Local notes feature social events and travel updates
Madam Betts visits all week with toiletry specials at Thiesen's. J C Schurr travels to Washington with parents for a board meeting. John Gieger visits from Letts to see daughter Mrs J J Legler. Mary Kian teaches Basfield via Western. Frank Stuart returns from Washington to stay with Gieslers at Eagle Point. Neilie Downer returns to Wilton. Anna Schlutz undergoes surgery at Hershey Hospital and is recovering. Albert Albee from Grinnell trapped in Muscatine then visits Sweetland. Fitzgerald family travels to Fruitland for weekend with Fred Oberg. Berlin Studio offers expert pose for patrons’ benefit. Bankers' Pioneer ice cream social at Maccabee hall with Prof Burroughs impersonator on Sept 2. admission 16e. Wilton fair tickets discounted Sept 7-11. Mr and Mrs Narvis plan Chicago visit. Mr Narvis has been in Milwaukee. Four men arrested for intoxication. Ryan and O’Brien receive five days, others seven days.
Sale Opens This Week With Wide Music Two Steps
Sale begins Thursday September 3 through September 5 featuring a large list of popular music numbers. Items include Lazarre Waltz You Be True to Eyes of Blue and many two step tunes such as American Beauty Dixie Girl and In the Good Old Fashioned Way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiawatha
Arizona
Casey Corner
Lindy
University of Iowa
Mascagni
Nyle
Sue
Madelaine
Misery Hall
Mary
No Music Exchanged Pianist to Play for You
A pianist will perform for attendees as part of a local event despite earlier plans for a different music exchange. The program features solo pieces and light audience seating at the community hall.
Wilton Fair and local visits noted in Muscatine items
Daily notes record Septembers Wilton fair dates September 8 to 10 with reduced rates and excursions. Several residents including Theodore Beckey, Eugene Pease, Miss Rosebud Pease, Miss Carrie Spickler, Edward Lindle, and George Ingham are listed as travelers or visitors in Muscatine and Wilton. A sales bank note and YMCAs Woman's Auxiliary meeting are also mentioned along with business visits and social calls.
August Kranz Dies After Long Suffering Soldier of Eleventh Iowa
August Kranz, a veteran of Company H, Eleventh Iowa infantry, died Sunday at 11:30 after two years of heart trouble and old age. He enlisted in 1861, fought at Shiloh where he was wounded in the mouth, and later settled near Foster, Illinois. Survived by wife, four sons Edward August Henry William and four daughters. Funeral Tuesday at 1 PM with home service, Baptist church rites, and burial at Runnells cemetery conducted by Rev. Nuetzmann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Kranz
Eleventh
Iowa Infantry
Foster
Lil
Kranz
Mr. Kranz
Stars and Stripes
Union
G. O. Morgridge
John H. Munroe
John Zoliner
J. B. Coe
Edward
August
Henry
William
Milan
Louise
Minnie
Carrie
Annie Hayes
Wrayville
Baptist Church
Runnells Cemetery
Rev. Nuetzmann
Grim Reaper Takes Many Young People In August
Muscatine county records show twenty deaths in August with eight over seventy and twelve under. only two people aged over eighty, Alex Jackson and Mrs. Rachel Hoffman. The list includes infants and youths such as Thelma Gremmel, Margaret Viola Phillips, Edith D. Riegel, Harry A. Cummins, and John Leutsinger, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine County
Alex Jackson
Rachael Hoffman
Thelma Gremmel
Harry A. Cummins
Elizabeth Bichenauer
Margaret Viola Phillips
Mary Weber
John Bersch
Edith D. Riegel
Caroline Nester
Henry Sitter, Sr
Aucvest
Jacob Kuebler
Aucust
Harry Wilhelm
Herman
Clarence Groters
Lucinda Ament
Clarence Lamfier
John Leutsinger
Death of Mrs Hannah Korte After Illness at Home
Mrs Hannah Korte died Sunday afternoon at 5 45 after a long battle with consumption. She leaves husband Adam and their two year old son Norbert, plus four sisters and three brothers. Funeral at St Marys church Wednesday morning with burial at Catholic cemetery. Born 1867 in Pine Mills Sweetland township Muscatine county she was 36 years two months and twenty one days. Married November 22 1892 and resided on West Fourth street. She had been ill for two years and will be greatly missed as wife and mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannah Korte
Norbert
Nicholas Wirtz
Kate Rinisland
Wilton Township
Andrew Wirtz
Lena Bersch
Mary
Minnie Wirtz
Muscatine
Joseph Wirtz
Davenport
St. Mary's Church
Catholic Cemetery
Pine Mills
Sweetland Township
Muscatine County
Adam Korte
West Fourth Street
Muscatine North & South Railway Sells Excursion Tickets
The Muscatine North and South Railway offers round trip excursion tickets to Louisville Kentucky and all Indiana and Ohio points west of Sandusky Columbus Washington Court House Wilmington and Cincinnati. Tickets valid thirty days from sale date with sales on September 1 5 and October 6 1963. Inquiries at the M N S depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine North & South Railroad
Louisville
Kentucky
Indiana
Ohio
Sandusky
Columbus
Washington Court House
Wilmington
Cincinnati
Clerks Lose To Machinists In Sunday Baseball
Sunday morning at the fair grounds the clerks and machinists unions played a baseball game. The machinists won 16 to 8 behind strong pitching by Don and a 13 strikeout performance, while Emmett Huffman held the hits in check for the clerks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fair Grounds
Donthey
Emmett Huffman
Flaming Arrow thrills Grand Opera patrons
The Flaming Arrow drew a good crowd at the Grand Opera house on Saturday night as the act staged Indian and border scenes with soldiers and fort rescue. Manager Hurst reported pleased patrons and a healthy box office as the performance concluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Opera House
United States
Hurst
Nickel Plate Road offers fast NYC Boston service
The Nickel Plate Road runs three fast express trains daily in each direction between Chicago New York and Boston with modern day coaches vestibuled sleeping cars and superior dining car service. Fares range from 5 cents to 1.1 dollars with optional a la carte meals and no excess fare. Chicago ticket offices listed.
