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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1928
Page
10
With the end of the fiscal year near, blanks for the annual report of school townships and rural districts have been sent to officials. July 2 annual meetings will fill the forms, then duplicates go to Mr Bradley. Data covers county and state totals, including pupils, teachers, salaries, and disabilities.
Miss Grace Hunter leaves for New York City and sails to England to attend Oxford University during her summer vacation. She will return to Grinnell College in the fall to resume her English teaching duties. The note also follows local residents Dwight Brooke and Ralph Phelps departing for Madison, Wisconsin to join a road construction firm, and other society items including lodge activities, a Daughters circle picnic, and summer travel plans.
Miss Norma D. Suh and Cecil W. McKillip, both of near Durant, married at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the parsonage of the United Brethren church. Rev. Ira Hawley officiated. Attendant was Miss Alvina Knudtsen. The couple will reside on a farm near Durant.
The Kensington circle of the United Brethren church will hold an all day meeting Friday at the home of Mrs. George Awbrey in Illinois City. A pot luck dinner will be served at noon. The day will be spent at needlework. The Ladies Aid society met at Grace English Lutheran church for quilting and carding buttons. Mrs. Louis Angersbach hosted. The group will meet again next Wednesday afternoon at the church.
Yimmie Yonson played by Joseph Boston leads the Luther League production Yimmie Yonson's Job at the Ziegler Memorial Lutheran church community house in New Era. The 8 15 Friday show is presented by Grace English Lutheran church Muscatine. The plot follows a missing boy after accusations of theft and a growing Kent family mystery with humor from the Swede Irish cook and a breezy detective. Specialties between acts by Evelyn Krieger Jacob Liebbe and Billy and Bobby Liebbe.
Mrs Bessie Schmidt formerly of Muscatine died at her Washington home Wednesday night from Brights disease. Born March 2 1874 in Galena Illinois she moved to Muscatine at age 14 and resided there except four years in Washington. She married Oscar Schmidt May 20 1891 who died years ago leaving son Rhudolph in Washington and four Muscatine sisters plus a brother. The body was moved to Muscatine and funeral plans are with Meyers Funeral home.
County auditor candidate C. H. Pitchforth reports a $2.50 campaign expense in the Republican nomination race. The statement was filed at his office Wednesday, with filings due 39 days after the election. Read the Journal Classified Ads.
The article notes lively convention action in Kentucky with Crocker criticizing Kansas City as a venue. Kansas City boasted favorable weather but lacked baseball and entertainment, despite efforts to lure a ball club home. Senator L. Y. Sherman appears as a Florida delegate, reactivated for the moment.
Senator Moses of New Hampshire selected as permanent chairman after Senator Sackett presented the committee report. Fess praised Moses as the best presiding officer in the United States Senate. Moses gave a short keynote speech at the Iowa gathering.
A lively convention scene features Moses as the key note speaker. He targets Tamany Hall and a graft scandal while predicting the party will not yield to the rival. He mocks national pronunciation quirks and challenges a broad range of potential nominees, urging supporters to bring on the fight.
A children's day pageant titled The Best Day will be presented at Spangler Chapel on Sunday morning starting at 10 o'clock. The report notes the origin of the word quiz as coming from Ireland.
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