Christmas Mail Not Heavy Yet Says Postmaster
Postmaster W. S. McKee notes no great rise in Christmas mail at the local office though preparations for an influx begin. Campaign for early mailing aims to ease last minute burden. Rural carriers excepted will work Christmas morning. full day off suspended due to Saturday holiday. Foreign mail stickers may cause returns. seals on address side discouraged. important to prepay postage and insure valuables. Final dispatch to Hawaii on Dec 16 from San Francisco, reaching Honolulu by Dec 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. McKee
McKee
Hawaiiian Islands
San Francisco
Honolulu
District Court actions and estate matters listed in court notes
Diercks amends suit to undo land transfer to Hannah Norton alleging fraud to defeat a judgment. Admin Will estate of Anna Margaretha Will quiets title with Ralph P. Lowe named among defendants. Judge Maines approves Van Zandt estate final report. estate closed. Broders awarded default judgment against Geertz group for 2447.21. Will and guardianship reports filed and approved by J. Ek. McIntosh and Judge W. R. Maines. guardians Matthew Westrate and F. A. Martin listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Diercks
Charles, Frank
Hannah Cecilia Norton
Charles
Frank Norton
Hannah Norton
R. S. Jackson
Diercks
Hanley & Hanley
J. F. Devitt
F. W. Eversmeyer
Anna Margaretha Will
Ralph P. Lowe
Nichols, Tipton & Tipton
Maines
Margaret van Zandt
Ralph J. van Zandt
Expected Cold Wave Causes Fall of Only Four Degrees Here
The cold wave drove the North Dakota temperatures below freezing with winds and drifting snow. In the city the thermometer stood at 26 degrees at 7 am, four degrees lower than Tuesday, with a slight rebound at noon. The river measured seven feet, one inch below Tuesday, as clouding eased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
Last Two Confederate Generals Preserve Vivid Memories
Exclusive dispatch recounts the lives of John McCausland and Felix Robertson, last surviving Confederate generals. McCausland, near Charleston West Virginia, recalls Lynchburg and Chambersburg with his sword gift. Robertson, near Waco Texas, recalls Shiloh to Macon and refuses to surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
EFS
Army of the “Lost Cause
John McCausland
Charleston
W. Va
Felix Robertson
Waco
Tex
McCausland
Kanawha Valley
Lynchburg
Jenkins Cavalry
Hunter
Virginia
Jubal Early
Chambersburg
Early
Grant
Canada
England
France
Mexico
Dallas
Robertson
West Point
Sam Houston
Custer
Otterbein Guild to Present The Kleptomaniac Play
Otterbein Guild of the United Brethren church will stage an entertainment at the church Friday evening featuring the play The Kleptomaniac. The program includes violin and piano by Mrs Myrtle Brown and Miss Gertrude Hecht, readings by Miss Juanita Chapman and Mrs Bernice Carpenter, vocal solo by Mrs Carl Kautz, and instrumental pieces by other performers.
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Otterbein Guild
Otterbein Guild Organization
The
United Brethren Church
Myrtle Brown
Gertrude Hecht
Juanita Chapman
Ruth Meerdink
Marion Meeker
Carl Kautz
Denis
Dorothea DeCamp
Bernice Carpenter
James Dutro
Christmas Art Class Organized by YWCA Tonight
The YWCA Christmas art class instructed by Mrs. Herman Korneman starts at 7 tonight in the Y. W. parlors. The four weekly sessions end before Christmas cover wax flowers novelty boxes bags and dolls. A 50 cent charge applies. Attendees bring a paring knife and scissors. open to all interested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Women's Christian Association
Herman Korneman
Y. W
Plans for Ladies' Aid Turkey Dinner at First Methodist
The Ladies' Aid society of the First Methodist Episcopal church will finalize plans for its annual turkey dinner to be served Wednesday December 8 at the church. A business meeting at 2 o clock in the church banquet rooms will review solicitors lists and cash contributions to be given to Mrs J E Stover. Members with fancy work and other donations are asked to bring them to the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid Society
First Methodist Episcopal Church
J. E. Stover
Luther League Suppers and Meetings Report
The Luther League of Zion Lutheran church hosted a pot luck supper with a parish hall gathering and a business meeting followed by games. The group will reconvene in two weeks. A Cedar Street Methodist Episcopal Ladies Aid work session followed its monthly business meeting. no meeting was held last week due to Thanksgiving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther League Wewrers
Luther League of the Zion Lutheran Church
Ladies Aid Society
Cedar Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Girl Reserves To Hold Recognition Services
The Young Women group plans a candle recognition service as a commemorative event. Details emphasize a ceremony of remembrance and community reflection.
