The Muscatine Journal from Muscatine, Iowa • 10

10 MUSCATINE JOURNAL AND NEWS-TRIBUNE SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1940 Dirt Fill Rapidly Replacing Bridge EdwardR. Keen, 19-Year-Old Recalling Muscatine Youth, to Face First Decnreft MiHfr irnaraA at Elrlara Happenings of Yesteryear 'V Edward R. Keen, 9-year-old Muscatine youth, today faced charges of first degree murder as the result of th death of Clarence Albia, a fellow-inmate of the; Eldora state jtrainifeij school for boys, from injuries receiv-D ed when he was struck on the head with a two and a half pound hammer. 5j r- Cottrell died ht: midnight Friday without recovering consciousness after having been attacked by the Muscatine youth during quirrel in the garage at the training school Friday morning, i 1 i i r.j( i I .1 Calendar Full for Boy Scout Groups for Week -v "1 --5. 4 4t-fy.

SMSSSiMsWsSBSaklSBMMMiSSSkSISSIS A dirt fill is rapidly replacing the bridge that i carried Monroe street over the old Wilton line of half of the fill has already been completed, as shown In the above picture, and workmen are engaged south side of the street and removing the old. bridge, timbers. Th fill was made in two parte In order would not be -blocked. jf KNIGHTS RECONCILED, START SECOND The calendar of Boy Scout activities in Muscatine county for the coming week is crowded with a special event scheduled for nearly every night. Girl Scout and Boy Scout com- mittees will meet Monday night atj the home of Glenn Pringle, 403 -West Fourth street, to make plans lor the annual potluck suppet and program to be held jointly by the two organizations.

A leadership' training Course wW open Tuesday night at the city ball with Frank Drake and the Rev. J. J. Morrissey in charge of arrangements. The second session of the West Liberty training course will be held: Thursday night atL the American Legion hall at Wes Liberty with representatives from I Ccnesville, Nichols, West Branch, Atalissa, and Durant, as well as West Liberty, invited to participate.

WDJiam Kleinschrodt, scoutmaster of troop 141 of West Liberty, will serve as scoutmaster at the training course and Harry i Lewis is serving as chairman of the troop committee. Hal Yeaton, scoutmaster of troop No. 18 of Davenport is helping to conduct the course. Friday night there will be a nieeUng of the three commissioners and other persons they may choose at Wilton to make' plans for the spring activities of Boy Scouts in the Buffalo Bill area council. V.

H. Lear, commissioner of the Muscatine will select the representative from this county, 4 ii I As a result of oteirs? deafh, County Attorney D. Dickinson said at Eldora this morning that he would file a charge of first degree murder agihst Keen. Keen waived examination when he was taken before Justice Hof Peace Grant Tayler Friday night on a charge of assault with i-tent to commit murder, filed I by Sheriff E.i Davidson before the death of the; Albia boy. He was ordered heldj, to the igrand jury under $5,000: bond.

I v. Keen refused to discuss case Friday night except i-to tell Justice Tyler he WsuT sorry -he had struck and I to express the hope that dottrell would not die. He would ot say what caused the quarrel Jfthichj resulted in the hammer Jiftacki. i Keen, who is thegson of Mrs. Blanche Roelle, 508 3wa was sent back toj Eldora fttom Muscatine iago after his parole had revoked for stealing! an automobile, "il According to a stement nifide by Keen, the Hardfe countyat-torney said, CottreU had asked Keen to pick up sonB bolts while they were working alone in the garage, whereupon: Miiscatine yoiith struck the othe-p boy jive times the head Vith a hammer, Keen had decide to attempt to escape, his statement ji but he gave; up theirdea after- the attack.

Cottrell, who suffered a fractured skullj wasSgivenl several mood transfusions ut failed to rauy. reme urt al by SummefwUIJ I. Des Moines Ta. SJtmLI Stunmerwill's appeal ffom aniedV district court in the gate's suit to reopen the; tend Trust Co. receivership wasl submitted to the Iowa supreme courtf Friday.

I l- Summerwill wai recevet-In-charge of the closed bankts affairs until his. final report! was approved, in, district court tlast Aprit'and the receivership cljsed. Last fall Superintendent of Banking DJW. BatfS: sued tc have the receivership reopened, oq the grounds that additional assetsf had been discovered. The suit involves an Iowa City apartment budding Which the bankmglsuperintendent claims Summerwill as examiner-in-chief, sold to i company in which he has an interest, i The supreme pourt took; the case under advisement after hearing arguments, i Youthvl9, Brins in Frisoney for Des Moines Cops Des Moines.

