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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1912
Page
5
Plans and specifications for the new Fairport school have been prepared by W B Gorham of the United States biological station at Fairport. Bids will shortly be advertised. The building will be among the area’s most up-to-date rural schools and will serve the small community well.
A frame construction building is planned for a new assembly hall. It will include a basement room suitable for organizational meetings and aims to meet a long felt need. The structure will be ready for occupancy at the fall term opening under current arrangements.
Prof W J Kennedy, head of animal husbandry and vice director of the experiment station, will soon become head of the Town State college extension department to succeed Prof FP G Holden who is a gubernatorial candidate. The successor and board confirmation are not yet announced.
A. B. Kepford, Des Moines tuberculosis lecturer, urges civic groups to join in a campaign to eliminate fly breeding sites. He calls for cleaning alleys, manure boxes, and barns to reduce disease and supports commercial clubs in sending delegates to the Washington hygiene congress September 23 to 28.
An unknown man believed from Fort Dodee was found unconscious in the local yards near a car in Council Bluffs. He was taken to hospital and remains unconscious as a large blunt instrument smeared with blood and hair was found in the car. Arrests are expected soon.
Fire companies are summoned to attend a City Hall meeting on Monday night June 8 to elect a chief and first and second assistants per order of Chief Curry.
Eight girls and five boys graduated from Columbus Junction High School in a 1912 commencement held in a tent on the campus. The program included salutatory, oration on The Peasant Poet of Scotland, valedictory, chorus, and a student play The Gilded Fool. Diplomas were presented by B. H. Shearer. class colors maroon and old gold.
George W. Cornwall & Co of Chicago has been appointed commissioners of exhibition by the commissioner general for the International Exhibition of pure food beverages health and hygiene to be held at Barcelona from December 1912 to March 1913 and later in Paris. Cornwall’s company will act under the commissioner general at London, a signal compliment that may expand American export trade.
The text references patronage involving the presidents of the general council and the municipal councils of Paris along with other associations. It notes the influence and connections among officials and affiliated groups within the city governance and civic organizations.
A public plea from Henry Bodman and Joseph Biles of the Shelby Norman G A R Post seeks the immediate resignation or expulsion of Lee W. Lang, a socialist school director, after admitting he displayed a red flag from the socialist headquarters. The letter accuses Lang of disgracing the board, denounces anarchist symbols, and urges socialist party members to purge anarchist elements.
The Iowa encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic gathers in Mason City from June 1 for a three day session beginning June 1. The program, announced today, includes numerous features and events for veterans statewide.
Those in attendance will participate in three days of events including excursions on ice, camp fires, receptions, and various forms of entertainment.
The first holiday of the summer season saw Muscatine residents host numerous outings and picnics. People crowded inviting spots while some tried fishing in nearby streams. Hershey Park drew many visitors, with Geneva Island also popular. Vera Felger and Hattie Kohl of Davenport returned home after visiting their grandmother, Mrs. Scholten of Cedar Street.
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