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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1917
Page
4
The Baraca class of the First Baptist Church will install officers at tonight’s monthly meeting in IL 2B. The wini-section resident to be elected will confer church effects as the gathering opens at eight o’clock.
Wapello on June 25 plans a royal send off for Battery of Muscatine as news of its call to service arrives. A martial band, patriotic societies, and Red Crows will perform with local citizens marching to Muscatine by auto in a large escort.
Columbus Junction journal notes many residents traveling for family visits and medical reasons. McCoy and granddaughter Misa Madella Cuthamp left for Philadelphia to visit a daughter, while Lulu Loy recovered from surgery in Davenport. Several locals returned from funerals and trips, and Red Cross recruitment efforts near Cotter report 110 women enlisted.
A Mulford Congregational church youth group appoints Mixa Viola Horgat Miss Mabel Apel Ralph Bloom and John Elstman to organize an August 20 river trip to Davenport aboard a steamship for the society’s first excursion. Entertainment plans follow, with details to come. Waterloo drives surpass Red Cross quota. Black Hawk County exceeds its $45,000 goal, Waterloo exceeds $72,000 by about $5,000, and Cofar Fae adds roughly $10,000.
County Superintendent B D Bradley said only experienced teachers who have twelve weeks of normal training and six months of successful teaching experience will be eligible for the upcoming teachers' examinations at the courthouse on Wednesday Thursday and Friday. State law requires proof of training and a written certificate from the institution. The act does not bar teachers with six months of successful teaching experience.
J W Stiers will conduct the first aid class this evening at 8 o clock in the Young Men's Christian Association parlors. About twenty young men have joined the American Red Cross branch and many plan to join the hospital corps or ambulance service after completing the course and examination for a Red Cross First Aid certificate.
An embargo on exports is to be enforced immediately. Secretary Redfield said a net is to operate within forty eight hours. A Senate hearing on the government aircraft program will occur with War Secretary Baker among the witnesses. The plan, supported by the Council of Nations and endorsed by President Wilson, proposes a large appropriation for 36 000 new planes and training aviators. Prohibition debates in the Senate focus on road control and wartime measures, with fierce opposition to extending prohibition to beer and wine.
An urgent message to all members of the surgical class at the Red Cross dianc tor warns of all day meetings Tuesday and Wednesday to complete Kuypllos hay for the road to the national headquarters. The aim is to finish in the shortest possible time to support the national effort.
A fragmented ad from the German American Building boasts shoes at low prices with lingering claims of exclusive sale and a complete summer stock. It invites customers to ask for what they want and promises immediate availability at the store in Boston.
New York officials say papers are complete to extradite Alfredo Cocchi from Bologna, Italy, for the Ruth Cruger murder. Interrogation of Cocchi remains secret until trial. He described an imagined American life and claimed attraction to Cruger in his testimony. Public notices mention a garden party at Jayne’s Inn in Minneapolis.
General von Beseler ordered the closure of Warsaw University and the Polytechnic Institute in the occupied territory as students toppled tuition payments and staged a sympathy strike. Officials refused to recognize new directors as talks faltered, and the two schools remained shut. Meanwhile Mr and Mrs Fitzgerald of Cherry Valley are spending the week with friends in Swentland Township.
Gospel Tear of the Baptist church plans a pet service at Montpelier on Wednesday as part of a summer outreach by M W Surlon leader. Montpelier, an extension point for the Y M C A, will host regular Baptist Gospel Tear services every two weeks after Sunday school continues. A separate item notes Ottumwa searchers unearth a distillery on a Wapallo county farm two miles north of Ottumwa. Sheriff Cromer reports at the Custer property a hidden apparatus and the owner provides no explanation.
Irani Bruggemeyer filed a district court suit against John Grimm seeking 5010.82 plus costs for dirt removal work under an alleged contract. The petition says Grimm failed to comply with all provisions. Attorney H Me Bartlett represents Bruggemeyer.
The court issued a writ of attachment to seize property belonging to the defendant after information suggested Grimm intends to depart Muscatine. The action centers on rights to the contracted property and the seizure aims to secure potential judgment.
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