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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1906
Page
8
Local items record residents traveling for fairs and business from Muscatine to Des Moines Davenport and Ottumwa. Visitors from Letts, Burlington, Chicago and Washington are noted, with social events at K of P hall and band concerts at Weed Park highlighted.
A private sale at 509 Town Avenue lists two stores and kitchen furniture including couch bookcase tablea refrigerator hall tree and books. The sale occurs Thursday afternoon and Friday August 30 31 and is conducted by J. W. Potter.
East Second Street paving will start within two weeks as city crews survey the street today. City engineer James Ryan oversees the plan with bricks laid and curb stones chiseled to prevent delays. Work is expected to begin around September 10 barring rain.
Speechless With Wonder are the friends of those cured of Stom ach, Liver and Kidney Trouble, by Electric Bitters. 50 cents. Guaranteed, Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Des Moines reports indicate two thirds of Iowa soils are dry while rainfall remains light statewide. A cool Sunday lowered temps near the frost line with light frost at Charles City on the 27th. Northeast and other regions saw scattered showers. no widespread drought damage yet, though pasture and potato crops need rain. Corn progress remains strong with early fields nearing harvest and fodder yields higher than usual.
A firm representative with the gas pipe laying contract for the Muscatine Gas Oil and Mining company is on site. It is believed that construction will begin shortly.
Jacob France 41, lifelong Johnson County resident and Lone Tree figure, was found dead in his brother’s hallway in the early morning. Officials say his neck was broken and death occurred hours before discovery, with the cause possibly accidental after a nocturnal stumble on the stairs. France lived with his brother, was unmarried, and his funeral plans will be set upon the brother’s return from Des Moines.
John C. Wilson, famed local shoeman, celebrates thirty three years in his 127 East Second street store. He began as a clerk at the same location, which then housed W. H. Stewart’s shop, and now runs a widely known footwear business in eastern Iowa. Several longtime customers still shop there.
The Rolla Howe launch was found Sunday morning between two cribs of lumber floating downstream with a raft. Charles Hanley, fishing nearby, towed it to the steamer and learned the boat had been picked up near Muscatine, then returned it to its owner.
Edward Mack, a Black man, is jailed in Iowa City after being brought back from Burlington where he was arrested on suspicion for carving his wife and mother in law. Sheriff Rowland identified him at first sight and expects an early September indictment for assault with intent to commit murder.
What will your decision be. A local notice offers a chance to buy Muscatine city property with a few hundred dollars for the first payment. No charge to view property for prospective buyers. Contact G. M. Titus at 213 Iowa Avenue.
On September 1, 1966 at 11:00 a.m. at the courthouse door in Muscatine the executor will sell the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 15 and the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 15 in township 77 north range 1 west of the ith principal meridian. Andrew Bersch executor of the John Bersch Estate.
Miss Mayme Leysen and Miss Flora Jones departed Saturday night for Chicago to spend the coming week studying fall millinery styles.
The Orono township caucus in Conesville Iowa endorsed W S McKee for county clerk and named a township ticket. Delegates selected for the Muscatine county convention September 8 include F B Gay and J F Coffin as officers and several local residents. The slate lists Ira Owens and F B Gay as justices, Robert Bebb and R Z Tipton as constables, J D Bouser as assessor, Dr H H English township clerk, and trustees William McCormick Charles Wagner and Alexander McCullough.
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