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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1900
Page
5
Labor’s celebration promotes fast bicycle races and prizes from Liberal supporters. Displays feature cavalcade of agriculturists, with festivities and awards planned across the event.
A joint Trades Assembly committee outlined September 3 Labor Day events in Muscatine. Plans include a grand parade, diverse races with 50 to 50 prize money, and industry turnout prizes. A hippoprome circus attraction is planned, with invitations issued by Charles L. Breck and J. J. Engle. Farmers with tall corn stalks may win prizes.
The Maennerchor left Muscatine this morning for Burlington to attend the Saengerfest running from the 9th to the 12th. F Koeckeritz presides, with Chas Tappe vice president and Hy Heinz secretary. The chorus lists directors, tenors, basses, and accompanying honorary members and many friends set to travel and stay at Palmer House in Burlington.
Mary Fitzsimmons and daughter Jennie travel from Fruitland to Springdale to visit relatives with plans for Jennie to Brooklyn later. Roosevelt Rough Riders club to form at G A R hall with Capt Rumery County Chairman McKee and Webster inviting locals. Rob and Eddie Hartman move to Des Moines. others visit Springdale and Muscatine area. Island Sunday School draws large attendance. Rev Montgomery granted leave August 12. Morse family from Coneville visiting Chas Spring. Hazel Lindsay to Musserville for a week. Hog loss reported from heat. Run Wright loses a horse. Mrs Vail visiting Cross family.
The week ending August 6 was warmer than usual with daily excesses of 5 to 7 degrees and no rain except light showers in the northeast. Conditions favored grain standing in shock and reduced damage from prior heavy rains. corn yields are strong, with early corn nearing roasting ear stage, while late planted corn on thin soil needs rain soon. County figures show corn 105 percent, millet 98, flax 95, buckwheat 91, broom corn 94, sorghum 97, apples 70, grapes 71, pastures 97, potatoes 95, versus 1899 figures.
The Y P C T U prepares for Miss Mattie Guild of Chicago to speak in Muscatine and Musserville. She arrives today and will address a large audience on the excursion boat and at First Congregational Church Sunday. Rev Swartz’s lectures in Muscatine are postponed to a later date.
Last evening about 8:30 p m at least one hundred intimate friends and relatives surprised John C. Miller at his Kopje residence for his 53d nativ ity anniversary. Refreshments, music, and a self- penned historical poem by Gustav Fabrizius accompanied a moonlit celebration amid Muscatine grounds.
Dr. W. S. Norton of this city, a recent Kansas Medical College graduate from Topeka, passed Des Moines written exams before the State Board of Medical Examiners and earned a 100 mark certificate, enabling him to begin practicing. His diploma and training reflect well on the Kansas Medical College.
The note observes many people cheer pleasant weather even though it changes nothing for their daily life. It treats sunshine as a social mood booster rather than a practical factor.
Advertisement claims Hood's Sarsaparilla can cure headaches nervousness sleepless nights and morning fatigue by enriching blood. It promises improved appetite strength and refreshing sleep after use.
An advertisement touts Mulls Lightning Cough Cure as safe for children and effective against lung trouble. It urges immediate use with price points of 25 and 50 cents and directs readers to ask their druggist.
Rumor of sold out U B excursion tickets is false. Tickets remain at Swan's Hershey's until 6 p m today or from solicitors, and at the boat at 6 15 tomorrow morning. Public spirits urged to join U B ladies in Burlington. no postponement, many tickets unsold, boat leaves 7 a m sharp.
The advertisement promotes French Tansy Wafers as a long used remedy for painful and irregular menses. It claims decades of sales and success with “unfailing” relief, urges buyers to secure genuine red wrapped packs at two dollars, via La France Drug Co. and J. J. Haverkamp’s drug store in Muscatine Iowa.
The national conference of farmers met in Topeka and will adjourn the evening of the 9th. It aims to unite farmers for warehouses and trading points to sell produce at better prices and buy tools and machinery cheaper. Walter N. Allen leads the movement with representatives from Kansas Missouri Iowa Oklahoma Indian Territory Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Illinois Ohio Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Winfield Iowa Amg 7 Lee and Charles Mullin lost twenty five acres of oats on the Kepper farm Sunday to a fire started by an Iowa Central freight engine. The grain was stacked at the far end of the field from the tracks and, with the dry stubble and lack of help, the flames quickly spread across the sixty rod long field before the wind. The loss burdens the young men starting out in life.
Detroit, August 7. Eight thousand tents were received for the visiting Knights of Pythias at their national convention this month. The tents will likely be erected in Belle Isle Park.
The Journal offers a free copy of the Twentieth Century Directory to every Evening Journal subscriber who pays up to date and signs for at least six months. About 1,700 books will be allocated immediately with remaining copies for early non-subscribers, while the directory highlights new maiden-name listings and local business ads.
An advertisement promotes Weeks' Break-Up A Cold Tab as a home remedy. It states no cure and no pay, price 25 cents, with J. J. Havercamp as sole agent.
Sherman Texas August 7 Governor Stone of Missouri and more than 15000 visitors attend the Sherman Industrial and Frisco Jubilee and Military encampment. The evening program features a large Democratic rally and a parade of 1500 mounted men with torches followed by the governor's address.
A group led by G A Reinicke and W B Barkalow offers a refund on a 50 cent bottle of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure cough or cold. They also guarantee a “0 cent bottle” to prove satisfaction or money refunded. Other signatories include Nesper & Co. and Jno J Havercamp and J Theo Keuchmann.
Judge Lacombe completed the examination of briefs in the Chas. F. Neeley case. The court has yet to decide whether Neeley will be extradited for postal frauds alleged to have been committed in Cuba, with him named as the prime mover.
Two iron settees and two iron chairs suited for lawns advertised with inquiry available in Africa.
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