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1 1IUSCATINE 1 JOURNAL; AND NEWS-TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 1 i I-: Palace Showing Park Road I Work Mystery Play Is Adapted to Films In Uptown Feature Deeds Recorded i 4 i ii ii -'ie F. H. Hoffman to Fred G. and NearCompl etion Mitt jiin Fuhlman Will 4 Herman C. aid Bertha Fuhl man brother and sister of the lata Albert Fuhlman are named I bene Martha E.

Henry. Horst to Ue fiay irtilch ha been cine- "ca quitclaim deed, jot 8, block By MAEO AKTT JACK 138, Muscatine. J. A. Morris to Smith, lot tor the play by Howard W.

Comstoik and Allen C. Miller, has flciaries in his will i whlctt wu been given a thorough sZr. i r- if inn tr and Cled for probate Friday. They will share equally. The; will pro vides for the deposit of 1100 in a' A J.

A. Morris to H. H- Bartlett treatment by Robert Tasker Earl Baldwin and produced by parts of lots 7 and 8, block 85, OA local bank to be used fof tho per petual care of the cemetery lot at Reynolds. HI. A'.

"'I' Herman Fuhlman named executor without bond. The will MuscaUne; Agatha Ryan to Theodore J. Hazen. part of lot 2 and lot subdivision of part of sec. 15.

and 16 town of Nichols, i set for healing on OcW I New York city. He also learned much of the ways of, the primitive men-and 1 women of the wild Australian wastelands. The hoatxin, a remarkable bird, found In tropical America, has pair claws on 1U wings. First Nations! When it comes to the Fox-Palace theater Friday and Ssiurday of next week, it promises to give its audience something new in the way of mystery; and melodrama. 5 and surprises form the main con-story which with Doctor and his associates in a riiedical research center.

They are brought under suspicion by' the police when a series of munlers, committed only at the fuli of the moon, take place In the Mcinity of their academy. To avert scandal. Director Xavier conduces his own investigation to discover ta mysterious murder-j er. Mifch against bi better JudgJ ment ftnd against the opposition of all involved in the investiga I Cow Tester Report Issued. West Liberty The report for August of the West Branca Cow Testing association has been given as follows by the tester, Elmer James.

i 'J There Were 439 cows on test, of, which 81 4 were dry. The average milk per cow was 544 pounds, and the average butterfat per cow was 23.4 pounds. The three high herds for the month were Lawrence Pratt of Atalissa with a herdrOf 10 mixed cows averaging 39 pounds butter-fat; J. M. Welch, Muscatine, 10 pure bred iHolstelns, one dry averaging, 31.8 pounds butterfat, and A- Careron, Downey, 10 head of grade Guernseys averaging 31.1 pounds of butterfat.1 All members in the association have been feeding grain during the last month ii, Drunken i Driver Sentenced.

Lysle Rice of Cedar Rapids well known! In West Liberty and Muscatine, where he has spent some time, was arrested Thursday afternoon by Marshal Paul Ander Engineer Reviews Progress on Other Road Jobs Being I Done In County. All bridge and culvert work on county truck road fwtilch con nects primary road No. 6 and Wildcat Den state park has been completed with the exception of the Pine creek bridge, it learned from F. P. Gi Halbf ass, county engineer.

Otto Wendllng, sub-con-tractor on the bridge Job, has preliminary work done in preparation for placing the truss. The road is the only trunk road In the east half of the county and Is also the only trunk i road built to grade running north and south east of No. 38. A letting- for gravel surfacing the highway Is considered probable soon. Haynes and who finished the 10 miles section of road P.

are jo working on a 2 1-2 mile local road project, in Pulton township south of Stockton. The supervisors recently awarded the firm a private contract at a rate of 8 cents a vard for cast dirt and 12 cents a yard for hauled dirt after bids of 8 and IB cents respectively had been rejected at a letting, at which time the board ordered the work done by a county! crew. The 8 and 12 cent figure was accepted later because It is felt that the cost is less this way than it would be if done by a county crew. W. J.

Phelps has a crew at work now on a road building project, covering 1 3-4 miles of high way-west from road a mile south of IN Rogers Feature Dovra.to Earth Opens Three i Day Ban at Palace on 1 I Will Rogers': newest comedy, "Down to Earth," comes to the Fox-Palace theater Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. It Is said to focus all the brilliance that has made him the keenest and most quoted -observer In the country today: 's- While In a sense the picture, is "a continuation of Rogers' first talkie, "They Had to See Paris," its theme and locale are completely different. i The story opens5 with Rogers as -Pike Peters," the Oklahoma millionaire; back home again with bto family after their Paris jaunt f-The stock market Is shot to i pieces, and Peters Is greatly worried, but his wife bas an Insatiable i desire for social honors and hi son aids her in extravagant spending. The failure of a bank forces Peters to apply for a local loan, and, that failing as a result of Mrs. Peters' love of elegance and display, he goes to-Chicago, with the result.