Frank Berg, 19, drove to the patrol wagon entrance ofj-the policy station garage Friday night and (t "How do you ggt tn this plce? A woman; holding a tiny Pekinese dog tight to; her heck, sat beside himk -1 i Told that theJoor was used to bring in prisoners? iBerg replied: "That's Just itIthave. pels-oner for you." 1' -j to the? women beside him, Bergiadded: iJ 2 I "She ran Into mp car. I brought her to jail, because the refused to stop The was booked as Mrs. Gladys R. Taut, Still clutching the dog, she was' placed in the matron's ward of fee 1 ail- i -r W.

G. Heads Forensic (troup. Cherokee, i -(PH- v. G. Pence, Fairfield Iaff school superintendent, was elated i president of the Iowa State High School Declamatory it was announced heije todyi Announcement came from Superintendent J.

C. Hoglan here, secretary i who wal vice president. i R. W. iCurrie, Corning school fjrincipal -as; named sec- Sup Ponders AMe ams Are Booked for 1 Lodges, Clubs Beginning with the luncheon of the Rotary club Monday at Hotel' Muscatine, a schedule of varied programs will be presented for.

thv entertainment of Muscatine's lodEr and club members during the com- i ing.weeiE. The speaker at the Rotary luncheon will be Robert 'Roach, who will eive the hiffhliehts of a anea rrogr 4 the Rock Island. The north in completing the fill at the that traffic on Monroe street FjOur Officials of Schools to Be Selected Monday i Muscatine voters wiH go to the ptlls "Monday to choose three sctooI directors for terms of three ye ars each andTa school treasurer to serve for a term of -two years, i Candidates for the" three board sitions are Julien E. Havercamp, Rilph A. Bloom and Raymond Rpndleman, -1 all present incumbents, and E.

F. Rakow, who is seeking his first term on, the board. Glen T. Barnard, who Is seeking re-election as school treasurer, is unopposed. With only ohe of the five candidates certain of being eliminated and with a lack of any major issues, voters, are manifesting no niore than usual interest in the election.

JPollswill open at 7 a. re-ain open until7 p. m. wlth vot-' ing being carried on at five poll-big places. First ward voters will cast their ballots at the No.

2 fire station, 312 Cherry street; second ward voters the central fire station, 308 Sycamore street; vot iers of the first precinct in the tbird ward at the Muscatine Home society building, 421 Mulberry avenue; voters of the second precinct, third ward, at the old Alert Hose house on Bleeker street. Because of the election, the regular meeting of the board of education scheduled for Monday night Has been postponed until later in the week. Stag Meeting of Fulton Bureau Set for Tuesday Fulton township Farm Bureau men are planning a stag meeting and outlook discussion Tuesday night at the home of George All- bee. In charge of the session will tie i County Ageuts Carl Ry lander, cf Scott county and Ralph H. Olson, of Muscatine county and Herbert Howell, of Davenport.

Also scheduled for the coming veek is a meeting of the Fruitland tjownship Farm BUreau to be con-t ucted Monday nighti at the home cf Dick Forte. 1 Olson will be in Fairfield, Wedi riesday, Thursday, and Friday for an agricultural leaders conference, at which he is scheduled to take iart as a discussion leader. Fred Collison, 90, Atalissa Farmer, Taken Death I Atalissa Frederick Collison, retired farmer.i died at 9:30 aJ m. Friday at his home in Atalissa. He was born in Deer River, N.

July .3, 1859, the son of Charles and Sarah Collison. and married Addie Smith at Springdale, June 15, 1898. Surviving ere 1 six children, Harry and Charles of Atalissa, Forrest, Foster and Mrs. Myrtle Pierce of West Libertyland Ethel Conley of Rochester, seven grandchildren; three brothers and one sister. Mr.

Collison was a member of the Masonic lodge. Funeral rites will be held Sun day afternoon in the Atalissa Presbyterian church. Richard Allen Knight, New York attorney who stood on his head at opera opening there, and his estranged wife, Dorothy, met in Chicago after! she filed divorce suit irk Nevada. At left. Knight pleads with her; at right, kiss seals reconciliation, and they agree to a second honeymoon, (By MABEL BARTENHAGEN.) a In the dim and misty day.

at the end of the Civil war in 1868 when packet boats steamed up to the mud levee romtt. uth with New Orleans molasses, Cuban sugar ud .1" of harse from St. Louis, Muscatine was a rough and tumble little town. TstoeeU were muddy in the spring and the plank crossings w.very useful to cross the sea of if one could only find them beneath the layer of mud that the carriages dragged across therri The demon driver who drives across the crossing and aita waiting for the light to change while the haples. pedestrians SS We and Umb walking out jmto the tree! had an who drove his wagon or buggy onto the plank erossing and left It there while those on foot waded through the mud.

