Local Notices and Ads from Wheelers Grocery and Tailor
Local items advertise Bibles at plicas Umsehled and Aathalder’s. Pure sugar 10 cents a pound at Wheelers Grocery. Fine Gift Books at Umachied and Asthatter’s. A song recital by Ora Abbott Jonison January 6 at Presbyterian church. Ladies’ Tailor near German-American Bank Room 305 offers fall and winter styles. remodeling and alterations. Felix Kramer, The Tailor, phone 645.
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Ora Abbott Jonison
Presbyterian Church
Ladies’ Tailor
Felix Kramer
Tallor
Ady
Hawkeye Pearl Button Company Decreases Capital Stock
An amendment to Hawkeye Pearl Button Company articles reduces capital stock to 500000 dollars. The decision followed a stockholders meeting held in December, as recorded in the corporate filing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawkeye Pearl Button Company
Theompany
Local rate expert heads to Chicago meeting on tariffs
JM Gould of Roach & Mugger and a Muscatine man prominent in the Mississippi river rate cases leaves for Chicago to participate in a planning session with the interstate commerce commission and city representatives over proposed tariff revisions. The river towns discuss rates to Atlantic seaboard cities as the commission reopens scrutiny after November 1 sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JM. Gould
Roach & Mugger
Muscatine
Commerce Commission
Chicago
Gould
Citioa
Atlantic Seaboard
Banker Reserve Officer to Visit City for 1914 Lodge Install
A. D. Taylor supreme secretary of the Bankers Reserve will arrive January 7 to install the recently elected officers of the local lodge for 1914. After installation he will deliver a lectura and the evening will continue with further events.
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A. D. Taylor
Bankers Reserve
Mr. Taylor
Dancing Evening Ends With Lunch Service
Toward the close of the evening a lunch will be served, concluding the event with a light meal for attendees.
President Wilson to Host First Cabinet Dinner Tonight
President Wilson plans a White House dinner this evening with invited guests from outside the cabinet, including John Murray Mitchel the mayor elect of New York. The event opens the season's state functions and follows with cabinet and official receptions.
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Washington, D. C
D.c
Wilson
White House
John Murray Mitchel
New York
Iba
Senate
Simatura
jIbegn
Mississipi
Asheville
N.C
jHev
White Henge
Cleveland
Cary Z. Grayson
Autoists to Meet Friday Night in Local Club Room
A meeting of local automobilists interested in forming a automobile club was scheduled for Friday evening at the Commercial Club room. Enrollment signs and arrangements were described as underway, with workants calling for participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ota Laa ‘Automobile Club
Mercial
Representatly Automobile ‘Nagociat
Musicale Honors Moorcroft Guests at Geneva Club Event
Society afternoon musicale at Geneva Golf and Country Club honored Moorcroft guests Myra Arthur Jayne and Mrs Will R Jayne of West Second. Over a hundred attended as soprano Dora Davies-Williams performed Irish, Scottish, and Welsh songs. Decorations featured red and yellow hydrangea. a two course meal followed. The guest recently visited Des Moines and Muscatine relatives before returning home. County Fair entertainment included a Magroplane ride and moving picture show with homemade candies and refreshments sold to support Epworth League building debt.
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Moorcroft
Henry
Jayne
Mulberry-avenue
Will R. Jayne
West
Geneva Golf and Country Club
Myra
Arthur Jayne
Dora Davies- Williiams
Kathleen Mavouragen
Poe
Ahram
Das
Moines
Des Moines
Epworth League Society
Hirst Methodist Episcopal Church
Uacht
Epworth League
Runaway buggy wrecks on Front Street in January afternoon
A runaway buggy tied to an express wagon caused a chaotic chase along Front Street shortly after 1 pm. The Vailia buggy, damaged beyond repair, toppled wheels and axles while the team and wagon escaped major injury, narrowly missing a plate glass window at Schner Block Button Co. corner.
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Wne
Front Street
Dulged
Charles Vailia
Millar
Schner- Block
Button Company
Poarldly
Factory Committee Considers A Local Offer
Industrial committee of the Muscating Commercial club met this afternoon at Hershey building rooms to discuss a factory proposition. The large concern is examining options and may offer employment to many if it locates here as other cities compete. an investigation is underway to attract the company.
