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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1907
Page
7
A parade of locals depart after visits in the city with trips to Letts Sigourney Davenport and Keota. Many listings note housing for rent and real estate offers alongside ads for Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and Dr Clapp's office.
The library board met in regular session with Vice President Jayne presiding. Librarian E L Mahin reported 155 average daily circulation and 3 000 total issue count for the month. The book committee ordered 60 new volumes including German titles. finances showed public fund 960.32 private fund 179.18 and several bills approved.
Keota Iowa December updates list Mr and Mrs J R Van Winkle visiting Muscatine and James Van Winkle returning from town. Miss Maude Erdice back from Washington. Miss Agnes Brown spelled by illness in Jesup. Oriole Concert Company to perform December 11 at Baptist church. Various residents visit relatives in Muscatine Washington Iowa City Columbus Junction West Chester Atlantic Cedar Rapids and Redfield. P E O s hold a taffy pull and visual exhibit.
A claim that a throat and lung ailment is relieved by Dr King's New Discovery with pricing listed as 50c and 1.00. The wording asserts a rapid commutation of years of suffering through the remedy.
List of letters remaining at the Muscatine Iowa post office for the week ending December 3 1907. Men's: Arnold Land Co Harry C Belding Earnest Feltz Claude Horton J J McGee Clarence Raub Joe Richenberger Chas Reed Lew Roberts John Strong. Ladies: Grace W Cutler Mrs J P Branch Miss Christina Decker Mrs Lucile Dupius Miss Marie Getz Miss Emma Know Miss Bertha Noble Mrs J A Nutter Mrs Relter Mrs C R Stormer. Callers must say Advertised. R S McNutt P M.
The E Burnham rations are on sale by the dealer W Call. Request a free sample of Liquid Shampoo Shampoo Soap or Scalp Tonic and a copy of the Gift Booklet How to Beautiful describing how to obtain and preserve beauty. If you cannot ten cents to cover mail, direct to FE Burnham 70 and F2 Some Street Chicago IL. Also for sale at Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store.
Lawrence Ewart stars again in Walker Whiteside's We Are King after a fifteen year stage start with Lothrop Stock Company of Boston. His intimate colleagues there included Dustin Farnum William Farnum Maurice Freeman and Lilian Mortimer, with Ewart a former member of the company.
The performer, after seasons with Alcazar Stock Co. in San Francisco and seven years as Walker Whiteside’s leading man, is known for a broad repertoire. A painter and pianist, he spends summers at Cape Cod. He appears Friday evening in We Are King at the Grand.
Lyman H. Howe presents a moving picture sequence of the Dieppe Grand Prix with Walter Christie in Nazvaro and other drivers including Richer in a Renault. The cinema shows high speed, village passes, and a dramatic crash as cars skid and overturn on a famous S turn. The crowd gasps as drivers recover and continue. ADe Dietrich, Renault, Fiat, Lancia, and others are visible in the intense spectacle. The program premieres at the Grand Opera house Thursday evening.
Peter Morran of Williamsburg departed for Letts after a brief visit to town, leaving in the evening.
Edward Asthalter of East Sixth street Muscatine Iowa sent Northwestern University a 125 dollar check to cover tuition he had not paid due to a granted rebate. Dean U S Grant confirmed the act noting Asthalter’s honesty and return to square his account after graduating in 1902.
In Laurel Hill on December 4 Mr and Mrs Arthur Stigers visited revival meetings in Muscatine and returned home. B L Norton attended a public sale east of Sweetland Center. Miss Winnifred Long of Wilton visited friends nearby. Blanche Du Bois and Minnie Jasperson attended a Wilton social dance. Luke Cockshoot heard the evangelist in Muscatine. Dr F S Abbott of Wilton was in the neighborhood Saturday night. The Fick family spent Sunday with friends the Engels at Melpine. Miss Della Cockshoot left for Sugar Creek to teach with Mr and Mrs Leroy. The Stigers returned home near Stockton after a visit with A Stigers. Lloyd Taylor attended Sunday afternoon services in Muscatine. Alma Bunge enrolled at Yankee Hollow school. Will Boot of Wilton stayed Sunday at the parental home. Mayme Sass of Sherrard, Ill visited briefly. John Fiehaly drove to Muscatine to visit friends.
An old promotional piece questions lunch counter eating habits and touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as the remedy for indigestion caused by rapid meals. It urges readers to buy the product at 50 cents a package and to send for a free mail sample from F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan.
Ernest Fick returns home to Fairport after eight months with his uncle C Fick. Mrs O Prien shopped in Muscatine recently. Miss Josephine Moylan returns from a visit with her mother near Durant. Mrs Joseph Bailey is on the sick list. Birdsey Norton visits his brother C W Norton Jr near Durant on Tuesday.
At the annual meeting of the Rescue Hose company at their hall on Mulberry avenue last evening officers for the coming year were elected. Foreman J F McBride, 1st Assistant Sollie Rosenfield, 2nd Assistant Cleo Pitchforth, Recording secretary William Smith, Financial secretary Lester Smith, Treasurer Charles Hagerman, Steward John Smith were chosen.
Sick list members show improvement while residents report travels and health visits across Nebraska Kansas New Mexico Canada and Illinois. Obituaries include Elizabeth Baldwin Epperly nee Epperly near Duncan Hall. John Anderson and Ella McDonald wed last month near Millersburg area.
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