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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1918
Page
7
Society notices trumpet regular meetings at Masonic hall and several churches. Women groups plan Red Cross work and Belgian relief garments while youth choirs and Sunday schools prepare for summer events. A quiet home wedding and a military groom’s marriage are reported among local social notes.
Mrs. Jesse Walker, age ninety eight, marked her birthday Sunday at the home of her sister, Mrs. K. Knott, over three miles east of Galumbus Junction. About forty descendants attended from Cornell points and Carter, with kitchen flowers and a lawn table set for a ninety eight candle cake as a centerpiece.
Official notice to Iowa exemption board states entrainment for the largest call of men will occur in a five day period starting July 22. Quotas listed for Camp Gordon and Camp Pike total 17 919. deferments from clans are not allowed. Local board quota to be announced soon. Illegal provisions of the idiots law clarified with limited applicability to certain occupations.
Amsterdam June 24 Premier Malinoftins told Sofia reporters that Bulgaria will keep its foreign policy steady. He seeks broad party support in the cabinet and promises to safeguard food supply and boost public confidence in the country’s future. A Chicago convention update notes a large crowd and hints at a 1920 meeting in Bloomington if war progresses.
Washington reports an allied transport sunk on its return trip about 700 miles east of the Delaware Capes on June 13. The vessel carried 148 crew. 67 are missing after taking to boats as the U boat fired 19 shells. Four boats reached land, with 10 rescued. A British transport Dwinsk, formerly Russian Linn steamer, 175 tons, is believed sunk by a German submarine while en route to relay to the United States.
Sheriff Whay arrested Robert Lowery a colored man believed to be part of a ring that looted railroad depots and businesses in Val ue metal. He carried a sack of brass and old junk worth about 160 dollars. Police followed as he trudged Walnut street and weighed the sack at a stare before detaining him. Authorities link some brass to Roel Tolland and Minneapolis routes. Lowry’s employment with Rock Island hints at depot thefts. He to be arraigned this afternoon before a justice of the peace.
Government sets fixed prices for essential foods in the county. County Road Administrator J. LeqLester releases a list of commodities with published prices for dealers and consumers. Prices may change occasionally. margins of profit are capped and violations will be acted upon by the food administration.
Magentine will be work represented at the twenty seventh international convention of the Baptist Young People's Unions to be held at Cedar Rapids. Delegates named include Miss Mary Rumsey Miss Teith Litrnuch Miss Teuth Carlisle Miga Gertrude Iroers Mrs Agusta Rumsey Miss Aguas Schwertufezar Misa Brink Mantovo Misa Linda Butler Clarance Valutt Will Cute and the Rev W L Rogers. The program features patriotic addresses and leading Baptist workers from across the country. Will R Cate, president of the local BYPU, is to speak during one of the four day sessions and Rev Renben Stillens D D of Paris will deliver an address.
In Sioux City last night a southbound Pierce street car collided with an automobile injuring seven children aged 3 to 22, all children of Herman Schuttleids. Two victims were injured fatally while five sustained serious injuries. The automobile driver escaped unhurt.
Green services conducted today at the residence of F H and Mrs Helen Green for Willard Green a former Western business figure. He died in New York on June 19 and was buried at Greenwood Cemetery after a brief rite at Five o'clock led by Rev Webster Hokes of Trinity Episcopal Church. The remains were sent to Chicago for Theodore and Ma Belle Mann Beller who had visited their parents Al and Mia.
Miss Florenca Cloma Fulmer died at 2012 Mulberry Avenue on Saturday after a several day illness. She was 17 and unmarried. Survived by her parents Mr and Mrs Fulmer four sisters May Adetta Vera Pearl Violet Mario Mildred Viola and two brothers Clarence Edward and Marcel Francis. Services at Banba church. Camp Upton reference in Eighth Ward notes.
A party meeting is planned at Codne School in Goshen Township for Wednesday evening if weather permits. Two speakers will attend from Muscatine, including EB D Bradley county superintendent of schools. Patrons of the school are invited. TR M Arey, 1910 Mulberry Avenue, visiting Cedar Falls, Iowa, for a few days with his father.
An editorial style listing from Muscatine Iowa outlines retail prices for flour meal and cereal products, evaporated milk, salmon, prunes, peaches, and canned goods. It cites administrator guidance and shows per pound and per dozen rates, including bulk discounts and price ranges for assorted staples.
Preliminary planning for a Bloomington Township campaign to sell war savings stamps aims to exceed a $20,000 quota. Canvassing starts in Koverul districts this afternoon and in other areas tomorrow under the Liberty Loan committee. Local solicitors include Windman, Sattarthwaite, Slields, McConnoh, Wigser, ToStrake, Sinnett, Van Atta, Kimmerer, Freyernuth, and Moele, with residents Edwin and Mary Miller announcing a newborn son at 43 East Oppied Street.
Zena Keefe appears in a dual role in a melodrama at the Palace Theatre titled Sharpe. The plot follows Mary McDavitt who learns she is to be a mother, travels to Cuba to find her lover, returns to face tragedy, and raises a child amid hardship, social pressures, and a farm conflict.
A fragment notes a man asserting his claim by pursuing and claming a bride amid resistance, illustrating social pressures and personal daring in a historical context.
Interurban lines plan fare hikes to three cents per mile for passengers and three cents for freight in a 26 percent rate rise set to take effect July 25. A federal injunction petition seeks to block state control, with a ruling expected soon. The Clinton Davenport & Muscatine line challenges intrastate rates as discriminatory against interurban roads, citing rising costs and large operating deficits across 75 miles of track.
The article notes freight rates increasing by 25 percent at midnight with few exceptions for imports and exports. It mentions the current Toa rate and a planned rise to align with western traffic classifications, and references commodity rites and possible government action without detailing specifics.
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