Jewels of Industry shown at high school assembly
A motion picture titled Jewels of Industry was shown at 12 30 in the high school assembly hall detailing carborundum abrasive products and their uses. The Auroran issue 3 was released today with 24 pages and a two color holly leaf clover on the cover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auroran
Leo Schmitz
Weis-Lupten
Radio reception back to normal in city district
Great improvement was reported in radio reception in the central residential district after correction of trouble on municipal light plant wires. The Journal received only one complaint of poor reception, with surrounding sets receiving programs clearly, suggesting the fault lay inside the affected sets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Electric
Journal
Solem to Choose Bulldog Captain at Drake
Drake university football players vote to let Coach Ossie Solem choose the 1927 captain. Seventeen Bulldogs received letters at the annual banquet last night in Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Drake University
Ossie Solem
Bulldogs
Young Women's Christian Association and Church Meetings
The evening program at the YWCA brings together junior and senior clubs for a 7:30 service. Later this week First Presbyterian hosts two organization meetings. Mrs. Wollett entertains the Industrial Society Thursday at the church parlors. The Missionary Society holds a quarterly collection Friday afternoon. Mulford Congregational Women's Mission circle meets Thursday afternoon in the church parlors for work and business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Association
Young Women’s Christian Association
First Presbyterian Church
Industrial Society
W. H. Wollett
The
Missionary Society
Women’s Mission Circle
Mulford Congregational Church
Local society and business notes from Muscatine area
Mrs. Fred Timm and daughter Margaret return from Chicago after a Thanksgiving visit with Earl Timm. H. Madden is reported improved at his home. Woodmen of the World nominate officers with 1927 election next Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Schneider announce the birth of a son in Milwaukee. Misses Ella and Clara Sharp visit Kalona then return home. Nurse Margaret Matheson leaves for Canada due to mother’s pneumonia. Hog receipts at local yards total 12,000 head for November, value $301,802.48. Zion Lutheran Sunday school to meet December 3. Mrs. Walter Luellen and others plan a Chicago trip. Grace English Lutheran church holds council meeting. Stock train derailment near What Cheer delays Wilton Plug. Adelaide Ady transfers property in West Liberty.
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Fred Timm
Margaret
West Eleventh Street
Chicago
Earl Timm
Grady & Son
Kalona
E. BE. Yoder
Wellman
W. H. Stonebarger
Lone Tree
A. C. Fleichter
Hillandale Lad 49th Places Second at Livestock Expo
Hillandale Lad 49th, owned by Hillandale Farms of Muscatine, took second in the yearling bull division of the breeding Hereford class at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. Hillandale Lad 54th followed minutes later in the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Ill
Hillandale Lad
Hillandale Farms
Muscatine
Greathouse Manufacturing Company Dissolves
The Greathouse Manufacturing Company announces its dissolution and liquidation. Assets will be distributed as the firm winds up its affairs, and the factory has not operated for over a year. A local source says dissolution follows a proposed reorganization. The company will pass out of existence after liquidation.
