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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1911
Page
8
Local notes report Mystic Workers hold a public dance at Maccabee Hall this evening. Several residents travel for personal and business reasons, including Hulda Keller departing for Davenport, Anna Bolger visiting Davenport, and others heading to Montezuma Cedar Rapids Muscatine and St. Louis for errands visits or work.
The last rites for Kenneth B Madden son of Mr and Mrs H Madden were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 36 o clock at the family home on Jowon Avenue Dr J N Eliott pastor of the First Presbyterian church led the service and delivered a brief sermon The obsequies drew many sorrowing friends and relatives Floral offerings testified to the young man’s popularity Music was by the Presbyterian church quartet Interment followed at Greenwood cemetery Six active and six honorary pallbearers from his circle served at the funeral
The seventeenth annual session of the Christian Workers' association of the Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends opened in Lynnville Iowa on June 12 and will run through Friday. Rev. W. Brown of Marshalltown presides. Des Moines pastor Harry R. Kealea delivered the assembly sermon as attendance remained large.
East Hill children presented a Children’s Day program at Weed Park featuring seven recitations exercises and musical numbers. Rev Howard Stodghill closed with remarks on education’s needs and results, praising the event’s evident preparation and the children’s performance before a large audience.
The Epworth League of Park Ave M B church will hold an ice cream social Friday evening June 16 at Weed Park. Decorations by League ladies will light the Park lawn with lanterns and bunting if weather permits. East Hill locals report Mrs H W Bierman has returned home from Hershey hospital after a successful operation. Mr and Mrs Toy Fitzsimmons of Park avenue visited relatives in Columbus Junction. Miss Hazel Reynolds resides on Park avenue.
Miss Dorothy Guthrie of South Muscatine spent Sunday in Davenport with Park Avenue residents. Conductor Binack and family of East Second Street have returned from a month in the west visiting California and Colorado. Mr Black plans to resume his run on the Wilton line.
The last of the East Hill merchants on Sec ond Street and Park Avenue will decorate for the old soldiers. Several began this morning but most plan to wait until tomorrow due to bad weather before draping national colors on their buildings.
A street car on East Hill ran off the track while entering a double switch at the top of Second street this morning about 7 o clock. No passengers were aboard and the car was not moving fast. The motorman and conductor escaped injury as local residents helped place the car back on track, delaying service about 29 minutes.
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