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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
4
The W. R. C. Industrial will meet at the G. A. R. hall on Thursday afternoon. Banner lodge industrial met at the home of Mrs. Fred Leffler on Tuesday afternoon at 1115 East Second street.
The Forward society of the German Congregational church will meet next Tuesday evening March 23 at the home of Mrs Schroeder on East Sixth Street.
The Young People’s society of the German Baptist church met with Mr and Mrs Albert Peetz on Schiller Street Tuesday evening. A social time followed the business gathering.
Mrs. Fredakopf hosted the Royal Neighbors Aid society on Pond street Tuesday afternoon. The group scheduled its next meeting for March 30.
Miss Vera Knight of 314 West Sixth street hosted Delta Alpha society members Tuesday evening. Refreshments were served. Mrs. J B Smith will be hostess on April 18.
The W. H. Franklin Sunday school class of First Baptist Church met Tuesday evening at the Cedar street home of Misses Nettie and Elizabeth Sulzberger. A large group of young people attended and an impromptu program followed by refreshments.
The Twentieth Century club met Tuesday afternoon on Forestry and Rivers. Mrs. W. F. Chevalier and Mrs. William E. Downer offered papers on forest conservation while Mrs. J. E. Stevenson covered the deep waterway issue. Arbor day and birds’ value to national life were discussed by Mrs. Emerson Hoopes and Mrs. J. W. Eells. Mrs. J. T. Martin will host March 30 replacing Mrs. Marcia White per the year book.
A $50 round trip ticket from Chicago to Seattle is offered for travel to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opening June 1 in Seattle. The fare promotes attendance at the exposition with service to the event city.
The American Amateur Athletic Union championships will be contested at the stadium of the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition, which opens in Seattle on June 1.
Des Moines dispatch reports the Iowa governor demands the removal of B F Keltz of Webster City and secretary Charles F Phillips as part of a broader purge. The pharmacy board has turned over over 24000 dollars to the state after expenses. Other targets include oil inspector Capt Hugh M Pickell and possible successor Melvin H Byers, with James Wilson and O N Jones among contenders.
A sub committee will present resolutions to the appropriations committee denouncing the use of state funds for residences at Iowa City and Cedar Falls for presidents. Joe R. Lane invited to discuss university needs. Senate rewrites quarantine bill giving local boards fraud guard powers. Firemen pension bill passes house. Murder trial bill passes both houses with added manslaughter by senate.
The Ways and Means Committee wrestled with tariff questions on potteries leather hides wool and sugar. Witnesses from pottery importers shoe leather and wool groups clashed over valuations duties and protection while advocates urged higher safeguards and reductions on specific imports. The Philippines Sugar act and potential pure clothing law were discussed amid testimony on pricing and industry impact.
More than 200000 tufted English pansies will be planted in a vast bed at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition opening in Seattle on June 1.
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