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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1927
Page
12
Referees in the southern district of Iowa filed 834 bankruptcy cases in the year ending June 1 1927 down from 951 in 1925 and 965 in 1926. Liabilities totaled 18 493 807 57 while creditors received 1 426 524 66, with costs of administration at 12 1 2 percent and exemptions payouts dropping to 468 31.
Columbus Junction Iowa December 29 The Columbus Junction State Bank will hold its stockholders meeting at 1 30 p m January 9 for director election and business. The Louisa County National Bank will meet January 10 at 10 a m for officer election and business. The Cotter Savings Bank annual meeting will be held January 3 in Cotter banking office for director elections.
The Rev. Henry Finke died at the old peoples home on the Burlington road Tuesday. Funeral services were held at 2 pm at the Lutheran home chapel with German services led by Rev F Schulte Davenport and English services by Rev H Foelsch Melvin Ill Burial followed in the home cemetery. Other notes mention England birth rate, a Washington trip for turkey dinner, and visits from Mrs Besse Graham Barnes City and Mr Mrs W E Stump plus travel details of G W Oakes from Wapello ending with Mrs Oakes return from Excelsior Missouri.
Illinois City residents record a flurry of visits as many families from Muscatine Buffalo Prairie and Eliza spend the Christmas season with friends and relatives in the area. Local couples host guests from Rock Island Eliza and nearby towns with Sunday gatherings and travels to see kin in Muscatine Aledo Marion Buffalo Prairie and New Boston.
Conesville Iowa December 29 report states J E Erwin died after receiving a Wednesday message. Details are sparse but indicate a local obituary notice for a former Conesville resident.
Noon telling of the death of Mrs Mary Erwin occurred at the home of her daughter Mrs Arthur Henderson of Floris Ia. She had lived with her son near Conesville eight years and recently went to Floris. Survived by six children and one brother. Burial planned in Washington Ia.
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