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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
7
It Always Pays To Pay by Check explains paying by check prevents double payment when settlements are in currency. The bank promotes checks as convenient inexpensive and easy to mail. The notice invites accounts subject to check.
Edward Kennefick of Chicago visits relatives in Muscatine. Dr. E H King practices in town. Mrs E Lukenbach of New Hampshire Street visits relatives in Adams Indiana. Miss Vesta Straus travels north toward Columbus Junction. Roy and Mrs Fath spend holidays at Wapello with kin. W Cunningham of 210 Iowa Avenue visits Columbus Junction. Dr and Mrs A J Weaver and Mr and Mrs A W Morgan visit Letts. Miss Mary Myers of Rock Island visits local friends. Dr Anna Braunworth of Chicago arrives to visit her mother on Sixth and Oak. George Goetzman of Rock Island arrives to see friends. Dr and Mrs J W Morgan and daughters visit Columbus Junction. Misses Katherine and Mollie Becker depart for Chicago to spend New Year’s with relatives.
The Family Theatre bills the strongest vaudeville yet in Muscatine with four acts led by the American Zouaves. Berry and Mildred, McMillan and Shelton, Kitty Stevens, Miss Orth, and moving pictures entertain crowds as Captain Morley receives a silver sword from his American Zouaves unit.
Miss Viva Young of What Cheer visits Miss Flor ence Jefferies and leaves for home this morning. Rev and Mrs Joseph Hanley of West Liberty spent Christmas with his parents on Mulberry avenue. Edwin Lillibridge arrives from Chicago to spend the holidays with his parents on West Fourth street. Clarence Frambers, employed in Chicago, comes to visit his parents on Grandview avenue.
Muscatine churches hold Christmas programs tonight and last night with trees and gift distributions for scholars. Details include United Brethren German Lutheran Bethel A M E Trinity and Episcopal services featuring cantatas and processions.
The First Presbyterian church youth offer a delightful cantata titled Santa Claus Mistake or a Bundle of Sticks with training spanning weeks. Cast includes Aunt Rachael Miss Ethel Riemcke Manel Miss Inez Shafit Mollie the Waif Miss Fern Nesper Dick Gerald Randall Dott Miss Ethel O'Brien Santa Claus Gus Allbee plus about 30 helpers. A large decorated tree and children’s treats accompany the event.
Grace Lutheran Church presents a school program featuring hymns recitations and solos. Performers include Lorimer Kautz Quandt Freund Behrnes Angersbach Bronner Bolt and Gremmel with pieces like Adeste Fideles Hark the Herald Angels Sing While Shepherds Watched and It Came Upon a Midnight Clear.
A catalog of nursery rhyme characters with performer names. Included are Mother Goose, Little Bird That Tells, Boy Blue, Six Jolly Beggars, Dr Foster, Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, Old King Cole and His Three Fiddlers along with many other titled roles and the children or actors associated like Bernice Hoopes, Floyd Crow, Clyde Ryan, Winfield Latham, and Stella Holliday among others.
The scene lists choir performances and recitations from a German Evangelical Church program featuring carols such as Leucht auf in hellem Glanze and Stille Nacht plus speeches and solos. The latter is a formal notice to creditors of H. Bishop & Son appointing W. S. Hill as assignee with three months to file claims.
Prelude by Nellie Heppe and songs by the Congregation open a German Methodist program. Superintendant C. Buechcher gives an address after Bible lesson by Henry D. Lemkau. Numerous declamations and recitations by Misses and Misses Schultze, Funck, and others follow with responses from Rev. W. C. Schultze and choir selections.
The German Baptist church youth prepare a Christmas cantata Entitled Der Segen Stern to be held on Christmas evening December 25 at 730 PM The program includes a choir song Freue dich sehr and a school song Glocken Klingt
ZEMO claims to stop itching instantly and cure dandruff and itching scalp. It promises to destroy the dandruff germ, prevent hair loss, and impart a glossy color while keeping the scalp clean. Sold widely by E. W. Rose Medicine Co. in Louis and A. W. Mor nia os, gan, 107 W.
Stockton Iowa items report visits by Gus Mills and family from Hartley to relatives, Otto Asmussen at Nolo, and various locals shopping in Davenport and Walcott. Upcoming Christmas programs by Ethyl Bohnsack and Filora Bohnsack noted along with recent moves and birthdays. Local families including Dittmers and Marolf attend events and sales in surrounding towns.
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a remedy for constipation malaria and jaundice available at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
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