Public Health Bureau closes summer session and plans fall restart
The Public Health Bureau ends summer sessions and arranges fall operations. Miss Margaret Matheson heads to Canada for a month and a tuberculosis conference in Toronto. Mrs. Mary Hill assumes Bureau duties during her absence. The report notes 42 patients treated on the Rotary bed, 200 nursing visits, 39 newborn cases, and receipts from the annual seal sale around 860 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Matheson
Canada
Toronto
England
United States
Miss Herr
Miss Matheson
Mary Hill
Hershey Hospital
University of Iowa
University Hospital
General Electric Workers Get Five Percent Wage Increase
Fifty thousand General Electric employees at plants nationwide will receive a five percent wage bump effective July 1. The announcement was made at the company offices in Schenectady New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Electric
Schnectady
N. Y
General Electric Company
Bankers Hear Need of Honest Dollar at Iowa Meeting
Iowa Bankers association held its annual session in Sioux City with O B Burtness of Grand Forks delivering a talk on the need of an honest dollar for creditors debtors and bankers. Frei J Figge opened the meeting and election of officers was planned for today. Other speakers discussed new federal financial legislation and the role of acorn alcohol blend in motor fuel. Five killed in German truck crash near Freundenstadt involved 41 blind inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Iowa Bankers Association
O. B. Burtness
Grand Forks
M. D
Iowa
Frei J. Figge
Ossian
L. A. Andrew
C. E. Finley
Iowa State College
Cr. C. Jacobsen
The
Agricultural Credit Corporation
Jersey Cattle Show Set for West Liberty Fairgrounds
Iowa Valley District Four Jersey Parish show draws judgment by Floyd Johnston Ames. Bulls and cows compete by age class with senior junior grand champions named. Picnic dinner to follow. multiple county herds and production classes featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
West Liberty
Iowa Valley
Jersey Parish
West Liberty Fair
Floyd Johnston
Daily Extension Service
Ames
Floriculture Society
Kimberly Park
George Schafer
Grace Hunter
Grinnell
Moscow Man Loses Auto In Fire On Sunday
Lester Keller of Moscow lost his Plymouth four door sedan to a fire caused by a short in the wiring. He and three companions were away fishing near the river at Tiesch bridge for about an hour and returned to find the car destroyed. Other brief items note Edwin Camp’s narrow escape when a wheel detached from a Ford truck causing a rollover with no injuries. a house party at Albert Danfeldt’s farm. and Sunday visits by several locals including Mrs. Isabella Smith and Rev. Fitzsimmons relatives in Riverside and Muscatine relations at the McCoy and Slack homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. H. Forsyth
Lieutenant Kramer
Iowa City
Fort Humprey
Washington, D. C
Carl Rock
M. C. Swan
Henry Huisinga
Mt. Pleasant
S. C. Snider
Ivan Noland
Methodist Church
Muscatine
Fred Miller
Waterloo
A. L. Dice
East Third Street
Neva Smith
Roger Johnston
Donald Inghram
Devil
Moscow
Lester Keller
Albert Danfeldt
Isabella Smith
Dan Smith
Albert Irwen
George Cromer
George Frederic McCoy
Elizabeth Marclf
Earl Wood
Son Mearl
Charles McCoy
Fitzsimmons
George Funeral Is Held Monday
Leonard Gorge funeral held Monday at Fredonia home with Rev W A Lamp directing. Burial in Cedar Bethel cemetery. Attendants included Leonard and George families from Jefferson Marshalltown Colfax Davenport Muscatine and Knoxville. Nearby events noted: Fredonia beat Southwest 8 to 1 in kittenball. Northwest and Columbus City to play Thursday. Also several locals traveled to Chicago for Century of Progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Leonard Gorge
Fredonia
W. A. Lamp
Lamp
Henry Lupton
Floyd Johnston
Roe Littrel
Wesley George
Earl George
Jesse Lupton
Cedar Bethel Cemetery
Leonard George
Jefferson
Frank George
Marshalltown
Southwest
Columbus Chautauqua Park
Northwest
Columbus City
Jack Hill
Eva Badham
Nellie Moore
Chicago
Beulah Barker
Kansas City
J. B. Reeves
Gladwin Morgan
John Morgan
R. F. Smylie
Jennie Robertson
Knoxville College
Knoxville, Tenn
Winona Lake
Ind
Grandview Youth Scalded Injures After Boiling Water Spark
Norbert Cross was badly scalded on arms chest shoulder and face Saturday morning while working for his grandfather H H Snyder south of town. He removed a cap to add water to a boiling pot on a tractor when it exploded burning him severely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandview