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Muscating Commercial Club
Hershey
Christmas program at Melpine Church on December 22
The Melpine Presbyterian Church hosts a mutual Christmas celebration on Monday December 22 with a varied program by Sunday schools. Includes opening song Bells are Chiming recitations by Clyde Esax Vera Grimm and Linsey Grey songs by the school choir and soloists, a nativity, Santa theme pieces, and an ensemble of recitations and Christmas songs led by Doral Kelley Mary Reus Montt Paul Virginia McClean.
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Melpiné Presbyterian Church
Herbert Raub
Vera Grimm
cAs & Shepherd
Santa
Mary Reus
Doral Kelley
Linsey Grey
vVirginia
McClean
Crescent Curtain Event Promises Largest Show Yet
A city program advertises a curtain raising with a bold claim of the largest and best. Admission is noted as the entry, highlighting a money focus for attendees.
Christmas Recital Highlights at Florida Church
Minnie Paul, Mary Reed, Suog, and Ivah Paul performed a Holy Night recitation and World-Wide Xmas solo, with Edne Warex and Wit tinia McClean in recitations. Minnie Paul led Our Happiest Holiday and Mary Raub closed with Forever King in a Graceful closing.
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Minnie Paul
Mary Reed
Suog
Florida
Drumm
Ivah Paul
Edne
Warex
vWittinia McClean
Minnle Paul
Mary ‘Raub
Forever King
Death of Ruben Bish at 30 South Hill
Ruben Bish of Columbus Junction died at noon Wednesday December 17 after a brief typhoid illness. Born July 6, 1887 on Blair farm, he lived near town most of his life, graduated from local high school in 1903, worked as bill clerk at depot, and was beloved as a son and brother. He leaves his parents Mr. and Mrs J S Blair and two sisters Nettle and Mrs W R Lytle. Funeral plans not yet made. Local notices follow about residents and community events in Springdale and nearby areas.
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Columbus Junction
Ruben Bish
Hig
South Hill
Blair
J. 8. Blair
Nettle
W. R. Lytle
Mitchell
S. D
MISS WILSONS APPEAL PROMPTS JOY OF GIVING IN WASHINGTON
Washington dispatches report Miss Margaret Wilson wife of the President and head of the Washington committee of the Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving issued a statement urging individuals or groups to find one person and give a happy Christmas. She says giving should be voluntary and aimed at those who need it, to lift burdens for the future.
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Apollo
Washington Dispatches
Margaret Wilson
Washington
Society’ For
Wilson
Spuge
Miss “Wilson
Springdale Socials and Improvements Highlight Fall
Byron Smith hosts Joseph Shinn as a new resident. Springdale sees rural enhancement with an iron fence around W H Maxeon’s lawn and a forthcoming cement sidewalk. The Self Culture club’s Night suppers drew about sixty, with Axt rem dinner speeches games and music at the M E church parlors supervised by Mrs Ann Smith and Dry Low A Todd. Miss Minne Pearson led the program.
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Byron Smith
Toseph Shinn
Biggen Byron
Springdale
W. H. Maxeon
M.E. Church
Minat Liney MiNitt
Ann Smith
Dry Low A. Todd
Minne Pearson
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Melville Clark Piano Company
Hirt & Fester Piano Co
Hirt & Fesler Piano Co
Journal’s
Sphoal Nowce
Muscatine Art Co
Chesnut St
Stack & Zortman
Plavis
W. J. Vanatta
Euroopean Hotel
Mavia
Eurropean Hotel
Kale Boss
Aighont
Melpine
Fantomas
Crook
Home Tea Company
NEW China Store
East Second St
J. Shreve
City
Henry Lewis
Cedar Rapids
Frank
Dean
West Sranch
George Kennedy
Iowa City
North Liberty Telephone Ca
J. A. Woodfall
H. H. Phelps
F. L. Ryan
Friends-church
Columbue
Ohio
The
Mary Shinn
Mercy’ Hospital
Fevyensee
Tion
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