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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1910
Page
4
A family friendly appeal promotes opening a savings account for a young person with a steel savings bank and bank book as a Christmas gift. Deposit any amount from one dollar, adding through the season. Four percent interest is paid for all full months.
Community notes list residents traveling for holidays and family visits. Mrs. C. McGraw returns home to West Liberty after shopping in town. Hillis Vanatta travels to Mangus Oklahoma to visit sister Mrs J L Ewing. Mrs F C Jahnke visits Lone Tree with relatives. The Hacker family of Chicago Heights announce a newborn daughter. Amanda Pace recuperates at home after surgery. Morton Farris visits sister Mrs S Nowell then returns to Washington Iowa. Miss Mary Farrell returns home to South Muscatine after Hershey hospital operation.
Reader notices Bast ice cream parlor at 221 Iowa Ave offers fine holiday candies. Arbid Nelson of Moline Ill is listed as a patient at Hershey hospital in this readable brief.
A St Louis based Hattig Sash and Door Co celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary with a special booklet and a vaudeville banquet for employees. The roster lists Muscatine linked staff including C. H. Huttig president secretary and general manager I J Siegel sales manager and several draughtsmen and officers.
Mrs. Sarah Garrard died at her home 217 Iowa avenue from pleuro pneumonia after a five year residence in the town. She was born March 16, 1870 in Fulton county Illinois and is survived by daughter Iva, mother M J Horton, two brothers William and Claude Horton, and sister Mrs Willard Ingraham. Remains go to Conesville tomorrow for funeral service likely Monday at 2:30 p.m. at the M B E church. Interment at Conesville cemetery.
The advertisement claims Pape's Cold Compound cured grippe and severe colds with a dose every two hours, noting relief after the first dose. It asserts quinine is ineffective for colds and promotes a 25 cent package sold by any druggist.
Mrs. S E Wilcox and her daughter Miss Theodosia Wilcox joined the First Baptist church Ladies Aid at their Friday session in the church parlors. They are guests of Mr and Mrs Z W Hutchinson while visiting from Des Moines where Dr S E Wilcox formerly pastored. Mrs Wilcox spoke about her husband’s current work. Dainty refreshments were served.
A second will in the estate of Albert Herold was filed in the district court yesterday. The 1901 LaCrosse will leaves all property and insurance to five sisters, while a January 22 1910 will names Frederika Reise of Muscatine as sole beneficiary. Herold died at the Reise home recently. Risdon Tipton filed a partition suit in district court yesterday against George W Tipton and others over property recently left to the Tipton heirs.
W D Carpenter of South Muscatine was struck by an epileptic stroke at about 2 15 pm this afternoon near a Rock Island depot truck. He fell striking his head on the vehicle leaving a severe wound above the right eye. He remained conscious for ten minutes before Dr Norton arrived to treat him.
Tonight members and guests are invited to the Saturday Sing at the Y M C A with Miss Jeannette Bartlett to lead tomorrow's Vesper on What is That in Thine Hand Miss Cora Baker will sing a solo and a social hour will follow The Altrora Club plans a fancy work sale next Monday and Twenty one High School Branch members were banqueted at the Y W C A with welcome extended to new members The association seeks adequate quarters to carry on its work.
The Musserville M E Church and Island churches schedule Sunday school at 10:00 a m with William M Stark as superintendent. An 11:00 a m sermon on The Immanence of God uses Jer 23 24. An Epworth League meet at 6 30 p m led by Miss Ruby Atherton. Evening service at 7 30 p m on Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do do it with thy might. Sunday school again at 2 00 p m Asa Shephard superintendent. Worship at 3 00 p m. Winter hours may move earlier before dark. Epworth League at 8 00 p m led by Fred Shephard.
Washington reports Senator Lafe Young and State Senator Hammill met President Taft at the White House. Representative Hubbard plans a brief vacation from Congress to inspect Iowa affairs related to his ambition for a seat in the Senate.
