Local News Roundup From Muscatine Involves Visitors and Travel
City residents and visitors are cited in Muscatine with brief notes on trips and events. Fred Daut left for Helena on business while others like Hiram Hidevore and Miss Grace Tuman traveled to nearby cities. The piece also mentions steamer excursion plans by the A. P. O. N. T. lodge and graduations at state universities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Edith Osborne
Muscatine
Stenn
Brady Street
Syracuse
N. Y
Rug Company dispute warns against out-of-town orders
A statement from Muscatine Rug Co. warns customers that claims of samples from Tri-City Rug Co. are false. The notice urges people to keep work local to Schaefer's laundry, claiming they still make rugs there. They advertise expert weaving and carpet buying, with guaranteed quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schaefer
Tri-City Rug Co
Tri- City Rug Co
What to Do With Money When You Have a Surplus
What to do with money when one has a surplus is perplexing. Those who have tried first mortgage real estate loans find them safest and most satisfactory. G. M. Titus at 118 Iowa avenue keeps ready for assignment choice loans of $100 or more and collects interest and principal without charge to investor. Call or address him if you have money to invest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. M. Titus
Iowa Avenue
Uhe
Local residents attend commencements and travel by river vessels
Mrs. Frank Sayes sails Davenport to Muscatine trips on Firefly. Mayors, doctors, and professionals visit Iowa City for state university commencements while many others depart for Wilton, Rock Island, or Tipton. Community events include DeMolay conclave, Elks lodge gatherings, Maccabees initiation, and a rescheduled band concert at Citizens Railway Park.
Ohio River shells boost pearl button supply for Muscatine
Pearl button makers in Muscatine gain a new shell source as the Ohio River yields excellent quality shells from Madison Indiana and other beds. Mississippi supplies remain tight, Arkansas rules were relaxed then tightened by rising waters, and the Ohio discovery offers relief as waters recede.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Ohio River
Madison
Indiana
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Arkansas
Counterfeit $20 National Bank Note Circulating
The description warns banks nationwide about a counterfeit $20 note from the National Bank of Metropolis Illinois. It is a crude photographic reproduction on thin brittle paper with fake coloring and smeared green ink around the charter number on the back. The note uses series 1882 charter 5254 bank 1193 treasury 896558 and is readily identifiable as counterfeit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bank of Metropolis
Treasury
G A R Posts Asked to Aid Kansas Flood Sufferers
Muscatine G A R members may aid Kansas comrades hit by floods after a message from Commander-in-Chief Stewart. The Kansas department appealed for relief and national headquarters will send a relief circular to Des Moines and to posts statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Kansas
G. A. Newman
G. A. R. Department
Stewart
Philadelphia
National Department
National Headquarters
Des Moines
Side Rank of Macccabees Formed by Eastern Prophet Knights
The Knights of the Eastern Prophet, a side rank of the Knights of the Maccabees, met last night for the first time. The new organization starts with 23 members and officers include Grand Orient Fred O'Brien and Grand Vice Orient H H Fack. Other officers are Grand Prince R B Freers Grand Herald Eugene Bond Grand Prophet Milo Rittenhouse Grand Sentinel Gustav Homeier Grand Parchment Keeper J W Hahn and Grand Purse Bearer Lee A Freers.
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Knights of the Eastern Prophet
Knights of the Maccabees
Grand Orient
Fred O'Brien
Grand Vice Orient
H. H. Fack
R. B. Freers
Eugene Bond
Milo Rittenhouse
Grand Sentinel
Gustav Homeier
J. W. Hahn
Lee A. Freers
Button Workers Set For Largest Assembly Friday Night
Hundreds of Button Workers will assemble Friday night in Assembly Hall for what is anticipated to be the largest labor gathering ever held in the city.
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Assembly Hall
Music Lessons From C. T Gremmeil Now Offered
Ambitious children can enroll for lessons in solin nandolin clarinet cornet and drums by C T Gremmeil with 30 years experience. All instruments and music furnished at low figures.
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C. T Gremmeil
Muscatine Labor Meeting backs international button workers union
The proposition by G. J. Peck to form an international button workers union gains favor among Muscatine laborers. T. B. Menton will attend and speak at the gathering alongside others to address the movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
G. J. Peck
Button Workers’ Union
T. B. Menton
A June Outing by River to Fairmouth Woods
A group of about twenty five women and children chartered the steamer Migon this morning and traveled down the river to Fairmouth for a day in the woods.
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Fairmouth
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East 2Nd St
Reliance Loan Co
West Second St
J. E. Kranz
Fred Daut
Helena
Montana
Hobart M. Cable
J. J. Griffith
W. D. Burk
Iowa City
the Home Tea Company
They
Hiram Hidevore
Atalissa
Grace Tuman
Walnut Street
Nichols
C. H. Armstrong
Nebraska
Margaret O'Connor
Columbus Junction
Alice Niver
Mulberry Street
The
State University
J. S
A. P. O. N. T. Lodge
Blanche K. Stewart
Keota
A. L. Lindner
East Front Street
W. M. Laventure
W. H. Truesdale
Rock Island Railroad
W. R. Alexander
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
Jacob Asthalter
Lincoln
Neb
Harry
University of Nebraska
G. A. Riemcke
Ethel
Willie
Charles Riemcke
Pharmaceutical Department of
the State University
Muscatine RU CO
Home Tea Company
Frank Sayes
Thomas Marshall
Keithsburg
Ray H. Dean
David Young
West Branch
Ollie McKinney
East Hill
Wilton
Dell Martin
F. H. Little
Fifth and
Pine Streets
DeMolay Commandery No. 1
K. T
Charles Hayes
Andalusia
Ill
J. I. Grieser
Davienport
Father Davis
C. E. Linder
Eliza, NL
New Mexico
Edward Schmidt
West Seventh Street
Chicago
Ernest
Co. O. McBride
New London
R. Blanchard
Aura Appel
Hershey Avenue
C. C. Horton
Marshalltown
A. L. Horton
Helen Blair
Rock Island
J. R. Terry
Orange Street
Summit
Katherine Pringle
R. H. Pringle
C. P. Wagner
P. Miller
Grandview
Bessie Hudson
West Liberty
County Teachers’ Institute
John B. Hudson
J. J. Webb
East Tenth Street
N. McCrosky
Tipton
Frank Gay
Kate Shaughnessy
Clara Kaufman
East Seventh Street
North Platt
Mrs. Chorpenning
C. C. Klopp
Helen
Esther
Cedar Street
Richmond
Muscatine Lodge No
Second Street
Order
Charles Mull
Kansas City
Adam Hess
John Kane
le Claire
Fletcher Stinehart
C. A. Mull
Robert Bennett
Montpelier
City
W. F. Brannan
East Third Street
Lilly’s
John Eade
East Fifth Street
John Eade, Jr
Daniel Thompson
Letts
L. Rensink
William Rensink
Smalley Avenue
Miss Rensink
West Side Hospital of
Will A. Appel
Grandview Avenue
Medical Department
Citizen’s Railway Park
Capital
Ohio
Rivers
Discover
Ohio Fields
M. C. Hayes & Co
Barnard’s
Lar
H. F. Barnard CO
Watch Inspector C., R. J. & P. RY
F. A. Neidig
East Second Street
Minos
Seiler
Thompson Bros
Pearl City
Joe T. Cosgrove
West Second Street
D.C. Berntheiser
China
East Second ST
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