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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
2
The Y P S C E will serve ice cream sundaes sherbet and home made candy in the former R J Williams building on Saturday evening. Residents and visitors include Mr and Mrs T J Harris Mrs Harriett Warren and others with weekly visits and travels noted from Cedar Rapids Davenport and Atlantic.
Itching disfiguring skin eruptions quickly disappear and skin becomes clear and velvety after using Dr Hale's Household Ointment. Clear pure wholesome no poisonous ingredients. Results gratifying and certain. At drug stores 25c or direct from Kenyon Adams N Y.
The city council created a new water district at last evening's meeting. The district includes most of South Muscatine and Musserville and for the first time residents will receive protection from the island water works station.
Miss Grace Purcell daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Purcell of Muscatine dies at home on Burlington road after a brief illness from appendicitis aged about 63. She taught school won a first class certificate and was active in the Spangler Chapel and Methodist church. Survived by parents a brother Louis and two sisters Blanche and Mrs Charles Roberts. Funeral plans not yet announced.
The council met with all aldermen present. Grievances raised by Mrs. Matthewson protested condemnation of property. Dirt sale proposals, sidewalk and sewer projects, and multiple permits were discussed and granted or referred. The cemetery guard issue and a disputed sidewalk case were addressed amid disputes over recent ordinance penalties.
The Muscatine City Council adopts a detailed ordinance establishing the Water District within defined city boundaries. It declares that properties inside pay water taxes and receive water works protection. outside districts taxed under state law only where applicable. The ordinance specifies extensive boundary descriptions and applies the two mile tax for properties beyond the district. Adopted August 15 1907. J Asthalter mayor. Attest Sustay Weis city recorder.
Council split over whether Mr Griffith should finish a walk already begun, two sides arguing enforcement versus consistency with past actions. A motion to tear up the sidewalk failed. A resolution ordered permanent sidewalks on Maiden Lane and Eleventh Street to Mulberry. Temporary walks were set for several properties and the engineer to mark stakes for a permanent walk at 706 East Eighth Street. New walks ordered for Mrs. Van Kragg A A Keath and Blessing Bros in South Muscatine.
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