Local News Highlights From Muscatine Area Arrivals and Travels
Names of residents and visitors from Tipton Kalona Albia West Chester Moline Davenport Columbus Junction and other towns fill pages. People depart for business trips chautauqua visits and social calls near Muscatine with excursions and railroad arrivals noted.
Local Yards Start With Foreign Labor Amid Health Concerns
The Rock Island yards reconstruction begins with the first consignment of foreign laborers arriving. Ties and rails are being distributed as workers prepare the line for improvements. a larger crew is sought due to inadequate current staffing. Local obituaries note the death of Mrs. Carl Borchardt from heart failure, leaving eight children, with funeral at the German Baptist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Carl Borchardt
Schiller Street
Borchardt
South Muscatine
Germany
Wilhelmina Fenske
August Knetsch
America
Wausau
Wis
Muscatine
German Baptist Church
William Knetsch
Frank Dalquist
Tillie Knetsch
Milwaukee
Minnie
Emma
Walter
Carlie Knetsch
Carl Borchardt, Jr
Greenwood Cemetery
George Spearman
Illinois City
Henry Steahr
Raymond
Wash
Verne Hubbard
Rock River
E. Clarence Feister
New Era
Sea
Eve Crow
Hester A. Crow
Sampson Street
Guy Pierson
Cotter
Clarence Lacey
Keota
Herbert Gee
Cedar Rapids
George McCarthy
Delta
BE. R. Lacey
D. W. McAvoy
Chicago
Opie Read Highlights Chau tauqua Program in Columbus Junction
Columbus Junction Aug 12 An excellent Chau tauqua program features Opie Read with readings from his works and a morning lecture by Dr Frank W Hays on One Hundred Years of the Constitution. The Temple quartet and Miss Cole and Miss Maxon perform with a 7 pm band concert. Saturday drew near ten thousand guests despite heat. The week closes with sermons by Revs Hays and McGaw and more lectures and readings by Day and Leeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Chautauqua
Opie Read
Read
Frank W. Hays
United States
Temple
Misses Cole
Maxon
hhautauqua_ grounds
J. S. McGaw
Frank Hays
Cole
Mrs Specht and Daughter Leave Sunbury Visit
Mrs. C. J. Specht and her daughter Miss Edna from Sunbury Indiana departed Saturday afternoon after a brief visit at the home of E. Ogilvie on East Third street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Gabel
H. Schroeder
Lucas Street
Nichols
Reikie Exo
Chicago
Muscatine
B. H. King
West Fourth Street
Madge Farber
Mendota
G. F. McMahon
East Eighth Street
S. F. Church
Rochester
N.Y
W. P. Frazier
Park Avenue
Edith Ogilvie
Lone Tree
Columbus Junction
Lizzie Hingst
Millie
Willie Hingst
Burlington
This City
W. J. Groves
Katherine Beard
A. W. Scott
Cedar Street
Clyde Newell
Des Moines
C. Seiler
Woodlawn Avenue
Mattie
Edna Statler
West Chester
George McEvoy
Sampson Street
Edward Holmes
Wapello
Grandview Avenue
John Downey
Hoopes Addition
Holcomb
Demorest Avenue
Gertrude Terance
Decatur Lil
Frank McEvoy
Georze McEvoy
Park Hubbard
Rock River
Silvia Wilhite
A. O. Bahns
I. Stone
Madiapolis
Martha McBride
Ainsworth
E. R. McBride
Mabel Smith
J. G. Griffith
Iowa City
Will J. Marsden
Paul
May Duncan
Winfield
Elsie Getts
A. D. Adheson
J. M. Robertson
Effie Nelson
Washington
W. D. Pyles
Julia Williams
Lucy
Rosa Langenberg
W. H. Langenberg
Ralph Robertson
Shannon City
Iowa
Union County
Mr. Robertson
C. J. Specht
Edna
Sunbury
E. Ogilvie
East Third Street
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Earth
G. M. Titus, Pres
Titus Loan& Investment Co
Iowa Avenue
Kranz
Oliver Johnson
Tipton
Jackson
Jackson Electric Supply Co
H. Share
Kalona
William West
Albia
Frank McAvoy
Florence Savacoole
Nellie Shellabarger
Moline
Miss Margaret
Willie O’melia Heft
Bestenlehner’s
Linder’s Delicatessen
West Second Street
J. Greenblatt
E Second Street
Anna van Camp
Della Frye
Letts
Carrie Stineman
G. Mull
Helen Grossklaus
Davenport
Anna and
Marie Krueger
J. E. Stortz
George Hawley
West Liberty
J. B. McNames
Richard and
Will
P. E. Collins
Rife Snide
F. M. Price
Alma de Camp
Fruitland
Ethel Campbell
Maine
Spain
G. W. Munn
L. Coleman
J. Thompson
J. Snyder
Conesville
W. D. Thompson
Great Innes Band
Harry
C. C. Smith
C. Wood
F. Bimm
Wilton
Mary
Bessie Chevalier
J. E. McElroy
Mulberry Street
Muscatine County
F. S. Pentzer
East Second Street
Dorothy Townsend
Ida Mayweather
W. R. Murphy
Miss Otto
Ida
Kansas
Riverside
Carl Borchards
Tack
Redmen
Cowboys
Crescent Diamond
Opie
Columbus Assembly
Barton Cecil
Glenn McCullough
Mina Emerson
Clara Stemen
Eva Krider
Hazel Estes
Maude Maxwell
S. W. Field
Winona Killgrove
Roy Abbott
Wellman
Great Innes
Robert S. Leeds
Elias Day
Roy Taylor
Annetta Wilcox
Jacob Foster
Miss Wilcox
Columbus’ Junction
Foster
S. S. Wilcox
Union Township
Margaret Foster
O. P
F. N
James
Washington State
S. S
F. N. Wilcox
Presbyterian Church
Other Junction News
Emma Cunningham
Charlotte
Harriet Pickett
W. P. Paugh
S. G. Robertson
Kenneth
Dr. Smyth
Maude
Morning Sun
Smyth
Frank Sellers
Cairo
William Probst
T. J. Klotz
Elizabeth Thompson
Crawfordsville
Amor Kelly
Columbus City
Wm. Schlunz
Theodore Grafe
Anna Dwyer
J. P. Ryan
George Graham
Oakville
Winifred Oakes
A. Meier
Norma
KR. N. Duncan
J. L. Reaney
Chautauqua Grounds
H. D. Oakes
G. W. Oakes
Frank Oakes
Nellie McSweeny
Ella McSweeny
Lysle
Sigourney
Bessie Stebbens
Verna Hoover
Pearl City Music Co
Pieges
Quinn
East Second
Rudolf
H. Schmidt & Son Co
H.F. Barnard
Muscatine Produce CO
Orange and Third Street
East Hill
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