The Muscatine Journal from Muscatine, Iowa • 2

2 -i MUSCATINE JOURNAL AND NEWS-TRIBUNE. SATURDAY MAV 16 She Doesn't Want to Die Now RADIOS ON FARMS 'BUY A TAG9 PLEA HEARD ON ALL STREETS OF CITY WHEN CHILDREN WAGE CAMPAIGN FOR SCHOOL FUND TRUE ADVERTISING HELPED BY PUBLIC CARE IX PREPARING C0FT IS GREATER WITH IT WATCHI5G INCREASING FAST SOW IX II PER CEXT OF IOTTA COO'TBI BOXES 3U97 Farm Owned Sets Reported May Local Students at 'University of Iowa on Roll of Honor Several from Muscatine county and nearby' cities were on the roll of honor tor scholastic ability, recently announced by the University of Iowa. Of the 194 honored, those from this Ylcfjrfty included WillUm Bailey of. Letts. Alice Bell of Lone Tree.

Henrietta Daut. formerly of Muscatine but now of lows City. Harold Ogtlvte ot Muscatine. Louisa Polders- of West Liberty. Clifford "Russell of Wilton.

Donald Lemksu of Muscatine, and Herman J. Smith, formerly of Muscatine, but now of Des Moines. i The plan for honoring scholastic sbility has recently been adopted, by the university. The names of all freshman and sophomore students having an average grade of or above for the Qrst semester of the present school year have been announced by officials. A is the highest scholastic grade given and the lowest passing mark.

I 7, TTItk Scott Coantj's X.IM Ins List Scarce 1b Dickinson. Des Moines. May 16. (By the Associated Press). Radio is Inyading the farms at such a rapid pace that the state and federal crop reporting bureaus report they soon wll be able to get Jheir Information to the farmers daya before it now reaches them.

Radio receiving sets, according to a special inquiry made by'the bureaus. 0 are In nearly 16 per cent of the farm homes of Iowa. On May 1 there were approximately 33,597 farm owned radio sets in the state, the bureau's figures showed. Of these nearly 10 per cent, or 3.195, are crystal sets. Scott Cooaty Leads.

Scott county leads with 1.494 sets. Clinton county has Page and Fremont counties hare about 1.000 Psbllc Relations CommltWs Play Part In Toila; Dew Sales 3fetho4s, Greea Tells CeafeaUoa. Houston. May if. (By the Associated Press) "The public Is cooperating more and more to help maintain truth In advertising.

William P. Green, acting director of the National Vigilance committee ot the Associated Advertising Clubs, told the community Advertising department at the. World Advertising- convention here. Outlining the work of the committee and affiliated business bureaus (luring the past IS years to eliminate waste in advertising, Mr. Green continued: i Need Close Relational "In the early days or the movement, we dealt almost entirely with' advertisers.

However, the need always has been felt for a closer relationship with the public because aa the advertiser who is inclined to misrepresent Ms goods comes to learn that the public Is watching htm. he begins to exercise greater care in the preparation of his advertising copy. Like-, wise, his sales methods are toned down so that he is not so likely to be open to the charge Vf selling merchandise under false pretenses. "Through the appointment of public relations committees, our cation al and local better business bureaus are achieving this end. These committees include representatives from outstanding women's organizations, civic associations, church groups and other bodies.

When a question comes up as to the truthfulness of any statement. or practice, the public relations committee offers a source of Information as to wjiat the public thinks of the statement. This construction on the part of the public Is a pretty difficult argument for the advertiser to answer. To Make Trading Safe "This new development in the movement, bringing both business and the public into a closer relationship, and the public particularly Into a more active position in our work la one of the ouUtanding services now being rendered by this movement in its efforts to make every community a safe place in which to trade." lUla Delays Letts May Fete Letts. May 18 The May fete to have been held on the school campus last night was called off on account of the rain.

It will be held Monday at p. if weather permits. lery company. Zoller Jewelry company. Muscatine Music House, Lohr Chase Music company, F.

