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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
16
Armory hall hosts Kaiser Hose Co Xmas dance with Vanatta orchestra. Tickets for Musical Union Orchestra concerts available at Schmidt’s Music Store with season options. Local residents travel to Clinton Davenport Fairport for Christmas visits. gifts and loans promotions also noted.
The Kaiser Hose Company to host the annual South End Christmas ball at the new Armory Hall with Paudiet full orchestra. Tickets sold fast. event described as one of the most successful independent entertainments in the city.
The Family theatre presents a one act farce The War is Over with Bessie Brownie & Co and The Shooting Clarke's offering new hazardous stunts. Jeannie Bently dazzles as a top foot juggler as moving pictures play to strong support.
Captain J H Warfield delivered well filled baskets to at least twenty five families in Muscatine, including chicken, potatoes, canned goods, coffee or tea, sugar, butter and jelly. The army plans a December 31 entertainment and Christmas tree at their barracks and next week will distribute clothing and wearables to those in need.
The room will be closed on Christmas day. The upcoming Sunday Vesper service promises unusual interest with an invitation to all city girls and women. The program features Miss Teel reading and Mrs. Hilbish from Des Moines as a speaker of exceptional ability.
The McKee and Bliven button plant shut down last night and will remain idle until next Monday to install a new dynamo and perform engine room improvements. The factory will overhaul machines throughout and upgrades are expected to enhance operations. At the Methodist church, the Sunday school department hosts its annual Christmas celebration this evening with a strong program promised for attendees.
Mr A W Morgan announces he will continue the agency for ZEMO the best known remedy for eczema pimples dandruff ringworm prickly heat tetter hives or any form of skin or scalp disease Last year ZEMO made remarkable cures of chronic skin diseases Morgan says ZEMO gives the best results he has sold for prompt relief and positive cure ZEMO is a clean vegetable liquid for external use pleasant and agreeable to use Can be used freely on infants.
Fifty letters between Philip Allen and sister-in-law Addie Jackson and brother-in-law Guy Roe were entered as evidence in a Madison hearing on creditors claims. The case concerns alleged concealment of Allen assets and transfers largely for his wife. Roe and Jackson were released on bonds of 5000 and 2000 dollars. Lee Westrate visits home from college at Pella.
The eccentric Indianapolis millionaire George Rhodius left a will naming $750,000 for the city park system and $5,000 to Notre Dame university. If Elma Dare’s marriage is valid she would receive a widow’s third. she’s challenged the will’s validity as to annulment. Rhodius died last Monday in a sanitarium.
Miss E S Earle was a passenger for Chicago last evening, where she will spend the holidays.
Snow began early today in Muscatine and by noon covered the ground, signaling a possible white Christmas as sleighing improves. Wm Molis, superintendent of the Muscatine water works, notes the town has not seen such snow in five years and anticipates good conditions if it continues.
In Columbus Junction Iowa on December 24 several residents and guests arrived for Christmas visits. Reuben Blair from Mitchell South Dakota came with family. Various local residents and relatives traveled to spend the holiday with kin and friends, including editor B H Shearer visiting Ida Grove and Miss Ruth Williams returning from Denver.
Reports from New York state controller put Harriman estate at 149 million dollars for tax purposes. The Times suggests the widow’s share may fall below 75.6 million and could be near 50 million after final accounting.
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