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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1933
Page
10
The Louisa County Fair association and local businessmen plan to light the fair field for night kittenball games with a preliminary contest likely next Tuesday evening and the main game a week from Friday. Officials also organized the coming fair program including night kittenball.
Concord and nearby towns report visits and social calls. Mont day and Sunday gatherings include Mrs A E Burkett and Marie Goode, Mrs Fay Foster, Miss Katherine Boney, and many others from Andalusia Buffalo Prairie Grandview and Birmingham. Funeral attendance for Mrs Tie Meyer of Wapello noted with relatives visiting.
Eastern Star members from Wilton and Purity chapter 365 join Electa chapter 32 and Rainbow Girls of Muscatine for a river outing next Tuesday. Lunch baskets requested for a pleasant day on the river with Davenport sponsorship. Community and visiting notes include local officials inspecting Wilton light plant and several civic visits.
A word puzzle frames a question about the great name of the woman in the picture, asking for her identity and noting her profession. The vertical clues hint at her status, discoveries, and partnership with her husband, pointing to a historic scientific figure.
Moyne Liberty visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Harold Duncan. Various residents including Mrs Isabella Smith Mrs Dan Smith and Mrs Mary Birkhofer visited the same day with Mrs Millard Smith a Belle Vue hospital patient in Muscatine. Louis Wiese West Liberty visited relatives Tuesday. George Duffe and sons started threshing at the Roy Duffe home Wednesday. Matt Comstock moved a shanty and road material near Durant Monday.
Letts 4-H club met at Ruth Schlichting’s home with Harlan Foster as leader and Hilda De Waele guiding parliamentary questions. Members and visitors listed. health talk, clipping read, and bed demonstration noted. Also reports on a farm accident: Charles McCormick injured making hay. head wound required seven stitches.
Letts Ritter and Furnas finished threshing at John Ritter’s Tuesday and started at Henry De Waeles Wednesday. A large crowd enjoyed a moving picture show on Main Street Tuesday evening with another free show planned for next Tuesday. The Letts O E S met Tuesday, and Max Lieberknecht’s birthday was celebrated with a handkerchief shower and a bridge party. Guests from Waterloo Omaha and Muscatine joined the events with dinner guests at the Hildebrandt home.
Stockton-Mr and Mrs William Voorhis and son Melvin move to Davenport and occupy the Hugo Jahr residence. The Stockton kittenball team will meet Durant on Durant's diamond Sunday afternoon. Threshing across town advances as oil is spread to link highways 6 and 64.
Louisa Wheat Growers to Benefit Under Farm Act at Columbus Junction Thursday night to discuss plans for the annual picnic after mid August. Achievement day for Four-H club workers set for Aug 3 at Wapello High School. Frank Beik F M Out Camp and A W Hinderman attend state supervisors meeting in Des Moines. Presbyterian Missionary society reviews national and foreign missions. Harry Carlin waived preliminary hearing after a large still raid at Fruitland and remains free on $1000 bond awaiting September grand jury action. Ladies Aid hosts ice cream social and plans annual church picnic. Oakland social club meets with 13 members. Mrs Briggs and Minnie Johansmeier present musical romance. Next meeting at Mrs C L Bretz.
New Boston reports the drowning of Charles Rickard Jr., 27, while rescuing two girls from a river in Nebraska. He is survived by his wife, two children, his parents, and grandparents, with his mother Hattie Rickard noted as daughter of the McNeal family. Also mentions visits and family events in Rock Island and Swine Lake, and a birth in Eliza.
Mercer county camps plan a county class adoption in Aledo on Monday. About twenty five or more candidates will join various Modern Woodmen camps as the county work is staged by the Aledo camp team with District Deputy Ernest Boultinghouse presiding as consul. Officers and clerks organized plans and many Woodmen from nearby counties are expected to attend with national and state officers including General Consul George E. Perrin and Supervisor Co. W. Crum.
Sweetland residents and visitors are listed with trips to Chicago Nichols and Madison Wisconsin. Henry Hines of Iowa City visited with Wayne Eckhardt while Mr and Mrs August Zukasty accompanied others to Nichols. Several local families hosted visitors and relatives in Morrison Illinois Davenport Iowa. Good estate shrinks to 79832 dollars with Lucy Good as beneficiary and James W Good Jr and Robert Edmund Good as heirs.
Aledo State bank failed to obtain preferred claim status in Mercer county circuit court. Judge Leonard E. Telleen denied the petition filed December 21, 1932. Funds held in trust by trustees and the circuit clerk totaled 12,007.51, with various specific trusts and estates listed including State gas tax and unclaimed estate funds among others. The denial moves the money into the general fund for division among common creditors of the closed bank.
Lone Tree hosts visitors from Los Angeles and New Jersey while shipping from River Junction reaches new highs with 18 carloads in six months. Cattle to Chicago and hogs to Muscatine mark regional trade as Fern Carl and companions plan a multi state motor trip. Thirteen girls 4-H clubs prepare exhibits for Iowa City show August 16 to 18 with band concerts and a pageant The Festival of the New Corn.
Misses Jean and Emma Battenhagen visited Fred Marx in Muscatine while Myrtle Greiner returned home near Fruitland after weeks with her sister in Tipton. Harold Butcher toured Davenport Moline and Rock Island. Ed Greiner and Doris visited Davenport to see her ailing father Andy Wall Sr. Wall resides with daughter Mrs Charles McDaniels in Davenport. William Butcher family spent Sunday with George Mucha in Muscatine. Johanna Shoultz Leda and George Shoultz children enjoyed an afternoon at Musser Park, Muscatine.
Atalissa hosts a Sunday gathering for Pete De Mean’s birthday with 18 friends and relatives from Mos cow Davenport Waterloo Muscatine and Atalissa. Gifts arrive for the celebrant as visitors plan a weeklong stay with kin. A new baby is born to Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan and hospital care is arranged in Iowa City.
The Fruitland Island M E church announced its homecoming for August 27. Committees include central led by R T Hummel and Asa Shepard with Inez Cross and Mrs Emerson Moore. program by Anna Kreigh and Mrs Harold Butcher. invitation by Mrs Asa Shepard and Inez Cross. reception by multiple couples. dinner by a group led by Bertha Kreiger and Henry Tisar. tables and benches by Pelton and Greiner. melons handled by Hummel and Corwins and Asa Shepard.
Rheumatic sufferer D S Miller of Ottumwa Iowa describes decades of pain ending after using Gly-Cas. He reports relieved rheumatism disordered kidneys improved sleep and regained vitality. Gly-Cas sold at Havercamp's Drug Store Muscatine and other local drug stores.
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