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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1907
Page
2
The report lists a maximum temperature of 95 degrees and a minimum of 50 degrees with a mean of 75.85. Thirty year and sixty year means are 73.11. Barometer ranged from 28.98 to 29.52 inches. Rainfall totaled 8.80 inches, marking the wettest July in sixty-two years since 1876 with 9.15 inches.
At the regular board of education meeting last night Miss Bessie Brace an instructor of drawing submitted her resignation to leave for the south. She has been offered 85 dollars per month in Birmingham Alabama, but the local board could not match the pay so the resignation was accepted with regret.
Prominent western shippers consider forming a permanent association to represent them before the interstate commerce commission. A Chicago meeting at the Great Northern Hotel will set up an executive committee to balance railroad influence and ensure shipper interests are fairly presented. The move follows a commission decision on car distribution to coal mines starting September 15.
A note cites July of 1863 as the driest in sixty two years with .25 inch of rain. It recalls July rainfall in 1851 of 8.60 inches and lists 1869 at 8.55 inches and 1907 at 8.80 inches. Mrs. J. P. Walton.
Letts becomes a day and night telegraph station with the new classification effective from the first of the month.
Leg. Rev. B. C. Preston, back home after a few days, twisted his ankle in a tennis game with Chicago University faculty while avoiding the net. He required care but remains able to travel with Company C as chaplain for the Fifty-fourth regiment.
Word from Rob Austin in Somers Montana reports Fred A. Hacker of West Third street may return home early next week. Hacker shows interest in western life and may consider moving westward.
Friends of John Witteman, who once visited Muscatine summers ago, report his serious illness with Brights disease. He works as a foreman at the Tallinois Central railway shops in the south and serves as a school director and alderman in Summit, Mississippi. Relatives in the city include Miss Barbara Witteman, Mrs. Joseph Schaab, and Mrs. C. Wingerter.
John W. Rice staying with daughter Miss Hattie Rice at his sister’s Los Angeles home is seriously ill with a mix of ailments chiefly old age. He nears seventy nine and hopes to return to Muscatine today. J Wilson Rice traveled by Wilton train to Cedar Rapids to meet his father and bring him home.
The Grand Trunk Railway System boasts the longest stretch of double track from Chicago to Montreal and Niagara Falls. Its Grand Trunk Lehigh Valley line extends from Chicago to New York via Niagara Falls. Descriptive literature and time tables are available free on application to Geo. W. Vaux at 135 Adams St Chicago Ill.
Mrs. Wm. Spencer of Syracuse reports that Dr A W Chase Nerve Pills calmed her nerves and stopped head pains ringing ears and vertigo restoring sleep and strength after months of deterioration. The remedy sells for 50 cents a box at dealers and is issued by the Dr A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY with signature and portrait. A W Morgan Druggist sells the product.
Rose Hurst testifies Peruna relieved long standing catarrh after doctors failed. She describes severe illness and lack of pleasure in living, then notes great improvement after first bottle and full recovery with continued use. She urges others to try Peruna.
Mrs. Margaret Doer Baner, aged 92 of Burlington, died at Mercy hospital from old age. Born in Bavaria in 1815, she moved to Burlington in 1849 and married George Baner in 1849. Survived by sons Captain John Baner of Burlington, Joseph Baner of New Boston IL, and Philip Baner of Muscatine, plus grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was active in St. John’s Catholic church and well known locally. Funeral will be at St. John’s in Burlington.
More than 350 tickets sold for Paudhet’s band outing on the steamer W. W. Miss Clara Lockwood sustained a severe head injury after stepping from the boat to a barge and collapsing. A doctor on board treated her and she regained consciousness.
At the board of education meeting last night Harry A. Jacobson of Burlington Mich was chosen as instructor for the new manual training department at the high school. He will be paid 70 dollars monthly and will assist in installing fixtures and organizing rooms. The board plans to use basement rooms for the department and may locate an office at the library to aid school work. Bills were audited and numerous payments approved, including work by Faton & Tarr, Corry & Vernentin, and others.
Henry Weiss, about 13, employed on the Chris Cohen farm north of Muscatine, was kicked in the forehead by a vicious horse last evening. Found huddled against a wall in a serious condition, he soon regained consciousness. Dr J D Fulham treated him. prognosis says only scars likely.
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