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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1909
Page
7
Multiple brief items note residents visiting or traveling, including Elizabeth Fayle heading to Washington Iowa for professional work and others visiting Muscatine, Davenport, Letts, Gibson and St Louis. Ads promote Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea for health and a 5 room cottage bargain in Muscatine.
G. M. Titus at 213 Iowa Ave urges renters to consider buying. He promises a straightforward plan with a few hundred dollars as a first payment and long, easy monthly terms to own a home.
Mulford Congregational church hosts a South Muscatine program Friday evening under Christian Endeavor. The feature is readings by Miss Icy Teel, famed local entertainer with dramatic skill. Orchestra, choir and Miss Teel perform in a varied program including readings and musical selections.
Invitations issued for the June 23 ceremony at Musserville Methodist Church. Alice Alvina Yeager and Albert Snavely will marry at 8 PM with Rev. W. B. Ireland officiating, then visit the Yeager home near Fruitland before returning to Muscatine.
The piece envisions future life a century ahead with machines doing drudgery and travel by wind powered flight. It compares past changes in dress travel and communications to today’s innovations and promotes Egg-O-See Corn Flakes as a healthful breakfast, easy digestion and energy for all, especially busy people.
Epworth League meeting drew forty members who enjoyed a program and approved eleven new members. The lineup included a Bible lesson by Rev W C Schultze, piano and vocal solos by Caroline Diercks and Esther Schultze, an address by Herman Luedtke, an essay by Theo Orlowsky, and a vocal solo by William Funck.
Dean A C Piersel D D resigns after eleven years as dean of the college of liberal arts and professor of Greek language and literature at Iowa Wesleyan. He will serve as pastor of the First Methodist church in Springfield Illinois this summer. successor not yet chosen.
Joseph Pomroy aged sixty three of 1309 Smalley avenue wed Mrs Elizabeth Noble aged fifty nine in Aledo Illinois last Saturday at the United Presbyterian church officiated by Rev Rickets. The union surprised Muscatine friends and occurred at the bride home.
Mrs T J Portsman hosted the Ladies Aid Society with about 25 attendees and plans an ice cream and strawberry social at the M E church on June 26. Several local residents and visitors attend gatherings, dinners, and card nights. Wm DeLap the mayor buys a new automobile and Egger Button Co shipped blanks to Muscatine.
Millersburg reports on June 16 that Jackson Thornton is improving slowly after feeble health. A. J. Debard and Mr and Mrs Wm Blain traveled to Aledo on June 7 for business, while Lee Thornton returned home in mid June.
Albert Penland 33 son of a local business man was struck by an Iowa Central train while returning from a fishing trip. He was found decapitated and ground to pieces. funeral plans have not been set. Penland is well known in the city and leaves a wife and one child.
Edward Hoffman, a 76 year old resident of Fort Madison, Iowa, killed himself by hanging in his wood house. Despondency was given as the cause.
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