Norbert Cross
H. H. Snyder
Schedule Update at the YMCA
The YMCA announces a revised class timetable by Physical Director A J Lindley. New offerings include Junior beginners and junior swimmers on Tue Thu Sat mornings, junior employed evenings, and both intermediate and senior plunge sessions on Mon Wed Fri and Tue Thu Sat with specified times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Lindley
Bethel Minister and Delegates to Attend Conference
The Rev. Edward L. Fuller of Bethel A M E church leaves for Cedar Rapids to join the thirteenth St Paul district conference set for June 20 to 23. The Women’s Missionary Society the Sunday school and A C S leagues meet jointly under presiding elder W H Ogleton. Attending are Mrs S Robinson lay delegate and Mrs Mildred Fuller head of Sunday school and wife of the minister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward L. Fuller
Bethel A. M. E
Cedar Rapids
St. Paul
Women’s Mite Missionary Society
W. H. Ogleton
S. Robinson
Mildred Fuller
Fuller
Robinson
Hamm's Kidnappers Hunted by Police
Police and private detectives pressed efforts to capture the abductors of William Hamm the St Paul brewer returned home after nearly four days in captivity. Hamm aided investigations and hinted the ransom amount was not disclosed. A clue cited was a kidnapper resembling Verne Sankey under indictment for a prior abduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
William Hamm
St. Paul Brewer
Hamm
Theodore Hamm
Verne Sankey
Haskell Bohn
Deeds Recorded in Muscatine County Transfers
William Pantel transfers lot 19 Island View Addition to Daisy Klaffenbach. Daisy Klaffenbach then conveys same tract to Arthur Klaffenbach. William Meerdink and Emma Meerdink transfer lot 18 W Hoopes Addition to George Wittich. Henry Lamp conveys land in sec 176 to George Hink. Andrew Schultz transfers undivided half of lots 4 and 5 Block 147 Muscatine to Nellie Schultz. William Pantel transfers lot 19 Island View Addition to Daisy Klaffenroach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Pantel
Daisy Klaffenbach
Island View
Muscatine
Arthur O. Klaffenbach
William Meerdink
Emma Meerdink
George M. Wittich
W. H. Hoopes
South Muscatine
Henry Lamp
George W. Hinkhouse
Andrew J. Schultz
Nellie Schultz
William C. J. Pantel
Daisy Klaffenroach
Britt Grow 75 Dies at Home in New Boston
Britt Grow 75 lifelong New Boston resident died at his home Sunday morning after birth in 1858 to Seth and Sarah Grow. Survived by widow Mary Etta Ives a son Dudley Grow and two grandchildren. a daughter Rachel preceded him in death. Funeral 10:30 at home with Rev. W H Gillis. burial in New Boston Cemetery. Barbara Essley and Dorothy Greene Mercer county girls report on Urbana trip at Home Bureau meeting in Aledo with L A Williams of Chicago to speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Boston
Britt Grow
Seth
Sarah Mosley Grow
Mary Etta Ives
Dudley Grow
Dixon, Ill
Rachel
W. H. Gillis
Home Bureau
Aledo
L. A. Williams
Chicago
Former Bank Heads Acquitted in Larceny Case
In Morgan County Circuit Court Jacksonville, Mil lard F. Dunlap former bank president and W. G. Goebel former treasurer were found not guilty on charges of larceny as bailee and embezzlement. The jury cleared both of allegedly misusing more than 100000 dollars in bonds owned by Illinois College of Jacksonville that were pledged as loan collateral before the bank closed last fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Ill
Millard F. Dunlap
Ayers National Bank
W. G. Goebel
Illinois College of Jacksonville
Morgan County
Dunlap
Goebel
Illinois College
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Bureau Board
Public Health Bureau
Freundenstadt
Germany
Heilbronn
West Liberty News
Rex Benz
Oskaloosa
J. A. Mormon
San Francisco
M. A. Ditmar
Robert Brooke
Alfonso XIII
Spain
Alfonso
Prince of Asturias
Senorita Elizardo San Pedro
Lausanne
Chic Sale
Frank Albertson
Diane Sinclair
Madge Evans
Lee Tracy
Wallace Beery
FLESH
Ricardo Cortez
Karen Morley
Jean Hersholt
Mae Clarke
Ralph Bellamy
George
Cedar Bethel
Drapers Grandview
Verely
N. E. McGill
Wilma
Connor
Wapello
Laurel Wilfomg
Mason City
Gerald Reed
Okloe
Bethel
Mae West
Comedy
News
Morten Downey
My Pal
the Prince
Wash
Captain Folly
Britt
Riemcke’s Drug Store
Mulberry Ave
Spurgeon
Siz
Rayon Taffeta
California
Gur KE
Anne
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