffman second for women, Ed Hoffman first and C. J. Nolan second for men, Euchre won by Mrs. William King and Miss Margaret Weber second, with Ida Lechner taking the special prize. Next Tuesday night there will be another card party and Thursday a tango party with ice cream and cake sale.
Members of the H. B. club gathered at Mrs. Harold A. Lang residence 911 1 2 East Sixth Street. Five hundred was played with Miss Jeannette El fers winning first prize and Miss Velma Thomas earning the consolation. A special prize went to Miss Dorothy Stuart. Mrs Lange, newly married former Patricia Babbitt, received a wedding gift from the club. Refreshments followed.
Preston Cooley of Muscatine died about 10 a m today at Muscatine county home after a short illness. He had suffered a stroke and was moved to the county home Monday. The body is at N W Meyers Funeral home awaiting funeral arrangements and details to be announced later.
Marion Volger and Ira Lamb, semi-final winners, match today for the Y W C A tennis tourney championship. Volger beat Betty Rausch 6 2 7 5 in one semi and Lamb defeated Geral in straight sets 6 3 6 2.
L. D. Beckett says about 15 persons visited the chamber of commerce office in Muscatine to discuss refinancing details at a federal housing administration clinic opened with Clarence A. Hahn. The clinics, aimed at mortgage refinancing for residential property, will be held every 60 days in key Iowa cities, with Burlington next.
Surveys of the river front improvement segment from the high bridge to Mad Creek have been completed. Plans are being drawn under C. Clayton Frye, field engineer of the Iowa State Planning Board, and will be finished today before submission to Ames for engineering review.
Dine Frye will play in the tennis center tournament after the current meet concludes. Miss Mary Shemaitis, YWCA physical director, will oversee the girls division as the event is expected to begin late this week or early next week.
The state board of health reduced quarantine for mild scarlet fever from 28 to 21 days from case report to the local health board. Some extensions possible for complications or multiple cases. Measles and chickenpox isolation drops from 14 to 10 days. German measles from seven to five days. Psittacosis becomes reportable. Muscatine shows one scarlet fever case. Louisa county records one mumps. other diseases noted include undulant fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, meningitis, and malaria.
Four newly elected Muscatine teachers will depart tonight for Boulder Colorado to attend University of Colorado summer sessions. They are Mabel Smith Imogene Conley Margaret Bohling and Betty Appel.
The forecast calls for a mid 90s high today with parts of the state nearing 100 as a warm air mass from the northwest moves in. Thermometers have not yet reached the century this year but are expected to climb. cooler, slightly unsettled weather is forecast for the northwest with possible thunderstorms on Thursday.
The body of William Craig Garman aged Waterloo man who died Tuesday at his daughter Mrs. Bessie Johnson 619 Maple avenue was sent to Waterloo at 615 am today by Fairbanks Home for Funerals. Services are scheduled at Waterloo Thursday afternoon with burial in a Waterloo cemetery.
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