Fourth Annual Baptist Retreat Opens at Lodge
The fourth annual retreat of the First Baptist Sunday school and church opened today at Rotary lodge on Staley's lake and will run through Aug. 31. Speakers include Rev. M. Heath Tadlock of Buffalo, Rev. John Parr of Ft. Madison, and Rev. Vance Webster. Attendees and faculty are listed with numerous local names and Miss Minetta Headley noted among organizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist
Rotary Lodge
Staley’s Lake
M. Heath Tadlock
Buffalo
N. Y
John Parr
First Baptist Church of
Ft. Madison
Vance Webster
Edward Lorber
Warren Richardson
Carl
Jack Paetz
Wesley
Robert
A. L. Sharp
Pankratz to Face Driving Charges in Court on Tuesday
Rudolph Pankratz of 1011 East Eighth street was arrested at Fifth and Spring streets at 5:45 p m Saturday and booked on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Hearing set for 9 a m Tuesday in Justice of the Peace Hugh Chance court. bond posted $300 and released. Six intoxication cases disposed of by Justice Chance this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Pankratz
East Eighth Street
Muscatine
Fifth and Spring Streets
Court of Justice of the Peace
Hugh E. Chance
Pankratz
Justice Chance
Pearl Walters
East Front Street
Harvey James Walters
Leonard Hahn
East Fifth Street
East Second Street
Walter C. Drumm
la Mont
Ill
East Second
Martin T. Boland
City
Second Street
Iowa Avenue
Ike Foster
Sycamore
Earl Smith
Warmer Weather in Eastern Iowa Forecast
Typical summer conditions prevailed in Muscatine and nearby areas with a noon reading of 82 degrees and a night low of 52. Skies were partly cloudy statewide and temperatures stayed near normal. Eastern Iowa may see higher readings Tuesday while the west and north central stay cooler. Scattered showers were expected in the far west and north central regions. Last 24 hours saw a high of 88 at Fort Dodge and a low of 51 at Marshalltown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Fort Dodge
Marshalltown
Guder Family Holds Eighth Annual Park Picnic
Thirty six members of the Guder family gathered for the eighth annual reunion at Weed park. A basket dinner was served at noon with Charlotte Schaer providing vocal and guitar music. Ernie Schaer was elected president and Mrs. Ernie Schaer secretary for the 1940 reunion to be held the last Sunday in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guder
Weed Park
Charlotte Schaer
Ernie Schaer
Melvin Schaer
Victor Kresse
Vonda
Naomi
Wuanita
Junior
Sam Kresse
Patty Schaer
Fred Guder
Ernie
Schaer
Helen
Ralph
Norma
Marilyn
Marjorie
Harry Rexroth
Shirley
Irving
Albert Koeppen
Arie
Marvin
Wilton
Edwarclf
Hilbert
Marvin Hendricks
Carl Wiese
Donna
Moscow
W. T. Wiese
West Liberty
Earl Wiese
Muscatine
Sherman Hill
Rock Island
Harold Ervin
Davenport
Queen Elizabeth to Return to London From Balmoral
Queen Elizabeth plans to cut short her Balmoral Castle holiday in Scotland and travel to London Tuesday morning. The king returned Thursday. Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose will stay in Scotland indefinitely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Elizabeth
Balmoral Castle
Scotland
Mararet Rose
Scotnd
City Selections From River Town Social Notes
Charles Michael Jr. leaves South St. Paul after summer with the Harry Coder family in Lake township. Multiple households host visitors from Chicago, Seattle, Hinsdale, and Muscatine as neighbors plan trips, fairs, and open houses. The Owassa towboat and Lone Star barges pass dam No. 16 and head toward Betendorf and Alton with fuel oil and coal, while local residents attend fairs, church events, and picnics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Michael, Jr
South St. Paul
Minn
Harry Coder
Lake Township
Herbert Carpenter
Pond Street
Frank Terrill
Wallace Street
Cummings
Kas
Terrill
Thomas F. Barry
Mulberry Avenue
Kate
Bruno Mohnssen
Hinsdale
Ill
Curtis Beeding
