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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1907
Page
8
Local items list residents and guests leaving for nearby towns including Kalona Letts Wilton and Moline. Several plan holiday visits with friends and relatives while attending social events and church services. An upcoming University of Chicago versus Y basketball game is advertised with admission.
Christmas will be observed in Muscatine with church services and special programs for children. Court house and city hall offices close, factories suspend operations, some businesses open noon or closed all day. Morning services planned at Trinity Episcopal and several German churches.
G H Miller of Iowa City rents John Mottet farm and will move this week. John Iden dies at county farm, pioneer settler and landowner in Highland township born Aug 10, 1827. Several residents travel or visit family in Florida Oklahoma and Iowa City as winter activities and sickness are noted.
An old advertisement touts Dr. King’s New Discovery as a quick safe cure for coughs and colds. It lists pricing of 50 cents and one dollar and credits Havercamp’s Description Drug Store as the seller.
A Sunday program at the county poor farm drew local residents including F. M. Mossberry and families. After talks and exercises, supper was served. Several locals traveled to Agency and Lenox for Christmas visits and a wedding, with others departing for Hampton and Davenport to spend time with relatives.
Chant Gentzler journeys to Monmouth Illinois to spend Christmas with daughter Mrs Sherman Stone and family. Various locals visit Davenport Muscatine Ames and Burlington for holidays as families plan Christmas gatherings. Rural carriers plan 8 am departure. Miss Harriet Pickett travels to Ames to join sister Emma Cunningham at the state college dormitory.
An old advertisement claims Dr Kings New Life Pills cure headaches stomach liver and bowel trouble as a remedy for chronic constipation. The copy notes the price as 25 cents and attributes the sale to Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Fred Bare conducted business at Stockton on Friday. Muscatine visitors included Mr. Huffman and son Fred, Mr. Barsh, and two others seeking game. Three saw mills operated by Charlie Han with about thirty workers. People from Walters and Muscatine observed activity around island by Wm. Lowery farm.
In Wilton last night the Crescents overwhelmed Muscatine by 85 to 14 at the college gym. Sal Kiser paced the winning side with 27 field goals as Wilton used speed and teamwork to outpace the visitors.
Sioux City reports that Inland Waterways Navigation Company of St Louis promises to run steamers on the Missouri River this season. Secretary F A Cooper says traffic prospects improve and the Sioux City line will be established soon.
An old advertisement touts Bucklen's Salve for burns and worn piles at Havercamp's Drug Store, and notes Kaiser Hose Co.'s Xmas Hare event at Hare's Hall tomorrow night.
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