It "generally supposed that crossing are for Some drivers of vehicles, however, seem to think differently, for the manner In which they sometimes monopolise the walks by driving their teams upon them and halting compelling those who desire to cress the street to wait patiently nntu hta sees fit to move or go round the team, which task. Is Mt the most delightful, especially for the ladles, when It by wading the mud three or four Inches deep, It taeons Unto-individuals persist in blockading the crossings with their teams -they should be honored by a call from the city marshal. It was spring and romance stirred in even the; practical mind of the editor, but he was due for a rude "While vibrating axo and down Second street the other day like the pendulum of a town clock, gazing hungrily around our attention was attracted to a blooming damsel over whose brow and shoulders dancefl and sparkled in the sunlight a mass of beautiful auburn curls we gazed with palpitating heart upon the fairy-like vision. when gust of wind sweeping around the corner ungallantly lifted a dainty hat perched captivatingly upon the fair one's head and carried it aloft for some- distance when it was gently deposited in a neighboring mud puddle, but strange to, relate the hat journeyed not alone its aerial expedition, for Clinging affectionately to it were the identical glossy curls which had so enraptured uSr while, with hair resembling" the stubble in a new mown field, the owner the rapidly disappearing property stood in speechless despair 1 The telegraph was a mere infant and subject to failures at unexpected times. The telegraphic column carried thl nota-I tlon one March day.

"Saturday Night Report. Cannot ret a port tonicht, the 'line works so badly on account of the storm. x' The life of an editor was also' not an easy one.1, The failure of the wire twice in one week from spring storms and the non-appearance of the mail from "Desmoines" left Muscatine without any-legislative news. 9. "A cow 'while perambulating the bluff overlooking WaW street 'near the freight office yesterday became so lost to the oiiter world while viewing with admiring gaze the grand scenery spread out like one vast panorama before her that ere she was aware of it she found herself on a rapid aerial journey downward, having fallen over the bank.

We did not learn whether the animal was killed or not A motion passed In the nouse to appropriate $15,000 to reim- burse Clara Barton for money expended by her to aid In the fur-: ther prosecution of the search for missing soldiers was by unani-r mens consent. Stealing autos for a ride and abandoning them on a side street is common form of larceny and considered quite But early 5 day Muscatine was not free from such goings-on. "Thursday evening a mare belonging to Richard ILord, which had been ridden i to the city by his son was hitched for a short time in front of bookstore. When the young man returned for her she was gone. All that could be learned in regard to her was that aman was seen rapidly riding a horse similar in appearance along Front Street in the direction of South Muscatine.

The mare was found in South Muscatine yesterday morning where she had been caught riderless at ten o'clock Thursday night making her way back to the Whether she was taken off by someone who attempted to steal her or who merely wished to steal a ride is I The war was "over but reminders of It were the discharged i soldiers who were slowly returning to their homes. "About one hundred discharged soldiers of the First Iowa cavalry Passed i through this place yesterday on the eastern train f6r their several homes In the western and southern parts of the state. I During the winter Davenport cleared part of the river Ice front of the city, and flooded it with to make it smooth for skaters It was quite a triumph for the city and she no doubt was unpardonably smug about ity Muscatine's revenge came with the spring. The large sheet of ice broke loose and floated down river i in one piece and caught on the head of an island, choking the channel so that boats were unable to pass through. Muscatine is now the head of navigation due to the ice gorge at Davenport" The i steamer Resolute was the first boat-upriverV but was forced turn back this side of Davenport, having encountered the floating ice rink.

