Local notices and musical outings headline city events
Mrs Mac Glick of Omaha arrives tonight to visit relatives while the Maennordher and Ma ccker concert excursion to Burlington is promoted for next Sunday July 2. Piano ads note Lyon and Healy upright at 175 dollars and Lawson mahogany model at 198 with Hirt and Fesler in Hershey Building. Dr Horace L Husted offers eye ear nose throat care and glasses. Mrs J Bond and mis. Murphy are mentioned in town notes. Boat leaves Burlington at morning and returns about 5 pm inviting crowds to join for a day out.
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T. Gremmet
Dr. Clapp
Mac Glick
Omaha
Horace L. Husted
G.A. Bank
Council Wins in the Paving Case
Muscatine city council scores a victory over the brick trust in the paving dispute as Judge A P Barker of Clinton dissolves the temporary injunction. The opinion holds the council acted legally in all details, and bidding and contracting steps remained valid without reissuing a two thirds vote. Separate actions involved advertising for bids and proceeding with the improvement at the point court action halted. Also notes a special Iowa Lodge No. 2 meeting on June 27 for Masons with 3rd degree work and refreshments, and a Bowman's ad offering budgets and carriages.
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Muscatine
Brick Trust
A. P. Barker
Clinton
Davenport
Barker
Mascntine
W. Stutevoos
Iowa
Geneva Island Outing Bubbles With Summer Cheer
Geneva island was lively Sunday with cottages filled by pleasure seekers. Hostesses Miss Gertrude Binhuff and Miss Helen Braun led a party of about fifteen including out of town guests. The group enjoyed boating from the Oneonta cottage and a social day amid a warm municipal scene.
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Geneva
Geneva Island
Gertrude Binhuff
Helen Braun
John Binhuff
Ust
Gertrude
Mary Neff
Mae Shea
Peggy Strand
Swanson
Carl Hammer
Dr. Lee
Tri-Cities
Clarence Butler
Wilton
Moersmeyer
Oneonta
J .H. Eversieger
Mulberry Avenue
Wild~ Wood
Leffingwells
George Nesser
Walton
Tacoma
Wash
Bedford
Jacob Hess
Farl Eversmeyer
George Leffingwell
Louise Hyersmeyer
Robert Schenck
Deutschland” Cottage
Danifino
Alma Westfall
Rains of Great Benefit to Muscatine Crops
Two refreshing showers Sunday night improved the outlook for Muscatine county crops though fears linger of a heavier downpour. The lower county fared better with rain, while the north end saw less. Vegetables and small grains benefited, but extreme heat and drought in recent weeks left soil dry and heavy rain must follow to save remaining crops.
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Muscatine County
Muscatine
Three Lads Jailed After Interaction With Officer Bryant
West World, Roy Edwards and "Peachy" Plum, three South Wnd youths, drank freely and caused a disturbance Saturday night. They assaulted Officer Bryant when he arrived, but he subdued them with his billy and lantern. All three were jailed, then brought before Judge Carl for pleading guilty to intoxication and each sentenced to thirty days at hard labor.
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Asa
Carl Tpany
SIX NEGROES KILLED IN RIVER EXPLOSION NEAR MEMPHIS
Six deckhands die and fourteen more are expected to die after the City of St. Joseph packet's boiler explosion on the Mississippi opposite Presidents Island near Memphis Tennessee. Fifty aboard with many injured as the ship caught fire. Rescue by ferry Charles H. Organ saved many.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi River
St. Joseph
President's Island
Charles H. Organ
City of
Posel
Supper Planned At 6 30 Oclock For Forty West Hill Youth
A social gathering was hosted by the Roth family at their Neldlg residence Saturday evening for about forty members of the West Hill Young People group.
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Jugend Verein
Lutheran Son's
Weed
West -Hill
Wreck Explodes Off Ferry Pont Rescue Saves All Aboard
Reported explosion aboard a packet near the ferry pont resulted in two boats being lashed together to rescue passengers and crew. If the ferry pont had not been nearby when the blast occurred, all on board would likely have perished.
Local social notes from Iowa City area
Mrs Tom Moen of Iowa City guests in town and vicinity. Mise Nettie Stephens visiting at J B Lloyd home. Mrs Katherine England and Miss Belle Hastings returned from Michigan. Sample visited from Iowa City for a day at the Zimmerman home. Misses Ida Long Hazel Wimner Marie Shettler Jennie Dodds at institute in Iowa City. Everett Curl ill with mumps. Mrs Al Bull visited by her mother Mrs Rogers of Ottumwa. Misses Helen and Clementine Shafer visited Iowa City. Mrs Sade Topping to Cedar Rapids for a few weeks. Clarence Dunshee and mother were in Iowa City Friday.
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Wellman
Tom Moen
Iowa City
Mise Nettie Stephens
J. B. Lloyd
Katherine England
Belle Hastings
Michigan
Sample
Zimmerman
Ida Long
Hazel Wimner
Marie Shettler
Jennie Dodds
Local residents extend stays with Wellman families
Mrs Wehria recovers from neuralgia of the stomach. Miss Elizabeth McInney of Singam Ind. is making an extended stay with Wellman people and others in the vicinity. The W. H. Wishard family is spending a few weeks on the farm.
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Wehria
Elizabeth MecInney
Singam
Ind
W. H. Wishard
Baby Swallows Poison. Death After 45 Minutes
Hopkinton Ja June 26 Walter Miller aged 14 months swallowed hychnine tablets last night and in forty five minutes was dead.
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Hopkinton Babe
Hopkinton, Ja
Walter Miller
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