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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1908
Page
5
Emil Johnson will teach an English class at the McKee and Bliven button plant as part of Y M C A educational work. German and Russian students seek English fluency while other classes draw strong attendance. The branch now meets three evenings weekly with Monday and Friday social times and Wednesday educational sessions.
Most plants will not close on New Year’s Day with McKee and Bliven continuing full operation. Roach and Musser sash and door and Kaiser box plants will run no wheels, while Black button plant’s plans are unclear. Mulford Church reports large attendance at a religious meeting, with fare well talks ahead. Community notes include travels, moves, and local family visits.
Prairie Grove Iowa reports Fred Ruff returned to the hospital in Iowa City after a brief visit with Charles Schiele due to severe pain. H B Pinney and family visited West Liberty for Christmas shopping. William Hill and wife reached Pueblo Colorado after three months visiting Iowa Missouri and Oklahoma. Miss Green’s pupils gave a Christmas program with twelve visitors and candy bon bon boxes. S R Propst and wife hosted relatives for dinner in West Liberty. Mrs George McCann visited Harry McCann and wife in Springdale. Miss Josephine Pinney also visited.
We make loans on furniture pianos wagons and teams without removal. We pay off loans with other loan companies and furniture stores and give you cash besides. Fair rates explained by our agent free of charge. Loans offered within forty miles of Davenport with weekly Muscatine calls. Write and he will call.
Relatives and friends traveled and visited in West Liberty and Union Valley from Tuesday to Sunday. Local families shared Christmas dinners with grandparents, extended kin, and neighbors. Multiple weddings, funerals, and church sermons were noted along with sick relatives and holiday travel across Cedar Hill, Atalissa, Lincoln Ill, and Iowa City.
Tabitha notes raised biscuits using Gold Medal Flour are excellent and Samantha echoes the sentiment.
After a heavy meal the ad promotes Cascarets to aid digestion and prevent a bad tomorrow. It claims the product works while you sleep and is the world’s biggest seller with a million boxes monthly. It touts ease of use and nightly dosing for morning comfort.
Clothing and shoe merchants sign an accord to close at 6 p m from December 25 1908 to November 1 1909 with weekday exceptions. Stores open Wednesday and Saturday nights November 1 to December 15 and every night from December 15 to Christmas. Noon closings on Christmas New Year Fourth of July Labor Day and Thanksgiving. open the night before Independence Day.
A busy period in Old Clifton Iowa with B F Knotts sale drawing a large crowd. Residents Elsie Marston Lucile Hank Teddy Duncan Maybel Orris and Margaret Huston visit local schools homes and relatives. Families including Kemp Shaum Knott and Marston spend Christmas and plan short trips to Muscatine Conesville Cairo Letts and Ainsworth.
The Mormon church hopes to secure the Nauvoo site through foreclosure of Benedictine sisters property tied to $1.5 million in notes after P. J. Keiran and Fidelity Funding fail. If sold, the church could bid to rebuild the temple and restore Mormon prominence at Nauvoo, where many Mormons already visit annually.
At the Iowa State Teachers Association in Des Moines E A Lord Onawa president presented an invitation from the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition to Iowa teachers to visit Seattle during the exposition next summer. The exposition runs June 1 to October 16 1909 with low rail rates to the Pacific Northwest. The Iowa State Society plans entertainment and an Iowa Day with an Iowa United States senator delivering a speech. Construction advances show ready permanent buildings and elaborate exhibits across the grounds and foreign and government pavilions.
Ainsworth Ia December 30. Lists of residents and visitors fill the local diary as Tom and Lillian Olds return from Brazil for vacation. Families including the Browns Pleasant Plain Nashs West Chester Creggs and others recount Christmas and holiday calls visits and small gatherings across this region.
An old advertising feature extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as restoring gastric juice balance and digestion. It claims tablets build missing elements, digest meals like a healthy stomach, and allow normal eating without dyspepsia. Endorsed by forty thousand physicians, the ad offers free sample and lists F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan address.
East Hill locals note travels and visits as Ella Camehl and children depart for Chillicothe Ohio after an extended stay with Mr and Mrs John Freeland of Park Place. They accompany the Freelands who plan to help celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of Davis Bower and wife of Chillicothe. Also reported are illnesses and hometown visits including David Chandler of Washington Street ill with pneumonia.
Special meetings at the Andalusia Baptist church draw good crowds with plans to invite neighboring pastors to speak. Health updates note Mrs. Peter Johnson and Mrs. Chas Huntly recovering. A New Year shooting match is announced for New Year’s Day.
In White Prairie Ia on December 39 relatives gathered at Robert Maurer’s home to mark his 424 birthday. Godfrey Webber of Iowa City visited the Maurer family, returning home Monday. John Hinley delivered mail on Wilton R 3. The German Evangelical church held a Christmas entertainment Friday night. Charles and Frank Brown hauled wood to Muscatine. George Bannick of Wilton bought hogs for 5.20 per cwt. Kaufman Bros train in a span of colts.
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