The court house was being repaired. "The court house Is. rapidly assuming the proportions of a fine structure both Inside and out under the labors of the efficient eorps of workmen who are now engaged upon it A decided Improvement Is being made to the court room by the addition of a gaUery sixteen leet-wide and forty-six feet long. and elevated seats are to take, the place of the rikety benches formerly in use. The wood work on the dome will probably be completed In a week or ten days when It.

will be ready for tinning. The circumference of the dome at its base Is fifty one feet and the hight twenty eight feet i Upon the top of the dome will be placed a bronze statue of Goddess of Liberty twelve feet high making a total hight of the structure on the building about forty feet, When the present building Is finished and the addition of twenty feet made to the end our city can boast of as fine and commodious a court bouse as there Is In the state. 'r -I The city marshal was the busiest man in town, for there was a fight going on most of the time and confidence men roamed the city like wolves amongst the lambs. One con man picked- the wrong victim. After fleecing him he disappeared and the man went to the police, who didn't move fast enough to suit him.

He started a one man hunt for the Meeting him face to face in rounding corner he grabbed for him and missed, whereupon the -hunted, to his heels. Into a saloon by the front door' he went and out by the back door and over a fence with hi pursuer close, behind him. He was finally captured on Water street snd turned; oVer to police by his captor, who first deducted jhis money from the robber. P. R.

and another Individual named C. II. had' a 'slight misunderstanding yesterday near the Merchants Exchange bank and pitched Into each other with a right good will. feelings were somewhat by the fist of hla antagonist coming Into contact with bis proboscis when he 'wrapped the drapery of his couch about him' and laid himself down to sweet and pleasant dreams In a mud puddle." i i i A gang of young rowdies met a rival gang on a street corner and began festivities by pitching -one small boy through a butcher shop window. Thereupon all combatants took to their heels leaving the surprised boy garnished with broken glass on display in the window.

Two young men having a score to settle with an enemy went to call en him at his boarding house, taking along, an ax Just In ease. Their host was too lively for them and they were routed be- fore they could use their weapon. During an argument In a blacksmith shopxthe blacksmith ended the debate when he threw the hammer at the opposing At one of the. hotels a gnest'de- elded his bill had been added up wrong but the landlord changed his mind when he popped him in the nose with his fist: Two men in a saloon began their own private war which soon turned Into a free for all. During the melee the two originators of the idea were seen to withdraw hastily and disappear in opposite directions minus their hats.

"Have we a wharf master? The present condition of the steamboat landing i a disgrace to our It is obstructed the whole length by piles of ice and pools of water and mud which could be removed for a comparative trifle." i "Snowbound Is Mr. Whittler'a latest poetical production and la one of his finest efforts." The guests at a wedding at the home of Mr. Moxley oh the slough road about six miles below town were surprised when not only the wedding for which they had been invited took place but two additional weddings of which they had no warning were solemnized HONEYMOON (NEA Photos.) Taxation fTheme of Pastor's Talk The difference between taxation that serves no worthwhile arid taxation that isben-eficial wa explained by the Rev. A. pastor of the United, Brthren Church, in a talk he gave I Friday, night at the regular meeting of Townsend club No.

i at the city hall, The pastor told of a 300-mile trip he made west of Kansas City swiftly and without the nuisance of dust due to the fact that gasoline tax money; in this paricular instance Had been well administered. He pictured financial: reverses suffered by many of the nation's families and alluded to the Townsend plan as the first attempt made to correct such a situation. Wheat Payments to IoWans Noted Washington (if) Statistics placed before the senate by. Majority Leader Barkley D-Ky.) in citing the benefits of the adminis-tiation's farm program showed Iowa farmers, collected indemnities totaling; 126,065 bushels of wheat from the; Federal Crop Insurance Corp. hist year.

The insured area in Iowa last yar was' 81,569 acres. The. estimated wlireat area insured for this year as Feb. 1 Was 92,912 acres. Iowa payees Under the agricultural conservation Drograrh total ed 165,316 in 1936, 121,218 in' 1937 and 143,604 in 1938 Body; qf Illinois Official Is Fou nd Springfield, 111., (Jp)- Lynden Smitti, director of the Illinois state department of public works and '-buildings, was found dead in bathtub at St.

John's hospitaL Doctors declined to! ay immediately what was the cause of trip he made through Mexico. An initiation will be conducted at the rgeular meeting of the rs Monday night. Another Muscatine lodge, the Odd Felldws, also will meet Monday night. The regular luncheon of the wanis club will be held Tuesday noon at Hotel Muscatine with-v Robert Barry speaking; on new types of metals and their uses. The 5f's Men's club will convene for the regular dinner Tuesday night at the Y.

