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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1916
Page
5
Daily announcements list numerous church events across multiple congregations including Sunday schools, worship services, prayer meetings, and special programs. Notable items mention German and Congregational churches, Kwren plan for New Year services, midweek services, and parish gatherings through the coming week.
German English services and Sunday school at 9 30 a m and 10 30 a m at the corner of Sycamore and Sixth. Special music by mixed choir. Jugend Verein meets Tuesday evening. Parsonage devotionals and midweek prayer. Ladies Aid Thursday. weekly Epworth League program and choir rehearsal. Christmas and New Year services noted with multiple meetings and programs.
Several churches schedule special services and sermons for tomorrow evening and morning. Rev John Riensch will speak at Evangelical Zion Lutheran about funds for a new seminary in Dubuque. First Methodist Episcopal choir to repeat the Christmas cantata. Rev J B Rendall returns to lead services after a weeks absence to attend his wife in Philadelphia. Grace Lutheran to offer Holy Communion with a sermon by Rev George Mendenhall.
Funeral services for Martin Havercamp, a prominent Muscatine citizen, were held at 9 a.m. today at St. Mary’s Catholic Church. Rev. Father J. D. Grieser officiated, with interment in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery. Pallbearers included John Neutor, Aurut Honke, Tony Borach, William Oberhausy, Andrew Healey, and Otto Savor.
The Mulford Congregational church choir will perform a six piece Christmas cantata Light Eternal at the First Congregational church tomorrow afternoon. Sopranos include Mrs. Warokd Wan son and Misses Hergot and Eltman. Contraltos are Misses Elda Nietzel and Appel. Tenors are Masons Hanson and Eltman. Dasao Charles Pitchforth will be the pianist Mrs. George Nietzel.
Borin December 27 via London December 30 twelve eighty p m delayed German authorities decide to release for internment in Switzerland one hundred French prisoners of war who are fathers of three or more children and inmates of German prison camps for eighteen months. The move follows a plea from Pope Benedict and could extend if France shows reciprocity.
Dr Claude L Wheedler, longtime editor of the New York Medical Journal, died of pneumonia at his Brooklyn home. Born in Montreal in 1864, he earned his medical degree at McGill University.
Engagement announced at a Davenport party for Miss Fern Nesper daughter of Mrs. Frederick Nesper of 1103 Mulberry avenue. G H Olsen, a local executive with Mek koe and Biven Button, will wed next year. Decorations in green and white featured narcissus and fern. Attendees included Mrs. dern Wobbster and many young socialites.
Iowa Pearl Button Company announces steady employment with limited number of girls as machine operators and sorters. Building is clean, light, warm with new machines and good wages. Convenient location at 1815 West Front Street opposite the R. I. Freight Depot. Telephone 2219. Experience not necessary.
Miss Loretta Devitt hosted a card party at her West Third street home in honor of the holiday vacation. Twelve guests from the Double Six era played Five Hundred with Miss Gertrude Wigim achieving a high score. A violet coronet banquet served as a favor, fortune telling featured, and rooms were decorated in red and green with red carnations and green tulle.
Boston dispatch reports Thos W Lawson replies to Congressman Henry urging proof of a Wall Street leak from the state department and Wilson peace note. Lawson criticizes Henry and Wood for prior involvement and promises action, stating a program and a three thousand dollar series to follow.
A garbled passage mentions a visit around New Year and a Tuesday from a gallery. It references statesmen who missed out and lambasting, but details and context are unclear.
Chicago officials distribute blue envelopes to hundreds of city employees announcing possible job cuts after January 1. The city council ordered department heads to reduce expenses by 25 percent in January and 14 percent for the rest of the year, signaling vacancies ahead.
Agreement by all Winackamith shop owners to close their doors for the day Monday New Years Day. The action aims to balance advantages with other city trades and mark a local industry observance.
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended proposed freight rate increases of ten to twenty percent on corn shipments from Chicago and Detroit to Toronto and other Ontario and Quebec points. The suspension applies to rates on Canadian Pacific Grand Trunk Walas and Michigan Central Lines until May.
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