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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1915
Page
2
Iowa poultry dealers and associations plan a push to secure legislative aid for annual poultry shows in multiple cities. They cite Missouri Illinois and Minnesota as precedents with state or county funding, including premiums and annual appropriations ranging from 10000 to 400 per association.
County board members toured the infirmary near Coal Valley with Superintendent Wylie, inspected buildings and improvements, and enjoyed a basketball game staged by Coal Valley girls after dinner. The annual board baseball game was postponed. Albert Chehak, paroled earlier after burglary charges, was bound over to the grand jury for a refrigerator car robbery in Milwaukee.
A 1914 testimonial by Miss Helen Geyer claims Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment cured a six month scalp eruption with severe itching and pimples. She reports better sleep after using the sample and four weeks of nightly and morning applications, ending with healing and continued use of Cuticura.
A man named Chehak was arrested in Rock Island on a bond of 1000 dollars after allegedly stealing a crate of pineapples and beans from a railroad car. The seal on the car was broken and Chehak reportedly sold the produce to a Sev enteenth Street lunchroom proprietor for 2.50. His prior case was sent to county court and he was released on probation by Judge Larson. Judge William T. Church arrived in Rock Island for his new circuit judgeship but will not start work until he secures his commission from Governor Dunne. He may travel to Springfield next week to obtain it and will then return to address circuit court cases. The Whiteside County court may adjourn to hear pending cases. Separately, Modern Woodmen of America’s executive council reported 679 death claims approved totaling 1,184,100 dollars, averaging 1729 per claim, at their June session, with plans to reconvene on July 12.
Industrial Commissioner Warren Garst ruled farm hands are covered by the workmen's compensation act, as with railroad employees and corporate workers. The decision settles a long dispute, awarding several farm hands injured by horses compensation under the act.
The July and August union service schedule was set by pastors of German churches. Services alternate among German Baptist, German Evangelical, German M E, and German Congregational churches with ministers L E Kettlekamp A Lange Wilhelm Martens K Stahl R F Mahle. Dates run Sundays from July 4 through August 25.
A federal inspector from the Motorboats unit of the U S Coast Guard will likely visit Hannibal Harbor before month end for the annual inspection. Local motorboat owners are urged to equip vessels with proper lights flags whistles fire extinguishers and other government required safety gear, as past seasons showed compliance improvements after notices.
The 2,000 ton British steamer Dulcie was torpedoed and sunk off Suffolk today. Most of the crew were saved with one casualty. Dulcie, 75 feet long, built in 1900, was owned in Hartlepool and last reported arriving May 21 at the Tyne from Rouen, France.
The decision of Mr Garst will stand and Iowa statutes are central to the ruling. Statewide interest rises as corporate men and farmers await the result to settle the mooted question.
Government and State Crop and Soil work join with farmer J W Rummells near Nichols to breed a fusarium wilt resistant cabbage. Ames and Madison officials and Prof Fitch from Ames truck gardening assist, transplanting ten varieties from seed from a sick soil source grown by Dr C W Jones of Wisconsin. The effort aims to protect Muscatine county crops from fusarium wilt and reduce losses on infected lands.
Alderman Sullivan told the council that motorists must stop for street car discharges to protect passengers. Police will rigorously enforce the ordinance, which also bans throwing cut grass into streets as it clogs sewers. Property owners will be notified before arrests.
A compact ad extols Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a thoroughly reliable family medicine. It urges keeping it on hand, especially in summer, to avoid delays in relief and claims universal availability.
Sick land assessment notes Nichols bottom lands as ideal for cabbage. Experts say the district’s soils possess the elements to yield top strains and, with precautions against disease, Nichols could become a leading cabbage district feeding seed districts on both Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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