Automatic Shop Employees Notice
A meeting of all striking employees of the Automatic factory is called at Assembly Hall tonight at 7 30 sharp. All employees are requested to be present.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1911
Page
4
A meeting of all striking employees of the Automatic factory is called at Assembly Hall tonight at 7 30 sharp. All employees are requested to be present.
The notice lists a special sale on fly nets and a Blasius & Sons piano priced at 185 dollars. It also mentions Hirt & Feslar Piano Co in Hershey Building, plus local visitors and summer office closures for Dr. J. T. Martin. A. N. Van Camp of Highmore S. D. attends Iowa City commencement and reunion activities while visiting Muscatine. he was a former Wilton lawyer and friend of Major John Pickler.
At the Thirty-Three club monthly meeting held in the Presbyterian church parlor on Wednesday evening June 21, Dr S G Stein will present a paper on envelopes. H F Giessler will lead current events discussion.
Ben G. Lilly of B. E. Lilly Dry Goods leaves by car with a Jackson Auto Supply mechanic for a 900 mile drive to Indiahoma Oklahoma. The travel aims to cover a substantial cross state route.
Telegram from Dubuque announces Charles P. Hanley and Commodore Osborne named as timers for the Dubuque motor boat regatta on July 4. Also named are H. Cole Esteh W V Kidder and William B Rogers as judges, Commodore Dixon and Commodore Webb as starters. Three more entries, including Eph, join the field.
Salvation Army arranges the annual Fresh Air outing for Muscatine’s impoverished children at Weed Park on July 13. Luncheon and refreshments will be provided, with mothers also cared for. Donations of edibles are requested and tickets available from 116 Walnut Street starting July 1.
The Ottumwa baseball club faces a pay-day with no funds in the treasury. President Frank T. Lynch says several supporters have pledged money, but no director will collect it. The club is described as busted and in need of immediate funds to pay players and keep the team alive.
Muscatine delegation attends the State Federation of Labor meeting in Sioux City but no next meeting site is decided. The Iowa Federation of Labor debates whether officers will be elected by convention or by referendum, with no place chosen yet.
Ben R. Vardaman associate editor of the Merchants' Trade Journal will visit Muscatine Monday delivering lectures at the A. O. U. W. hall. He speaks to clerks on salesmanship in two sessions and to business people in the evening on A Greater Muscatine. A large attendance is expected.
Charles W. Mueller known as Chick Mueller wired the Adrian club of the Southern Michigan league to accept their terms and will likely depart tonight or tomorrow. He previously starred for Saginaw and Muscatine, winning his first two Camel games with strong pitching and clutch hitting.
E M Cross of Des Moines was elected president of the Iowa Abstractors association at its Des Moines convention. Des Moines will host the 1913 meeting, with Keokuk Waterloo and Fort Dodge as finalists. New officers include Vice President Sherwood A Clock Secretary George E Whitcomb and Treasurer H C Madden all listed along with the executive committee members H J Henry Lore Alford S K Hart and W F Carlton.
The Muscatine county normal teachers institute will open next Monday. County Superintendent M F Cronin expects attendance to surpass prior years with many outside the county and reservations increasing. Pedagogues from Cedar Johnson and Louisa counties will attend and lectures will be open to the general public.
Stock prices list major firms with percentages including Amalgamated Copper American Sugar Refining and United States Steel. A debt notice from Joseph S. Vinton dated June 16 1911 directs all concerned to seek settlement via Rose Vinton. Public rental ad offers a modern furnished room at corner 7th and Mulberry for $1.25 weekly.
For sale two thousand acres in Louisa county five miles from Wapello comprising several farms. All level black land with some timber improvements not good. Located in the new drainage district and will be under the new levee. Sold in tracts to suit purchaser Emery C Letts Letts Iowa.
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