Formal Opening Night Invitation at Come Wednesday Evening
Notices greet readers with a welcome invitation to the formal opening of COME WEDNESDAY EVENING. The fragmentary text hints at a social event inviting broad attendance and participation.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1903
Page
4
Notices greet readers with a welcome invitation to the formal opening of COME WEDNESDAY EVENING. The fragmentary text hints at a social event inviting broad attendance and participation.
Notices announce deadlines for lodge and church notices to appear in the Journal. Items mention Bond's Hardware sales, Anna Miller visiting from Kansas City, Charles Chase taking a Mt. Pleasant Furniture Co. post, and potential hotel ownership changes. Local movements include Iowa Telephone underground work between Pine and Mulberry, and a string of arrivals and visits by residents and visitors. A Davenport paper reports suits against James H. Olson for unpaid bills and attached property in Atlantic, with a second suit against Olson broader Muscatine debtors.
Columbus Junction items list residents traveling to Chicago Muscatine and Iowa City with visits to Letts Wapello and Washington. A stolen cow case ends with a Washington county sheriff notice and a local search. A Saturday band of love meetings and Sunday school conclude with thanks to organizers. Lieutenant May Lapp mentioned. William Miller aged 76 in Black Hawk County is reportedly growing his third set of teeth.
Last rites for Mrs. Lucinda Ament were conducted by Rev. C. L. Stafford of the M. E. Church at the Jackson residence at Chestnut and Third streets. Pallbearers included D. V. Jackson, Chas. P. Jackson, Ed. McColm, Lee Ewing, Will Brannan, Bruce P. Jackson. Burial followed at Greenwood Cemetery.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during our father’s illness and death. John G. Kuebler Geo A Kuebler W F Kuebler Mr and Mrs Geo Detthof Peter Neustrom of Danbury was probably fatally injured in a runaway accident.
The Salvation Army hosted a children outing yesterday described as a grand success. Dinner served between 11 and 1, with drum taps at 11 drawing the youngsters together. A short talk by the captain highlighted the Army's children's work and invited further participation.
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