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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
16
Notes remind residents to present tickets by 2 p m tomorrow for a drawing, list tickets for quick retrieval, and mention C E Richard & Sons and B E Lilly The Quality Store. It reports Mrs John Miller visiting relatives in the city while Mrs E N Crees travels from Davenport and a sick child in Glen Hubbard, plus local insurance contact J E Stevenson & Son.
Epworth League of First Methodist plans to raise 500 dollars for the new church, starting with an oyster supper in January. Cabinet meeting at Mrs Walton's home on Sycamore street will map a January membership drive as Bessie Hoopes leads the Sunday evening YWCA Bible study.
Mrs Dora E Doxey heads for St Louis to face murder charges in the death of William J Erder. Doctors say she is suffering acute nervousness and cannot travel immediately. Her husband says the extradition effort will be vigorously opposed.
The Young Ladies' Presbyterian Guild will meet this evening at the church immediately following the revival meeting. All members are urged to attend.
The funeral for Joseph Hautsch was held at his home in East Davenport with Rev. J. J. Jans officiating. The body was shipped by noon train to Davenport for cremation and ashes will be sent to Jersey City for burial. Pallbearers were local painters including M. F. Eaton and S. G. Tarr, with family members Henry Teitsch Rose Muendel Tillie Miller and Victor Albrand among those accompanying.
In Letts Iowa on a Wednesday afternoon at 2 30 Miss Bessie May Letts daughter of Mr and Mrs N R Letts married John Melvin Brown of Des Moines in a private family ceremony at the bride's mother's home Rev W F Fry officiated with Miss Lulu Van Horn and B F Snyder as attendants. A wedding dinner followed.
The Ladies' Aid of Island church will host an oyster supper on Wednesday evening December 8 at the Island church. A sale of fancy work will also be conducted.
Police investigate a chloroforming attack on a young woman near Rock Island street station in Iowa City. Identity of both victim and assailant is unknown and authorities search for clues as they follow faint leads.
A Boston educator recalls nervous exhaustion two years ago and credits Grape-Nuts with ending constipation and boosting brain power and stamina. She describes a breakfast of raw egg beaten into four spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts with hot milk or water, praising its digestibility. She urges others to read The Road to Wellville and notes the letters are genuine and engaging.
The ceremony was held at noon with a 2 30 oclock reception. Among out of town guests was Mrs Runyon of Muscatine, mother of the bride Letté. The groom departs Monday for St Paul where the couple will reside. Mrs Brown stays with her mother until January 1 then joins husband in the northern city.
Mrs Julia B McKibben of Iowa City will address Sunday afternoon at the YWCA. Former preceptress at Iowa Wesleyan University Mt Pleasant she brings expertise on the expected topic A Girl's Relations to Man. All women of the city are invited to attend.
The Dorcas Sewing society gathered at the East Oak Grove home of Mr and Mrs Wash MecGreer for a social meeting on a December day. Members discussed projects and shared refreshments in a community gathering.
The text records multiple Span gler Ladies Aid meetings at homes of Barnard and Newt McConaha with sewing and dinners. Revivals continue at Spangler chapel. Mrs. Wm Fishburn recovers from illness. Alfred Shields travels to Denver after visiting Geo Shields' family.
In Canton Ohio on December 3 orders reduced the tomb guard of one company of regular army troops. Secretary Hartzell of the McKinley Memorial association was informed that Secretary Dickinson has decided to reduce the guard to two non commissioned officers.
Johnson County boy Fred Potter formerly of Lone Tree may travel to Washington as his private secretary duties unfold. The report notes the family’s interest in Potter’s potential path to the national capital.
Secretary to Judge H E Deemer of the Iowa supreme court is mentioned as a possibility if President Taft elevates him. The note implies Deemer would ensure Potter reaches Washington for a U S supreme court nomination.
Stockholders of Aerie No 815 Fraternal Order of Eagles are notified of the annual meeting on Tuesday evening December 7, 1909 at lodge rooms for election of directors and any business that may come before.
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