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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
4
Local items include a call to see Bowman about a new buggy and an Easter ice cream order at Fred Leu Jr. on Iowa avenue. A newborn son to Mr and Mrs Ira Cate of Latham street is announced. Community sales include cake and colored eggs at Citizens' By office and umbrellas at special values.
Fancy hosiery for Easter at Toben Malone & Co 25¢ up Lillys show a line of children's white net and lawn dresses Prices 2.00 to 10.00 F A Sissell of Fairport visits the city Beautiful Easter lace waists at reduced prices tomorrow Saturday McColm Dry Goods Co 20 per cent discount on muslin underwear tomorrow Toben Malone We would like to supply your Easter meals with groceries plus fresh fruits and vegetables Geo W Reuling's grocery Get your Easter waist tomorrow at our special sale McColm Dry Goods Co
By croup coughs or colds are instantly relieved and quickly cured with Dr King’s New Discovery. 50c and 1.00 Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store.
The Brotherhood of American Yeoman will relocate its lodge to the third floor of the Nyenhuis Building at the corner of Tow a Avenue and Third Street to provide expanded space. Work crews prepare a locker room ante room kitchen ladies parlor and assembly room as members rise. Memorial Day observances set for Sunday June 21 include services in the new hall and Greenwood Cemetery honoring departed archers.
The United States court of appeals sustains the decision that federal courts cannot stop the Missouri state railway commission from changing rates by injunction unless the rates are fixed. The ruling emphasizes state rate setting authority remains under state control.
Easter Sunday service at the Methodist church includes baptism and member reception with a sermon on the Gordon tomb. Evening program features organ music, readings, solos, recitations, and a male quartet. Woman’s club meets next Tuesday evening at Mrs. Harris’s home.Local residents visit and conduct business with several follow up notes on visitors and trips to Davenport St Louis Muscatine West Liberty and Dur ant.
German Baptists from across Iowa will gather in this city for the semi annual state convention of the German Baptist church August 11 to 17. Rev A L Tilgner and about fifteen churches will attend with many delegates and clergymen expected. A separate Young People convention accompanies the meeting with several score delegates anticipated, making it a major event in the church’s history.
Skinned from head to heel was Ben Pool of Threet Alabama when dragged along a gravel road. Buckien’s Arica Salve cured him. Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store offers the remedy.
A fire on the first floor at Blair school in St. Louis led Principal Herzog to announce a holiday. About a thousand pupils were quietly dismissed as flames were seen from outside. the blaze was extinguished quickly and no injuries were reported.
Wapello on April 17 notes visits by W E Ed ward wife and daughter Lucile to friends here. Arthur Springer and wife to Des Moines for business and pleasure. Mrs Henry Godfrey and children of Muscatine visiting at Mrs Henry Wagg’s. Mrs O N Fryman of Burlington visited her mother Sadie Cook. Mrs F H Hesse and children Eastering with relatives in Clarksville. Miss Jennie Graham and Inez Neal of the state university spend Easter vacation at home. Mrs Jennie Joy returns from Mount Rose near Ft Madison. Mrs R W Patterson of Burlington visited here. Mrs J S Graham and Camille visited friends in Grandview. John Foster business at Fredonia. John Shaw moves from Wapello township to Conway Missouri to reside.
Washington dispatch reports March excavation at the Panama Canal reached 3,480,270 cubic yards, surpassing the prior record and signaling smoother operations under Army engineers. The Culebra cut provided 1,216,264 cubic yards as overall momentum builds, easing congressional scrutiny and raising confidence in the project deadline.
Louis Orian his wife and five children farmers are missing after their buildings were destroyed by a prairie fire Wednesday afternoon twelve miles west of Cogswell Norman North Dakota The blaze burned over several square miles and is described as the most destructive in the region Dozens of farmers lost barns and granaries in the same outbreak
Tolucaills April 17 Engineer B Coppess of Chicago died when a Santa Fe westbound passenger train struck an open switch at high speed and derailed into a beer warehouse. The incident damaged the warehouse and disrupted service.
A report notes that the vehicle occupants were badly shaken but none sustained serious injuries amid an almost total demolition of the vehicle. Details on location and cause are not provided in the readable text.
The document notes a forged check on John Morgan tied to a saloon on East Second Street and indicates Brundige will likely be tried during this term of court.
New York April 17 Cunard liner Mauretania arrives in four days twenty three hours fifty nine minutes breaking its sister Lusitania’s four days five hours record by one minute.
The district court hears arguments in the Hoyt and Son versus W. H. Hoopes and Sons case over a consignment of melons. Defendants contend the melons were unmarketable while the plaintiffs seek payment or relief. The trial was expected to reach the jury later today.
William Brundige, indicted for forgery at the last grand jury session, was arraigned this afternoon and entered a plea of not guilty. Attorney C A W Kent was appointed by Judge A J House to defend Brundige on the charges of passing a ...
New Haven April 17 President C S Mellen of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad rejected as absurd and false the assertion by A O Crozier of Wilmington that a financier told Mellen a panic would be caused before Congress met and that the railroad borrowed 30 million dollars on that information.
In the May Century, Booker T. Washington writes of his memories of a one room log cabin with earth floor and rags for a bed. He says these little slave cabins symbolize the mental and moral state of many Negroes fifty years ago. He notes progress shown by the current homes to be described in the issue.
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