East Eighth Street
Des Moines
West Liberty
Davenport
Aleco
M. L. Beeding
Grovis Beeding
Forrest Beeding
Rock Island
Arles Beeding
Muscatine
Laicille Heussner
Climer Street
Bernice
Catherine Mittman
Newell Avenue
Sterling
Evalen C. Strey
Augusta
Wis
Rosa I. Gehres
Osso Wis
Carl Edwin Cunningham
Betty Jean Townsend
Zion Luther League
Henry Brase
Hoffman Street
Kenneth Wayne
Orval Nesselbush
West Eighth Street
Council Bluffs
Arthur Hansen
Progressive Townsend Club No. 4
Hotel Grand
Eveyone
Martha
First Methodist Church
Musser Park
Charles Steinfurt
Mary Caroline
Chicago
Herman Steinfurt
Liberty Street Muscatine
Carolina Riexinger
Harry
Illinois City
Barbara Boch
Helen Boch
Alvin Messinger
Agnest Baker
J. W. Lewis
East Third Street
Moline
Robert Webb
Calvin Webb
Inl
J. Brookhart
Wilbur Sanderson
Rock Island, IL
Frank Roth
F. C. Schmdt
Iowa Avenue
Herman Stark
Marie
Edgar
St. Joseph
Alfred Schmidt
Peotone
William McCleary
Cedar Street
T. M. Cameron
Henry Price
Lincoln, Neb
Henry Kauffmann
Courici Bluffs
Donald Hopke
Maryella Fuller
East Eighth
New Junior High School Enrollment Urged
Muscatine junior high students are urged to enroll this week before Friday. Principal Glenn Pringle announced the office is open for enrollment and locker selection. The 1939-40 term opens at 8 40 a m Tuesday Sept 5 with an assembly in B 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine Junior High School
Glenn Pringle
Special Events Honor Members of Berger Family
Dr. and Mrs. David I. Berger and their two sons were guests of honor at three Muscatine Christian Endeavor events. About fifty attended the Bible Heart Throbs service, 100 had supper and the 6:30 Vesper service at Weed park featured a farewell address and a fagot and candle light ceremony. Members from Clinton Davenport Wilton and Muscatine joined in the programs. A crowd enjoyed Rust college singers at the First Methodist church Sunday night with a varied vocal program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David I. Berger
David George
Robert Walter
Muscatine
Fourteenth District of
Christian Endeavor
First Presbyterian Church
Vesper Hillside
Weed Park
Berger
Christian Endeavors
Clinton
Davenport
Wilton
Rust College Singers
Holly Springs
Miss
First Methodist
Japanese Aviators Reach Whitehorse in Yukon Goodwill Flight
Seven Japanese aviators landed the Nippon in Whitehorse Yukon Territory at 11 02 a m after a 2400 mile flight from across the north Pacific and Bering Sea. They planned to continue to Vancouver Seattle San Francisco and Los Angeles before turning east across the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Whitehorse
Yukon Territory
United States
North Pacific
Bering Sea
Vancouver
B. C
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Norwegians Impose Embargo on Exports
Oslo government declares a general embargo on most exports with exceptions for fish wood iron ore and iron pyrites after a ten day stay in Chicago. The report also lists local arrivals visits hospital admissions dismissals and club activities including Meadowlark Troop Girl Scouts meeting plans and Rotarians talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oslo
Achey Sobs As Testimony Is Given at Trial
In Lisbon, Iowa, 47 year old Harry Achey sits in a district courtroom as testimony on the murder of his father in law and mother in law, Clyde and Mrs Hoover, is heard. Achey had pled guilty last Wednesday to two counts of murder. A state identification technician testifies that bullets from the Hoovers and from Achey’s gun appear to be fired from the same weapon. The gun was found beside Achey when he was found wounded after the shooting. Sentencing was expected later that day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Harry Achey
Mechanicsville
Clyde Hoover
Lisbon
Achey
Harold Gessel
State Bureau of Identification
Iowa Accident Toll Mounts to 11 in Past Week
