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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1907
Page
7
A compact ad offers a 5 inch all steel screwdriver for five cents each. Needles for machines are twenty cents per dozen. All machine repairs come with a one year guarantee. Standard and Paragon items offered for sale.
Numerous city residents depart for West Liberty to attend the fair races and visit friends. Miss Daisy Bell returns from Davenport while Harold Will and Carolyn Dean also travel for short visits. Local shoppers and visitors, including Mrs. B J Brown and Mrs. J Hayes, are noted in town.
Wilton ia Aug 23 The G A R picnic at Resleys lake drew about 75 Henr y Seibert Post members and friends. After dinner the assembly sang patriotic songs and Rev P M Conant Muscatine gave an address. Boating and socializing followed as the sun set.
Detachment from Ft. Riley Kansas en route to Ft. Sheridan Illinois will reach Muscatine Sunday just after 11 AM. Lt P J R Kiehl and Commissary Sergeant Thomas arrange provisions with Eitman s for 300 men. Troops pitch tents at the fair grounds and spend the day in the city before breaking camp Monday morning.
The funeral service for the late Mrs. Mary Becker will be held tomorrow at 2 PM from her residence at 894 Climer Street. Interment follows at Greenwood Cemetery with Rev. J N Elnott officiating.
Muscatine delegates of the Y W C A attended association day at Lake Geneva on Tuesday. They wore white gowns trimmed with red crepe paper. Miss Hoover spoke on the Muscatine association work and its branches. The delegates sang and distributed shells from a local factory. The trip is described as ideal and enjoyable.
A series of five dances will begin next Wednesday evening at the Electric park pavilion by the Thomas orchestra. The hall will be decorated with Japanese lanterns and prepared for the events. Dances will be held every Wednesday evening if weather allows. A Labor Day ball is set for Hare's hall on September 2.
Red Shirt a jovial Sioux warrior from the Rosebud reservation in northern Ly man County, South Dakota, died by his own act after his mother-in-law barred him and his wife from living with her and chopping their firewood. He was known among whites as fond of merriment and reluctant to work. This death is noted as one of the few Sioux suicides on record.
M. A. Barkowsky left early this morning aboard train No 50 bound for Davenport where he will visit friends for several days.
Thompson Bros and McQuesten Sawyer Co list a public sale item or property for disposal. Details unspecified in fragments.
Markets from Miner Co Chicago show grain and live stock prices with wheat corn oats and pork lard ribs and ribs futures and cash quotes. Receipts at Chicago Live Stock Market include cattle hogs sheep with prices for beef pork and veal and retail and wholesale figures for butter eggs and produce among regional sellers.
Butter remains steady with creamery at 20 24c and dairies 18 22c. Eggs hold at 13 15c as market shows no change.
Chicago August 23 poultry prices list live birds firm Turkeys 12c per lb chickens 12 c Springs 14 c per lb reflects steady market demand and consistent rates for live poultry traded in the market tonight.
Butter prices were firmer with creamery grades over 92 scoring 26 cents for special grades and 25 cents for extras. Thirds to firsts ranged around 19 14 percent. Eggs remained firm with firsts 19 4 cents and seconds about 17 19 cents.
New York market today lists alive poultry weak with chickens and fowls at 15 cents, turkeys at 13 cents. Dressed varieties are easy selling with broilers 16 to 20 cents, turkeys 12 to 16 cents, and fowls 11 and a half cents.
Katheryn Hayes and Antony T. Flaherty wed at the Hayes home in Atalissa at 7 pm with Rev. Kirkpatrick officiating. Out of town guests included Margaret Gorman and many relatives from West Liberty Rock Island Chicago Des Moines Iowa City Council Bluffs and Sherrard. The couple departed by midnight train for a Denver Pacific coast trip and will reside in Rock Island where Flaherty resumes work as a railway engineer.
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