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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
8
J. E. Kranz reports a son born to Mr. and Mrs. William Speers on Chestnut Street. Real estate bargains are advertised by G. M. Titus, 213 Iowa Avenue. Numerous social calls and visitors span Muscatine including Mrs. Sarah Davis, Miss Icey Teel, and Miss Maud Buchanan. A church social and orchestra are listed for New Year’s Eve at Hare’s hall.
Mr Kaiser donated 25 dollars to his company for entertainment as members and their wives attend an oyster supper and dance at the Kaiser Hose House. The event honors Mr Kaiser for the Christmas gift and features decorated halls, supper and music amid notes of the annual ball.
Local items report large crops on inexpensive Texas land aided by Sterlin. Social notes list visits from Ottumwa and Brooklyn, New York. relatives visiting Muscatine and Wilson. Christmas trips. and small ads for oysters, candies, and local services.
Muscatine shoe merchants sign a pact to close faces of business at 6 p m daily except Saturdays from December 25 to April 1 and April 1 to July 1 with Wed and Sat evenings exempted. Stores close Sundays and at noon on Thanksgiving Christmas New Year Labor Day and Fourth of July. open the night before the Fourth. Firms named include Leysen's Shoe Store B Schmidt T W Cherry and Wilson's Shoe Store.
The funeral service for Mrs. William Nall took place at 2 p m from the family residence 117 East Third Street conducted by Rev Stoddard of the First M E church with only close relatives and friends present. Interment followed at Greenwood cemetery with pallbearers William Halaway Carl Height Thomas Tucker B Hobson Will Rodgers and August Freese.
The Iowa Central offers round trip excursion tickets at one and one third fare for travel on December 20 to 25 and December 31 to January 1 with return validity through January 7 1997. Details and folders available from agents.
Judge Jackson sustained the motion to find for the defendant in the Nyenhuis versus Hyink case, ruling the plaintiff could not attach the property held in the wife’s name and later owned by the husband. Tomorrow the Hampe brothers versus Teichmiller brothers mortgage case is set for consideration, with Teichmiller employees seeking wages as a preferred claim. Tomorrow closes filing for the January term with several new cases anticipated. Also reported were a cabbage contract suit by the Sybart brothers of Nichols and two marriages licensed by County Clerk Richman.
John F. Pfeiffer of South Dakota arrived with his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pfeiffer for a visit and to recuperate after a prolonged illness.
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