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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1906
Page
8
Money to loan on your own security to pay small bills. The Guarantee Loan Co offers loans on horses cows carriages pianos household goods and other personal property with goods staying in your possession. Business confidante. Open evenings Wednesday and Saturday 7 to ?.
Muscatine readers await a big New Year basketball clash as Co. C hosts the Evanston Crescents at the armory. Local boosters hype the matchup as the fastest, strongest opponent this season with tickets at 35 cents.
A lecture titled 1200 miles through Europe by C H Mark is offered with an admission price of 25 cents. The program promises a guided journey across European locations based on the speaker's travels.
Tomorrow at the YMCA a packed program begins at 2 30 with a concert featuring graphophone music. At 3 basketball games fill the gym followed by an evening lecture by C H Mark on Twelve Thousand Miles Through Europe on 100. Cartoon drawings by Outcault and McCutcheon will be given away to attendees with numbers read at the lecture. Mr Mark will also speak tonight on Cowboy and Mining Life.
John H. Keuchman of Yarmouth dies in a Burlington hospital after months of illness following an appendicitis operation in Yarmouth. Born February 15, 1866 in Muscatine, he worked for Hershey Lumber Co before moving to run his own lumber and coal business in Yarmouth. He is survived by his wife and son, his mother Mrs. Margaret Kenchman, brother J. T. Kenchman, and sister Mrs. Charles Starker.
The Muscatine Gun Club plans a New Year's shoot tomorrow on the levee near the M N & 8 trestle. Start is 1 30 PM with all comers welcome to join in clay pigeon shooting and improve marksmanship.
The Trinity Christmas entertainment began with Sunday school children and others at the church for Christmas exercises. They moved to the rectory for a Christmas tree where candy and nuts were distributed, making the evening enjoyable for all.
A Frederick Maryland special passenger train collided with an empty equipment train near Terra Cotta in dense fog. Rescuees battled wreckage for hours as doctors, police, and volunteers aided the injured and retrieved bodies for transport to Washington area hospitals. The crash, blamed on possible block signal failure or operator error, left many dead and unidentified amid a sprawling, grisly scene.
The Salvation Army holds its annual Christmas celebration this evening at the Fifth and Mulberry hall starting at 8 o clock. The decorated cedar hall features a forest scene with a log cabin backdrop. A large tree and six smaller ones surround a stage. Many presents will be given to children, who will also receive stockings filled with candy apples popcorn and nuts.
The normal class of Sunday school teachers meets tonight at 7 15 at the Y M C A to begin a new course on the Old Testament. All prospective students should attend to start the lessons, with a large enrollment expected.
Stephen Stiles, whose remains arrived Saturday from Weyerhauser Wisconsin, lay in state at Ben Meerdink home in Bloomington township. Rev A D St Clair conducted the service at 2 pm with impressive rites. Interment followed at Quaker Cemetery. Pallbearers were W McGreer Ed Denton H Thampler John Healey Nat Lindie and Ben Mentink.
Furnished by H J Frenzel a note from Chicago shows daily open high low and close prices for wheat oats pork and other commodities dated December 31. Wheat Dec 73 73% 72% 73 May 76% 76% 77 July 76% 75% 763% Ded 40% 39% 40% Mar 45% 43% 45% Onts Dee 36 May 33% 32% 36 July 38% 33% 30s Pork Jan 16.85 35.97 19.45 May 16.37 16.50 16.36 16.37 16.45 Hard CO dak Moke sale notes.
Mixed butchers report varying prices with heavy and light cuts noted. Butter and eggs show market firmness in Chicago with dairy entries listed as creameries and dairies at 21 to 24 cents, eggs steady at 21 to 24 cents, and wholesale butter quotes around 22 1/2 cents.
Chicago market report shows poultry steady with turkeys priced to a market, chickens and springs listed, reflecting a quiet close to the year as buyers weigh demand and supply. Market observers note stable prices despite seasonal shifts and limited movement.
Butter prices in New York on December 31 were firm with creamery at 23 53c, held at 22 30c, dairies between 21 28c, renovated around 18 24c, factory near 8 2?c, imitation creamery at 23 24i. Eggs were steady with firsts at 27c and seconds at 20 21c.
New York, Dec. 31. Poultry market report shows dressed chickens steady at 12 to 15 cents, turkeys at 14 to 18 cents, and fowls at 13 cents. End of year wholesale pricing for the New York market.
St Louis market report lists wheat for May tied, corn at 41 417sc, oats at 35%c. Prices reflect futures and local trading activity in Dec. 1 edition.
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