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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1911
Page
11
Public invited to a dinner hosted by the M. E. Ladies tomorrow in the Hershey State Bank Building. Prompt service promises a good meal at 25 cents.
The Gojo club held another dancing party at the Muscatine Launch club house Monday evening. Miss Letta Artz of Ft. Madison, guest of Miss Ethelyn Salisbury of East Second Street, attended as an out of town guest. Miss May Nolte of West Fifth Street departed for Iowa City to attend the University of Iowa commencement exercises.
A notice invites workers under B. W. P. U. Mo. 12854 to join a walkout from the city to the steamer Sidney. The excursion to the tri cities costs 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children aged six to twelve, with the boat departing Muscatine at 8 a.m.
Five or six people reportedly died in an explosion at the Albany Chemical Works on Van Rensselaer Island. A fire endangered nearby Texas and Standard Oil plants, but by 3 p.m. was brought under control.
Cedar Rapids June 13. Mrs. Johanna Bueckning, arrested in Washington while trying to reach President Taft, was formerly confined at Mount Pleasant State Hospital. A Marengo resident, she had been employed in Cedar Rapids until a few weeks ago.
Hugh M. Thompson aged 95, a long time Iowan since 1844 and eastern Iowa's oldest resident, died at Long Grove in Scott county this morning.
G A R groups or committees may call or phone Mr. Fowler at Mark Quinn's Store for pictures. Also available family group portraits. FOR RENT Furnished rooms with gas and bath 309 E. srds.
Veterans idle on battlefield politics resurface in state assemblies with contests for department offices in Iowa. Abraham of Mt. Pleasant is favored for Commander while Muscatine Post backs a senior vice role. W R C races show eight entrants for treasurer and multiple candidates for president.
Muscatine prepares for G A R Iowa department gathering with Des Moines and national officers arriving. Newman and Ward lead arrangements, drum corps perform, auto rides offered, and a large Des Moines delegation arrives by special trains. Governor Carroll to speak. campfire program set at Grand Opera House.
Contracts signed this morning with Young Brothers Carnival Company ensure a week of festivities in the city under Rescue Hose Company auspices. Cleo Pitchforth announced the arrangement as chairman, noting nine shows and three riding devices including a ferris wheel ocean wave and merry-go-round. Hose members in charge are Pitchforth Hagerman Nischwitz Coon Mc Bride and Graff with Henry Richmond overseeing the refreshment stand.
Muscatine man James Riles narrowly escaped being run over by the Firefly as he walked along the east bound track. He leapt onto the rail when a freight approached. Leroy Smith and Albert Lewis pulled him off seconds before the Firefly passed, witnesses say.
The Muscatine program features a male quartet and addresses by Mayor Hill and state official Carroll. G A R leaders Gilman and Dyer speak, with Nellie Robertson Conrad singing We Are Tenting Tonight. Meetings register entrants at Grand Opera house and churches while Cavalry reunion gathers at Maccabee hall with about sixty attendees expected.
East Seventh street hosts Mr and Mrs George H Wiles as guests during the encampment with cousins Mr and Mrs John Porter from Montezuma. Women Relief Corps members place bouquets in rooms for visiting officers at multiple city venues. Colonel W B Keeler of Chicago is visiting with his granddaughter Mrs Carl C Schmidt of Fair Oaks. John R Cook of West Union travels as a special excursion agent for the C M St P railroad to the convention city. Mrs A M Allen and Mrs H J Parvin of Marshalltown also visiting during the encampment.
During the three day Eastern Iowa District conference, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints re elected all current officers for the new year. J B Wildermuth of Osterdock was named president G Dykes of Muscatine vice president Robert Smith of Oelwein secretary and John Helde of Fulton treasurer.
Des Moines reports the Iowa state board of health urging officers to stock tetanus anti toxin and notify local health boards to ensure at least one town druggist carries serum for powder wound treatment during the Independence Day celebrations.
Des Moines Iowa June 13 Action by the post office department to compel postmasters to attend both district and state meetings was favored in his annual address by O M Corrigan of Baird president of the Des Moines district meeting in session here today. The Creston district is holding its meeting in conjunction with the Des Moines district. About 40 postmasters were in attendance. This afternoon Post Office Inspector Charles Cane is to deliver an address and the election of officers is scheduled.
A. S. Lawrence traveled to Atalissa to lead the funeral of Jacob Vauble under Masonic direction.
Misses Alpha Wabnitz and Mabel Zeidler departed late last evening for California where they will spend the coming three months.
The third annual Wellman high school alumni banquet featured toasts from Dr. Enos Miller Carl Oldfield Blanche Klinefelter and others read by E L Kirkpatrick and noted speakers on virtue memory and time. A menu of strawberries chicken potatoes gravy bread butter cabbage salad pickles radishes coffee ice cream cake and nuts followed.
June events in Iowa Bluffs list visits by Austin Davis from Columbus Junction to aid Walter Simmons, Lela De Vore visiting Elsie Marston, Ralph Duncan staying with Marion Duncan, and multiple local visits. Families hosted relatives,购 and residents purchased a new auto, with continued travels and short absences across nearby towns.
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