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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1914
Page
10
I B McNiel assumed duties as the new secretary of the M C A and began organizing the office early in the day. He planned to outline a policy while meeting key leaders and reviewing proposed directions for the association.
Flo declined to predict future association actions but said a board meeting is set for tomorrow at noon or evening to outline a definite policy. Secretary McNiel envisions dormitory refurbishments and redecorating at the Y M C A. Local supporters believe the association will be managed conservatively and soon prosper.
June L. Morgan, mother of George Jane, living near her son's home in Wapello, was seriously injured last evening when she fell at a small cotta joining the residence. She broke her right arm and leg and summoned neighbors for help during a school bit on laureate exercises. Due to her age the injuries may be more serious than first feared.
Margaret Donahue, 41, daughter of Mrs and Mrs Daniel Donahue, died at her Riverside home from kidney trouble with whooping cough and complications. She is survived by her parents one sister and four brothers. Funeral will be held tomorrow morning from St Mary's Catholic church.
Paris June 1 The French cabinet under Premier Gaston Doumergue decided to resign today citing an inability to command a majority in the chamber. A statement will be drafted for release tomorrow explaining the retirement.
A news brief from Madrid reports a change in the wedding date of Kermit Roosevelt and Miss Willard. The religious ceremony is now set for June 11, while the civil ceremony remains on June 10.
Rev William J Wallace formerly of St Navier College Cincinnati Ohio was installed as president of St Marys college today. He succeeds Rev Aloysius A Breen who has served as president for the last seven years.
Sir Cecil Spring Brice, the British ambassador, will sail from New York on Thursday for a short vacation in England with his family. He bade farewell to Secretary Bryan today in Washington.
Charles F. Grade chairs Muscatine State Music Teachers convention set for June 17 18 with local meeting June 13 to discuss committees programs and arrangements. Local efforts backed by Chamber Commerce and sponsors aim to outshine past conventions with reception concert at the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra and Philharmante chorus featuring Iowa teachers and soloists. Season tickets priced at 150 include various recitals lectures and a piano recital by Myrtle Blynn at the Orpheum theater with Everett Miss Elwyn on piano using the Kimball Concert Grand.
An advertisement extols women to endure menstrual and organic troubles with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It claims the remedy has helped many for forty years and encourages every afflicted woman to try it for herself and her family.
Jacob Saphirstein, managing editor and publisher of the Jewish Morning Journal, died today at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn after an operation. Born in Bialystok Russia, he came to the United States in 1887 and founded the Jewish Morning Journal in 1901.
Two farmers from Hillsboro Illinois searching for Miss Bessie Bawden and her sister Florence learned no new information at Canadian Pacific offices in Rimouski. They planned to travel to Quebec to pursue news of the Empress of Ireland disaster and the sisters who were en route to Bridgewater to visit their mother.
Eyewitness accounts describe the Empress of Ireland collision with Storstad. Rescue teams recover bodies as 418 survive and 909 die or drown. A royal commission and Canadian inquiry are set up, with Captain Linday leading a preliminary investigation in Montreal.
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