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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1909
Page
5
Announcements for the coming week include a regular monthly meeting of the Women's Missionary Association at Mrs. Sarah Stiles's home, 1300 Oak Street, on Wednesday afternoon. A call meeting is scheduled for Thursday evening at 7 30 at the church.
Grace Lutheran Church announces the Luther League annual picnic to be held Tuesday evening with details pending.
The Ladies Aid society will meet at the church on Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday evening the Sunday school association will meet at 7 30 and at 8 00 the church council will meet in the church parlors. Choir practice is planned for Friday evening.
Prayer meeting Thursday night at 7 45 in the church parlors for their monthly meeting Friday afternoon Choir practice Friday night led by W C Schultze pastor.
A prayer meeting is set for Thursday evening with the Ladies' Aid society to convene at the home of Miss Ada Washburn. The gathering aims to discuss community welfare and upcoming church activities.
The notice states 702 Walnut Street and that there will be no services on the upcoming Sunday August 7th at the German Evangelical Church.
A dispatch from Acapulco reports 73 distinct earthquakes since Friday with the city destroyed and famine looming. A tidal wave struck the harbor front during one tremor, but no lives were lost. Dispatches from Guerrero state say the Mexico valley and Pacific quakes were the worst in years.
It is stated with certainty that the towns of Acapulco and Chilpancingo have been practically destroyed, indicating severe damage and extensive ruin across the two locales.
Rheims France Aug 2 a summer aviation week opens Aug 22 drawing top aeronauts from France and abroad. Latham Blériot Delagrange Farman Sommers Santos-Dumont Count de Lambert Tissandier Wilbur Wright pupils Demarest Esnault Pelterie Gobron De Rue Auchonnet Guffrey and Glenn Curtiss represent aeroclub of America. Nations taking part include France America Austria England and Italy.
William Homer Leavitt arrives back at his Newport home with The Last Supper, a $100000 painting said to have sparked his divorce from Ruth Bryan daughter of William Jennings Bryan. The artwork and the artist have already drawn summer colony interest.
A 1907 testimonial from Anna Mae McEntee of Lacon Illinois praises Eckman’s Alterative for asthma bronchitis and throat and lung troubles after parish priest referral. The ad notes the remedy aids frail people and claims cures even tuberculosis and hay fever with sale through Muscatine area druggists and request for a book of cured cases.
Dr. J. B. Smith, pastor of First Baptist, spoke to a fair Weed Park crowd on dangers of ignoring red signals in life and work, urging heed to divine warnings and employer examples. A boy, Eddie Danz, cut head after falling on sewer pipe during hill work. stitches applied. Local notes report visits of Miss Agnes Healey and Mrs. Lewis Leffler party, with Mildred Leffler and Hazel Reynolds returning home.
Miss Bessie Duncan left Wilton for Muscatine to visit friends. Dozens of residents and visitors moved through Davenport, Muscatine, Rock Island, and Tipton, including Alma Ritter, Lillian and Ella Frieders, Margaret Woodhouse, Roy Huey, and others. The running list records local people visiting relatives, attending events, or returning home from trips on a recent Saturday and Sunday.
A roundup of local residents traveling to and from Watertown South Dakota Davenport Muscatine and Seattle with visits to relatives and friends. People like A R Brock Eugenia Cooling Margaret Patton and others are noted returning departing or visiting in West Liberty Davenport Muscatine and surrounding areas. The brief lists dates and destinations including Seattle for a big show and various family visits.
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