Iowa reports 11 more deaths in motor vehicle crashes over the past week raising the yearly toll to 301. casualties include Ade Myers 23 killed in a rollover near Oskaloosa and Mrs Minnie Winterfield 84 dying from a prior crash in Franklin county. Mildred Steiden 23 fell to her death at Backbone State Park and Nicholas Steffen is noted as her parent. Knoxville mine accident at Ramsey & Dooms claims Jesse Lee 60 and severely injures Bob Thompson with possible back injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Ade Myers
Oskaloosa
Minnie Winterfield
Iowa Falls
Franklin County
Mildred Steiden
Epworth
Backbone State Park
Manchester
Stefden
Pantel Suffers Bruises in Rural Muscatine County Crash
Clifford L Pantel 24 of rural route 3 Muscatine sustains head bruises when his pickup collided with Fre d Wolf 77 of West Liberty on a county road four miles from Muscatine. Pantel said he was traveling east and cresting a hill when the Wolf car pulled out of a driveway. Wolf could not avoid the impact. Both cars suffered minor damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford L. Pantel
Muscatine
Fred Wolf
West Liberty
Pantel
Fred Nesper
Wolf
J C Penney Picnic At Winning Cottage On Cedar River
Thirty five J C Penney Company employes attended a picnic at the Winning cottage on Cedar river Sunday. The event featured dinner and supper, with afternoon games, contests, horseshoes and baseball led by Miss Marla Gettert and organized by Miss Alice Tomfeld and Mrs Cyril Dale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Penney
Cedar River
Marla Gettert
Alice Tomfeld
Cyril Dale
Muscatine Group Named on Committee Posts at Session
The annual Friends church of Iowa convention in Oskaloosa named Muscatine residents to several boards. Rev. William S. Kitch joined the pastoral evangelistic board, Mrs. Kitch the stewardship board, Elizabeth Smith finance and communications, and Viola Smith missionary and minister recording boards. Rev. Willard O. Trueblood was the principal speaker. Local attendees included Mrs. Louis Herwig, Mrs. M. K. Mills, Junior Mills, the Campbells and children Bernard, Jacob Stellrecht, and Anna Mae Herwig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Kitch
Kitch
Elizabeth Smith
Viola Smith
Missionary Board
Minister Recording Board
Friends Church of Iowa
Oskaloosa
Willard O. Trueblood
Muscatine
Friends Churches of America
Louis Herwig
M. K. Mills
Junior Mills
Fred Campbell
Bernard
Jacob Stellrecht
Anna Mae Herwig
Maeglin Anniversary Marked by All Day Picnic
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Maeglin observed their forty-eighth wedding anniversary with an all day picnic and fish fry at the William Umlandt cottage by the Mississippi. The Muscatine couple, married August 27, 1891, have six children and 12 grandchildren. attendees included relatives such as Hildegarde Maeglin and various Suman, Benninger, Waltman, Brown, and Maeglin family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. E. Maeglin
West Fulham Avenue
William Umlandt
Mississippi River
Maeglin
Muscatine
Otto R. Maeglin
George Suman
George Benninger
Walter Waltman
H. C
Bobby
Richard
Donald
Herbert Brown
William Riemeyer
Wilbur Umlandt
Carl Hess Funeral Rites Held in Bloomington Township
Funeral services for Carl Hess aged 69 of Bloomington township were conducted at 2 30 p m today at Ralph J Wittich Funeral Home with Rev F C Schmidt pastor of the Evangelical and Reformed church officiating Pallbearers named Henry Walter Dick Walter Elmer Wilson Peter Wilkens Fred Hahn and Jewell Chandler Flower attendants listed as Mrs Fred Hahn Mrs Henry Walter Mrs Clarence Walter and Mrs
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Hess
Bloomington Township
Ralph J. Wittich
F. C. Schmidt
The
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Henry Walter
Dick Walter
Elmer Wilson
Peter Wilkens
Fred Hahn
Jewell Chandler
Clarence Walter
Theodore Salemink Rites Observed at St. Mathias Church
