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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1912
Page
2
A session of the Court of Honor was held last evening in Flonor. A large class was initiated, with members from Moscow present, marking a notable event in the ceremony.
Visitors from Moscow attended the meeting as the drill team assisted in foundation work. Martha Henderson won the gold pin. A chancellor and chaplain positions were filled with Delt DuBota and Gertrude Gilbert elected respectively. Next gathering June 19 with Melly Huffman chairing entertainment.
Helen Blair will resume Sunday river trips to the tri cities beginning June 7. The vessel will depart at 10 a.m. and return at 6 p.m. The service, popular last season, aims to accommodate pleasure seekers and expand excursions from the city this month.
A new class for very young boys and girls is forming at the Young Men's Christian Association to fill a long felt need. Clinton Williams serves as secretary and will lead the physical department, with plans for light gym work and summer swimming. The initiative aims to prepare youngsters for future roles in higher departments, avoiding strain on undeveloped muscles.
A Muscatine county district court judge ordered a special judgement tax to cover city liabilities including unpaid warrants to the Cleveland Vapor Light Co. and other lighting expenses. The city, mayor, and council were forced to levy the tax to meet a sum of 36,510.10, with prior suits already filed over similar deficits.
Local officials report no special train will run from Burlington to Muscatine for the Moose celebration. Enthusiasm among Burlington citizens was insufficient to justify the trip, though many visitors arrive daily for the carnival.
A Musculine Moose carnival parade showcased Redmen and Woodmen war paint and Yeomen, Bankers' Reserve, Sons of Veterans and Boy Scouts marching along Third to Pine to Second streets, drawing several thousand spectators despite a garish ad pitch cluttering the page.
A heavy shower refreshed plant life across Muscatine County benefiting fruits and vegetables and grain. May 18's half inch rain had been the last significant precipitation, and farmers hoped for a prolonged wet period to aid farm and garden work. Separately, Des Moines man Edward Wilkerson died after a fall from a scaffold, narrowly old age.
Sweetland Center ends its summer term Friday with a community program at the M B A hall. The event features student recitations, a 4th grade drill, dramatization of Beauty and the Beast, and musical and dramatic performances by 3rd to 5th graders.
An early 20th century advertisement touts Bingo as a cure for corns bunions calluses warts and foot trouble with claims of rapid relief without harm to normal flesh. Sold by Dennison Pharmacal Co and A W Morgan in Chicago with details of distribution and pricing.
The text outlines a seven grade drama with scenes about a lost ship returning to the city a beast seeking a merchant s life for a rose an enchanted sister Beauty sacrificing freedom for her father and the beast finally returning to confront treachery including a chorus line All aboard for Blanket Bay.
A dated card asserts Foley's Honey and Tar Compound contains no harmful ingredients and offers healing for coughs colds and throat irritations. It touts the genuine lettering in a yellow package and urges asking for the product with no substitute. A. W. Morgan signs the notice.
In West Liberty Iowa on a Wednesday afternoon Francisco Sants 2 Mexican laborer lost a leg when workers sheltering under a ox car on a siding were rushed into by heavily loaded cars. He was taken to the Iowa City hospital for treatment.
Rev. M. Perkins of Davenport was reelected president of the Iowa Sunday School Association at its second session in Waterloo. Other officers named include First vice president Rev. Musselman of Wayland and Second vice president Rev. Beuskler of Waterloo.
Recording secretary John Bliss and treasurer George Boody are listed with state central committee members including Chairman T. G. Oliver and A. W. Murphy Shenandoah Edith King Primghar Paul Topel Postville S. E. McCash Davenport. The convention will close tomorrow evening after a large Sunday school parade.
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