Muscatine Boys Return Trip Down Mississippi
Muscatine youths Walter Settlemire and Will Schoemaker travel from Red Wing Minnesota in a small flatboat toward Muscatine. They plan to arrive early next week barring accidents and are stopping at river towns along the way. They stockpiled food and intend to camp where needed, continuing a slow sightseeing voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Settlemire
Will Schoemaker
Muscatine
Red Wing
Minn
Mississippi River
Lansing
Rock River
South Muscatine
Former Muscatine Man Badly Injured in Seattle
George Christian, a former Muscatine resident, was severely injured in Seattle while assisting coworkers at a foundry when a broken support caused heavy iron to strike his leg. He fractured the leg above the knee and suffered heavy bruising, taken to Brotherhood Hospital. He is not expected to resume work until fall. He is well known in Muscatine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Parks
South Muscatine
Seattle
Wash
George Christian
Christian
Brotherhood
Rock River
Postum Food Coffee Promises Health for Brain Workers
An advertisement argues that brain work consumes phosphate of potash and albumen, depleting energy. It claims coffee accelerates breakdown, causing dyspepsia and poor vitality, and promotes Postum Food Coffee as a nourishing liquid alternative that rebuilds cells and improves health.
West Liberty People Make Local Drifts and Visits
West Liberty Iowa notes list Mrs Ray Chase and son Ward visiting Atalissa. Wm Warren and others conduct business trips to Iowa City and Muscatine. The Ellisons journey to Albert Lee for their son Chas Ellison wedding. Mrs Gause recovers from illness. several residents travel to Maquoketa Downey Muscatine and West Branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Liberty
Ray Chase
Ward
Atalissa
Wm. Warren
Iowa City
J. L. Gaunt
Rock Island
Theo. Vanatta
Stanley
Salem
Z. Ellison
Chas. Stenniker
Davernort
Theo. Zipp
Wm. Burzer
W. Heck
Moscow
E. Ady
Albert
Muscatine
H. McDonald
Hng
J. P. McMillen
West Branch
Albert Lee
Chas. Ellison
Alta
Selma Daum
Ellison
Levi Pilkington
Alice Kaufman
Edith Cornwall
Downey
Geo. Gause
Nettie Anderson
A. F. Parker
Des Moines Branch FMS Opens Third Quarterly Meeting
The Des Moines branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society opens its third quarterly meeting in Waterloo with a full program. Miss May Willa Patten of Muscatine is secretary of the home department and will report on current work though her Birthday Missionaries address is omitted. Miss Anna R. Blicker will discuss orphanage work in India alongside other sessions and speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Waterloo
May Willa Patten
Home Department
Anna R. Blicker
India
Geo. Irmscher
Dubuque
Mary Q. Evans
Maryville
Upper Iowa
A. F. Rigby
May Villa Patten
Muscatine
Mary T. Thompson
Laura Robenhouse
S. W. Hethrington
Nan Chang
China
Kate L. Ogborn
Cedar Falls
Burma
Luella Rigby
Josephine Liers
Estie Boddy
Sioux City
Alvina Robbinson
Humeston
Ower S. Dow
Also Mentioned on This Page
Handsome
McCorm Dry Goods Co
Muscatine Boys
Walter Settlemire and
Will
Schoemaker
Edward Duncan
Wapello
Chicago
Joseph Cooper
Milan
Martin Liebbeck
Near Cotter
Edna Robertson
Columbus Junction
Margaret Weinrich
Peila
Grandview Avenue
Howard Parvin
Near Letts
Leola Grady
Osceola
South End
Will Collins
Cincinnati
Ohio
Adel Groth
Sandusky
Rads
Charles Kline
Grandview
Musserville
Otto Faber
Kewanee
Ill
Anna Blicker
The
Des
Moines
Woman's For
Eign Missionary Society
Vernon
Tees
W. H. Arnold
Martha Stahl-Beall
Bedford
Kate E. Moss
Kansas City
Oner S. Dow
Garner
Jennie V. Hughes
Mary Stone
Kiukiang
Daisy D. Boylan
Eldora
Daisy Wood
Irmscher
Elizabeth Pearson
Matt S. Hughes
J. I. Compton
Opera House
Albert Shoppa
Ora Blanchar
Milwaukee Domestic Science Training School
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