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JOURNAL AND NEWS-TRIBUNE SATURDAY. JUNE 13, 1942. Recalling Happenings of Yesteryear By MABEL" BAHTENHAGEN June 1S86. The. wont since 1851, of the United States, was married ment was held In Old's Opera House.

Coles New Colossal Shows and Dr. Carver's Wild West and Walk Under Grouno Aere were In addUonAere were battle thc Little Big Horn. Hotel Webster block and retraced their steps. The parade was the whole town was doomed, but th making it possible for the firemen to gc up were working in unbe rabl fa and teams of horses and mules from flames ana it people ut "uheir houses, and the when cinders and sparks fleu, saw mill were vain fs the whole ly to drag cars away hauled loads of shingles on the hill moved circus over it. Thc efforts to save structure burst into flames at Sustion.

The crowd that: had been washing and they mell to the fire. A SQ Society Events Interesting Schedule of Meetings Planned For Joan of Arc Court, CD A The yearbooks for members of Joan of Arc Courth, Catholic Daughters of America, have been issued and one of the highlighting events on the year's calendar is the annual anniversary party to be held Monday night, June.22, at the Knights of Columbus hall. Miss Blanche Carney and Miss Jeanette Esser head the committee as co-chairmen, and others on the committee are Mary Louise Bielefeld, Elma Slatery, Clara Digney and Mildred Bartenhagen. The regular business session will be held on July 13. Salvage Party A "salvage party" is' planned for Sept.

14. There will be a potluck supper preceding the business session. Heading the committees as co-chairmen are Elizabeth Ryan and Anna Lange. Others on the committee are Lillian Wooster, Mary Scholten, Ella Delaney and Martha Van Lent. For their meeting Sept.

28 Arrangements will be made by Geraldine Ogle and Nella Chayka, co-chairmen, assisted by Lucille Hall Lillian Kuebler, Frances Dodder and Mary Felidatas Smith. A travel talk will be the feature of the meeting on Oct. 12. Benefit Event A card parly will be given on Oct. 19 for the benefit of, the sent a steamer and that when they got to Wilton they discovered tna long in coming thawhen, tne WHton who had Th Hallowe'en masquerade ihe fire was out and retuinea 1 nnht -ther i 0 nf Oct.

milk fund. Irene Dilley and Mary Strain will be committee chairman assisted by Minnie Wessels Elsie Hotka, Helen Volgor, Mary Witteman, Genevieve State, Margaret Donohue, Nellie Price, Margaret Tripmacher, Frieda Hazel Milder, Agnes Leu and Agatha Detthof. the fire was just won hand engine out ana reLuiiieu iiumv. toe state championship, and Chief Johnson brought tLeu Vinmes on east tuii. SleUc It and hose call and protected homes or east time and the firemen made -he trip in -o the call.

After the fire was over ahead of Jone Th was the ca. Th oss was the ca. ySnd the Nyenhuis brick yard also ruined. fair The show must go on, the circus jrave an exhibition to a crowd in the afternoon. A new foot bridee was con- a B.

C. R. and X. tracks and transferred across the creek to the other train. A.

the dav hadn't had enough excitement a street car con- an axlS by the freight depot "causing a local vieve Bemick and Marie Carl. Children's Party The committee arranging the annual children's Christmas party on Dec. 19, includes Lorraine McFadden and Lucille Connell, co-chairmen, Mona Novak, Theresa Nolan, Alice Ar.son, Minnie Cunningham, Irene Kook, rl received favorable notice in the Chicago Eppel and Margaret Sta- Butler made her first appearance since her re. Unv hns party will be an even: of Oct. with Mary Peters and Helen Korte, co-chairman.

Committee members are Ada Rollins, Esther Klepper, Margaret Chaudoin, Patricia Barloon and Mary Gaeta, The business session for November will be on the 9th. Margaret Wessels and Marie DeRoque head the committee to plan the card party for Nov. 23 Others on the committee are Sadie Bielefeld, Helen O'Hair, Josephine Peterson and Genevieve VanderHorn. A potluck and business meeting is scheduled for Dec. 14.