How he gets his family down to earth again forms the basis of the situation. "Down to Earth" is called the most: important picture of Rogers' career. It was written by the author of "They Had to See Homer Croy, specially to fit the star's talents. Irene (Rlch, who appeared as Rogers wife in his first two talking pictures, again portrays the ambitious spouse who brings' about most of his hilarious troubles. Matty Kemp, whose work on the first few days of the production won him Jong-term contract; enacts the role of the irresponsible son, and Dorothy Jordan that of the boy's childhood sweetheart who steps aside In favor of her wealthy rival, i Theodore Lodl, the Grand Duke ''Mike' of the earlier picture, re-createS the role in this new -T Wf I -III 1 III Til Oriental Type KUgS Billiu Dove and Marion Da vies are shown above in one of the scenes from "Blondie of the Follies' which comes to the Uptown next Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Marlon Da vies and Robert Montgomery are teamed together for the first 'time in the It is the story of two New York girls I who graduate from the poverty of the tenements to the luxury of Park vrw iTTAnn rpaitty at a NKW tion, breexy young newspaper reported trails the' to the doctor's weird country home. where complicates' matters for 'hunseie iby falling love with I the doctor' daughter. He falls heir to a series of adventures and misadventure in this eeie atmo-sphereland is happily on hand to Theater Attractions son and held in the cuy-jau um Friday morning, when i he was given a bearing before W. T. Grigg, Justice of! peace, with two counts charged against him, one for intoxication and for operating a motor vehicle In a wreckless and form as solution or mo.

crimes) while the others are handcuffed; to thefcr chairs during an expert-; ment l1 1 LOW PRICE! If You Are On An Economy Budget You'll One of the New Mercerak Fringed Rags 1 Every hom owner who wishes for beauty with economy in floor coverings will be interested In the extraordinary new Mercerak fringed rugs we're showing. 1 Nothing could be richer than their Rowing oriental colors. They are not chemically washed. They have the lovely high-lighted sheen ffects woven which will last as long' as the tug itself. We are showing these new rugs in a choice of; strik-1 ingly beautiful patterns, also a variety of sizesj i i Priced for the 9, Ft by' lS.Ftl Size--V I jff Gary Cooper Back on Palace Screen After a six months vacation spent hunting big game in Africa, Gary Cooper returns to the screen to co-star with Tallulah Bankhead in i "Devil and the Deep," which shows Wednesday and Thursday at the Fox-Palace theater.

The months he spent In Africa seemed less remote when he read the script of the picture. For the action of "Devil and the' Deep" is set in a small i port on the north coast of that continent Charles Laughton, noted Eng 33.00 I UPTOWN. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and i Wednesday i tlarion Davies. Robert Montgomery, Btllle Dove, Zasu Pitts, Jimmy Duraote and James i Gieason In "BLONDIE OF THE FOLLIES." Comedy and Cartoon. Thursday.

I Uptown Surprise Day. Friday and Saturday. Double Feature Program i Including I "BLONDE CAPTIVE," "LAST MAN." Serial, "Last of the Mohicans." I paiLace. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I Will Rogers in 1 "DOWN TO EARTH." 1 I "House of Mystery:" Fox News.

Wednesday and Thursday. Gary Cooper In I "DEVIL AND THE DEEP." film, nd Mary Carlisle plays the, part of the spoiled "deb" who sets; lish character actor, making his movie debut In the picture is cast as commander of a submarine based at the port He is insanely jealous of Miss Bank-head, his wife. 1 her cap for young Kemp. Clarence Wilson Brandon Hurst, Lou-iaa Mackintosh and other noted Mercerak; FamfTells About; life With Savages Do you believe that a white woman could go native among the primitive savages of tropical Australia and prefer her cave existence to life In a modern, steam-heated; flat? Do you believe she could ftccept the queer tribal customs Icould learn to look at them, berhaps. as no more peculiar than the habits of civilization? t- In fThe Blonde the Columbia picture showing Friday and Saturday at the Uptown theater, there is shown the surprising; discovery "Of a white! girl, still youngfi who is living a primitive, back-to-nature life among living descendants of the oldest living race of the lowest form of human life the Neanderthal man of 50,000 years ago! Dr.iPaul C.

Wlthlngton, of Harvard nd the University of Hawaii, plound the white captive as a climax of his ten thousand mile expedition in search of a living replica of the bust of the Nean-derthal man that stands in the Museum of Natural History in character players are in the sup-j sporting cast. Edwin Burke wrote Pattern S01 It IS the screen play ana dialogue irom Croy'sr original story. David Butler directed the production for Fox Films. i 't mystery picture, "The Last Man." The picture is showing Friday and Saturday at the Uptown theater, with Charles Bickf ord, Constance Alec B. Francis, Alto Roscoe and Robert Ellis in tfte principal roles.

Howard Higgln directed. 1 Guard was born' In Denmark, but was reared in San Francisco. Welfare Board Will Resume Meetings Regular meetings of the board of directors pf the Muscatine Welfare association, suspended during the summer, win be resumed "Hollywood Handicap." Paramount Pictorial. I Graham McNamee News. Friday and Saturday.