A. Nel-dig Book store. E. J. Asthalter Book store.

Australia is unifying its railways. Cigar smoking Is declining in sets each. Radio receiving sets are least numerous, the bureau said, in some of the northwest and north central counties. In Dickinson county only four per cent of the farmers have radios. The number of sets decreases as the distance from some good broadcasting station Increases.

Crystal sets are more numerous near the larger broadcasting stations. Useful "The radio." says a bureau report, "will be useful fn distributing weather forecasts, warnings and reports, weekly and monthly crop reports, and daily market reports. Many a farmer has already saved the price of an expensive set in a single day by acting promptly on information received "ut of the air and as freely given as the air itself. Some localities are so hard to reach that they could not be reached by the weather bureau with all its vast publicity machinery, till radio lent its assistance. Isolation, the bane of farm life, is being rapidly eliminated by radio." During the remainder of 1923 a brief summary of the Iowa and United States monthly crop reports.

will be radiocast from WQI. Iowa State college, the bureau announced. Ada Scott. 17. of Kansas City, quarreled with her fiance.

So she decided to commit suicide and Jumped from a bridge over the Kaw River." Bill Price. 18. dived in after her and carried the girl 100 feet to safety. Now a new romance is blooming. (ha1 returns from tag day, Mr.

Kern Is confident the record of other years will be upheld. Several thousand tags were distributed among the school children of the city yesterday. Pupils in the! parochial schools as well as the city grade schools' are co-operating. Mr. Kern wasi stationed at.

the school board oflioe In the city -ball all day and will remain there early this evening to furnish additional tags to any desiring them. i The reports of the sale wilt be available Monday, when the prize winner's will be announced. The children will thei reports through bools with the principals in turn reporting to Mr. Ken. I PrUea offered this year are attractive Thej boy and girl selling! the largest number will receive a watch, while second prizes are annual memberships in the Young Men's Christian association and the Young Women's Christian association.

The boy-and girl selling ttte largest punv ber in each school will attend an all day picnic! in the Tri-Citles next Saturday, with a at the Lend-A-Iland clubi in Davenport at noon. In addition the one cent commission will be paid for every tag sold. Clinton Resident Succumbs Wlrile on Visit in Muscatine Mrs. Theresa Henle. SO.

died at the home of her granddaughter. Mrs. George J. Koenigsaecker. 912 Iowa avenue, at 10:30 last night.

She sua fered a paralytic stroke early Thursday morning and never recovered. Mrs. Henle is a resident of Clinton. and came to visit Mrs. Kebnig-saecker two weeks ago.

Mrs. Henle was born in Zanesvllle, Ohio. Oct. 21. 1S45.

and moved to Clinton when she was but 14 years of age. making her home there for over 66 years. She married Mr. Henle 61 years ago and he preceded her in death 50 years. She is survived by three Charles Henle ofiFra-zieri Dr.

M. F. Henle of Clinton, and Mrs. John Purcell of Clinton: one brother, John Stahle of Solon; 15 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. The body will be sent to Clinton, and burial services conducted there Tuesday-afternoon.

Burial will be in the Clinton cemetery. 1 DISTRICT COURT Dr. W. W. Daut filed suit against Raymond Pilgrim to collect $175.53.

with interest and costs, alleged to be due' on a bill for medical freryiees. Fishburn Fishburn are attorneys for Dr. Daut. fi Nichols. Tipton Tipton, attorneys for the estate, filed the proof of death and will of Harry C.

Luse. Judge D. V. Jackson approved a report of Edward L. Cole executor of the estate of Edward L.

Cole Sr. R. S. 'Jackson i3 attorney fori the estate. PROGRAM ARRANGED BY EVER READY CLUB Patterns and short cuts sewing will be studied by the Ever Ready club of Sweetland township at a meeting Wednesday.

May 20. at the home of Mrs. Henry The program Jollows: Roll call, Hints on Short cuts sewing. Address. Mrs.

