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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1913
Page
5
Local news item list reports the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hintermelsett of Magnolia street. Various residents including Mrs. Mapps of Adams and Miss Frances Emery of St. Louis are noted as visiting or traveling, with several moving between local homes and surrounding cities.
The note urges making a family group portrait before members depart the home. It highlights that a photo preserves home atmosphere with parents at the center and serves as a lasting obligation to capture memories. Schedule an appointment today.
In this town B Wade Denham known as The Photographer operates a studio on Cedar a half block from Second. He can be reached at phone 1007 for portraits and local assignments.
The 101 Ranch Wild West show arrives with two performances on August 22, preceded by a street parade at 10 am. Doors open an hour before each show, with 2 pm and 8 pm performances. The event features a ten thousand seat canopy, night lighting, and a large herd of horses and long horns. Cowboy William Pickett’s famed bullfight feat is recounted, highlighting courage and a wager with Mexican capitalists.
Emily Coulson in Home Queen reports a German chemist’s fat reducing method using debatable jujubes. The piece claims the candy aids digestion, requires no exercise, and rejuvenates the wearer’s youthful lines, noting that four drops eaten on coach day suffice.
The German Lutheran church will place a cornerstone on Sunday August 10 with special exercises and a sermon. The full dedication will occur in November with an elaborate program and visiting pastors invited to participate.
Miss Bertha Hoover, longtime Muscatine YWCA secretary, will become general secretary of the Des Moines YWCA starting October 1. After a Europe tour and a year as a National Training college student in New York, she will return to Muscatine briefly before moving to Des Moines to assume duties.
The Spenders claim luck made the man who succeeds. The ad argues it was good judgment and foresight, not luck, that saved money and started him. It invites youths to save with 4 percent interest compounded twice yearly, starting with one dollar, urging them to open an account in the Savings Department and visit on Saturday night.
South End residents denounce the Franklin school addition as a prisonlike eyesore now clad with false windows. J B Reay admits the new panes are for ornamentation, sparking renewed parental protest over the building’s sinister appearance and the board’s handling of the project.
John Fowler of South End was using a saw at the South Muscatine Lumber and Box company when three fingers on his left hand were severed at 3:30 yesterday afternoon. His thumb and little finger were badly injured but saved. Dr. E B Fulham amputated the three fingers to save the hand.
John Funk of Bismarck Street and Puritan Ice company employee was injured yesterday when a 300 pound cake of ice fell on his right foot. The incident will keep him from work for several weeks. no bones were broken. Other short notes include Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Bull returning from Alledo Illinois after eight weeks visiting. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Bingaman leaving for Garrison Iowa due to illness of his mother. Mrs. Cora Young leaving for Davenport. Mrs. E. E. Bryant visiting from Chicago returning home. Fred Jones completing an automobile tour through Kansas City and Keokuk.
Promising a hard fought city amateur title clash the Pirates meet Muscatine North and South at the South End lot Sunday afternoon. The present city champions must beat the railroaders to stay in contention as Pirates have losses to the UI and I club and to the North and South team.
William Lorber of Colyer street, severely injured in an acetylene plant explosion at Healey farm on Burlington road years ago, is critically ill from septic infection. Once saved by leg amputation and many operations, he now battles abdominal abscess and peptic poisoning that may prove fatal, despite heroic medical efforts.
West Liberty notes include Mrs Addie Gray Smith and daughter Francis departing for Montezuma after a ten day visit plus Mrs Ida Hives set to Des Moines for the Pythian Grand lodge session. Miss Mable Kelley of Wapello visits Miss Violet Starr. M E church Home and Foreign societies meet at Mrs F M Mellicks with ice cream and cake served. Born Friday to Mr and Mrs Wil Weisie a son and to Mrs All Hayworth and three children.
The record notes visits by residents to Iowa City and nearby towns, a funeral for Harry Bortz in Iowa City, and the obituary of Elmer William Franklin Buckley born August 20 1897 who died July 31 1913. Buckley leaves parents Mr and Mrs Richard Buckley and sister Miss Elsie.
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