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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1910
Page
4
An ad urges renters to store important papers outside the home in Muscatine State Bank’s private fireproof and burglar proof safe deposit vault for only $2 a year. Stop and see them.
Dr. BE H. King travels to Chicago for the annual meeting of the C M Saint Paul Ry Surgeons and will return Friday evening. The Baptist church group hosts a sale of home baking candy postals and toilet articles at Bitzer building Fourth Street and Mulberry Avenue on Saturday December 17. Mrs C L Watson of Lone Tree leaves for Letts for a few days visit with relatives.
At a Monday Altiora club meeting the Young Women’s Christian Association group announced a Saturday sale of dressed dolls, home made cake and candy. The proceeds will start a building fund for YWCA furnishings in a library and reading room at the 108 East Second Street office of Citizens’ Railway & Light Co.
Frank Bowman advertises buggies and wagons while promoting the union dance at Maccabee Hall on Wednesday December 14. Tickets cost 25 cents with ladies admitted free.
A special train with about two hundred members of Iowa City lodge No. 4 A F and A M arrives at six this evening. They are guests of Iowa lodge No. 2 A F and A M and will be served supper at six followed by third degree work and refreshments with Electa Chapter No. 32 O E S assisting.
The Muscatine Civic Association files articles with County Recorder H C Scoemaker. It aims to hold property for public use and to establish parks driveways and playgrounds under the motto A Better and More Beautiful Muscatine. Officers are President Oscar Grossheim Vice President W E Downer Secretary Jessie A Braunworth Treasurer Robert Thompson and Corresponding Secretary Susan Stone.
About thirty Mulford Congregational church members including the choir orchestra and board gathered at the chapel for a social hour last evening and enjoyed a delicious oyster supper.
The Epworth League of the First Methodist Episcopal church will host a festive evening at the YMCA auditorium. Attendees bring a gift in a box for a social exchange, with a tree and program planned and surprises expected.
A Rock Island switch engine derailed at the Hat tig switch days ago and cannot be moved until a derrick arrives. Plans call for bringing a derrick to Muscatine to lift concrete slabs for the Pap poose creek bridge and then recover the locomotive. The wheel failure leaves no return to service until a new wheel set is provided. Also notes on local residents traveling or visiting friends between Rock Island and Davenport.
Patrick Garrett, a local yard worker, suffered a severe injury in an accident that may threaten his eye. The incident occurred at the yard and prompted medical evaluation.
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