Mark Collier. Piano solo, Mrs. Henry Doerfer Exchange of children patterns. in Iowa Law College Is Collecting Fund for Oil Paintings Iowa City. May 16.

Half of the 11.500 which -a committee 'of alumni of the University of Iowa college of law is collecting from Iowa law graduates to pay for two oil paintings of Judge George G. Wright, founder of the college, and former Chancellor William G. Hammond, has already been secured from 160 contributors, according to the committee. It is proposed to make the paintings size and present them to the college of law Nov. 6, when the college will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of its founding: The University of Iowa college of law Is the oldes.

continuously operated law school west of the Mississippi river. Aviators surveying a proposed railway route in the province of Quebec. Canada, discovered an unknown pass in the Abitibi mountains. hich resulted in their changing the line's course to a better and shorter one than that first measured. ARLY CLOSING BEGINS MONDAY Persons who have shopping to do in the afternoon were reminded again today that, beginning Monday, the 5 o'clock closing rule will be In effect at the following stores: Batterson Stores.

McColm company. -E. J. Zeidler Dry Goods corn-ran y. Reinemund company.

Graham Department store. J. C. Penney company. The Glatstein stores, Iowa Department store.

Ficken Furniture company S. G. Stein furniture company. United Cloak Suit Glass Smart Shop. Gordon's Cloak house, Bon Ton mUlinery, Chaney Lucas.

Smith's Emporium. S. S. Kresge company. F.

W. Woolworth company. Sterneman Clothing company, Cadle's Jew-eiry company. H. V.

Barnard Jew-. rr Even rainy weather falls to daunt the ambitions of Young Muscatine, so far as tag day Is concerned. Early this morning, when rain. was falling steadily, the children, hundreds In number, were out selling tags in Muscatine's sixteenth annual tag (day campaign. The first early riser was greeted by a band of them.

In fact throughout the morning all who ap peared on the streets, in the business section or the residential district, were confromtd with this ap-palr "Buy a tag? Please! And from the, number of tags fi evidence many were decorated with not one but several all Muscatine was anxious to kuy "two smiles for a Thpt slogan adopted 'by Charles Kern, truant officer, originator and sole promoter of tag day, was most appropriate. For few could resist the smiles with which the salesboys and salesgirls rewarded the purchaser. And the smiles and happiness which result from the giving of a pair of shoes to a needy child at any other time of the year should provide a double reward for those who purchase tags. Expect Gooc Record Although the rainy weather of the morning will in some measure mar THE THEATRES A cast of film favorites is featured iu "White Man," a new Preferred Picture presented by B. Schulberg playing at the A-Muse-U Sunday.

This production brings Alice Joyce back to American motion pictures. In the supporting cast are Kenneth Harlan, star of ''The Virginian." "Butterfly and other recent successes, and Walter Long featured recently in "Wine." The story starts when an aristocratic English girl flees in an aeroplane with an aviator she has never seen, rather than to marry a man she does not lave. This perilous journey terminates in the Jungles' of Africa where adventures follow each other quick succession. An elephant hunt, a primitive battle between two native factions, a spectacular forest fire are a few of the stirring happenings that occur before the solution of this fascinating story is reached. Palac "Smouldering Fires." Unlversal-Jewel-Clarence Brown' production which comes to the Palace theatre Sunday.

is said to be Ja. story jfounded on a not unusual circumstance in real life a circumstance that frequently discloses itself in divorce court, namely the misery that comes from the marriage of a young, man to a woman twice his age. Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante are co-starred in the picture, the former haying the part of the middle-aged woman who, made the mistaken marriage and the latter the part of a. younger sister who fell in, love with the youthful husband, portrayed by Malcolm McGregor. Sada Cowan and Howard Higgin.

who have collaborated to write some of the tnost successful motion picture stories of recent years, wrote the story with the qualifications of Miss Frederick in particular view. Her part is that of a woman whose sole purpose in life is to make a success of the big factory left her at the death of her father. Grinnell Journalism Chapter Initiates Ernest P. Harrison Grinnell, May 16. Ernest P.