Margaret Biesei and Marie Fuller, co-chairman, Dorothy Koe- Here's a Tip to Local Hostesses Harlir.gen, Tex. 3 Now the victory scavenger party. Hostesses, instead of sending their out for the usual odd assortment required in scavenger hunts, have a victory list which includes every kind of scrap needed for the war copper, iron, and the like. The first one back with a piece of every item on thc list wins the savings stamps. Plans Advance For Annua GS Day Camp Girls Scouts are advancing plans for the annual summer day camp to open Monday, June 15, at Weed park.

Leaders for this years camp have been selected and preparations are under way for an extensive camping program. Activities will be held each school day continuing through June 26. Events will begin a. 9:30 a. End will be held 3-30 in the afternoon.

All girls oi Muscatine interested, whether or not they are af- fiMated with the Girl Scout organization, arc cordially invited to take part. Included on the days programs are swimming, canoeing, camp- craft, nature, singing, folk dancing dramatics, fire building, COOK- outs, a possible "overnight" and. as much real camping as possible. Health examinations wul be Committees Appointed For Retreat Committees to complete plans for the annual youth retreat to be held late in July were appointed at the meeting of the Muscatine county youth council cabinet Friday night at the home o' Robert Downer in Sweetland township. Junior Whiteley will act as general chairman.

On the registration committee are Betty Noret, Joyce Borgstadt and Lenore Eitman. Grounds committee, Junior Chaplain, Junior Flater and the Rev. W. A. Purdy.

Worship committee, Mrs. Dorothy Geertz, Ruth Hazletf and Catherine Mittman. Evening program Wallace Mays, Dorothy Diedrich and the Rev, Paul V. Clark. Dorothy Hildebrand and Alberta Mctcalf KeJley will plan the meais.

Recreation committee, John McCaffrey, Randall Bebb and Fern Murrison Publicity and printing, Virginia eiven bv Dr Miller the opening Publicity and printing, Virginia rfav nt fie camp Those Dooly. chairman, Phyllis Drumm p.ing to swim New Books Available At Library New books available for the patrons of the P. M. Musser Public Library are announced. Non-Fiction.

Arnold, Army Flyer; Military Aviation as a Career. Beaton, From Cairo must be present at that time, or arrange for their own physical test. Continuing their schedule during the summer two of the Scout troops held meetings this week. An investiture service was conducted at. the meeting o'f St.

Mathias troop at Weed park Wednesday afternoon, followed by a picnic supper at which their parents were guests. Theresa Hoffman and Mary Lee Witteman were colo: 1 guards for the investiture service. Those who passed their ter.der- Coot examinations were Rosemary Hoffman, Romona Wingerter, Patricia Fuller, Dorothy Jean McCarty and Dorothy Slattery. The Lincoln troop No. 3 met Wednesday at the home of their leader, Mrs.

Marie Montz. The girls discussed the annual day camp and planned to hold their own day camps during the sum- to Khyber nig'saecker, Helen Brown, Mary to Celebes; a Tour Around the Zetler, Gertrude Fuller, Gene- Worl( by car. -sympathy that always Bou ue ts nobne Se stage." The 0n cert "was an outstanding suc- the star of the evening. Miss Butler, had to appear in The opening business session oi 1943 will be on Jan. 11.

A social session booked for Jan. 25, with Ida Lechner and Bertha Ob'erhaus as co-chairmen. Others the committee are Margaret cess, ve Chicago immediately but she stayed as a guest of Mis. Weed. 'AHhmirh there had been eiffht other wcddinps in the White Although "hiffhest dignitary the married "ere? Frances Fo.so and the president were married in the blue room by his brother, the Rev.

WilHam Cleveland and Dr. Sutherland. A presidential was red Sst before thc ceremony and the chimes of the Methodist church Played the wedding march with other church bells In the city jointne in. The marine- band under the direcUon of Prof. Sousa played for the ceremony and afterwards The bridal couple drove away from the entrance to the Red Room in the traditional shower of rice to their special train which took them to Deer Park for their honeymoon.

