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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
10
A stream of community items covers births travel visits and social calls. Notes include a new son born to Roy and Mrs Fath of Iowa avenue, illness of Col J H Munroe, and various visits to and from Letts Davenport Burlington Muscatine and Chicago. Also advertised are the August Sample Furniture Sale at Batterson Stores and Emerson Floating Palace performances.
Shock threshing finished in the vicinity with oats yielding 15 to 30 bushels. Dora Lundy fell ill again. Daisy McAdam of West Liberty visiting Nate Doty. Wiese siblings and Freda Etta attended Muscatine carnival. Black and Smith delivered hogs at Atalissa. Doty sisters visited Lulu Depping. Minteer attended Cedar Valley church. Atalissa ball team lost to Tipton 5 to 15. Bennet game postponed due to rain. crowd of about thirty disappointed.
Rainbow Grange 10 holds a field meeting at their Wilton hall on Friday evening August 14 with J R McLean master and A E Stigers secretary. Lloyd Taylor delivers a Grange lecture and members of Osage Grange are honored with remarks and songs. The program includes recitations by Hattie Doerfer Edyth Brugman Margaret Carroll John Francis McClean and others with solos duets and choruses featuring Viola McGilvary Lydia Tiehaly Helen Palmer Gray and Josephine Moylan.
Fairfield Iowa August 12. Local basketball enthusiasts discuss forming a league of six to eight fast teams from southeastern Iowa. No action yet as players from other towns are polled before organization. The plan aims to add zest to regional games if enough towns join.
The despatch notes interest from Muscatine followers as promoters weigh forming a league. Players fear unbalanced teams could dull the sport and hinder chances to play out of town. Support hinges on public approval and viability in other cities.
J S Larue of Atalissa made a business call in the city yesterday and returned to his home on the 3 20 train.
Columbus Junction Ia Aug 12 Special Good day at the chautauqua with strong crowd and notable acts. The Tennessee Jubilee Singers impressed the audience with plantation melodies and mirth. Dr Frank W Hays lectured on The Rise and Present Status of the British Parliament to an appreciative audience. George Stuart again delighted listeners with humorous and thought provoking remarks on Is Fun Divine or Devilish. Storm interrupted the evening program ruining Katherine Ertz Bowden's Hiawatha pictorial lecture and forcing sheltering. Grounds remain wet but tenters endured the deluge as organizers aim to resume later.
The event features Mascot the educated horse with Prof H. B. McGuire, a Passion Play lecture, and tomorrow Gov. Hanly of Indiana speaks on The Patriotism of Peace. Other attractions include choral class Jubilee singers readings by Miss Gaston and Domestic Economy forum. Local notes report a lightning struck barn, new baby born to Mr and Mrs Herbert Gee, and visits from Crawfordsville and Burlington.
Sailor Burke meets Papke and Wolgast to mix with Goodman and other bouts loom. Papke headlines several August cards while Mantell Carroll clash tomorrow in Boston. Wolgast Goodman duel August 26 in Racine. Flynn vs Kaufman August 25 in Los Angeles. Ketchel Thomas August 18 in San Francisco. Attell Moran featherweight title expected early September in Frisco.
The twentieth annual Jackson County Veterans Association reunion opened in Preston today with welcomes by Mayor G. E. Bartholomew. Col. David J. Palmer and Congressman F. Dawson spoke. a campfire led by Palmer was planned. Tomorrow features sports including a Preston vs Miles ball game, flag races and a balloon ascent.
Mrs. J. P. Walton records three and forty eight one hundredths inches of rain since yesterday afternoon, the heaviest fall in several years. Fruitland alone documented three inches, altering the crops across Muscatine county to a more favorable outlook.
The Mineral Bath City is reached without change of cars only by the Grand Trunk Railway System. Time tables and a descriptive pamphlet will be mailed free on application to Geo. W. Vaux A. G. P. T. A. 135 Adams St. Chicago.
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