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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1909
Page
24
Local items note 53 sleighs left and bargain sale details for an 8 room house. Frank Bowman advertises Xmas goods at GC Otto's Sons. Mrs A L Sharp travels to State Center Iowa. W L Kellogg visits daughter Mrs G B Samuels at 316 Cedar St. Dr Riemeke lists office with Dr Oliver.
Multiple brief items list fire insurance by John A Robbins and Titus Loan & Investment Co. ads. Local social notes mention Miss Icey Teel at Rock Island and Mrs. Lou McErea traveling to Rock Island. Shoppers, visits, and short trips feature Mrs. W. P. Roberts, Mrs. F. M. Hopkins, Mrs. L. Morris, Mrs. C. A. Purvis, Mrs. Fred Schreurs, Miss Mary Carpenter, Miss Nellie Beitel, and others. Product and grocery notes include oysters, pickles, sauerkraut, greens, ducks, and poultry from Chris Otto's Sons and Geo. Kranz & Son's. Insurance guidance via J. E. Stevenson & Son.
Three antiquated cases on the municipal docket will be dismissed by City Attorney Thompson. One targets A L Lindner of Citizens Railway and Light Co for gas price reductions, filed years ago with little progress. Another against E C Peto, now a Chicago mov ing picture show operator, concerns noise from a gasoline wood sawing machine. The third suit with Hendricks is also slated for dismissal. The Pioneer Button Company sewer claim of 150 dollars was investigated and recommended not to be allowed.
In Columbus Junction Iowa Owen and Johnston purchased the building from Mrs Arthur Springer of Wapello. They plan to move their grocery store into the property on March 1. W T Brown returned home Thursday from Des Moines via Burlington and Keokuk.
Mrs Brown remains in the hospital. Mr and Mrs E G Brint and their mother Mrs E E McFarland spent Thursday in Davenport. Mrs A C DeFord and Miss L M Gabriel of Columbus City were visiting Muscatine. Miss Nattie Dill to assist in the post office until after Christmas. William Beardsley of Haskins visited to see his son Will who runs a sale at Carrs store. Mrs J J Stapp and Mrs J S Blair spent Thursday in Muscatine. Mrs Henry Wiegman of Washington visited daughter Miss Faye. H H Wilson returned from Colfax after ten days treatment for rheumatism.
The Button Workers Protective Association held its first social last evening at the Trades and Labor Assembly hall. Supreme President T F Gleason addressed insurance values, delivering a forceful speech. Walter Mohnson and Mrs T F Gleason sang, with a piano duet by Miss Helen Dealing and Mrs George Holliday. Dealing's Orchestra provided music for a dance. about one hundred attended. The group plans further entertainments in the future.
Maynard Leghorn pleaded guilty to assault at a Cedar street restaurant and received ten days in county jail from Judge Howe. He is serving another ten days for intoxication, to run after the first. The Bryant brothers' cases tied to the fracas near the same date likely go to trial Monday.
The jury in C. B. Vail versus Allen and James Cross returned a verdict in favor of the defendant. The court sustained the motion to dismiss James Cross as no evidence tied him to the alleged misuse of a team headed to Wilton, leaving Allen Cross as the sole defendant. Horan and Devitt represented the plaintiff.
Chief of Police Vannatta submitted a monthly report to Muscatine's city council detailing 83 homeless wanderers seeking lodging at police quarters over the past four weeks. The report lists arrests for intoxication and other offenses, with totals and formal submission to the mayor and council.
Mrs Laura Halli and Miss Grace M Hall depart for Peoria Illinois at noon after visiting Mrs John Horley at 322 East Second Street Miss Sylvia Bradley goes home to Rock Island at noon after a brief stay with her father George Bradley at 407 West Front Street
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