The commencement exercises of the high school were held in Old's Opera house as the class "bade its longum vale to their school. radiant assembly of friends and patrons were Rath- ercd there and luxurant bouquets and elegant floral baskets trim- jncd the stairc and shown wiln thc beauty of Tennyson's 'Garden of Flowers'. Thc stajre set was a lake and country scene. A banner with 'Spectemir 1886 was stretched across the background and a large floral horseshoe was pendant from the figures enclosing the monoKram of the class and the pictures oC the faculty and class. Eichoff's orchestra played and the Rev.

S. E. Wilcox presented the prayer. There were eleven girls and four boys in the class. In keeping- with the setting flower names were elected for the girls.

"Pansy. Chrysanthemum, Magnolia, Hyacinth, Damask Rose, White Lily, Violet, Rosebud, Snowdrop, Lily of the Valley and Pyrus Japonica (Fairies' Fire)." Supt. Witter presented thc class to Prcs. Morgridge who gave out the diplomas. A mystery of long years' standing was cleared up when a Civil war veteran in San Franscisco wrote to Alexander refuting thc published official report of his death at Shiloh.

Just before the battle in which he was reported missing he said he and a comrade "Jackson of Co. H. had taken refuge behind a tree. Jack" son was killed and I was taken prisoner." The fate of Silas Jackson, reported missing in action had long been a mystery at West Liberty where his name was given by the A. R.

boys" to their post. No trace of him or of his body had ever been reported. Hash. "Muscatine will soon be as the city of towers "and turrets. The new Rescue Hose co.

tower adds to the Third U. B. Sunday school offers, the first steamb'oat excursion and picnic which will give their friends a delightful day at Smull's teams of emigrants went through this morning bound for Witchita, James Weed is ing thc building of a "free bridge across the river. It should be a high- bridge to escape the expense of a were airily nonchalant about important news. accidentally shot A gave birth to Indian doctor and a brass band paraded the streets this Pitching his tent on East Second street he drew larger crowds than road thows at Old's and the German Opera houses.

Ament, son of "the late J. P. Ament has been admitted to the U. S. Naval School at Annapolis.

George who is now 15 years'of age has been on a training ship passed a flattering examination. He was appointed by Hon. Jerry Murphy, former citizen Cherry Bluff picnic ground of the Rock Island near Moscow has been open- id, Passenger Agent Warfield announces. The company furnished arater. barrels and tables.

A special car will be provided for parties off for convenience during the sea lierpent" was terrorizing moonlight boatists. Seen "by it was Described as 10 or 12 feet long with a head, as big a man's double fist. Byrne, Gertrude Korte, O'Brien, Kate Wingerter, Oberhaus. Anna Korte. Duffy and Clara Blaesing Mildred Fogavty De Lima, The Little Red School House; a Book for Anyone Interested in Progressive Education.

Dupuy, Civilian Defense of the United States. Edgerly, From the Hunter's Bow; thc History and Romance oi Musical Instruments. Groves, Christianity and the Family. Guedalla, Mr. Churchill; a Biography.

Hortney, What the Citizen Should Know About the Air Forces. Haynes, This Chemical Age; the Miracle of Man-Made Materials. Miss Daufeldt To Wed mer. K. C.

Lodge Defers Plans for Picnic The family picnic, scheduled for Sunday by Knights Columbus at the Brudtkuhl Jarm. east Muscatine on highway No. 61 has been postponed until next Sunday because of high water in the Mississippi, officers of The lodge announced today. WINDERS ANNOUNCED FOR BENEFIT PARTY Another in the series of card parties sponsored by the Pocahontas drill team was given Friday night at the Redmen hall. Prizes in five hundred were and Mildred Heussner.

Another cabinet meeting will be held on Tuesday. June' 16, at the home of Miss Wilma Williams, 502 East Seventh street. BLOOMINGTON GROUPS TO ELECT OFFICERS Officers will be elected at the meeting the Bloomington Friends Ladies Aid and Missionary societies Wednesday at the church. Mrs. U.

