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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1907
Page
4
Local items mention Bond's restaurant serving the biggest oysters in town and a special 25 cent turkey dinner with trimmings. Marriage licenses issued to Arthur C. Ryan with Edith B. Hoover and Fred Campbell with Gertrude B. Du Boise appear among community notices.
Miss Gretchen Riemenschnieder hosted her seventh birthday at 110 Van Horne St. The afternoon featured Xmas bells holly and festoons with music recitations and games. Ice cream cake and party favors delighted the guests including Laura Lund Ruth Pressler Violet Fisher and many others.
New books arrive at the public library including works by Samuel Adams Gertrude Atherton and Theodore Roosevelt. A marriage at the courthouse between A. L. and Miss Leapa Reynolds is reported with Rev. D. V. Jackson officiating and the couple living in Muscatine.
There will be no meeting of the Banner lodge this evening. A notice announcing the next regular session will be issued later.
Emerson Bowman returned from Oklahoma and fought with W. H. Cook over an old debt in Lettsville. Bowman's companion noted that five dollars buys a good fight in Oklahoma, but Bowman paid 8.86 in court for the incident, a result of the local costs and fine.
Mannon residents report Mr. and Mrs. John Retherford returned from their wedding trip. Mrs. J. F. Willitts and Ruth visited relatives in Joy. John Miller of Eliza visited his daughter’s home. Brownlee sale near Mannon drew good attendance and high prices. J. Richard Moseley of Keithsburg visited. Nola Irwin’s box supper at Winter’s schoolhouse was a success. Box supper at White Eagle schoolhouse hosted by Eugene Platt and pupils. Residents prep for Christmas. James Giffen on Mrsane Powers farm offers 40 acres of stock pasture for sale.
The German Evangelical Lutheran Church hosts a Sunday school Christmas program tomorrow at 7 pm with recitations and musical selections. Performances include solos, choir pieces, scripture readings, and class drills, ending with a collection for the Evangelical Orphans Home at Benserville and benediction.
A concise item notes heightened enforcement or clarification of traffic rules, indicating that motorists will find road laws harder to evade. Specific statutes or enforcement agencies are not identified in the fragment.
The passage notes Congress faces friction as railroads demand noninterference while seeking funds for extensions. Shippers and business groups in the West and Southwest push for stronger interstate commerce laws, with Democrats seen as ready to capitalize on the crisis.
Deed of transfer filed with the county recorder transcribed for the Muscatine Journal by G M Titus real estate agent. Titus Loan and Investment Company transfers lot 20 in second section of Woodlawn addition to Muscatine to J Ray Wilhelm for 4000 dollars.
In Marshalltown Iowa on December 24 a 4 or 5 year old boy died and a 3 year old girl was gravely ill after both children of Henry Stull secured a box of morphine pills and ate them. The incident is reported as a special dispatch from Green Mountain farmer Stull.
Rochester families share holiday visits as Mrs Honor Betzing and Mrs Erma Hiebner visit relatives. travelers include Curt Baker Frank Baker Jim Hill en route to Galveston Texas and Jack Lincoln with John Fieholder heading to Texas. Muscatine and Sugar Creek connections note visitors and relatives.
The funeral for William S. Lantz will be from Ira Fry residence at 815 East Ninth street on Thursday at 2 PM. Rev. Pliny Fry of the Friends church will conduct the services.
Ralph Sheriff and sister Ethel from Champaign visit grandmother Mrs. Fannie Cornell and sister Bertha Sheriff in Pomeroy. Miss Orlena Sheese dies Friday. funeral held Sunday at 11 with Rev. Spiller officiating. Local residents W. F. Spence family Kate and Lulu Crawford visit Aledo. Charles Retherford travels to Chicago with cattle. Christmas cantata The Crowning of Christmas staged at Pomeroy church. Dale Emerson in Millerstown. Beverlin couple in Aledo. August Shoppa and wife attend Orlena Sheese funeral.
Manager Ruckdeschel announced Company G will debut January 1 against Rock Island YMCA Five in Muscatine. Four regulars are away with the Muscatine Athletic Association. Kennefick and Fifer return as guards, Bert Hill and Andrew Asthalter rejoin, with Gerischer possibly back at center.
W T Huey, long time employee of Citizens' Railway and Light, has received a promotion to shop foreman.
Shelby Norman Post will host a January 7 celebration with a public program and invited guests. A committee is set to arrange the event and officers will be installed later, with the W R C delaying its regular meeting to January 14 to attend the Post services.
Mrs G B Stephens visits Letts friends this week. I O O F lodge attendees from Davenport. Muscatine Sisters visit for Will Foster and Mills families. John Foster hosts oyster supper for Will Foster Lincoln Neb. Birth announced a daughter for Willie Mills family on Sunday Dec 15, weighing 9 pounds.
Literary notes recount Jack London and his wife visiting Molo kai leper settlement on Hawaii. London argues leprosy is less contagious than believed and describes mingling with patients. He notes simple cleanliness as the main precaution and says non lepers wash hands and faces after contact.
A political plot allegedly formed in Burlington and directed from Des Moines aimed at stirring opposition to Cummins across the river counties. The report notes a coordinated effort targeting regional voters and public sentiment.
OWA LODGE No. 4 notes monthly reunions on the first Tuesday evening. Washington CHAPTER No. 4 A M holds stated convocation on the second Friday. Webb Council of Royal and Select Masters meets third Thursday. DeMolay Commandery No. 1 holds regular conclave on the third Wednesday. Names of officers and secretaries appear in the text.
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