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Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 12, 1908

Page

6

South Muscatine Resident Stephen Drahos Dies

Stephen Drahos a South Muscatine resident died Saturday at his home 429 Pond street after a paralysis stroke. He was 48, born in Austria, lived in Muscatine about fifteen years, and was a German Evangelical church member. Funeral Tuesday at the church with Rev. J. J. Jans, interment Greenwood cemetery. Mrs. Drahos and three children survive. Local notes report drainage work lowering the slough water. Miss Sadie Brier laid to rest. many townsfolk noted in South Muscatine Locals.

Stephen Drahos South Muscatine Pond Street Mr. Drahos Austria America Muscatine Drahos German Evangelical Church J. J. Jans Greenwood Cemetery Alice Countryman Fruitland Grace Downs Gladwin Charles Liebler Sweetland Bert Hall Cedar Rapids Musserville John Manley Ernest Berg Durant John Soudan New Era Michael Wilhite Sadie Brier W. H. Thomlinson Mulford Congregational Church Florence Bryant May Fuhlman Nina Butcher Louise Oliver Lola Ditto Henrietta Garard South End George Garfield Wapel Letts A. L. White Ray and Lee Fox Columbus Junction

West Liberty Notes and Local Travels

WreST LIBERTY West Liberty Iowa Oct 12 The iP E O Chapter will hold its regular meeting on Tuesday evening Oct 13 at Miss Bessie Furniss home All members are requested to be present. Numerous residents and visitors listed with travel to Burling ton Iowa City Atalissa Muscatine and other nearby towns.

West Liberty Ip. E. O Bessie Furniss West Fifth Street Jessie Anderson Helen Burlington Frank Strauss Samantha Porch Iowa City

Root Juice demonstrations stir Muscatine crowds

Letters from Des Moines praise Root Juice curing stomach and other ailments. George H. Scott of Des Moines recounts rapid improvements in his wife and daughter's health after using the remedy. Demonstrations continue at Morgan's drug store. price is one dollar per bottle or three for two dollars and fifty cents.

Morgan's Muscatine Des Moines George H. Scott Iowa A. W. Morgan

West Liberty News Briefs From Saturday Rail travel and bank opening

La Rue and other Iowa City visitors traveled home by evening trains. Miss Anna White visited Moscow with family. West Liberty’s Citizens Savings Bank opened at 9 am in a new Third Street building with a secure vault and notable local directors. Several residents visited relatives in nearby towns and townsfolk reported a fatal hayfork accident in Clarence.

Lottie Hanna Will Reed Lewis Atalissa L. F. Figle Downey Sarah Coffman South Columbus Street W. B. Garvin Ione Morning Sun Elmer Mead Iowa City Mary Bean Zela Vera Minneapolis Minn Ellis Smith Calhoun Street Rose Auxer Ohio Jerry Evans Shelby Cora Potter Melvin Brown Freeman Fisder Nichols W. Paulsen Julius Gimm M. Greenwall New Liberty Grand Gimm Prairie Avenue Helen Watters Cedar Rapids Estelle Wood Centerdale G. G. Wright Guy Manatt West Fourth Street W. L. Curtis Columbus Junction Etta Gregg Town City Frank Carson W. H. Smith Town Chicago Ill W. B. Kellogg John Neubauer Julius Hooke William Bodman Muscatine Fred Shellabarger Bessie Loveland Alta West Branch North Calhoun Street Arthur Hawkes L. H. Newman Fast Hill Citizens’ Savings Bank of West Liberty Third Street E. F. Schall Helen Winn Wilton Lucy Evans Moline Slice Mary Evans Hattie Smith Clarence Charlie Richards Mesdames Robert Smith Joana Ivey Hazel Oakes Emma Mieskey Lloyd Kile Emar Stokes Frank Roland George Johns Davenport Ora Wilson S. H. Merredith Peter Young Warren Sadie Mr. Young Chlupach Denver Colo Colorado Nora Springs H. Maxson Victor Albert Holloway Wyoming George Furniss Fairview Presbyterian Church Carrie Applegate Emma Shields Andrew Hendrickson

Electric Bitters for dyspepsia and liver kidney relief

To the dyspeptic. Electric Bitters cure dyspepsia, liver and kidney complaints and debility. Price 50c. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.

Havercamp

F. J. Benz Heads to Washington for Month Study

F. J. Benz, who has been attending school in Muscatine, left this morning for Washington. He will spend a month there for study and related activities.

F. J. Benz Muscatine Washington

Secretary Whitmore Speaks at YMCA Theatre Meeting

J A Whitmore, state religious work secretary, addressed the YMCA men at the Family Theater yesterday afternoon. Marie Schmidt sang, accompanied by Ethel Riemcke, as Whitmore urged belief in Christ with personal experience and his mother’s faith cited as foundation. Asa Turner of Farrar will speak next Sunday on the value of being a Christian.

J. A. Whitmore Marie Schmidt Ethel Riemcke Whitmore Asa Turner Farrar Iowa Turner

Factory basketball league formed at Y M C A

Representatives of leading city firms met at the Y M C A to form a factory basketball league. O E Johnson supervised details. Games will be held Saturdays at the Y M C A gym with free gym use for workers. Firms forming teams include Roach and Musser, McKee and Bliven, Huttig, Empire City Button Works, Automatic, Vienna, Rabedeaux and Co, Holzhauer, and H J Heinz.

O. E. Johnson Association

Columbus Junction social notes carried in local visits

Miss Isa Gentzler Grandview primary teacher returns home for a Sunday visit. Numerous residents travel to nearby cities for family events and visits including Iowa City Fairfield Burlington Keota Muscatine and Wapello. A button factory restart follows shells arrival and extended stays set for relatives and health concerns noted.

Columbus Junction Isa Gentzler Grandview Joe Tedford South Dakota Beulah Sheridan Washington Frank George James Reaney Iowa University Iowa City A. P. Thoman P. H. Boyd Davenport Frank Hale Roderick Frances Grafton Wapello John Hale W. A. Colton W. H. Colton David Blankenhorn Ainsworth A. K. Runkle Lisbon Hazel Linna Huston Fairfield Pauline Collins Sumner Kulp Bard D. W. van Dyke Grace Worley Burlington Anna Mulhern W. H. Ogier Laird Parsons Oklahoma Ogier A. S. Thompson Ethel Edwards Muscatine Inlaw Leon Thompson Bellevue Hospital E. T. Foster Melvin Foster J. J. Duncan

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