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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
7
A local Armorican Red Cross branch launches a new Save Paper appeal to collect waste paper for fundraising. A paper drive committee met at Dr A A Poteracn’s office to plan the effort, aiming to gather up to 40,000 pounds of paper across the territory to raise funds for soldier relief.
A local campaign plans a monthly white paper collection by volunteers including scouts and grocers. Residents will bundle paper for delivery to a central depot while efforts aim to reach hundreds of households with the appeal to save and send reading material to troops in concentration camps.
Representatives of the International Association of Advertising Clubs and the Town delegation arrive in Tyler City aboard the Morning Star after a convention in St Louis. Carl Schmidt returns to city by train as the boat is delayed by high water. Reports from Davenport promise the largest gathering ever for the world organization and the United Brethren Sunday Schools excursion takes place on Thursday, June 12 with 260 adults and children.
Local Boy Scout troops received orders from national headquarters to canvass households and sell Liberty Bonds. Troop No. 1, led by Hanson, announced their service and will divide duties with the Liberty Bond Association. Scouts will visit homes to secure bond purchases, with awards of war service medals for those selling ten bonds.
Six masked men attacked the Iowa National Guard holders guarding a bridge near Des Moines at night. A ten minute gun battle followed. no guardsmen were injuries. Secret service agents arrived for investigation as authorities pursue leads.
Cliffard Atdarkon of Witners National Guard was found injured near Rock Inland on Tuesday morning. He was taken from St Luten's Hospital to Davenport, with injuries not as serious as expected. In Davenport, Frank Hiridge and Frank Road, both colored, faced county jail for drunkenness after appearing before Justice L. A. Crull. McColm Dry Goods advertises Saturday sales. Mr and Mrs Ver Foderlein announce the birth of a daughter born Thursday morning in Davenport. the couple are former Murce tino residents.
Demurrer to the petition of Roowink seeking authority to operate a municipal yard will be argued before Judge Lott at 10 o clock Thursday morning in district court. The case center on whether the city can maintain a fuel yard and issue bonds for the yard as alleged by the city attorney. Attorneys Hoffman Hofman and J G Kammerer represent Roowink.
A jumble of society notices outlines weddings across towns and states. Mika Lola Rumsey of Alioon weds Alvin Jikhman of Olu wa after a noon ceremony at Mrs. Augusty Stusey’s home, with guests including Mika Mary Rumsey and Wubar Pinuman. Other gatherings include engagement announcements, a Davenport wedding, and a Chicago June ceremony. Local clubs host gatherings, teas, and a church youth union plans.
After the final drill of the year High School cadets turn in their uniforms tonight. Captain Charles Komblewig receives a handsome fold watch chain from cadets under his command G B Motlar and daughters Allea and Stella of Chicago IL and son Joseph of Detroit MI visit Muscatine for St Mathias High graduation of Miss Mary Motter of West Eighth Street.
A Battery C minstrel staging is under way with plans for a performance to be exclusive and historic. The act will feature Van and Sol as headliners with Privates Kshleman Nibor Vitus Bloom Mouher Pool Mohnsen and Argyte Trivile Md. Westrats is slated to direct, chorus undecided, and members may include intimate feuds sworn not to reveal military secrets.
Clarence Bolartd and Jesse Gray appeared before Judge Carter on intoxication charges. They were granted a ten day jail sentence with bond upon appeal. The report also mentions local sales ads and a medical incident involving Henry Marmon.
Announcement states thirty members of Shelby Norman Post G A R of the city and forty women from AW Ri Cw and Ladies of the GA WR plan to attend the Iowa divisions Grand Army of the Republic annual convention at Dave Supers ding 1922s. About 2440 delegates are expected to attend.
Luiss Mary Banka, native of Muscatine and former local president, died May 30 in Seattle Wash where she had lived since girlhood. Daughter of General Lyman T Baoks, a Muscatine pioneer and Civil War leader, she worked at Seattle public library branch for several years.
London bulletin notes five American survivors from the Southland wreck. There were no advices on Vedsel's fate, and the Southland had sailed from a British port on August 00 according to national mercantile marine reports.
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