Excellent School Program Closes Year at East River Road
Last evening the Geneva school on East River Road presented an excellent program marking a successful year under teacher Walter Schwartz. The program featured songs, recitations, and skits performed by students including Edwin Miller Ruth Stanler Whitney Fahey Mildred Stanier Helen Garrison Raymond Schwedel and many others.
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Geneva
East River Road
Walter Schwartz
Dollie
Freda Sabbath
Edwin Miller
Ruth Stanler
Char Earnest
Raymond Schwedel
Anna Sabbath
Whitney Fahey
Martha Binggell
Robert Whistler
Helen Garrison
Mildred Stan
Lighting Franchise Talks Divide City Council and Company
The council and the Franklin Benjamin Light company clash over a proposed ordinance. At a special aldermen meeting, a motion was passed asking Mr. Benjamin to present a franchise that satisfies him. If agreeable, the measure may pass. if not, a lighting committee meeting will refine the document.
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Franklin Benjamin Light Company
Benjamin
Horan
New Light Company
Franklin Benjamin
Muscatine High School Graduates 29 at Commencement
The Muscatine high school held its 29th annual commencement at the Grand opera house with Hon. Irving B. Richman delivering a lengthy address on American education. Diplomas were awarded to all graduates, with Robert Barry and Clark Abbott also receiving diplomas though they reside outside the city. The program included orchestra selections and a benediction by Dr. J. N. Elliott.
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Muscatine High School
Grand Opera House
Thomas Osborn
First Methodist Church
Irving B. Richman
Richman
America
Daniel Webster
Dartmouth
Euclid
Darwin
Huxley
Spencer
Tyndall and Rumford
Americans
R. M. Arey
Robert Barry
Clark Abbott
J. D. Fulham
Fulham
Commonwealth
J. N. Elliott
First Presbyterian Church
No More Fishing at the Fourth Slough
Illinois enacts a new law set to take effect July 1 restricting fishing for Muscatine residents crossing the river. Non residents face a $5.50 license and daily limits on black bass pike pickerel and other species. some game rules also tightened with season dates and bag limits for quail and other game.
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Illinois
Isaac Walton
Sunday School Union prepares July program in Wapello
Wapello Iowa June 12 an announced Sunday School Union meeting will be held July 13 at the German M E church. The program includes special music led by Rev J W Gerlach and H A Plitt praise service led by Jacob Bis singer Home Department Work by Rev J W Gerlach Holding the Boys and Girls by Mary Foster Adult Bible Class Movement by Mrs M E Blanchard Petering by Helen Hartman The Don t Care Class by Mrs J H Chittum How You Do Things by H A Plitt and a leader general discussion.
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Wapello
Wapello Sunday School Union
M. E
J. W. Gerlach
H. A. Plitt
Jacob Bissinger
Mary Foster
M. E. Blanchard
Petering
Helen Hartman
J. H. Chittum
Woman Sues City for 5000 Damages Over Sidewalk Fall
Teresa Day serves notice through attorney E M Warner that she seeks 5000 in district court alleging permanent injuries from a fall on a defective sidewalk on East Fourth Street near the Leo H Hirsh Button company plant. A missing plank is blamed for a broken arm and lasting damage.
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East Fourth Street
Leo H. Hirsh Button Company
Teresa Day
E. M. Warner
Wapello sees landmark torn down for modern home
An 1846 47 built Cleaver residence on the town site is being replaced by a modern house by Charles Ruthenberg. Local events include graduations at Grinnell college by Lela Weiderrecht and inquest proceedings for Frank Marlette. Coroner Wagner and several residents visit Wapello for the inquest and daily civic notices. The remedy Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea is praised as universally effective.
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Wapello
Chas. Ruthenberg
Cleaver
T. J. Sternberg
Warrentown
Lela Weiderrecht
George Weiderrecht
Mabel Neuse
Grinnell
C. P. Wagner
Grandview
Frank Marlette
Hilton Lieberknecht
Ruby
Concord Township
W. P. Paugh
E. B. Tucker
Columbus Junction
L. M. Dalmeyer
George Foot
Iowa City
Sunday visits and birthdays in Hazel Dell community
Mr and Mrs Henry Bohnsack hosted a gathering at Hazel Dell while Mrs Chas Liebke celebrated a birthday with friends. Families including Dittmer, Biermann, Liebke, and Bollmann joined Sunday visits and a bird shooting event at Probstei.
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Stockton
Henry Bohnsack
Wm. Bohnsack
Hazel Dell
Chas. Liebke
Paul Riessen
John Dittmer
Phylora Bohnsack
Davenport
Leonard Dittmer
Heinie Eichoff
Emil Liebke
Otto Assmussen
Fred Weber
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Standard Oil Company
Geneva School
Ier
Walter Fahey
Hilda Whistier
Father Miller
Raymond Fitzgerald
Annna Binggeli
Elbert Fisher
Dorothy Garrison
Norman Schavedel
Geneva Essex
L Miller
Ben- Nah Lefever
Jose
Ralph Fisher
Stine Power
City Lighting
J. C. Mucha
Mfg
Iowa Ave
Muscatine, Ia
The
South Muscatine
Lifes Assembly
France
Germany
England
Rockefeller
Charles Schwab
Helen Stahl
Robert T. Wallace
Edna Laflin
George McGaughey
Laura Schroeder
Viola Tilgner
Anna van Camp
Leota Randleman
Harry van Wagner
Vera Dickerson
Eva Ellman
Edna Feaster
Minnie Klein
Edith Magoon
Mary Martin
Verna Miksch
Anna Ferne Shinabarger
Esther Stohr
Ida Weaver
Will Randall
Leonard Shoemaker
Josephine Stirlen
Iowa
Ion
Paul Williamson
Earl Dickerson
Ollie Munn
Nellie Rice
Ethel Salisbury
Mary Bielefeld
Earl Eversmeyer
Foley
A. W. Morgan
M. Summers
Box H
Notre Dame
Ind
Citizens’ Railway & Light Co
Chamberlain
City Lumberyard
Second Street
Miss Valley 69
J. Carl Barnard
E. P. Day
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