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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1909
Page
10
L. E. Lewis of Johnson County sued for 5000 claiming negligence after a wreck near North Liberty left him permanently injured. The Iowa City Cedar Rapids Interurban Railway Co. was cleared of neglect by the jury and the railroad won the case.
The Home Missionary Society of the First Presbyterian Church met at Miss Louise Molis home on East Third Street yesterday to study Syria. Miss Mollie McIntyre and Mrs. G W Wells presented papers on Syria and The Mountaineers, with Mrs. E F E King guiding devotional remarks and Miss Cora Baker singing a Syrian hymn.
The Y W A rooms were the scene of a jolly party held by the High School Branch. The White Roses hosted the event as the losing team in a recent membership contest, while the Red Roses were the winning team. Ida Weaver captained the Red Roses and Edna Laflin led the White Roses.
W J Chamberlain editor of the Wyoming Journal died last night at Wyoming aged 63. Other notes record Mrs Chas Robinsons death at Oakville and a funeral there. Local visits and family movements are listed with several named residents and travel details.
About 1 600 hunters in Muscatine County obtained licenses today driving the local total near a state high. Quail killing rights expire December 14 to cap a busy period at the auditor's office. After December 15 rabbit and squirrel hunting become major attractions.
Gennaro and his Venetian Gondolier band delighted a full Grand Opera House audience with Sunrise in Mountain Rose. The organization impressed with precision, grace, and vigor, rivaling Sousa in scope. Capacity crowds expected for today’s matinee and evening performances.
Fred Herman reports their Black Minorcas won multiple prizes at the Appanoose Poultry Association show in Centerville Iowa. Awards included first and second cockers, first cock, first second and third pullet, first and second pen, and first pen. The show ended last week and prizes were announced now.
Frank Anguilar, a Mexican man about 30, was arrested in an East Second street saloon for eloping with Mrs. Chatterton of Fairport after a brief acquaintance. He admitted the crime and will be held at the county jail while her husband plans prosecution. Mrs. Chatterton has been living in Silvis with another man for several weeks.
Euterpean Fraternity will gather at the P. M. Musser library Monday at 7 45 pm for an instructional program. Miss Glyde Beach will characterize Raphael, Miss Harriett Kemptner will portray Mozart, and Geo BR Throop will present Longfellow with selections from his poems. The program includes violin and piano duets, vocal numbers, and a slide presentation of Raphael's pictures, followed by an intermission and further performances by Mrs Edwin L. McCain Mrs Winhausen Mrs St John Messrs Golf and Porter.
Washington dispatch reports orders for Prairie to embark seven hundred minutes and move immediately to Colon, while Tacoma with nearly full marine crew is sent to the field. In Iowa City, no inquest was ordered into Cedar county farmer Frank Myers's death by his own hand, deputy coroner Justin Cornwall ruling suicide evident.
Misses Winnie Edith and Carrie Cockrell depart Grandview at noon to visit Foy Davenport for a few days with friends. Kranz & Son's offers beautiful potted plants and cue flowers next to the Express office. An observation notes U.S. highways are twice as wide as German roads and suggests narrowing could free 2,700,000 acres worth about $100 per acre in thirteen states.
Mrs Sarah Lutes, mother of Mrs S M Alexander of Lone Tree, died at her Alliance Ohio home on Thursday evening. Mrs Alexander left for the east today to attend the funeral. funeral arrangements had not been announced.
Iowa edged Nebraska two to one in a Friday night forensic clash on income tax. The Hawkeyes supported the tax plan with speakers Glenn Cunningham Allerton George Allen Nevada and Frank Jones Lamont. Nebraska’s opposition included Ren M Cherrington B P Dobbs and G H Foster. Judges were J W Gardner Q A Harker of Illinois and James Gray of the Minneapolis Journal.
Local passenger and express trains run between Kansas City Chicago and Dallas with Wilton Branch stops. Services include Kansas City to Fort Worth and Muscatine connections, with trains 28 63 504 505 800 and numbers 89 102505 listed and times around morning and evening, including through freight and local schedules.
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