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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1910
Page
16
Many residents leave for weekend visits or homecomings including Mrs J Seidler to Fairport and Mrs F A Longstreth from Letts, with others heading to Davenport Moline Riverside Washington IA Clinton and Quincy Ill. Also promotions and services offered by Titus Loan Investment Co and flowers from Geo Kranz & Son.
Iowa Telephone Company officials and Muscatine leaders discussed a possible special city council session to consider consolidating the Mississippi Valley and Iowa Telephone lines. A merger could remove overhead wires downtown, improve service, and spur city-wide upgrades including new switchboards.
A pleasant evening at Hoopes Hall featured the Musserville Literary Society. Though attendance was down from earlier events, the quality and appreciation of the program were high, with the season’s best offerings praised by attendees.
A compact ad-style notice claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy protects a child from danger posed by croup. It states no heroic risk is needed and that the remedy is for sale by all dealers.
The First Baptist church will hold its annual congregational meeting on January 9 at 7 30 PM. Officers will be elected for the year and the budget announced. Reports from church departments are expected as the year wraps up.
The Wednesday Afternoon Kensington club met Friday evening at 501 West Third Street hosted by Mrs. B. E. Lilly and Mrs. Rebecca Miller. A six o'clock three course dinner featured heart shaped place cards, Japanese fan favors, and a large candle centerpiece followed by a festive Christmas party and a gift exchange with eleven presents per guest. Mrs. Turner from Pasadena gave readings to enthusiastic praise, sharing pieces from Dunbar, Dickens, Maeterlinck and Zangwill, amid talk of her touring the Midwest and works shown.
Many gatherings mark the close of the old year with a Watch Night social led by the Young People's Society of the United Brethren church. The program includes games, a 45 minute musical segment, a talk by Rev. J. C. H. Light, solos and duets, and refreshments served after midnight.
Leave orders for tuning and repairing pianos at Hirt and Fesler Piano Co. Call 586 X to arrange service.
Regular review of Muscatine Hive No 13 at Yeoman Hall Monday evening at 7 30 with installation ceremony and full attendance desired.
Miss Vera Dickerson hosted a cranberry party Thursday evening at 502 East Seventh Street for J. D. girls and friends. Guests hunted hidden cranberries, played cranberry-stirring contests, and enjoyed music and refreshments with winners Leo Koenigsaecker and Helen Mikesell among the top participants.
Misses Lillian and Bertha Daniel sen of Decatur Ill., and Clarence Hahn, guests of Mr and Mrs J W Hahn 219 West Sixth street Davenport, attended a Delta Upsilon sorority dancing party at the outing clubhouse Thursday evening with about sixty couples. Herbert Lafferty of Davenport accompanied them. Favors featured pennants with the sorority insignia and imitation butterflies. The visitors expect to stay several weeks and have attended many private events including a dinner at Mrs John Hahn Sr s home at Fifth and Chestnut.
A group of Miss De Ett Dunsmore s young friends visited her East Third Street home Friday evening to surprise and entertain her. Misses Mildred Johnson Jaredine Howe Florence Kranz and Maura Bilkey organized the event for an evening of merriment. Twenty-
The Young Ladies Missionary Society of First Congregational Church gathered at 217 West Fourth Street hosted by Misses Mary and Bessie Chevalier. Ethel Jaynes of Chicago spoke on Turkish boarding school conditions in Marsovan, sharing Turkish needlework displays. Harriet McQuesten sang. refreshments followed. The gathering substituted the January meeting.
Armory hall hosts the New Year subscription dance Monday evening January 2. The event follows popular prior dances with Pauchet's orchestra providing the music and extensive preparations under way.
Miss Bessie Nyenhuis hosted a surprise birthday party Friday evening at her home 1142 Lucas Street. Friends decorated the house with Christmas greenery and red accents, and the evening concluded with a sumptuous supper.
The Bunch, a club of Miriam Rebekah lodge memorial staff, entertained friends at Odd Fellow Hall in a social gathering.
Thirty Rebekah and Odd Fellows members gathered Friday evening at the Odd Fellow hall. Refreshments of coffee ham sandwiches pickles cake and crackerjack were served as diversions and games entertained attendees. The Bunch plans to meet January 5 at Mrs Mary Price's 207 East Fifth street to elect officers.
Miss Clara Kothe will observe her sixteenth birthday anniversary this evening at her home 416 Newell avenue with a Watch party. Her guests will be the young people of the German Evangelical church. Music and games will fill the evening and refreshments of ice cream and cake will conclude the celebration.
Mr and Mrs Sidney Pipe of Toronto Canada stay with Mrs E J Zet cher on West Sixth Street during the holidays. Mrs Pipe was formerly Miss Ellen Humphries Mark of this city.
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