Lionel Atwill In "DOCTOR He is the; sixth generation of Guards, and all followed the sea except hint. Now, on the screen. he is playing the part of a sea captain, i J1 I Frederic March, Jack Oakle; Mitzi Green and f. Ginger Rogers In "Hollywood on Parade." Fox News. Serial, "Heroes of the West." Owl Show.

I Bert Wheeler and I Dorothy Lee In "TOO MANY COOKS." Atalissa. Another 1-4 of a mile, added to the original program here at the request of residents of the neighborhood, will be started early next week. Upon completion of his work, the Phelps crew will move to a grading Job north out of Moscow. Another crew is working on a 3 mile road building project near Ardon under contract by Mr. Phelps.

About 1 1-14 miles of this is near completion; Forest Atklris has completed 1 1-2 mile on his contract In Cedar township, with about 1-2 mile yet to build. The county maintenance blade grading 'crew is now working on roads In Bloomington and Lake townships and will move into Wapsiaonoc township next. Otto Wendling, contractor on repairs to the Tlce bridge, has the concrete piers completed and is waiting for the concrete to set sufficiently before starting work on the eteel span. i. Note Growing Demand for Farming Lands i Washington (AP) An in-1 ereased demand for farms through the federal land bank system In August compared to the same month a year ago was reported today by Farm Loan Commissioner Paul Bestor.

The report was made at a conference of the board with the presidents of the 12 banks. showed 634 properties- were sold by the institutions In the past month, compared to 203 in August, 1931. "The sale of approximately of farm properties during August this year, compared to 1814,000 worth of such properties la August, 1931, indicated clearly an early response to the improved prices for agricultural commodities," Bestor said. "With still further improvement in commodity prices, it is logical to expect a reflection' in the selling price of farms and in an improved demand fdr them." Expect Trio Here on Trip Up River Three Qulncy, voyagers, bound north to the headwaters of the Mississippi river la a 17 foot canoe, are expected to reach Muscatine some time Monday unless delayed by choppy water. They were to leave Buriington this afternoon.

The three young men are John Ritter and E. E. Rapp, both 23 and Marcus Edwards. 21. The trio makes stops at various cities along the river; and camp ashore at night.

Pictures of wild life are being taken ea route. Tuesday night, Mrs. M. Opal Fore, social worker, announces. A resume of relief work and other special business will come before: the board.

Muscatine Woman Wins Cash Award Mrs. Susie Moots 955 Lucas street; won a 5 prize in a national competition to determine the owner of the oldest i Leonard refrigerator in the United States, it was announced today by-, the S. Through the aovice or Attorney Harold E. Wilson, he Was given 30 days in Jail on eaco count, the sentence to run in succession, Other News. 1 Miss' Ethel Case lefti Saturday for Mt.

Carmel, 111., where she will resume her work as instructor In commerce in the college. Miss Case spent the summer with her parents, Mr and Mrs. Perry Case on East Sixth street. Harry Crozer of Muscatine spent Friday with his uncle, Joe Crozer, and family. Miss Marian Melick.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Melick has spent the week at Coe college la Cedar Rapids, where she has been attending the rushing parties, which preceeds the opening ol school nexti week. Miss Melick has enrolled In the freshman class. Her Margaret Melick, left Friday, accompanied by her father and will resume her studies In the college as a member Of the sophomore class.

1 The Wesleyan Bible class of the Methodist church held a business meeting Thursday evening In the church, with the followiag officers elected: President, Mrs. George Hinkhouse;" vice president, Frank Elder; secretary, Mrs. S. C. Snider; assistant secretary, Mrs.

Cl E. Dice; treasurer, Glenn Burr. Mrs. Harvey Kerr entertained a group of 16 women Friday afternoon at home as a courtesy to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Paul Kerr of 1 Des Moines and Mrs.

Harry Crozer of Muscatine. The afternoon was spent with a keo-slngton. i 1 1 ij Mrs. L. H.

Forsyth, accompanied by her slater, Mrs. George Hinkhouse and Mrs. W. A. Smith and Mrs.

M. Swan, drove 1 16 Albia Thursday where they attended a two day meeting Of the Missionary 5 societies, at which there was a merger of two districts. 1 William Noland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Noland, plans to leae next week for New York city, where he will enroll as a student In theology Noland was graduated from the University of Iowa in June.

Mrs. B. A. Conklin is 1U at her home on East Third street 1 Mr. Conklin.

who has been confined to his bed for the past month, is slowly improving- Mrs. Adelade Stober and her sister. Misa Myra Potter, entertained the members of their bridge club: Friday evening. I Miss Zona Wolf, who has spent the summer: with her: parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Wolf, left Saturday for Baldwin, where she will resume her teaching in the Baldwin high school. Wolf Is also principal. i The Altar and Rosary society of the St Joseph's church, held the first meeting after a summer vacation, on Thursday afternoon in the St Joseph's hall. 'H i Guard Has Comedy and P. i Stein Furniture company, Muscatine distributor.

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