C. Lake and Mrs. John Games, will be the hostesses. The pogram will consist of numbers from both societies. Viola Games will give the missionary lesson.

Mrs. Sanders, Noble Grand of Rebekahs The staff of officers of Miriam Rcbekah lodge, No. 27, headed by Mrs. Edna Sanders, was elected at the regular meeting of the lodge Friday night at I. O.

hall. With Mrs. Sanders as noble grand, other officers include Margaret Turner, vice grand; Dorothy Werner, recording secretary; Fern Klewer, treasurer; Anna Hank, captain of the degree team, and llayme Schmalz. vice president for the 1943 convention. One candidate was balloted on at the meeting.

The degree staff will practice for initiation next week. Later games in charge of Nola Bauguess and Eva Price were enjoyed. On the committee serving refreshments were Augusta Announcement is made by Charles C. Daufeldt of Aialissa, of the approaching marriage of his youngest daughter, Mamie Etta, to Wililam Joseph Lovell, son of Mr. End Mrs.

George Lcvell of Tipton. The ceremony is planned lor Wednesday, June 24, the Methodist Episcopal church at Rochester, la. The Rev. Harold Leorch will perform ihe ceremony at 2 o'clock. Attendants to the bridal couple will be Mrs.

Clifford Dick- ev Mrs. Charles Daufedt. Miss Frances Jewell, Frank Lovell and C-arence Daufeldt. Charles Daufeldt and Harold Daufeldt will be the u'shers. Little Mary Louise Daufeldt will' be the ringbearer and the flower girl will be Mary Jane Lovell.

In the evening at 7 o'clock a wedding supper will be served at the home of ihe bride's father for the immediate relatives. John euchre the first prize was Werner, "f- Moots, iven Fcrn Mjnnie i Oberhaus. Kiplinger, Washington is Like to Mrs Minnie Bair, and the sec- FT JLTON 4-It CtUB Anna Ruby I the Workings of the Govern- on( 0 Leslie Fuhlman, Rev. David M. Funk of Newport, Accepts :) Lutheran Church Call The Rev.

David M. Funk of Newport, has accepted the unanimous call extended by Grace English Lutheran church of Muscatine and will take over his pastoral duties on Aug. 1. He will succeed the Rev. R.

R. Frobenius who resigned the Muscatine pastorate several weeks ago to accept a position in the mission work in Chicago. The Rev. Mr. Funk has been pastor of St.

Mark's Luth- eran church at Newport, for the past 13 years. During his pastorate in Newport he built the congregation from 200 up to 800 members and reduced the church's indebtedness from $30,000 to 53,000. Recognized as one of the outstanding ministers of the United Lutheran church, he isJ popular as a civic and community speaker. Agnes give a book review at the business meeting on Feb. 8.

Loretla Smith and Margaret Randall and their committee are planning a victory party for Feb. 22. The committee includes Wilma Maher, lone Buescr, Jet O'Connor, Ella Burger, Walters, Lillian Barry, Stella Olson ar.d Helen Kelly. The committee to plan the pot luck supper meeting for March includes Mrytle Flannery and Stella Zybarth, co-chairman, Hulda Bernick. Felicitas Detthof, Marie Brugman, Dorothy Fuegen Mary Flannery, Mary Schenkel, Theresa Hiebing, Bernadine Roh- lir.g.

A business meeting on March 22 and April 12. The convention committee includes Mary Mueller, Marguerite Lowe, Florence Klein, Clara Henderson, Joan Begey, Bernice Olish, Sadie Hartman, Mabel Motier, Marion Hueber, Josephine Young, Bertha Roby, Byrde Cody, Cla- zenna Salek, Laura Chaudoin, Genevieve Brown, Agnes Foley, Marguerite Missel, Agnes Fuller, Mary Ryan, Nannie O'Brien, Eizabeth Jones, Mary O'Brien, Nellie Fifer, Elizabeth Bankhead, Gertrude Lange, Margaret O'Brien, Helen Weis and Frances Templin. Serve on Staff Officers of the Catholic Daughters are the Rt. Rev. Msgr.

