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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
2
William O'Brien, a forger who victimized Buffalo and Davenport area businessmen, pleaded guilty to forgery and received a ten year sentence. He forged checks totaling under $40 near Walcott and Blue Grass, was apprehended after liquor-fueled carelessness, and was sent to state penitentiary within ten days.
The monthly Board of Health meeting in the city engineer's office heard the health officer Dr J L Klein and food inspector Dr C J Hackett reports. City Engineer Young asked for more time to complete a review of the Moscow Canal right of way for the Mad Creek sewer project.
Druggists refund money if PAZO Ointment fails to cure itching, bleeding, or protruding piles. First application gives relief. Advertisement notes the price as 50 cents.
South Prairie Grange No. 2077 held a regular session on December 16 at the Grange Hall to elect officers for the next year. Elected: Master W H Birkett Overseer John Brugman Lecturer Mrs Clayton James Steward W W Waters Assistant Steward Pliny Nichols Lady Assistant Steward Verna Herr Treasurer Glenn Settleson Chaplain Mrs TV Steen Secretary Albert Ruess Gate Keeper Robert Ford Ceres Mrs T R Fitzgerald Pomona Mrs J K James Valora Mrs George Ford Pianist Nettle Ruess Chorister Mrs John Brugman.
Assistant Chorister Mrs. Harry Nichols purchasing agent J E Sanders correspondents Mrs J E Sanders. These officers will be installed at the first regular meeting in January. The annual banquet will be held on December 31, with a good program to be rendered.
Local Aerie members and families plan a Christmas program and hayride at the Eagle club rooms. The celebration, likely Monday December 27, follows a regular Eagles meeting where the entertainment committee and several members set preparations and a date.
H S Busby of Busby Manufacturing, Washington Iowa, has developed a burner that heats directly from crude oil without generation or a wick. Patent applied for, with tanks heaters to be produced at Rock Island plant and assembled locally. Burner stands 28 inches high, 14 inches in diameter, uses oil fed by a clever contrivance, two gallons lasting forty eight hours, cost sixteen to twenty cents.
The Mercer county drive to hire a crop expert advances as D A Schrader gathers memberships. Five hundred signed applications trigger the organization with a $5.00 fee each, aiming for $2,500. county commissioners will add $2,500, and $5,000 more will fund a competent agent. Possible federal funds of $1,204 are anticipated next year.
Charles Mosqua, a Muscatine resident, received word from Germany that his nephew Hugo Kierstein was killed on the eastern battle front while fighting for Germany. Hugo is Mosqua’s second nephew to die for the Fatherland, the first having fallen in battle earlier. Before emigrating to the United States, Charles Mosqua served as an officer in the Prussian army.
An old advertisement promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a mild laxative substitute for calomel. It claims quick relief without bad after effects, safer for teeth, and helps with headaches dullness and a heavy feeling. Available at 30c and 25c. Olive Tablet Company Columbus Ohio.
Sa If R Korns a top Des Moines officer will be present to install the officers and deliver a short talk. A brief program will follow the installation and a dance will be enjoyed after.
The High Prairie church Sunday school will present a Christmas program on Wednesday evening December 22 at the church. There will be a Christmas tree and candy for children. Committees led by Mrs Harry Boiler Mrs Arthur Tinberry Edward Will with arrangements by Mrs Roy Baker and Mrs B M Howell. The program features preludes readings recitations dialogues songs and a cantata The Hope of the Christmas City with many named participants and a scene from Santa Clauses Home in Greenland.
For Christmas buyers who delayed their shopping, Muscatine stores announce they will remain open during the evenings all of next week up to and including certain days. The notice urges shoppers to take advantage of extended hours before the holiday rush.
Merchants report Christmas buying in Muscatine has been more sensible than in past years with belated shoppers far fewer as Christmas approaches, suggesting calmer end to the holiday rush compared with earlier seasons.
A vintage advertisement touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a 60 cent hair darkener that also curbs dandruff and itching. It claims gray hair vanishes after several applications and hair regains gloss, with the product applied via sponge or brush.
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