W. C. A. Levi Smull is the program chairman for the Y'a Men's club meeting. The, Muscatine Coin club, which usually meets on the second Tuesday hight of the months has defer- red its meeting for one week Tuesday night, March- 19, when members will have a social meet-Tig at the home of the president of the club, Ernest Moore, The Vet- erans pf Foreign-Wars will meet Tuesday night at the city hail.

i The Ad club will meet for luncheon Wednesday At Hotel Muscatine. The G. A. Riemcks cnapter, Order of DeMolay, will, have a regular meeting Wednes- day night at the Masonic temple and the F. W.

Bishop campi Spai ish-Amencan war veterans, will meet the same, evening at the Memorial room in the court house. The Lions will meet at noon Thursday -at Hotel Muscatine and regular sessions of the C. B. AM Legion Redmen, Moose, Knights of Columbus, and Junior Chamber of Commerce are set for Thursday I night. The regular meeting of Wyoming lodge No.

76, Knights of Pythias, will be held Friday night Contagion Caises Responsible for Attendance Drop Forty-two cases of contagion helped to reduce attendance at the grade schools during the period from Jan. 29 to Feb. 2j9, it is revealed in the monthlv re-iport just filed with the board1 of education by Miss Margaret Gill, school nurse, The report revealed there were nine cases of 17 cases of chickenpox, two cases of mumps, ten cases of scarlet fever, two cases of pneumonia: and twi cases of i whooping caught in the grade schools during- this period. With an enrollment of 2,301 pupils, the days of absence totaled 3,186 1-2, of which 846 1-2 were charged to contagion, 2,096 to non-contagion and 244 to other reasons, Pupils' Benefited. A total of 16,517 bottles of milk was served at a cost of $330.3,4.

The tag day fund supplied for purchasing a large portion Of this milk, or 6,707 bottles. The nurse assisted the Parent-Teacher association in making aippointmentfr and taking 45 chil-drenr to the dentist for examination and correction. These children were chosen from the first and second grades in Jefferson school. Eleven dentists participated. iNipeteen, trips were made to the dentists' office.

The 2,216 vision tests given In the schools have revealed many slight to niore serious defects. Slips were sent to parents where correction was thought needed; One hundred and thirty-four of these defects have already been corrected and of this number 53 have returned Ho physicians for recheck and 31 new corrections Winton Fuller Is Named Chairman for Social Club Winton Fuller was named the new chairman for the month of March when the Thursday Night Social club held its weekly meeting at the Bleeker street community center Thursday i night. The club is sponsored by the Muscatine WPA recreation project, i The regular business of the meeting was held and this was followed by a program of folk dancing, social dancing and games. At 9 p. at the close of the meeting, refreshments were served, provided by each member of the Club.

-) The next meeting of the club wjll be held at 7 p. on Thursday night, March 14, and, anyone wishing to join the organization is asked to attend the meeting. have been made. 39 Field Visits. The nurse made 39 field nursing visits during the period of which eight were for contagion, such as smallpox.

mumps and scarlet lever; 21 for non-contagion, including Tash. flu, colds and injuries, and 10 for defects as vision, throat and dental trouble. Of the 73 office nursing visits, 54 were for such non-contagious causes as injuries and up? set stomach and 19 for -such defects as sore throat, toothache and eye trouble. Miss Gill gave 23 classroom health talks before a total attendance of 690 and held 26 par ent consultations school, making 15 at 'home and visits to the schools and 21 visits to the rooms. Six hundred and fijttv vision tests were taken following Feb.

1. i Miss Gill attended th meet ing of the National association of Deans of Women at St. Louis, Feb. 20-24. THE TALK OF THE TOWN retary.

Corning was awarded the 1941 state declamatory contest. Pence succeeds F. K. Schmidt, Eldora, school superintendent 1 REGULAR 60c ftfiJ! time. Two brothers and a sister of one family married two sisters and a brother of another family.

The couples were John 8W Mander Robert Moxley and Miss HarriS Aianoer, w. H. Mander and Miss Mary Moxley, pp. (Si. "rfhe Perfect Cleaning" T3 NU-GLO 95t: "i IH1 BOY! We had Swell Dinner I Last Sunday at iHotel I Muscatine THREE COURSE DINNER 50c PHEEIPS "BROS.

jLAtJNDRY; AND DRY CLEANERS Phone 340 How Long It Took to Get Wue That Klng' hare ontstandlng styles and valoes on' women's, men and children's ready-to-wear and at easy credit terms for all the family. fCIfin' 5TnnF the KAYBEE STORE nillU dlUnC 204 East Second 1 Street -1 i aid urange atreet tf It.