At the First Presbyterian church Ladies Missionary Society meeting at Mrs. E. H. King’s home plans were made to start reading Western Women in Eastern Lands. Mrs. G. M. Wells will read the first chapter at Miss Aura A. Sawyer’s Locust Street home on Friday afternoon January 13. Miss Louise Molis led the program on Mountaineers, and the group collected a quarterly offering.
Members of the Queen Esther Circle of the First Methodist Episcopal church met Friday at Mrs. John Baker’s home for a social session. Delia Lewis performed a recitation and a candy sale is planned for December 20 with Edith Bond in charge. The circle will meet again in two weeks at Mrs. Bakers.
Members of the Major John Circle met at Mrs. John Spence home to organize work for the Iowa State Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held in the city in June. The next regular meeting, with officer elections, is set for Tuesday at the hall.
Ep worth League members of the First Methodist church and friends will hold a Christmas swap social Tuesday at 7 45 PM in the Y M C A assembly room. Attendees should bring a comical gift under ten cents and gifts should be anonymous. The event includes a program a Christmas tree and a treat for all.
The rivers and harbors bill totaling 21,894,861 dollars passed the House today in Washington, D. C. The measure funds river and harbor projects across several states and supports federal infrastructure.
Chicago December 10 Today's session ended the annual meeting of the association of life insurance presidents. The program included technical addresses and a report by the life extension committee led by Dr Eugene H Porter New York state health commissioner on fighting preventable diseases.
The Payne Aldrich tariff allowing duty free exchange of most goods between the United States and the Philippines has doubled trade. In the first 15 months under the law imports reached 24.33 million dollars, up from 11.5 million. exports rose to 23.5 million, up from 12.5 million.
Kentucky Democrats formally endorse Champ Clark of Missouri for the next Congress speakership. Friends say Clark’s election is assured with pledges from 175 Democratic representatives and support from most of the remaining 52 delegates, signaling broad coalition across the party.
Chicago date Dec 10 The Brotherhood of railroad engineers will present a strike ultimatum to the railroad managers association Monday backed by more than 95 percent of the engineers who are members.
Sparks from the chimney ignited the Gore residence roof at 301 West Second Street last evening after supper. A general alarm brought firefighters who quickly extinguished the flames.
While driving from Aledo Illinois to their home in this city, J S Blackwell E P Ingham and Clint Bear were in an auto crash near Mil lersburg Illinois. The car struck a bridge approach jarring the machine and throwing the occupants against the sides. Ingham and Bear suffered painful facial injuries. Blackwell escaped injury.
The local Y M C A board met with State Secretary William C. Parsons to review finances. The session ended favorably with expectations that financial burdens will soon be lifted.
Department of Justice rejects partial victory in the Temple Iron Company case and will press the government’s case to the Supreme Court of the United States. The earlier Philadelphia circuit court ruling found the Temple Iron Company an illegal restraint of trade.
Journal want ads advertise two tidy office rooms to rent above Elite Laundry. Inquire at 405 E 7th Street for details.
The essay argues that women's affection for dress is a natural recreation born from necessity and emotion. It differentiates from frivolous excess among rich and from deprivation among poor, and suggests dress fosters social balance through its modern variety.
A vivid portrait describes Cobena near Madrid as a deathless village. The local chemist abandoned drugs for sweets, half the cemetery becomes a pleasure garden, and the undertaker has fled as no deaths have occurred in eight years. The village doctor plans to emigrate.
The passage argues that top French airmen are first-rate mathematicians, educated at engineering schools like Bleriot and Aubrun who graduated, while other pilots pursued mathematics through private study, mechanics institutes, and night lectures in London Truth.
The Rev J P D Lewyd of Seattle argues that without God as life’s final aim, passions such as gambling lust and drink dominate the soul. He says faith provides a steady restraint against baser instincts and urges.
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