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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1935
Page
6
City park fund reports a $4184.02 balance as of year end. Warrants outstanding total $116.95 and warrants paid are $7727.40. Income for the year plus prior balance reached $11911.42, with major expenditures of $1660 for the park superintendent $1596.49 for labor and $1440.42 in interest on park bonds.
City officials reapointed library board members M L Thompson J C Van Lent and C R Musser to terms through 1941. They authorize septic tanks at 714 Sampson and Taylor and New Hampshire, a curb pump at 304 1 2 East Fourth, and various street and drainage improvements. A 1932 34 audit bill faced deferral due to lack of funds, with several beer permits granted and highway 61 paving discussed.
Red Cross chapters in Muscatine county will forward funds to flood areas in Kansas Nebraska Colorado and Missouri within days after a St Louis district office call for aid. Money from Muscatine and Wilton treasuries will be used with no public appeal planned. West Liberty chair Frank Weber says contributions will continue.
Wilton Olive A Burrows has been named postmaster candidate by President Roosevelt and referred to the Senate for confirmation in a Washington dispatch. Other nominations include Kathryn Fagan Aryshire Blanche M Olsen William R Flemming De Etta I Reindl Mark A Trumbull Leonard L Snyder and Otto Germar from various towns.
Albert S. Barry announced two additional prizes for parade entrants at the Iowa Elkdom event. Decorah earned both new awards, for the largest delegation and the longest distance traveled to participate.
A message from St Louis reports casualties and damage across the area with 9 dead 86 missing 90 injured 520 homes seriously damaged and at least 400 families needing relief. It notes uncertainty over how much groups plan to spend and mentions funds received by him or at West Liberty State Bank.
State of Iowa Muscatine County opens probate for the last will of William Kemmer deceased. Hearing set for July 3 1935 at the June Term of the District Court. interested parties may appear to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate. Muscatine June 6 1935. E C Erwin Clerk of the District Court. Frank Drake Attorney.
A plant native to Haleakala vol cano grows in the crater of dormant Haleakala within Hawaii National Park. The Brahmin code holds there is no forgiveness for betraying a friend.
V. Vaniman of the National Farm Bureau Federation delivered the keynote address at a Fairfield district Farm Bureau gathering held Thursday. Round table discussions and previews of next year’s program were noted by Carl E. Rylander as attendees from the area included Fred Otto, Mrs. K L McColm, Rylarder, Dorothy Simmons, Doris Paul, and Lois Walters.
May H Hart to Muscatine Building and Loan assoc part of lot 3 block 101 Stella Nyenhuis to Raymond Lovett lot 4 Mrs J B Nyenhuis addition Howard L Coon and Bertha Coon to Carl W Losand and Au Losand lot 16 Carskadon addition J W Mark to John William Mark Jr part of lot 9 block 11 George T Robison Harriet A Robison to H Conley lot 3 subdivision of lot 10 section 36 77 2W Murray E Othmer to Edward H Dankert lots 48 and 49 Oak Ridge addition Lulan Mae Phillips to R S Jackson lot 5 Lange addition Fred P Hoopes Nellie M Hoopes to May W Hoopes part of section 10 76 2W Read the Classified Ads.
A vintage ad touts Prun-O-Wheat Bread made from flaked wheat and prune juice to regulate digestion. It claims regular consumption over 14 days reduces need for laxatives and improves family health, urging readers to ask grocers for a loaf.
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