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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1913
Page
5
As Yuletide approaches, residents boost activity from household chores to business planning. Christmas shopping dominates, with many gift suppliers and preplanned parties. College students return home, families host dinners and dances, and watch parties follow the season’s social calendar.
Readers attended a string of community Christmas events through late December and early January. Congregational and Mothers clubs hosted gatherings at homes and clubs, with dancing, games, and watch parties. Local university and youth groups also staged dinners and social nights at venues including Geneva Golf and Country Club, Armory Hall, and Grand Opera House.
Large audience fills the auditorium as Mrs. Dora Davies Williams directs a varied program by the Gleek singers. Soloists include Beulah Reynalds and Gertrude McNutt with Miss Eisie Richardson at the piano. The event ends with the audience praising the training and performance.
South End Roach and Musser Co. named a social committee to plan dances and oyster suppers. A January 2 dance was set with about forty couples attending last night’s event at the Roach and Musser house with Grenitel’s orchestra. The committee includes Patrick Hopewell, Jiamy Martin, Harry Stromer, Howard Stenhr, and William Maren.
A bridge building crew, recently taken from the work of rtbuilding, is involved in the ME project. Details describe the crew’s reassignment and the ongoing bridge construction tasks. Additional notes reference the scope and location of the ME bridge work and associated timelines.
A communication quotes Senator A B Cummins urging Iowa residents in river counties to press for a House rivers and harbors hearing in January. He mentions coordinating with Thomas Wortington of Jacksonville and Moore’s representation, noting potential benefits for eastern Iowa and the state’s boundary and improvements. Alice Wy Beatty Frustland, Iowa.
Dispatches from Washington report former Nicaragua president Jose Zelaya, detained after apprehension, plans to depart the country next Wednesday for Spain. Officials say the State Department has been informed of his impending departure.
At the request of the Nicaraguan Rov armment on condition that he would leave the country within a reasonable period.
In Missouri, Judge McPharson dismissed railroad rate cases without prejudice after the U S Supreme Court upheld two railroad rate laws. Thirteen railroads had sought to enjoin enforcement. Shippers may sue for excess charges estimated over 10.9 million dollars, with railroads ordered to pay 25 thousand dollars in costs.
Harvard alumni gathered in Exeter New Hampshire for the sixth annual federation meeting of Harvard clubs. The event mixed business with sport as attendees collaborated on club activities and planned future programs.
A business session followed by field games, with speakers including Harvard President A Lawrence Lowell and New Haven Railroad chairman Howard Elliott.
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