Local News Highlights From City and Surroundings
Chiropractor A Simpson and Dr Allen are noted visiting and working in the city. Fruitland residents A Hopson and Mrs A G Martin travel home after visits. Miss Frazier and Miss Schwartz plan brief visits to What Cheer and Lone Tree. Local professionals Dr Glapp and Drs Burnaugh family are mentioned with travel for visits. Socials include St Margaret Guild sale at Bilkey Building and All Saints Guild cake and food sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AL. A. Simpson
OPA
Iowa Ave
Bond
A. Hopson
Fruitland
Dr. Allen
Wilson
A. GC. Martin
Mary ‘Schwartz
East 8Th Street
Lone Tree
A. G. Licher
Wapello
Kyent
Glapp
F. E. White
Red Men
Thompson & Thompson
Bert Green
Familly
Davenport
Roke
River Road
All Saint's Guild
Chigon's
Ty, & St. Offles
Gullit's Tameheon Mienu at Bilkey Building Cafeteria
A cafeteria style meal was served Saturday at the Bilkey Building on Town Avenue. The menu included potato salad beefloaf baked beans pickles sandwiches coffee ice cream and cake served at eight o clock sharp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gullit
Bilkey
Town Avenue
East ILE Hopke Funeral At Davenport Today
The body of August Hopke of East Firth street was brought to Davenport by a brother after his suicide. Funeral services were held at Nissen Hartwig Undertaking Chapel in Davenport with interment at Fairmount Cemetery. Mrs Hopke will reside in Muscatine with relatives from Jois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Hopke
East Firth Street
Davenport
Undertaking Chapel of
Nissen
Hartwig
West Second Street
Fairmount Cemetery
School Tryouts Set for June Field Meet and Picnic
Lincoln school announces a field meet on June 7 with a school picnic on that day. Winners of the fifty yard dash across four upper grades include Dolly Whitmer Genes Brenner Floyd Brenner Harry Barton Oral Pratt Bernice Dubois John Nedman Winfield Wells Gladys Frizzett Violet Kline Robert McGaughey Lloyd Oberhaus Rebeccaartman Minnie Eisner Raymond Shepard William Danz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln School
McKee
Dolly Whitmer
Genes Brenner
Floyd Brenner
Harry Barton
Oral Pratt
Bernice Dubois
John Nedman
Winfield Wells
Gladys Frizzett
Violet Kline
Robert McGaughey
Ployd Oberhaus
All Saints' Guild Food Sale Menu at Citizens' R A Office
Cake and food sale by All Saints' Guild on Saturday June 1 at the Citizens R A and Ut personal office. Cake bread rolls pies Boston brown bread fish balls and other good things. Drop in and buy something for Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizen's Ry. & St
All Saints’ Guild
Citizens’ R. A. & Ut
South End Welcomes New Pastor Fred Wangelin
Reverend Fred Wangelin, pastor of the First Congregational church in Steamboat Rock, has accepted a unanimous call from the Mulford Congregational church. He will likely preach his first sermon the first Sunday in July at the South End church. Wangelin, fluent in German and English, served Steamboat Rock two and a half years and was popular. The town regrets his departure after his baccalaureate sermon last Sunday and his Memorial services address yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steamboat Rock
Fred Wangelin
First Congregational
Mulford
South Snd
Rv. Wangelin
Decorated Muscatine Slough Crowds Honor Memorial Day
Holiday crowds gather along the Muscatine slough to celebrate Memorial Day with boats and all day outings. South End scenes show flags, bunting, and vivid decorations as residents honor heroes and loved ones gone before. Construction on the Grandview Bleeker spur advances with steel laid and ties in place, enabling southbound service to reach the ball grounds without transfers. Local residents travel to Muscatine Island and Miles Avenue homes while visitors stay with families on Grandview and nearby streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Wwetr Ter
