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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1911
Page
5
Cabbage cutting has begun in Muscatine as plants that were smaller due to drought earlier in the season gain weight from recent rain. J. E. Hoopes notes yields promising for the year, though prices are lower than in 1910. Zeigler Canning Co. plans to start canning in late July as current stocks remain ample.
Excavation for the Franklin school annex is complete and cement was laid in the cellar shortly after noon. Eight workers are on site. brick work is delayed pending other preliminaries. Contractor Julius Anders, resident of Rock Island, travels daily by motorcycle between Muscatine and Rock Island.
About seventy five children from Mulford Congregational church Sunday school left the chapel for an annual picnic at Weed park. Three special cars carried families to the grounds where swings, baseballs, and games were provided under Miss Alice Mulford supervision with help from teachers and committee members Miss Dina McCoy Mrs Laura Huey and Harvey Parrish.
Announcement notes the Semper Fidelis society will discontinue all meetings until September due to warm weather. The choir will sing at church services. The president will call a September meeting to reorganize the society. Some South Sidings. Mrs. Della Greer of Waterloo visiting Harris couple. John A. Herwig builds front porch at 408 Grandview. Gunzenhauser couple return from wedding trip via Chicago and the Great Lakes. Rev. W. H. Thomlinson reports a successful fishing trip. William Cone in dangerous condition after long illness. sister from Conesville arrives to aid. Mrs. Oliver Pyeatt recovers from illness.
A World Wide Magazine excerpt notes a fortress by the Bosphorus near Constantinople called Bluebeard’s Castle. It claims the place housed a cruel old Pasha whose reputation inspired the Bluebeard tale, linking fiction to a historical site on the Bosphorus.
University of Chicago professor J G Carter Troop spoke at the institute on popular poetry for children and Longfellow. He praised Longfellow as translator and poet and urged teachers to use accessible, morally enriching poetry for early education.
Blue Grass Iowa reports Mr and Mrs Fred Rinnert marked their twenty fifth wedding anniversary on Thursday June 15. About 250 invitations were issued and nearly all invited attended the event at their decorated home in white.
Mrs. Mabel Scannell thanks friends and neighbors for their kind assistance and support during her recent bereavement.
An aged advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a long trusted teething remedy for children. It claims to soften gums, soothe colic, and relieve diarrhea, sold worldwide by druggists with a guarantee under the Act dated June 30 1866.
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