Harrison, of Oakland. a former president of the Iowa Press association, was initiated last week into associate membership with, the Grinnell chapter of Sigma Delta Chi. national honorary journalistic fratern-1 ity. Four Grinnell' i sophomores, He.rold Hicks, of New Markets; Loren Reid. of Osceola; Curtis Lamb, of Anamasa, and Ashton Carhart of Sheffield, were taken into regular membership at the 'same time.

Mr. Harrison in addition to publishing "The Oakland Acorn." and "Harrison's Home Farmer. has been a member of the 4Qth, and 41st General Assemblies. The Oakland editor was a candidate for the speakership of the assembly this year, but withdrew his name. Herold Hicks was recently elected editor of "The Scarlet and a semi-weekly paper published by college students'.

Ixren Reid is on the staff of the Grinnfell Herald. Curtis Lamb, as the new campus editor of "The Scarlet and Black will assist Hicks in the editing of that publication. Ashton Carhart was recently honored by his election as editor-in-chief of the "Cyclone'', the Grinne'-I year book published py the 'junior 1 'HARRY G. DREES TO ARRIVE JUNE 3 The steamer "Harry G. rDrees" will start its schedule ot regular Tuns from St.

Louis to. Dubuque, on June 2. and will pass Muscatine at 11 o'clock in the morning of June 3. according to Henry Kath. The steamer will carry passengers as in.

the past. Notices ot Its arrival will be published later. MAKE ETERT STJ3TDAT "Mothers' Day by relieving her of the burden of dinner getting. Bring the family to the HOTEL MUSCATINE for Dinner CATHERINE KRANTZ DIES AT LONE TREE Mrs. Marry Schmidt.

415 Fsirriew avenue, left this afternoon for Lone Tree where she was called by the death of her sister Mrs. Catherine Kraatz. yesterday, st the home of Mrs. Krsnti daughter. Mrs.

H. E. Joens. following aa extended illness due to paralysis. Mrs.

Krantz im KurrirA (it al irtifl- rdren. Her husband died two Years ago. Funeral services will be held from the Joens home at Sunday afternoon with interment in the Lone Tree cemetery." CALL when you have tire trouble and we fix you up in! a hurry. We have had many years of experience in Vul canizing so bring in your tires arid we will save you money by fixing: them so you can many more miles out of them- Paul's Shop Paul Grife, Prop. 210 Walnut Street I 1 3 1 1 3 1 v.

Commencement of Morning Sun High School Is Tuesday Morning Sun. commencement May exercises 16 The of the Morning Sun high school will be Yield Tuesday May 19., at the high school 'auditorium. Following Is the program: Prelude, high school orchestra. i March. High School orchestra.

i Invocation. The Rev. J. C. K.

Milli-gan. Salutatory. Milton Patterson. Music. Girls' Glee Club.

Address. Supt. E. M. Sipple, Burlington.

Ia. Music. Boys' Glee Club. Valedictory. Margaret Rees Presentation of Class, Supt.

W. Drake. i Presentation of Diplomas, C. W. Talbot.

Fostlude, Higa School orchestra. The members of the class are; Carl Casten. Lucille Curran. Bert Gregory. Lena Elliott.

Edward Halterman. Verlee Harris. Lloyd Kerr. Marguerite Kerr. Ralph McKeown.

AHcp Poge-miller, Elbert Owens. Ruth Richards, Milton Patterson. Margaret Keesj Wilfred Robb Gladys Walker. Albert Todd. Ethel Walker and Clement Willson.

The baccalaureate service will be held Sunday evening. lay 17, in the high school auditorium. The Rev. D. B.

Martin of the Sharon Reformed Presbyterian church will give the address and will be assisted by local pastors. The 'Other Nineteen' Out of every twenty husb'ands and fathers, i only one provides for the care of his family after death. One man provides for his family nineteen do aot. Eight million women in America must work to live. Sixty-nine men out of every hundred reach "seventy years of age without a dollar, Eighty per cent of the children who enter school at six years of age leave school before finishing the grade school because they have to go to work.

