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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
15
Local social notes list a Huttig Hose Co masquerade ball tonight at Armory Hall. Numerous residents visit friends and family in Muscatine, Davenport, Durant, and Keota, with several short trips and visits noted across towns.
Mrs M C Ross of Letts spent yesterday afternoon in this city shopping. Delicious home made candies and box goods at Slaughter's Candy Store.
The Olive Branch Literary society held a debate on farm training versus city upbringing with sixteen year old Ray DeCamp and Glen Kemp speaking for the farm side and Bert DeCamp and Roy Kemp for the city side. About one hundred youths attended as the session featured a box social planned for January 14 at the Olive Branch school to raise funds for the society.
The Young People's Society of the German Evangelical Church gathered at Miss Kate Fuhlman's home on 1503 Washington Street for her birthday anniversary. Twenty eight members attended with games and music and a guessing contest awarding prizes to Miss Kate Klebe Carl Luchterhand Bertha Maeglin Otto Maeglin Walter Mittman and Stephen Drahos. The society presented the hostess with a silver spoon engraved Y P S. Refreshments followed.
Muscatine to usher in 1910 with whistles from the Citizens' Railway and Light Co power house and city bells. Watch parties are planned at First Methodist Grace Lutheran Salvation Army Christmas program ends with a midnights display as residents fire celebratory rounds from their guns.
A concert by Miss Ida Appel’s music pupils at Mulford Congregational Church drew a large crowd of friends and relatives. The well arranged program showed the instructor’s skill and the pupils’ precision, offering the audience a pleasing evening of music. Nearby society notes mention locals and visitors in Davenport, Rock Falls, Keota, and Moline.
Prospective students seek practical business education as Brown's of Muscatine invites inquiries for the regular day and winter terms beginning Monday January 3. The school promotes affordable rates, flexible day and night options, available room for commuters, and promises profitable instruction in core subjects.
The First Illinois district reports beer taxes totaling 4 815 000 of 8 149 000 total receipts while cigars tobacco and other products show heavy duty gains. Chicago port duties rise by 1 640 000 with July and December as peak months.
Fairport sends a jury to Fruitland as the Mohnssen v Sissel case resumes in Justice Hobson's court over detention of a horse. Sissel adds a counterclaim for keeping the animal and for the loss of a dog, with costs nearing fifty dollars as witnesses testify and a verdict remains pending.
D S Taylor acting Heinz local manager and J C Miller pickle farm superintendent will travel Saturday to Pittsburg for the annual Heinz managers conference beginning Monday January 3. The week long meeting covers branch operations and problem solving with social events and trips around the Smoky City. Local attendees expect to return January 9 or 10.
Washington D C Dec 31 Experts finish counting coins and securities in the United States treasury. A four member committee supervised thirty to forty counting experts over nearly two months. The tally shows no missing funds as Treasurer Lee Mc Clung will receipt to Treat for 1,259,001,756,372 3.
Speaker Cannon returned to Washington from Danville where he played Santa to his grandchildren. He said he is in good health and avoided politics while declining to discuss plans regarding the insurgents or any reported decision about relinquishing the speakership.
The New York appellate division affirmed a $500 penalty on the New York American for libel against John D. Rockefeller Jr. The decision rejects the view that a corporation lacks criminal intent and notes Rockefeller’s alleged peonage system at a Corn Products Refining Co. plant.
Friends caution that the circulating rumor may not be reliable or worth taking seriously. They urge skepticism and note lack of verifiable facts or official confirmation.
An advertisement touts Iowa farm vans as the safest investment. It invites readers to contact J F Stevenson at No 305 Hershey Building for details.
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