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Greathouse Manufacturing Company
County Recorder
Muscatine Nurse in China Feared Amid Civil War
Muscatine friends fear for Miss Maud McQuiggan a nurse and Muscatine graduate who has spent nearly four years in American missionary hospitals in China. She is stationed at Hankow near Shanghai, moved there a year ago after prior service in another region, as civil war rumors surge.
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Maud McQuiggan
Muscatine
China
Miss McQuiggan
Hankow
Shanghai
Jackson School Orchestra Holiday Concert Friday
The Jackson school orchestra will perform a Christmas season concert at 7 45 Friday evening in the high school auditorium. Solo piano and violin pieces, duets and trios, a xylophone duet and various orchestra selections will be featured under director Ida Appel Springborn with many students named in the program.
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Jackson School
Ida Appel Springborn
E “Jolly
Klass Engelmann
MaGuse
Mozart
Trial Ends Hall Mills Case In Newark Verdict Likely
Newark reports no further Hall Mills trials after the current jury returns its verdict or a possible disagreement. If the jury disagrees, no retrial will be sought and if acquittal is returned the defendants will not face other indictments.
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Newark
N. J
Newark News
Trenton
Hall-Mills
Obituary Notice for Mrs Waitstill Adams and Alexander White
Funeral services for Mrs Waitstill Adams were held at Fairbanks Home with burial in Greenwood cemetery. Alexander White aged 68 died at Muscatine county home after appendicitis surgery and illness. survivors include three half-brothers and two half-sisters. funeral plans pending.
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Waitstill Adams
Fairbanks
W. A. Bloomquist
Greenwood Cemetery
Alexander White
Muscatine County
Mr. White
Arkansas
George
Sally White
Pennsylvania
Jennie Gill
First Baptist Church
M. B. A. Lodge
Fred
Tony
John Sling
Muscatine
Emma Burns
Wilton
Tracy Stuart
Peace Valley
Fairbanks Home For Funerals
LETTS CONTEST SEEN PROMPT ACTION FOR REELECTION BID
Lawrence DeGraff chief justice sends a letter to M W Stapleton local attorney representing J P Gallagher contestant in the Letts reelection contest. No word has reached Gallagher or Letts attorneys from Attorney General Ben J Gibson who earlier promised a conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. D. Letts
Davenport
Lawrence DeGraff
State Supreme Court
M. W. Stapleton
J. P. Gallagher
Williamsburg
Stapleton
Ben J. Gibson
Letts
Methodists In Conference At Muscatine First Church
Methodist Episcopal churches from Muscatine and nearby hold a group gathering at the First Methodist Episcopal Church to promote general church work. Special speakers include Rev. D. E. Kendall and Rev. H. M. Pingree with an inspirational 7 30 evening meeting open to the public led by Rev. Fagen and possibly Kendall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Episcopal Churches
Muscatine
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Board of Home Missions and Church Extension
D. E. Kendall
Board of Home Missions
H. M. Pingree
Board of Sunday Schools
A. B. Curran
Upper Iowa University
Lester Fagen
Ogden
Utah
Mr. Fagen
Kendall
Plan Community Entertainment at Island Church
Island Methodist Episcopal church hosts a Friday evening program on Dec. 3 featuring a playlet Waiting for the Train and readings, with Rev. Victor Bloomquist, Miss Anna Krueger, Mrs. Lysle Thompson, Merle Foster, Isabelle Webster, Miss Leona Fowler, Miss Iva Bartenhagen, Miss Aleta Shoultz, Miss Marjorie Corwin and others in songs, piano solos, and papers.
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Island Methodist Episcopal Church
Victor Bloomquist
Anna Krueger
Dora Bartenhagen
Lysle Thompson
Merle Foster
Isabelle Webster
Leona Fowler
Iva Bartenhagen
Aleta Shoultz
Marjorie Corwin
Tickling Palate with Sunlite Jell Five Flavors
When appetite falters, nourishing treats please the eye and palate. Sunlite Jell blends 5 fruit flavors lemon orange cherry raspberry strawberry with mint into easy to prepare, enticing morsels that suit hearty and small appetites. A grocer order opens a fresh healthful dainty option.
