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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
8
Muscatine store showcases the season’s gift outfits with fur overcoats from 15 to 65 dollars and fur lined options 20 to 75 dollars. House coats, smoking jackets, neckwear, and silk accessories are marketed as ready gifts with value pricing and elegant boxed sets.
Christmas exercises were presented this afternoon at Lincoln school with joyful observances in the two lower grades. Treats and remembrances were exchanged as pupils prepared for holiday vacation until January 8. Ponds offered skating and hills provided coasting in what parents and scholars expect to be pleasant winter days.
Ivan Gray and Miss Josephine Chandler wed at the bride’s father Howard Chandler’s home in Wilton Ia. Rev Thomas Osborn of First M E Church officiated. About 35 friends attended a six course supper and the couple will live on a nearby farm. Both are well known locally. Ann Gray is the groom’s sister.
J Harris was sentenced to life in prison after conviction on a burglary charge. Other items note visitors and relocations across Cedar Rapids Columbus Junction and nearby towns, including Mrs A H Windmeyer visiting relatives in MNaper Neb and Effie Kelley joining Flor ence Curtis for vacation at home. State University students returned home for Christmas while local families planned holiday visits and travels to Keota and Washington.
Holiday readers are urged to treat children for overeating with Cascar ets. The ad promotes a week long Cascar ets course to keep kids well and lively during Xmas, urging parents to have it on hand for bedtime use.
The Wolf by Eugene Walter directed by Sam and Lee Shubert heads the Grand Opera House lineup with matinee and night shows. The Wall follows a French Canadian hero seeking vengeance in Hudson Bay. a duel ends the rival. The Blue Mouse, a German adapted farce, stars Alma Warlen with a full tour cast. Also on stage Friday, California Girls burlesque and five vaudeville acts. Virginia Eid performs a Cleopatra Dance. Prices range 9c, Bh and 50c.
In Mankato Minnesota on December 23 sensational testimony emerged in the case of Mrs Grace Ledbeter charged with murdering her husband H J Ledbeter. Frank Smith already found guilty of murder. Jail reporter Frank Franciscus overheard the cell conversation between Smith and Mrs Ledbeter.
Read from steno notes, the couple discussed paying Smith to claim Bill Garner killed Ledbeter. Smith suggested burying him deeper in the barn to avoid discovery. Ledbeter allegedly smiled and stated she would burn him herself if she could redo it, as candy was tossed into Smith’s cell and they exchanged kisses.
This week only popular sheet music from Belipse Edition is offered at 1.50 per copy, two copies for 0.15, available at Hershey Building in the flirt and Fester area.
At the Bankers' Reserve Drill team meeting last evening officers were elected with W F Tobias as president. Plans were made for a New Year's ball on January 1 at the Armory hall. A Dubuque drill team will attend and perform. Officers named include President W F Tobias and Secretary E P Kent.
Daniel Leatherman, born August 25 1885, former resident of this city, died last evening at the state hospital in Mt. Pleasant Iowa from nervous prostration and epilepsy. He was the son of D P Leatherman of Sweetland township and is survived by his father and a brother William. Body expected to arrive tonight and funeral arrangements will be made thereafter.
Thomas B. Harned, a Philadelphia lawyer, sues Hearst's International Magazine company for 75000 dollars over an alleged libel in Cosmopolitan under the headline Trag die s of the Sugar Trust. The article published a copied letter from Attorney General Wickersham to United States District Attorney Wise. Wickersham vows to prosecute the person who released the letter.
Ad Wolgast of Milwaukee won the decision over Frank Picato of Los Angeles after ten hard rounds in a swift, hard hitting bout staged in Los Angeles.
Weight moved closer to a title clash with Battling Nelson after a decisive victory over Picato. Picato survived a brutal beating and withstood a three knockdown fourth round. In the sixth, Picato hit the mat for a nine count as Wolgast failed to finish him despite the weight advantage being waived.
Thomas McKeever, a Colfax area farmer and old bachelor, was struck and killed by a train while crossing Rock Island tracks. The report notes his status as a local resident and veteran. A separate item mentions Belgian boy pianist Dennis Chabot receiving a $5,000 annual European study scholarship from Andrew Carnegie.
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