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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1918
Page
4
Herbert Hoover through food administrators appeals Muscatine County Iowa residents to abstain from wheat and sugar to free ships for troops. The plan urges canning and economy, noting two pounds of meat per person weekly limits and calling on lodges and organizations to enforce conservation measures during war.
Corwin school pupils in Pruftland township plan a program and picnic on Wednesday May 29 with teacher Misa Mildrenl Detthof at 419 West Eighth Street coordinating. The program includes songs recitations dialogues and a salute to the flag featuring students and names such as Russell Martin Trena Roland Ivan Spring John Selowics May Shepard Jack Baker Verne Essex Emma Bartenhager and others. Parents and friends are invited to attend.
I B Richman will address the Businessmen’s midweek luncheon on Wednesday at noon. He will discuss war insights gained abroad and explain why peace without German political change is unlikely, offering views on European affairs not widely understood in the United States.
A report notes Judge Wade, famed for caustic rebukes to political criminals, will speak at noon. The talk aims to illustrate the judge's severe approach in federal court and highlight perceived corrupt political influences in Europe, urging listeners to attend Wednesday to grasp the stance.
The Grace Lutheran church accepted Rev. George N. Mendenhall’s resignation as pastor due to inability to raise his salary. He will serve at McCool Junction Nebraska a farming community railroad junction with about five hundred members. His resignation becomes effective on or before June 16 and he will begin work in Nebraska soon after.
Theodora Roosevelt, touring with the National Security League, arrived in Des Moines on May 27 to address a mass meeting at the Coliseum. She planned a brief stop at the Chimp Dodge cantonment with a ten minute speech and no further formal activities scheduled. A Trinity Parish hall sale offered donuts and other war fund items on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Minnie Smiley executrix of Jeremiah Evans sues to recover 175 dollars from a promissory note signed by George Cromer. The note, executed before Evans died and later assigned to Mary Evans of Rock Island, is alleged to be a fraudulent transfer. The suit claims Evans was mentally unsound at signing, and that the assignment lacked legitimate consideration, defrauding creditors Cora Evang, T. M. Smiley, and the estate’s others. The plaintiff asks that the assignment be set aside and proceeds paid to the estate.
Funds raised by Sweetland district churches for the war work council of the Methodist churches total more than forty four dollars with reports incomplete. Campaign will continue next week as further reports are expected and more money is pledged for chaplains in army camps and relief for Belgian and French women and children.
An old style ad touts a foot care product named Tia or Tie claiming instant relief from tender, blistered, burning feet. It markets a foot soak and claims to draw out pain causing exudations, promising happy, dancing feet after use. The 86 cent box is advertised at drugstores.
An advertisement for B. A. Thomas Mog Powder claims the product keeps hogs healthy from birth to market, prevents cholera and worms, cures humps, and guarantees results or money back. The offer is from W. L. Fayla Co at 214 Walnut St.
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