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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1908
Page
8
A meeting of the Brotherhood of St. Paul Musserville Methodist church planned a series of social sessions and a possible second banquet to foster fellowship. The Standard Bearers held a brief program and business meeting at the church parlors. Several locals departed for visits, school closeouts, or returns home.
Sunday School children will present a morning program with each class performing one number as part of Easter observances at Musserville Methodist Church. In the evening the church choir will perform a special program Still Working on Line amid ongoing Rock Island line repairs west of town with new ties and rails laid to restore regular train speed.
The Kaiser Hose Company plans its annual excursion aboard the steamer Columbia of the White Collar line on Sunday May 31 leaving Muscatine at 7 30 am and aiming to stay in Davenport until 9 pm to visit the parks in the tri cities. The committee secured the Columbia for a full day outing expected to be socially and financially successful. Local notes report Miss Jeanette Ry na rson departing for Chicago to visit a brother, Mrs. Alice Beatty seeking eye treatment in Iowa City, and Mrs. Frank Hubbard remaining ill in Muscatine.
W L Roach a leading manufacturer and president of the Law Enforcement league will give the principal address at the first men's club banquet of Mulford Congregational church. The event set for Tuesday evening April 21 includes music from Dealing orchestra and a Christian Endeavor quartet with a church supper to follow prepared by the church ladies.
Mr and Mrs John Feltner came back to Muscatine last night from Iowa City after a short visit with the former's parents. A brief note records their day spent with friends near Letts and in South Muscatine as part of a domestic update for Read The Journal.
Opening day at Chicago sees the White Sox beat Detroit 15 to 8 as Altrock and White win pitching duties. Cubs rally past the Reds 6 to 5 in Cincinnati to claim the NL opener before 19,257 fans.
American League results show Chicago 15 over Detroit 1 in nine innings, Cleveland 1 over St. Louis 2, Boston 3 over Washington 1, New York 1 over Philadelphia 9 in twelve innings. National League games include Cincinnati 5 over Chicago 6, Brooklyn 3 over Boston 9, Philadelphia 1 over New York unknown, St. Louis vs Pittsburgh washed out by rain.
Detroit visits Chicago while St. Louis travels to Cleveland and Philadelphia hosts New York. Washington meets Boston, Chicago plays Cincinnati, New York returns to Philadelphia, Boston visits Brooklyn, and Pittsburg hosts St. Louis.
Chicago reports a day of baseball and sunshine that turned into a conspiracy in restraint of trade and industry as the city was lured into a bold event yesterday.
Dr. Cal W. Smith of Muscatine was elected a grand trustee at the Grand Council of Royal Arcanum meeting in Boone Iowa yesterday afternoon. He returned home this morning and called the session a success in every way.
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