W. L. Hannon, chaplain; Genevieve Koenigsaecker, grand regent; Nella Chayka, vice-regent: Elma Slattery. prophetess; Genevieve VanderHorn, lecturer; Marguerite Missel, financial secretary: Marguerite Lowe, treasurer; Bernice Olish, monitor; Miry Zetler, sentinel: Mary Schenkel, Agatha Detthof and Ada Roland, trustees. The committees follow: flowers and visiting sick members, Mary Witteman.

Gertrude Korte. Minnie Wessels and Marie Fuller; reporters, Mary Strain and Mary Zetler: charity distribution 'committee, Myrtle Flannery. Ella Delaney, Josephine Peterson, and Minnie Cunningham; nomination, committee, Nella Chayka, Margaret Randall, Anna Korte and Welle Fifer; social contact, Frances Dodder and Lillian Kuebler; chorus director, Genevieve Bernick. mental Machinery, the Life of the City and of the People Who Live In It. Miller, General Douglas MacArthur Fighter for Freedom.

Newman, The Tools of War; from Early Siegecraft to the Latest Secret Weapons. Clara McGee and Viola Downey will serve- refreshments at the party next Friday night. TWO HOSTESSES FOR PARK AVENUE MARTHAS Mrs. Duncan and Mrs. Leoia Duncan were hostesses at Although England has been called a "nation of shopkeepers," Tokyo, Japac, has- one store lor every 28 inhabitants.

Pratt, The Picture Garden Book, meeting of the Martha Circle Rauschning. No Retreat; a Moth-1 0 the Park Avenue Women's Soer's Fight to Preserve Her Family. ciety of Christian Service at the Roio. Radio Goes War; the latter's country home Friday War's "Fourth Ware, Streamline Your Dancing. Weiss, How to Keep Out of Trouble; a Book of Practical Legal Advice on Everyday Problems.

Fiction. Beverly-Giddons, Larrish Hundred. Boyce, The Perilous Night. Branch, River Field, And Now Tomorrow. Freeman, Unconscious Witness.

Gooden, Roaring River Range. Holt, Aunt Jessie. MacLennan, Barometer Rising. Ogden, West oj the Rainbow. Ripley, Mississippi Belle.

Seifert. Army Doctor. Stout, Black Orchids. Summer Classes Are Planned At Muscatine High A special summer school for high school students who desire to make extra credits during the vacation period will be offered at Muscatine high school, Fred Messenger, principal, announced to- Students interested in enrolling have been requested to report at the high school at 7 p. m.

Monday when schedules, subjects and other matters will be discussed. Plans call for a course of 30 ies- ns. Subjects to be offered, if interest, warrants, will be English. mathematics, typing, shorthand and possible other subjects. Former College President Dead St.

Right Rev. Monsignor James Byrne, 83, vicar general of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of St. Paul, died Friday night. He formerly was president of St. Thomas college here.

Neva Oeter was thc devotional leader. REGULAR SESSION' Roll call was answered favorite Four-H songs at the meeting of the Fulton Industrial Four-H club recently at the home of Arlene and Jeanette Ihms. The canning of strawberries and the fair demonstrations were discussed and a talk on "Personal Cleanliness Means Charm" was given by Catherine Illian. A report was given of the sale of magazine subscriptions. The dub girs are assisting Mrs.

Fetter with the magazine sales. picnic is planned for the July The next meeting will be at meeting Mrs. Gertrude Reed i the home of Valerie Z. Best on and Mrs. Elizabeth Murdock will June 24.

complete the arrangements. Cadet Malloy To Serve Ou Staff For Scout Camp BIRTHDAYS ARE NOTED AT FAMILY GATHERING Educated in East. The new rn.inisj.er was educated in the east, graduating from Gettysburg Seminary in 1929. He studied abroad a year following World War No. 1.

During his student life he served with the armed forces and was in service abroad for 23 months. Numerous denominational honors have been conferred on the Rev. Mr. Fur.k, On five occasions he has served his synods in the biennial convention of the United Lutheran church and for 12 years has served as an official of synods. He has held bolh the office? of secretary and president of the West Virginia and Kentucky synods of the ULCA and has served almost continuously on college boards and missions boards of the church.

