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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1918
Page
5
Thirty-eight county school boards will hold their annual meeting in Muscatine on July 1 to transact the year’s business. Reports from treasurers and secretaries will outline attendance, costs per district, and other details under a new general fund system. Wages are a major topic, worsened by government clerical competition and war expenses.
R. R. Reed principal of Brown's business college leaves for Springdale Ark to visit his former home before going to Kansas City to assume duties at a local educational institution. He has served as principal for about two years and made many friends in the school and community.
Iowa State College horticulturalist urges farmers to apply the third spray to fruit trees to combat apple scab and other fungi and curb codling moths. Thermo sulfur bath is recommended as most effective. extension agents have begun demonstrations as warm weather speeds pest growth and earlier sprays show improved tree appearance.
J. B. Reay of Muscatine District Court of Honor Number 677 will represent the local judge and the state lodge at a national convention in Chicago for four days starting June 18. Mrs. Elizabeth Sawyer, secretary of the local lodge, will be alternate. Local members are expected to participate actively.
An old advertisement touts Mother's Friend as a preventative aid for childbirth. It claims the external lotion lubricates abdominal muscles, reduces pain and danger at the crisis, and helps the abdomen expand gently. The Frdolph Regulator Co of Atlanta sells it and offers a free motherhood booklet.
Walter Roach former day clerk at Hotel Muscatine recovers from a serious operation at Fort Moultrie South Carolina after a month convalescence. He is now dismissed from hospital and expects to return to duties within days. He notes surgeons in Charleston fixed him up well and mentions potential reassignment if not for the operation.
Thirteen Muscatine county boys entered a four month pig contest to raise and fatten two or more pigs. Prizes reward best showing and participants will track feed costs to gain practical and theoretical knowledge of beef stock production. contenders listed by township include Bloomington Marvin Burnside Maynard Saterthwaite Raymond Satterthwaite Harold Holmes Ivan Holmes Fulton Louis Puck Pike Herbert Schmidt Walliam Adama Seventy Six Harold Runyon Sweetland Vernon Shepard Wapsinonoc Beulah Timmerman Julius Timmerman Lloyd Monroe. A baby beet contest interest is also noted.
The local Red Cross chapter completed May’s surgical dressings quota Saturday afternoon. A large turnout marked the week’s final meeting and the shipment was sent to the Central Association. Due to no June gauze arrival, the dressing rooms will close Tuesday afternoon and evening June 4, otherwise remain open as scheduled.
A large crowd gathered at the depot last evening hoping Battery C would pass. Instead a troop train carrying men transferred from a Texas cantonment to Fort Sheridan passed through Muscatine, disappointing local soldiers fans.
First Lieutenant Charles R. Stafford acted as judge advocate at the Des Moines court martial of privates Robert Johnson Fred Allen Stanley Trammell and Will Hoard drafted from southern states. They confess involvement in the assault on a 17 year old white girl visiting Private John Gustafson. Gustafson was beaten and injured. The fifth suspect was not tried due to insufficient evidence.
At about 10:30 the arrival drew cheers and shouts, with onlookers guessing they were C men. The Texas soldiers received a warm reception in Muratine and were treated to cigarettes and cigars by local residents.
Miss Laura Kuhn of Buffalo Iowa aged 16 died in Glenwood Indiana on Sunday She was born April 13 1909 in Buffalo Iowa and survived by three sisters and one brother Funeral services will be held in Buffalo tomorrow afternoon with burial in the local cemetery
War department opens enlistment for men aged 18 to 21 to train at U S technical schools. Recruits will study auto work, carpentry, electrical trades, forging, machinist, and sheet metal. Must have two years in a trade and be under 21 but over 18. Open until June 10. Applications at Davenport or Muscatine recruiting office. Two more enlistments reported, bringing local total to about fifteen who reached majority last night.
June 3 list names killed in action and wounded in action including Arthur McCullough Anamosa Iowa and Elbert Stone Ida Grove Iowa, with officers and enlisted men from multiple states listed by status and degree of injury as of today in the U S casualty report.
HM R Steninger of Muscatine, now stationed at the naval operating base at Hampton Roads Virginia, reports aircraft are as thick as automobiles. The Hampton Roads base is set to be one of the largest in the American navy with about 12 000 men already stationed there.
Private Henry G Kobes son of Mr and Mrs John Kobes of Cem etary Lane has reached foreign soil in safety. He serves in Battery I 319th Field artillery US expeditionary forces stationed Somewhere in France. A later message from Muscatine confirms the boat carrying Kobes reached a foreign port in safety.
A Musserville Methodist Sunday school launches a month long drive led by N C Houston of the YMCA to boost male attendance. Participants will gain access to half hour gym and half hour pool time on Tuesday evenings, with the program repeating each Sunday.
Washington officials report nearly 47 million contributed to the Red Cross wartime appeal. Henry P. Davison says final totals may reach 170 million as final reports are expected to confirm. The second war fund raised 166,439,291 with the aim of aiding wartime relief.
Chicago June 8 government collection and dissemination of livestock quotations began today not through local stock yards but via market departments of telegraph companies previously providing unofficial prices.
Amsterdam reports ten British machines attacked Karlakho open town at 9am Saturday. Four killed, six seriously wounded, many slightly injured. Two British airmen shot down. British War Office statement cites raid on station and workshops at Karlsruhe. one aircraft failed to return.
A brief note quotes a line about repayment and a playful exchange. It mentions Bir and a borrowed match, reflecting a casual, domestic moment with no further context.
An advertisement touts Father John's Medicine as a safe strength builder for all ages, claiming it helps weight gain and vitality without alcohol or narcotics. It emphasizes quick results and guarantees freedom from neohol or trans terous drugs while urging readers to start today.
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