But ten per cent of the men in America leave any estate. Thirty-flve per cent of the nation's widows are in want and ninety per cent are without the ordinary comforts of life. LIFE ISrRA5CE WILL KEEP iorR widow Axn family oft OF THE "OTHER METEET CLASS BANKERS LIFE fOMTAST Des Moines, Ion a 1 F. G. McCulIough.

Dist. Agt. 319 Hershey Building Muscatine More Interest br Liberty Bonds If Converted in June Liberty bondholders wili be able to obtain more interest on the! first Liberty bond issue if they convert their holdings on er before June 30. The terms of the conversion provide thatif thejjrst Liberty loan 4 per cent bonds of 1932-1947. are presented for conversion before June 15 they will eceive 4 per cent interest to that date and 44 per cent fronv.that date.

If presented on or after June 15 and before the cloee of business June 30. interest will be paid at 4 per cent to Dec. 15 and at 4i per cent after that date. The second Liberty loan 4 per cent bonds (1924-1927) it presented to conversion prior to June 15 will bear 4 per cent Interest to that date and per cent thereafter. If they are presented before the close of business.

June 30. 4 per cent interest will be paid until Nov. 15 and 44 per cent from that date. Trainers Working Horses Harct for 1925 Iowa Season Des Moines, May 16.. Aided by splendid weather and -an-idea! track, training-has been going forward rapid-nly-at the Iowa State fair stables this spring.

Approximately 70 trotters and pacers are being conditioned for the 1925 season. The records for the Iofwa track thus far this season have been made by Isaac It. Second, owned -by Ross Thompson, which has trotted the mile In and Rose Dillon, owned by the Hardie stables, which paced the mile in Trainers having their horses at work on the -fair track include: T. H. Crooks, Ross Thompson, Myron.

Hol-lowelt. John Manbeck. Earl Manbeck. Joe McLaughlin. Charles' Hardie, i Crawford Brothers.

Jessie Schockley.j Dr. Leeper. James Patrle. Al. Cray.

Henry Bockhaus, Lloyd Young and F. A. Dutton. -Some of tne better known trotters and. pacers at the track include: Miss Delia Brooke C.

of the Crooks stables; Duke Harvester. Nellie M. and Loretta Oratton of the Manbeck stables; The Supervisor. Sir Robert. :16.

sind The Inspector. by Joe McLauehlin: Shamrock E. and W. G. owned by Charles Hardie Jap a Lac and Xorva Sim' mons.

owned by Crawford "Brothers; Wamoatuck. 2:054. and Czar Brooks. owned by HenrvU Bockhaus; and Baby Calumet. owned by Lloyd Young.

An electric "sewing machine" called an "insect. because of its resemblance to a fly. welds piping, steel plates- of ships and many other articles hy means of a white'-hot steel wire fed from a bobbin. v. 1 3 3 Reliable news If "So-ahd-Scr' told vou that said such-and-such'' was a good buy you probably woukhrt buv it.

But if you road an advertisement in this paper about the merits of that product you'd have Con-iideiuc init. Advertisements arc reliable. The merchant or manufacturer who signs an advertisement knows that he must keep faith. He knows that when you come in to buy you will expect the goods to be just what he has claimed. He realizes that if he deceives vou once, vour trade is lost Never was there a more sevecc test of the worth of a product than advertising! You can pin your faith to an advertised product ever time.

It invites the inspection of millions and it must be 'worthy orit cannot live. Rea'd reliable news of what is wise to buv. Special Chicken Dinner Every Sunday 35c LINCOLN CAFE i Phone 61 Harry Cooper, Prop. 324 E. 2nd St.

We have a special menu every Sunday. If you wish a delicious meal, come in and try one of ours. SHORT ORDERS A SPECIALTY 0 'Advertising removes risk from buying WE PRINT Wedding announcements, party announcements, business and calling cards, letterheads, billheads, statements, i window cards, programs, booklets, etc. At'prices consistent with pur work. See us.

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