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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1913
Page
9
An entertainment program promises the Love of Pendelops as more entertaining than Lyman Howe’s high priced show. Admission is 10 cents with children under 14 paying 5 cents.
About twenty members of the Chamber of Commerce dined at Burkhnardt's restaurant on ash Second street. The custom began some time ago with active members meeting at city restaurants for the past two or three Mondays. Next Monday the Chamber of Commerce will hold a luncheon at the WW C A.
Funeral services for the late Mrs Verana Moore were conducted at 2:00 PM at the Garman Evangelical Church with Rev Jans, former pastor, presiding. Interment followed in Greenwood Cemetery.
Houston dispatch reports ninety six known dead as floods sweep through Texas with twenty five drowned recently. Many victims are black, as Brazos and Colorado rivers crest near the gulf. Twenty drownings near Brookshire, Wharton reports add to mass refugee displacement amid cold weather and rescue waits.
The Harvey Stock Company presented what many called the season’s best comedy drama at the Orpheum with a ten member cast. Miss Wylde led as the heroine and Roberton delivered a standout turn as Lazy Williams in a lively western set piece. The company announced Gratebrook Farm for Thursday and The Girl From Out Yonder for Sunday with the final Harvey Players appearance before Christmas.
Amos Stout was picked up Sunday and brought before Judge John A. Rowan. He pleaded guilty and received a 21 day jail term at the county jail.
Masses were held at St. Marys and St. Matthias as the Fenat of the Immaculate Cor ruption of the Virgin Mary was celebrated. School work was abandoned for the holy day of obligation in the church.
The University of Iowa Glee Club will perform in the city on December 30 at the Grand Opera House under the Red Men lodge. The program includes a pop concert and a 2,000 seat reel of motion pictures from the Iowa State football game and other events. Red Men committee members are R. A. Thompson C Co Hagerman Leonard Bowes Howard Coon and H. G. Thompson. A possible reunion of Iowa graduates and former students may be held that evening, encouraged by the extension department’s county reunion drive.
The Lutheran Mutual Aid society of the German Lutheran church elected officers with Herman Liebbe as President John Krieg as Treasurer and George Andreson as Secretary. They vote to donate 600 to the school building fund on January 1 and also give window shades and tables for the new building. A railway officials party hosted by Mr and Mrs James Farrell on Schley avenue featured a 6 o clock dinner and luncheon with guests including Edward B Dunphy of Des Moines. The Shoys Will guide the Gleaner's Band of the United Brethren church elected Weldon Crow President and Lewis McCorkle Secretary. The Life of Livingston was studied as the group meets on the first Sunday afternoon in January. A Hershey Memorial hospital benefit concert is planned at a local church with Professor Robert J. Jones as organist and choir master, though performers are not yet named. Mrs Lucy Krider celebrated her birthday with a surprise gathering at her son William Krider’s home on Adams Street, with about forty guests and games. The First Baptist Mission circle will meet at the church parlors on Wednesday afternoon with several named hostesses. The Men's Sunday Evening Club board of directors is noted.
The First Congregational church hosts a Tuesday evening gathering for the Christian Endeavor society of the United Brethren church meets at Miss Jessi Kopp s home on West Seventh street for a monthly business session. Banner Lodge Industrial holds its fortnightly assessment Wednesday afternoon at Mrs Frank Walters 1203 East Front street. Mrs Laura Dale and Mrs E R McCorkle host Kensington circle United Brethren Friday afternoon at the Kensington church.
Conflicting reports surround a Tuesday city council meeting. Mayor Skeehler says he has not received notice while council members indicate a section of the council has been convened. Mrs. Dellwood of Montpelier returns from weekend visits.
William Simpsons faced Judge John A. Rowan, pleaded not guilty to assault and battery, was fined 10 and costs after his wife Maida testified. The same day he faced a larceny charge over $730 in bank deposits. he claimed the money was his. Simpson promised to restore his wife's clothing and was released on bond of $509.
Local items announce big remnant sales at Ryan Dry Goods Co with 1 3 off prices and advertise mortgage and investment opportunities by Mills Loan Investment Co and Titus Loan Investment Co. Birth and social notices mention Mrs Earl Smalley birth, Davenport visits, and Muscatine property prospects with lots in Pair Oakes.
A fire alarm at about 2:30 pm called out the city fire truck to a blaze in the saw dust of the Cable Ice house on Orange street between Third and Fourth. Firemen contained the fire with little difficulty. Fire Chief Newberry and Commissioners Hart and Lundgren of Roel Island visited the city Sunday to inspect the motor truck as Roel Island purchases a new pumper from the American La France company for return to service this week.
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