A star athlete in student and post-student days he received athletic letters in football, basketball, baseball and tennis. While pastor of the University church at Morgantown, W. he took part in many tennis tournaments nnd at one time held the West Virginia state championship. sport diversion now is golf. The Rev.

and Mrs. Funk have two children, a daughter, Mary and son, David. Their son, also an i athlete, has played five years in the Knot-Hole league, a baseball Mr. and Mrs. Chester Axel.

101! farm league for boys, sponsored West Eleventh street, entetain- ed relatives Thursday evening in by the Cincinnati Reds. In 1940 he was selected as one of the, most honor of their son, John Werner promising and outstanding boys Axel, who was one year The from 187 teams of Greater Cinein- occasion also honored his little nati. cousin, Wayne Peters, of Pittsburgh, who noted his second birthday recently. A social evening was enjoyed and refreshments served. Those present were Mr.

and Mrs. Werner Axel, Glen and Beverly, Miss Mary Ann Friedli, Mr. and Mrs. Frea Marold, Mr. and Mrs.

Merle Swisner, Mrs. Dora Bieri, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Peters, and Wayne, and Mr. and Mrs.

Axel and John Werner. CHURCH CLASSES MEET AT GROSSKLAUS HOME of the Upstreamers and young men's classes the Bloomington Friends church were entertained Friday evening by Mr. and The Rev. Mr. Funk's rrame appears in "Who's Who," the religious leaders of the state of Kentucky, and in the "Who's Who of American Religious 1 V.

F. W. Auxiliary Plans Future Events Plans for future social events and sales were arranged at the regular meeting of the V. F. W.

auxiliary Friday night in their club rooms at 224 West Second street. June 25 has been set as a date for their rummage sale, and Margaret Bisesi was appointed committee chairman. i An ice cream social was discuss- Mrs. Walter Grossklaus, Thirty- dale and further plans Io four were in attendance. be announced later.

A picnic is Hymns were sung by the group and the lesson was presented by Mrs. Ralph Bicrman. Later games were enjoyed and a tray luncheon served. The next meeting will be 'July 10 with Mr. and Mrs.

George Sulz! berger. Announcement was made-today oE the appointment of Aviation Cadet James M. Malloy to the staff oC the area Boy Scout Camp at Camp Minr.eyata- near Dixon, la. MaDoy will serve on the staff starting with the opening on June 21 to July 19. His.duties will be director of handicraft, camp formations and camp sanitation.

He is home for an extended furlough from his duties with the air corps, Malloy is well qualified for the duties as'he was formerly assistant scout master of troop 123 before enlisting in the armed fore- Social Glances The annual memorial service will be conducted at the meeting of the Women's Benefit association at 8 p. m. Monday at Maccabee hall. An all-day picnic of the Royal Neighbor Sunshine club will be held Tuesday at the Pace cottage'. The women will meet at the court house at 10 a.

m. planned for July 26, with Hattie Rhodes as committee chairman. The women will send greetings to the men at their convention on June 21. Refreshments were served the meeting by Betty Gross, Ethel Barker, and Mabel Biles. THREE ENTERTAIN FOR BLOOMIXGTOX CLASS The monthly meeting of the Bloomington Friends True Blue class was 'held Friday night in the church basement, with Marjorie, Hajyiet 'and Chorlotte Longstreth as hostesses.

Those present'-were Ruth Hoag, Gwyen Shirley Rexroth, Robert Games, Keith Street, Claire Street. Marie Crow. Nelda' Egel, Farene Egel, Viola Lanfier, Marjorie Longstreth, Harriet. Longstreth and Charlotte Longstreth. Quiet Harmony Our funeral home is and furnished with all the comforts and conveniences of a private home, yet it has all the facilities of a mortuary.

Li a residential location, surrounded by lawns, shrubbery, the home has about it an atmosphere of quiet harmony that makes it an ideal place for funeral services. FUNERAL HOME 216 WEST THIRD ST. PHONE.