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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1934
Page
7
Muscatine county American Legion members schedule a joint meeting in West Liberty on Tuesday at 8 30 with Dr E A Ady outlining plans. State Commander Leo Custer will speak and officials from the Legion are expected. A drum and bugle corps may attend and a feed will be served.
Funeral plans detail that Dr Anna Albers born 1864 in Muscatine died at her Chicago home. Services were held at St Vincent's Chicago then burial at St Mary's Muscatine with Rev N J Pfeiffer. Surviving are brothers F B Albers and H A Albers seven nephews and four nieces. one brother Will preceded her.
About 75 absent and sick ballots have been called for and filled out through the office of Kenneth Coder, county auditor. Ruth Demorest serves under him delivering the ballots as workers expect the tally to rise by nightfall. Pennsylvania and Texas lead in employing jobless men on road work, with roughly one quarter of the unemployed engaged in such projects.
Sheriff George Oakes says the April 16 egg theft in Wapello remains unsolved though facts shift. C. J. Valentine of Peoria reported 63 cases were taken while he ate, the truck burned two and a half miles north of town. he now says eggs were bought from a different huckster, not farm homes.
Muscatine residents are urged by Fire Chief J. J. Brown to exercise extreme care in building bonfires and burning rubbish due to a hot dry period. Grass and brush fires have been started recently and two minor blazes required central station crews, using the booster tank, to prevent spread near East Second Street by the American Shell Products company.
Charming graduation srock offered in white crepe silk or batiste with sizes 8 through 16. Pattern No. 187 requires fabric yards and pleating or lace edging plus ribbon. mail to Julia Boyd at The Journal Fashion Bureau in New York with 15 cents and your details.
Eli Hoeg and Christian Hoeg filed United States citizenship papers in district court with Clerk R. V. Winter on a Thursday afternoon. The Hoegs, natives of Germany living near Morning Sun, are among the first to file citizenship documents in years.
The state refunded 747 581 50 to automobile owners with 9 954 of that total attributed to Muscatine county. Lew Wallace of the state motor vehicle department said 94 counties have been checked and 233 650 in refunds issued for 1934 licenses bought before fee reductions. He expects about 250 000 total refunds and about 760 000 in refunds once five counties are finished. Nearby counties received 11 964 in Johnson and 26 360 in Scott. Church bells have been cast in England since 940.
Dr. B F Schwartz of the First Methodist Episcopal church will give the memorial address at Greenwood Cemetery Sunday at 2 15 p m The Muscatine Concert band will perform and a quartet will sing A three girl committee will decorate graves Musicians meet at the band room on Iowa avenue at 1 30 p m headed by the Muscatine Concert band they will march to the cemetery for the ceremony Also note mentions X rays used to detect flaws in plane propellers and early radio stations in 1920.
Pre school classes run under CWA administration drew about 40 children from Wilton and Conesville. Aleta Singleton led Conesville in city hall with Mary Jo Dwyer directing Wilton at the school. The county superintendent E. D. Bradley noted uncertain plans for future continuation as the programs closed for summer. Tea bricks used as money in Mongolia is also mentioned.
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