Spring opening sale and exhibit of new goods
Numerous notices of sales and openings at McColm and McCorm Dry Goods Co with promotions for Friday and Saturday. Dwellings for sale on Mulberry Avenue. new spring suits and foulard silks advertised. several residents visiting or returning to Muscatine, Wilton, and West Liberty. A gold brooch lost on Second Street prompts a reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCorm Dry Goods Co
McColm Dry Goods Co
Second Street
Town Avenue
Chestnut Street
Journal Office
Journal Carriers Guests At Grand
Sherman Stock company performs Wages of Sin a four act comedy drama at the Grand with packed houses. The Winninger Brothers stock company is praised and the Journal carriers, guests of manager Salisbury, enjoy the show. Tonight's bill is a Young Girl s Wrongs with the same high class reception for ten cents with a coupon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winninger Brothers’ Stock Company
Sherman Stock Company
Journal Carrier Boys
Salisbury
Columbus Junction Daily Social Notices March 4 1909
Residents travel for family events and visits in Columbus Junction Iowa on March 4 1909. Relatives from Burlington Ainsworth Morning Sun and Muscatine visit for weddings births and anniversaries. A baby boy is born to Perry Axtel. multiple trips to Letts, Wapello and Ottumwa noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Ella Thompson
Dan McCarthy
Ainsworth
Florence McCarthy
John Tarpy
Matthew Tarpy
McCarthy
Kate Tarpy
Burlington
John Tarpy, Jr
Cone
Albert McCullough
Conesville
Walter Morgan
L. Tedford
Homer
Wellman
George Bird
Muscatine
Rebecca Fessler
Ethel Cunningham
Will McNattan
W. F. Oakes
Iowa City
D. L. Davidson
Bard
J. P. George
Washington
Albert McKean
Wapello
Eva Pretz
M. D. Hanft
Jay Tomlinson
Morning Sun
James Erwin
Keota
Matthew Wilson
Archie Welton
Higbee
Miss Welton
Ottumwa
F. B. Letts
Clarendon
Nettie Robertson
Vinton
H. M. Letts
Letts
James R. Letts
Perry Axtel
Filmer Sikes
Effie Darling
Winfield
Made Well and Strong From Pinkham's Remedy
Suffering women report relief from female troubles after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Testimonials from Bardstown Kentucky and Christiana Tennessee tout cures of ulceration nerves and other ailments. The ad invites letters for free advice to Mrs Pinkham Lynn Mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bardstown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joseph Hall
Christiana
Tenn
Mary Woop
R.F.D
Muscatine visitors and farm sale move noted
Boys Chas and Louis of Muscatine visited the former Mrs. Wm. Orr this morning. Mr and Mrs Schultz purchased the Wm Teal farm and will move in within a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas
Louis
Muscatine
Wm. Orr
Schultz
Banquet Inspires Methodist Brotherhood Formation
Almost one hundred attended a banquet in the First Methodist church parlors served by the Ladies Aid Society at 7 30. Officers elected include Julius Schmidt president and W E Downer first vice leader with E O Burnside and R M Chase as other vice presidents. Judge Jackson urged a city church clubs federation as Rev Osborn and E O Burnside spoke, music by the Chase orchestra accompanied the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Brotherhood
First Methodist Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
Julius Schmidt
W. E. Down
Judge Jackson
Osborn
E. O. Burnside
Chase Orchestra
Y W C A NOTES
Educational committee meets at four this afternoon in the rooms. Mission Study Class will dine at 6 and assemble at 6 30. High school girls urged to attend Friday for branch membership, officer election, and plans. Neighborhood Bible Class meets tomorrow at Mrs Wise 1007 Newell Ave at 2 30. S S L club meets at 7 30 Friday evening. Everyone invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. S. L. Club
North Carolina to Exhibit at Alaska Exposition Next Year
North Carolina plans a state building at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition. The state will showcase tobacco cotton fine woods minerals and agricultural products with strong Southern representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
South
Olive Branch Society to Offer Lengthy March Meeting
The South Muscatine Olive Branch Literary Society plans a lengthy program for Friday evening March 5 with music recitals readings dialogues and a debate on whether city life or country life offers more pleasure. Lead speakers include B H De Camp Elmer Corwin for the affirmative and Glen Kemp Charley Hintermeister for the negative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Branch Literary Society
Mabel Stark
Clara Searight
Elmer Corwin
Charles Bird
Miss Brown
Miss Bielefeld
Wm. Fisher
Miss Lorber
Harry Kemp
Emma
Alice Lorber
Elsie Kemp
John Frizzell
Dan Strouse
Bert Kleist
Clyde Kemp
Mrs. Kleist
Donald Rockafellow
Agnes Keefer
Pat Tomay
Joe Lhisele
Kleist
B. H. de Camp
