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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1939
Page
2
Jefferson visitors were honored at a Weed park picnic in Muscatine with about 80 attendees. Numerous relatives and friends from Muscatine West Liberty Davenport and other towns joined the gathering, plus trailed by extended visits and dinners across area households.
The Phelps family gathered for their eighth annual reunion at the Springdale schoolhouse in West Branch Iowa Sunday. Officers elected were President R J Phelps Iowa City vice president Margaret Phelps Iowa City secretary Lara Phelps West Liberty treasurer Jessie Bemis West Liberty. Next year’s reunion will be at Springdale schoolhouse on the second Sunday in August.
Advertising copy touts PO-TAS-A-FRAS as a rapid hay fever remedy. Claims include stopping shaking and gasping, drying eyes and nasal passages, and restoring normal breathing for better sleep. Sold exclusively by McDaniel Drug Store.
Mrs. Lydia Krahl of Grandview hosted a large Sunday dinner with multiple families from Lancaster Bloomfield Chariton Mt. Vernon and nearby towns visiting. Plans noted for school opening Aug 28 and a Weed Park reunion in Muscatine on Aug 20 with several relatives traveling to attend.
Margaret McFadden was honored during a Girls' club meeting at the Union school in Lake township. A program featured a tap dance, puppets from Pauline and Phyllis Coder, solos by Phyllis Ziegenhorn, and recitations by Irene Franklin, Shirley Foster, Kathleen and Billy Wayne Coder.
A four door Chevrolet owned by C E Hanft stolen Sunday evening was found near Mt Pleasant Monday forenoon after the Hanfts stopped at the Presbyterian church for union services and did not lock the car. An insurance adjuster brought the vehicle back. Nearby Mt Pleasant also reported a missing car believed taken by the same party.
Schroeder relatives gathered for a Sunday reunion and picnic dinner at Weed Park with many attendees. Gordon Moorhead was named president for the coming year and plans were made to meet again on the first Sunday in August at Wild Cat Den state park.
Drury guests Mae Meister and Marjorie Nussbaum of For rest Ill. returned home after a 10 day visit with William Nussbaum and Mrs Cleon Mason and families. The Krueger Kleist reunion will be held in Muscatine on Sunday Aug 20. Clifton and Kenneth Nussbaum came back from a week fishing trip to Backus Minn. J Wilson of Oklahoma visits his niece Mrs Virgil Hopewell. Junior Honegger of Fairbury Ill. returns from a two month visit with Mr and Mrs William Nussbaum. Mrs Winifred Gillett and many relatives attended a Muscatine family reunion Sunday. Boyd Manning spent weekend with relatives in Oquawka It. Roy Thompson visited Clif ford Kranz home Sunday.
Easy Mixers of Wapello enjoy a Weed park picnic as 42 members attend the annual Methodist Sunday school event. The Standard Bearers picnic at Mrs. A J Williamson’s home. Williamson family reunion attendees gather at Weed park with Rex Buffington and others. Agnes Schmeiser visits from Boston and New York, returning for a World’s Fair connection. Marriage license issued in Louisa county to Dale Cook and Louise Soper with Reverend Harold Irwin accompanying.
Funeral services for 72 year old William McMahill, killed in an auto accident on Harrison hill, were conducted Monday afternoon at the Jamison-Dugeon home. Rev. Jesse Huddle led the service with flower attendants Mrs. Dave Dotson and Mrs. Charles Paris. The choir included Mrs. Charles Stroup and Mrs. Jesse Huddle singing The Old Rugged Cross and Saved by Grace with pianist Mrs. Ethel Gearhart. Burial was in Wa-
A group from the settlement traveled to Cedar Falls for the Evangelical church annual assembly remaining the week. Delegates include Edward and Harris Brown Lorraine Cole Kenneth Hetzler Clayton Rost Harriett Gladys Hetzler Elva Brown and chaperone Mrs Minnie Leonhard plus Louise Brown returning home Monday. Week end visitors and hospital news follow.
Concord reports Mr and Mrs Harlan Foster hosting a 630 pm dinner for parents Mr and Mrs Egebert Shellabarger to mark a wedding anniversary. Guests include numerous Shellabargers from Conesville La Moyne Cotter and Blue Grass among others. Also noted are visits and birthdays with local family and friends. An old Portland law forbids basket carriage of purchases.
Max Hart Will Syphrit Harry Heater William Bishop Dennis Murphy Jesse Ives serve as pallbearers at the funeral arranged for a Pello Cemetery service. The list highlights local pallbearers contributing to the rites.
Column recounts breezy Hollywood anecdotes aboard the S S Mat Sonia en route to Honolulu. Notes Bergen’s party manners without McCarthy, Jane Withers’ animal pal, Hedy Lamarr’s fortune reading, and several celebrity tidbits including Cary Grant, Lana Turner, Bert Lahr, Sid Guilaroff, Dick Powell, Dorothy Lamour, Jack Haley, and the Jones Family venture.
Sir Hickman Beckett Bacon is the premier baronet of England. Knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1578, his ancestor Sir Nicholas Bacon was the first to receive a baronetcy. Sir Nicholas was the brother of Francis Bacon, famous essayist and lord chancellor of King James I.
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