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Sunlite
Senior Year Ling Bull Class Placement Noted
The report notes a student taking third place in a senior year ling bull class, indicating performance in a late academic term.
Sales Course to Open Here With Dr Krebs in January
Dr Stanley L Krebs of New York City a national authority on salesmanship will conduct a three night sales course here on January 25 26 and 27 Three lectures on salesmanship and advertising will be given at a location to be announced The Ad club announced the visit which will aid salespeople office workers and others in business Jos Roth led today s Ad club meeting which focused on The Use of the Telephone in Business A arrangements committee Rabedeaux West and Magnus was formed to finalize Krebs appearance
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley L. Krebs
New York City
Mercantile Art Institute of New York
Krebs
Ad Club
Dr. Krebs
Jos Roth
Clyde R. Rabedeaux
L. F B. West
J. Magnus
Davidson Named Alternate Cadet for West Point
William 8. Davidson son of Mr and Mrs J Andrew Davidson 407 Parkington drive and grandson of Col J T Davidson 112 Magnolia street was named an alternate cadet to the U S Military Academy at West Point by Congressman F D Letts. Howard M Pahl of Davenport was named cadet by Letts. The youth attends Shattuck Military School at Faribault Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William 8. Davidson
J. Andrew Davidson
Parkington Drive
Col
J. T. Davidson
Magnolia Street
United States Military Academy
West Point
F. D. Letts
Howard M. Pahl
Davenport
Congressman Letts
Shattuck Military School
Faribault
Minn
Reds to Buy Columbus Club Under Negotiations
Cincinnati officials announced negotiations to buy the Columbus club by the Cincinnati National League group are expected to wrap up this afternoon. Also, in China’s Yangtsepoo district more than 9 000 cotton mill workers remain idle due to ongoing strikes and lockouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Cincinnati National League Baseball Club
Columbus American Association
Columbus Club
Cincinnati
Yangtsepoo
China
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry Broders
Henry Geertz
Eda Geertz
Julius Geertz
G. Abibee
L. Perry Wolfe
J. Ek. McIntosh
W. R. Maines
H. J. Hendriks
W. C. Nyenhuis
Matthew Westrate
Guardian
Ernest Holtz
Frederick
Robert Holtz
F. A. Martin
Shiloh
Army of Tennessee
Wheeler
Buckhead Church
Kilpatrick
Macon
Felix
Solem
Bulldog
H. €. Madden
East Eighth Street
Woodmen’s
J. H. Schneider
Milwaukee
Ella
Clara Sharp
Ed Smith
Oak Street
Margaret Matheson
Public Health Bureau
Zion Lutheran Church
Walter Luellen
Harry Leu
C. C. Braunsworth
Church Council of the
Grace English Lutheran Church
Adelaide Ady
Martha Ady
Town of
West Liberty
Hillandale Farm
Greathouse CO
Tion
Trouble
Jackson School Organization
Laighton
Maxine Greiner
Cherry Lane
Bernice Umlandt
Paper Chain
Ruth Springborn
Engelmann Ascher Sera BR
Paul Geibel
Music Box
Sok Liebich
Flora Musena
Cornet
Miller Borgstadt
Harold Leu
Oar Phillips
Tere Ee Ees Poe
Rollie Scholten
Robert Johnsige
American National Melodies
Ascher
Walters
Foster
Susanna
Corinna Lange
Ned
Junior Phillips
Massa
Robert Johnston
Justice Degraff
M. W
Gibson
Methodists
Rie
Davidson
Cincinnati Reds
Helmont
Belmont Yacht Harbor
Lake Michigan
Lincoln Park
North Side
WM. A. Buescher
Lake Shore Drive Hotel
Ritz Carston
New York
Sheridan Road
Belmont
Chaney
Lucas
West Second Street
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