South End
South Muscatine Hay Memorial Day
Grandview Avenue
Bleeker Street
Ball Grounds
Bismarck Street
Gojo Club May End Dancing Party At Muscatine Launch Club
A society notes item reports the Gojo club dance at the Muscatine Launch Club with about thirty couples, moonlit scene and 16 dance numbers, plus a frappe. Out of town guests included Misses Neitz, Loutzenheizer, Rice, Crowley, Fesler and others from Iowa City Davenport Riverside and Council areas. July dancing is postponed to September and remaining events run through June, August, and September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gojos
Delightrel
Gojo
Muscating
Bernice Neitz
Loretta Loutzenheizer
Iowa City
Mary-Alice Rice
Chicano
Helen Crowley
Davenport
Violet Fesler
Riverside
Fred WW. Moffman
Tola
Wangs
John McCallister
James Sims
Wedding Repast and Farewells Mentioned in Local Socials
A wedding repast for ten was noted as Mr. and Mrs. Dowell prepared to depart for Enid Oklahoma to visit relatives for months before the husband resumes teaching duties in Fairport. Helen Lange plans a move from Minnesota to Portland Oregon after a farewell party hosted by the Springborns. Decorations highlighted Decoration Day observances, with a large attendence at the cemetery and church program led by Rev. Rendall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Lange
Minnesota
Portland
Oregon
Edward Springborn
Climer Street
South Hill
Columbus Junction Decoration Day Services Draw Large Crowd
In Columbus Junction Iowa on May 31 a large crowd attended Decoration Day services. A long procession formed with townsfolk leaving conveyances along Columbus City Street and marching to the cemetery. The marshal band and veterans led the line while old soldiers’ companies followed. John A. Robbins noted as a reference point in the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus Junction
Columbus City
W. R
John A. Robbins
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Leysen's Shoe Store
Yivide
Russia
Lois Frazier
Amy Folxer
Washington
W. R. Orle
Sulto
Muscatine State Bank
Prank Smalley
Sheen
J. B. Hartman
Burlington Road
Des Moines
Drs. L. BR. Burnaugh and Sons
Cecil and
Clifford
Nichols
Friends
St. Margaret Guild
Bilkey Building
Chris. Garber
Morgan, Ill
C. Brase
Monroe Street
Selig
Lion
A-Muse-U
Milo Rittenhouse
King Avenue
E. C. Miller
Cedar Rapids
The
M. B. A. Lodge
Edward Stodghill
Washington Street
Roneyvue Hospital
Bornice
Ile
Hopke
Daven
Red
Piente and
Ball
Logal Gall
Slough
Pionto
South Muscatine
Fannie Coder
Grandview
Muscatine Island
Sidney Mayweather
John Mersey
Wilton
Fannie Townsend
Miles Avenue
Wiliam Frevert
Rock Island
William Appel
Freyverts
Clara, Wallace
Wayser
Kayser
Julius Kayser & Co., Makers
New York
Lowa
Iowa Dairy
Artangen
Muscatine High School Alumni Association
Edwin McColm
Yulia Elnhausen
J. H. St. John
Will McQuesten
I. Ss. Pentzer
Hazel Marjorie Ostrander
George Bird
Jessa A. Dowell
East Sixth Street
Pride
G. P. Badgley
Musserville Methodist Episcopal Church
Christian Endeavor Society
First Presbyterian Church
Weed Park
King's Daughters of the
Friends’ Church
W. H. O'Dell
Kansas City
Kleist
Laura James
Peggie Downer
Florence Hopkins
Clara Chamberlain
Lucile Crow
Ethel Robinson
Messrs
Shirden Cracraft
Leonard James
Harry Garnes
Award Crow
Glen Ryan
Merle Platt
Mabel Zeidler
Chestnut and
Sixth Streets
Fair Ground
Burlington
Mary Whistler
West Hill
Ation
Volger’s New Jewelry Store
Mortons
Morton
Coon & Fisher
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