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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1910
Page
7
S Smedley advertises eye care with remedies for weak eyes and failing sight, conversion of crossed eyes, and complete refractive correction. Artificial eyes are a specialty. Call or visit before purchasing spectacles at 209 East Third Street.
Local notes list Ben Black of Nichols visiting the Welchs on West Seventh Street and each item notes friends and relatives from Davenport Menominee Rock Island Letts and Col umbus Junction returning home after visits. Several residents attend G A R conventions in Des Moines and return.
City theaters invite visitors for tours and events while Waterloo faces Dubuque in a Three-I League baseball game at Red Cedar Park. Fat Men's ball team and local clubs play 4:30 p.m. There is a Masons reception at K P hall at 8:00 p.m. and a third-degree conferment at Masonic Temple after.
Local members of the Masonic fraternity plan to attend the annual communication of the Masonic grand lodge of Iowa in Waterloo this week. The program outlines the convention schedule and events for attendees.
Knights Templar Ascylon Commandery No 25 with La Rue’s Waterloo band will escort the grand lodge from the Ellis hotel to the Syndicate theatre for public opening. Schedule includes opening program, addresses of welcome and response, music, and sessions: 1:30 p m Tuesday. 9:00 a m and 1:30 p m Wednesday. 9:00 a m and 2:00 p m Thursday with officer elections and next year’s meeting site decided Wednesday afternoon.
A new method to prepare apple dumplings uses whole apples or sliced pieces without juice leaking. The biscuit shell forms a crispy outer crust that traps the apple and its juice, with hard sauce or cream and sugar served alongside.
Waterloo Chapter No 128 of the Order of the Eastern Star holds a 3:00 p m initiation with illustrated songs at the Masonic Temple. At 7:30 p m La Rue's band concert at Cedar River Park or Electric Park invites visiting Masons and families, with ten minute park departures. An 8:00 p m school for instruction at the Masonic Temple is offered for visiting brothers.
Pioneer editor and commander of Shelby Norman Post Robert Baird of Muscatine, aged 73, is highlighted by the Des Moines Capital as a devoted guest of the soldiers. The piece notes his Civil War service with the First Iowa Infantry under Lyon at Wilson's Creek, his admiration for Muscatine Journal and Des Moines Capital, and his plans to attend the 1911 encampment in Muscatine. It also covers a reunion plan for the First, Second, and Third Iowa Volunteer Infantry on August 19, 1911, in Keokuk to celebrate their muster.
Secretary J B McNeil of the Y M C A spoke at Musserville M E church on fraternal regard among men, citing Christ’s teaching that serving the least affects Him. Rev and Mrs Thomlinson returned from Montrose after Mrs Thomlinson’s sister Abigail Kennedy’s funeral in Sioux City. Ladies Aid to Meet at Hoopes Hall with Mrs David Foster hosting.
Sunday school classes at Musserville M E church and Mulford Congregational church hosted an entertaining and varied program. Members presented readings musical numbers recitations and dialogues assisted by the orchestra and choir. A large audience attended the evening observance and praised the efforts.
Work resumed in the Roach and Mussel Factory door department after a short shutdown as a crew began installing a drainage ditch along Grandview Avenue. By Saturday afternoon several blocks were completed and a long stretch of ditching is planned along the thoroughfare.
Children’s day was observed in several city churches on Sunday. The First Baptist and First Congregational churches hosted Sunday school program exercises, with special presentations also at the German Baptist church. Devotions marked the day in South End churches.
The street drainage along Grandview avenue will be helped by a four foot wide ditch in poor condition. Work resumed in Roach and Musser's plant after a shutdown as a new piston arrived enabling full engine use. South End Locals report residents traveling to New Boston Boone and Prophetstown for visits and shelling trips.
Church notices outline weekly activities across German Congregational Lutheran and United Brethren groups. Ladies' Aid, prayer meetings, missionary and youth meetings, sewing bees, lawn social at the pastor's, and Sunday school planning for July 4th are listed with locations on West Fourth and West Fifth streets and notable households.
In Columbus Junction Iowa on June 13 Miss Faye Wiegman a Snow's Dressmaking College teacher for six months departed to open a school in Fairfield. O Bahns and son Richard plan to move their cigar shop to her former rooms in the Klotz building. Other local notes include births visits moves and a new depot agent Thomas O Neill arriving from Gallatin Missouri to occupy the Grubb property on South Hill. O Neill has fifteen years with Rock Island.
Norton Brownlee son of George Brownlee Park Place was injured seriously at a Park Place school picnic in Weed Park. He fell from a park game can and sustained internal injuries though his condition improved by morning. Weed Park club to meet Tuesday at 3 p m to discuss electric lights for the park. Kecklerville Bible class to meet Tuesday at Mrs. George Barley 1236%4 Dale Street for regular work. East Hill locals note Ivan Gray moved from Laurel Street to a farm in Bloomington township. Emmet Huffman occupies Gray’s former home. Mr and Mrs Steel moved from First Avenue Park Place to a new Wickey house on Madison Street. Arthur Myers of 191 ark Avenue mentioned.
Confined to his home by illness, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Charles of Phoenix Arizona are visiting at the home of the former's sister Mrs. Alvina Cook on Smalley Avenue.
George Pitchforth circulation manager for the Muscatine Journal travels to Montreal Canada for the annual National Circulation Managers meeting. The three day event gathers circulation chiefs from major metropolitan papers with side trips for guests and returns in about ten days.
G A Reinicke left for Waterloo Saturday evening to attend the grand lodge meeting of the Masonic order in that city this week, where he will spend several days.
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