Glen Kemp
Charley Hintermeister
Mulford Church Becomes Independent After Annual Meeting
At the Mulford Congrega tional church annual meeting, members voted to sever from the First Congregational church due to rapid growth and strong finances. The church will seek aid from the Home Missionary society of Iowa as needed. The church reports 115 members, debt of $200 on the furnace, $80 cash balance, 17 baptisms, and 31 new Christian Endeavor members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mulford Congregational Church
Hershey Avenue
First Congregational Church
Home Missionary Society
Congregational Churches of Iowa
Thomlinson
South End
Ladies’ Aid Society
Sam Wigim
Elmer Appel
Christian Endeavor Society
Church officers elected and attendances noted
The report shows an average year attendance around 40 with Miss Alice Mulford reporting 162 as the year’s average. The by-laws committee will be appointed by Rev. Thomlinson in about two days, and the complete officer corps listed includes trustees, auditors, ushers, deacons, clerk, treasurer, and music committee. Several members travel or recover from illness and return from visits to Illinois and Iowa cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Mulford
Thomlinson
P. A. Johnson
Grinnell Town
Congregational Home Missionary Society
John Bloom
W. F. Faulkner
A. Appel
Harvey Hanson
John A. Robbins
S. McDaniel
Harry Bomke
Leonard Plessy
Elmer Appel
Methodist Revival Ends After Six Weeks of Services
Revival meetings at the Musserville Methodist church concluded after three weeks of focused services led by Rev. W. B. Ireland. The effort drew steady attendance despite poor weather and competing events, with several unaffiliated individuals converting on the final night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Musserville Methodist Church
W. B. Ireland
Ireland
South End
Edward Hodgson
Estherville
Louis Powell
Wallace Street
Edward Kaufman
Davenport
Frianda
Veteran A Victim Of Heart Disease Dies At Home
Hoopes addition resident E. Selders of Philip street died at 7:40 this morning after a year long illness from heart trouble. Civil War veteran once served in Company E, Thirty fifth Town Infantry. Survived by wife and son Frank of Oklahoma. funeral arrangements pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiffin E. Selders
Hoopes’ Addition
Philip Street
Frank
Oklahoma
Well Known Resident Celebrates Birthday in Muscatine
B J Randleman, a long time Muscatine resident, observed his seventy eighth birthday surrounded by about twenty five close relatives at his Bismarck Street home. A brief family reunion featured an impromptu musical program and a fine supper with two outside guests from Seventy Six township. The event marks his long-standing residence in Muscatine aside from a five year period in Kansas. Also, the Rock Island Railroad company is shipping thick ice from Rockford to Muscatine for icing refrigerator cars for Island shippers this summer stored in the new Pearl street icing plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murl Platt
Chicago
Ill
Gertrude Ehrlich
Illinois
Arthur Burkholder
Fruitland
Beulah Cate
Edward Sweitzer
Theodore Drumm
Mount Pleasant
Charles Stein
Rock Island
Inl
Byrne
George McAvoy
B. J. Randleman
Bismarck Street
Samuel Vanatta
Seventy-Six
Township
Randleman
Muscatine
Kansas
Rock Island Railroad Company
Rockford
Pearl Street
Orinos Laxative Claim Supposedly Saves Boy’s Life
A Wisconsin notice from Casi mer Wolkush states a three year old boy with severe constipation and fever was reportedly saved by two doses of Foley's Orino Laxative. The letter claims fever disappeared next morning and the child recovered fully. The item is offered for sale by A W Morgan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Wis
A. ‘W. Morgan
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Dr. D. Jayne
Mrs. J. Bieber
Summit
Mulberry Avenue
George Gause
West Liberty
J. K. Tyler
Robert Harder
Florence Mitchell
Wilton
D. Piggott
C. M. Reno
Hartman
Burlington Road
J. F. Dawson
L. J. Hains
Hains
George H. Woodhouse
Adam Thurston
Fairbank
Red Jacket
U. S
Frank Ashcraft’s
East 2Nd
G. A. Moore
T. F. Beveridge
Cyrus Overman
Henry Vandenberg
Ayer
Lowell
Mase
Muscatine Lumber & Box Co
W.b.corsets
Eingarten Bros
Lee
GRAND
Sherman Stock Co
Mmes A. Ellis
Amelia Cook
J. P. Marvin
Lou Duncan
J. B. Gookin
Johnnie
Crawfordsville
Mr. Gookin
T. S. Meeker
Chas. Schultz
M. ER. Brotherhood
Perman
L. D. Webster
R. M. Chase
Fred Smith
California Fic Syrup Co
South Muscatine
Olive Branch
Ciety
Mulford Church
Lane
Weil E. H. Puryear
Mexico
Colima
Rep
Dr. Bell
Enrique Silva Y Vizcarro
Eelass
IED, Co., Incorporated
Paducah
Tme
E.E
ICAM
C. Ruthenberg
Joe Ellman
O. L. Pyeatt
A. Christian
George Nietzel
Methodist Church
Tiffin
Selders
Iowa
DP. Randleman
Sary
Natal Day
Stylis
E. P, Day
East Second Street
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