Funeral services for Theodore Salemink a Sweetland township farmer were held at St. Mathias church at 9 a m with Rt. Rev. Msgr. W L Hannon presiding. Burial followed in Holy Family cemetery Davenport with casket bearers Perry Davis Paul Rohling August Zukasty Laurence Hinrichs LeRoy Taylor and Clarence Nolan. Hoffman Funeral home directed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Salemink
Sweetland Township
St. Mathias Church
W. L. Hannon
Holy Family
Davenport
Perry Davis
Paul Rohling
August Zukasty
Laurence Hinrichs
LeRoy Taylor
Clarence Nolan
Hoffman Funeral Home
Mrs Keck Rites Are Conducted at Aledo Home
Funeral services were held at John Murphy funeral home in Aledo for Mrs Luella Lutz Keck 57 who died Saturday in a Moline hospital. In charge was Leon Allen of the Latter Day Saints church Muscatine. Burial followed in Millersburg cemetery. She was born February 20 1882 in Arborsville Nebraska and married Jesse Keck in August 1899. Surviving include two step daughters, two sisters, three brothers, thirteen nieces and nephews, and other relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Latham
W. S. Latham
Herbert Toussaint
Letty Sywassink
Parker’s
Davenport
Fairview
Meadowlark Troop No
Girl Scouts
Musser Park
Arthur C. Hansen
Don Day
J. L. Klein, Jr
Ivan Klein
Herman Havemann
John Rummels
Walter Russell
Charles Rummells
Libby
Minn
Maennerchor
Harry Stange
Nichols Road
William Froehner
John Murphy
Aledo
Luella Lutz Keck
Moline Hospital
Leon Allen
Latter Day Saints Church of
Ill
Latter Day Saints Church
Roy
Myrtle
Edna Harroun
Millersburg
Nora Finch
Joy
Bertha Burns
Maud Retherford
Eliza
J. E. Lutz
C. L. Lutz
Muscatine
H. L. Lutz
Gladstone
Iowa Fires Cost 68 Lives in First Half of Year
Iowa Fire Marshal John W. Strohm reported 3,008 blazes in the first half of the year causing 68 deaths and 2,640,540 in property damage. He urged Iowans to prevent similar losses in the remaining six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
John W. Strohm
Strohm
Maennerocher Society Sings at Wittich Funeral Rites
The Maennerocher society performed at Wittich Funeral Home and Memorial Park Cemetery where burial was conducted. Mrs. Gertrude Brannan served as organist for the services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Wilkens
Maennerocher Society
Wittich Funeral
Memorial Park Cemetery
Gertrude Brannan
Ed Schultheis Named Officer of Labor Group
Ed Schultheis of Muscatine national representative of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was named a vice president as Iowa and Nebraska CIO leaders closed their first Nebraska convention in Omaha. Delegates pledged to oppose the re election of Senator Burke and condemned totalitarianism while reaffirming faith in the CIO and democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Schultheis
Muscatine
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Iowa
Nebraska
Omaha
Edward R. Burke
D-Neb
John C. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Iowa Federation of Labor
Lewis
Don Harris
Isms
Burke
Ben Henry
Des Moines
Frank McCarty
Harrison Brown
Charles W. McCullough
Elmer Warren
Raymond
Iia
Alfred Hjort
Albia
Don Pinkston
Sioux City
Ray Reasoner
George E. Evans
W. H. Beebe
Joe J. Kraus
Waterloo
Dwarf Fire-eater at Iowa State Fair Dies During Act
Harry McGregor a 40 year old dwarf fire eater with a midway show at the Iowa state fair collapsed Sunday afternoon and died shortly after. Coroner A E Shaw ruled the death a heart attack as Mrs McGregor his wife watched from the arena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Harry McGregor
A. E. Shaw
McGregor
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Queen Elizabeth
Clifford Pantel
J. C. Penney Company
Winning Cottage
E. E. Bloom
Insurance Service
441
Insurance Agency
Central State Bank
St. Mathias
Mrs. Keck
Aledo Home
Carters
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