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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1902
Page
4
Stated convocation of Washington chapter No 4 Ro A M Friday evening April 4 at 7 30 sharp. Business of importance and work to be done. Good attendance urged. By order of the M E priest.
A large Muscatine delegation of teachers traveled by a special westbound train to Washington Iowa for the South Eastern Iowa Teachers Association three day session. Supt W F Chevalier and dozens of educators accompanied by a special car hope to gain ideas and inspiration. some will return Friday night while others stay through Saturday.
The Mechanics' Aid society held its regular bi monthly meeting last evening. A large class of candidates were admitted and several applications were considered. They will be taken in at the first session in May. The order is progressing and the coming year looks to be very successful for the society.
Miss Munnett, guest of the city during the Christian Endeavor convention, departed this morning to return to Lyons Iowa after her visit.
The Central Christian Advocate outlines a series of meetings to be held in Iola Kansas starting next Sunday morning. It notes schedule highlights and aims to gather local attendees for spiritual guidance and community fellowship.
Three week meeting ends with 300 conversions and 200 accessions. Shawhan and Elderkin praised for growth and leadership. Revival services to start next Sunday at First Methodist Muscatine with three services and a YMC A mass meeting. Children's and Misses spring shoes promoted by Leysen's store.
Fred Leu Jr has taken a storefront in the new K P building on Iowa Avenue and will run a high class ice cream confectionery and soda water business. The Leu name is known in Muscatine for excellent ice cream and soda with a well fitted, pleasant parlor and complete line of candies and cigars. He invites old and new friends to visit his elegant location and offers to fill all orders.
Saturday evening April 5 features a supper with Coffee Chicken Pie Cold Slaw Pickles Ham Mashed Potatoes Cranberry Sauce Baked Beans Bread and Butter Cake and Ice Cream Jelly.
Miss Ady Lundy of Atalissa withdraws as a candidate in the Journal's Vacation Contest due to illness. Her letter from Taylor Nebraska dated March 29 asks friends to feel free to change their votes and thanks supporters for their efforts.
Thomas Barnard dug a 70 foot well on his lot east of his present Sycamore street location for a new laundry building. A 55 foot water vein remains. J. B. Conley performed the drilling and has moved to Park Place to drill a well for Mr. Heppy.
Local items report E L Kemptner at 714 East Fifth with old phone, Dr and Mrs S G Stein visiting Chicago for opera season, and ads urging Welch and Knopp spring suits. Socials include Woodmen Royal Neighbors events with 10 cent admission on Friday April 4, plus Misses Sawyer Wagner and Mrs Dawson visiting or shopping. A P O N T planned meeting next week, C BE convention in West Branch, teachers from Muscatine county headed to Washington for Southeast Iowa Teachers Association three day session.
Classified items list several notices including a personal wanted ad by Dr A J Oliver at 312 Walnut and a sale of pieplant and horseradish roots by Jesse Brogan at 113 East Fifth Street followed by a rental listing for May 1 at 311 East 5th Street and a separate contact Mia J Walton at 306 East 5th Street.
Miss Lou Parker visits the city from Wilton. Mr and Mrs Mathias Hoefflin return from Chicago after a two week stay with relatives. Nellie Seymour Wilton assistant principal visits with Mrs Ashcraft and Miss Ida for C E convention. Mrs S M Ashby sails to Davenport to join her husband and settle there. Mr Ashby previously ran Metropolitan Insurance here and moves. J A Backett leaves for Des Moines to oversee summer bowling alleys, plans August return. Muscatine praised as a fine city by Backett.
A regional oddity story notes a woman asserting she houses a live mouse within her stomach and suggests swallowing a cat to summon it back after a stated mission. The piece reads as a sensational local curiosity without medical backing.
The Yellowstone Park area is stated to match the combined areas of Delaware and Rhode Island. This suggests a comparison of territorial sizes placing Yellowstone Park's size on par with the sum of these two states.
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