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New York City
Boston
Chicago
New York
Chicago City
Adams St
la Salle St
van Buren St
George Wickes of Council Bluffs A Lifelong Resident
George W. Wickes aged 60, a lifelong Council Bluffs resident, was born there to a Pottawattamie mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Wickes
Council Bluffs
Pottawattamie
Yachting Race Hangs On Light Winds
The third yacht rack reports a fluke as wind drops to near calm with five miles remaining. Reliance leads by over a mile at 4 05 o clock as a possible finish within the time limit remains if the wind freshens and boats can finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reliance
Pleasantly Surprised J J Bosten Remembered by Old Comrades
On Sunday afternoon Co C 35th Iowa Volunteers honored J J Bosten on his 65th birthday at his home. The celebrating group presented a reclining chair for the invalid veteran as flowers and semilax adorned the rooms. A substantial supper followed for Herman Schmidt Jacob Hess Jacob Schomberg John Hartman Henry Hooke Conrad Brenner Henry Marks Henry Kiefnner and Jacob Worst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Bosten
Bosten
Co. C
Iowa
Boston
Herman Schmidt
Jacob Hess
Jacob Schomberg
John Hartman
Henry Hooke
Conrad Brenner
Henry Marks
Henry Kiefnner
Jacob Worst
Fleet not to be recalled from Constantinople report denied
Washington officials deny any truth to rumors that Leishman sought recall of the American squadron from Constantinople. The State Department says no change to the fleet's program is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
State Department
Constantinople
Leishman
Seven young men set for Camp Joy fishing trip
Early tomorrow a party of seven will travel ten miles below the city to Camp Joy for a week of fishing and hunting. The group leaving tomorrow includes Faye G. Bennison Maynard Thompson Charles H Little Horace L Husted Raymond Titus of this city and Raymond Davidson and Harold Davidson of Wapelio. The rest of the party will join later in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Joy
Faye G. Bennison
Maynard Thompson
Charles H. Little
Horace L. Husted
Raymond Titus
Raymond Davidson
Harold Davidson
Wapelio
Also Mentioned on This Page
Schaefer
Reliance Loan Co
West Second Street
Madam Betts
Thiesen
J. C. Schurr
Washington
John Gieger
Letts
City
J. J. Legler
Mary Kian
East Hill
Basfield
Frank Stuart
Fred Giesler
Eagle Point
Neilie Downer
Wilton
Anna Schlutz
Fulham Avenue
Hershey Hospital
Albert Albee
Grinnell
Sweetland
J. As. Fitzgerald
West Eighth Street
Fruitland
Fred Oberg
Lady Poser
Berlin
Bankers’ Pioneer Association
Maccabee Hall
Burroughs
Wm. Ryan
Frank O’brien
Squire Howe
Justice Eversmeyer
Hinkle & Flannery’s
Hirt & Fesler
Thiesen’s
Theodore Beckey
Riverside
Eugene Pease
Rosebud Pease
Wapello
Carrie Spickler
Illinois City
Edward Lindle
Lake Township
George Ingham
Ed. Ingham
East Eighth Street
Cr. D. Cook
Great Wilton
Fred Zimmerman
Park Place
Ainsworth
F. H. Shinn
A. E. Myrick
L. Walton
Linn Street
Wilton Fair
Edith Leech
Nellie Lucas
Fairport
J. B. Miller
D. P. Miller
Fifth and
Sycamore Streets
Woman's Auxiliary of
The
Congregational Church
Chestnut Street
Commercial Club
Death
11Th
Iowa Regiment
Grim Reaper
Peo
Kenneth M. Gray
Florence G. Moxley
M. C. Hayes & Co
Machinists
Clerks. Flynne
L. Kautz
Donahey
Huffman
Chaska Fuller Bowman
W. Kautz
W. Barry
J. Kennefick
Deutschman
Beck al
Barry If
Kennefick
Rf Hockey
Kemper Meisenbach
Weidlein
Clerks
Machini
Joe Gibney
George Mark
Rosenfield
Flaming Arrow
H. F. Barnard Co., Jewelers’ Watch Inspectors
Turkey
Additional Society
Winn's Grocery
U. B. Church
PotsZn
Buzz
Luellen’s
Panitorium Club
East Second Street
D. McCurdy
Chas. Whitmore
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