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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
7
Local notes list residents and guests in Muscatine Ill. and nearby towns. Names include Webb, Crocker, Lyons, Weaver, Morgan, Thornhill, Risley, Corinth, Essex, Hammill, Hart, Crow, Schaefer, Lonfier, Leverich, Watts, and others visiting for business or leisure. Ads mention oyster stew 110 W 2nd and black wood 4.00 per load.
W L Reach will address the fifth annual Louisa County Good Citizens League convention in Morning Sun M E church on February 25 1908 with sessions at 1030 am 2 and 730 pm The program includes a reform outlook symposium led by Elliott McGaw and Newsom Lela McElhinney will sing Rev William McKay a state temperance convention delegate to Des Moines will speak at 230 pm on echoes from the convention on temperance W L Roach will deliver the evening sermon noted as a prominent eloquent speaker in invitations across Louisa county
Lands personally examined by us and offered as safe as U S government bonds. Amounts from 500 to 5000 dollars. Call and examine. J E Stevenson No 209 Iowa avenue.
Mrs Elizabeth Malin returned home from Columbus Junction where she helped care for granddaughter Myra Malin who has had measles. Miss Bittie and Carrie Evans visited grandmother Mrs Grub. R 8S Dix arrived from Blanchard on the 4 24 train to visit friends. Mrs Henry Mize and daughter Jessie visited before returning to West Branch after seeing Mrs Mose Hull who is in poor health. Miss Grace Stickney Rose Miller and Grace Gunderson of Conesville returned home after visiting Grace Stickneys uncle John Edmondson. Fred Spalding spent Monday in Washington.
Washington report based on senator Teller's document to Congress details Alaska native populations facing severe tuberculosis and related diseases. Grand jury accounts, Captain Hutton findings, and judge Gunnison urged sanitary districts and inspections to avert extinction of the native people.
Mercury in catarrh ointments can destroy smell and derange the system when absorbed. Use only prescription medicines from reputable physicians. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo contains no mercury and works internally upon blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Sold by druggists. Tie per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Mrs. Mary Fawcett and daughter Ethel visited Iowa City. An oyster supper was hosted by Aliie Pearson. A young people’s party at Amos Kimberley’s produced a fine time. Frank Montgomery married Edith Hill at West Branch. Springdale attendees note the event and Montgomery’s housekeeping start. Minnie Embree heads to Cedar Rapids for millinery work. Local residents Buckman and Schooley were in town for business. Foster Maxson serves as juryman at Tipton district court. Lindley Heald and wife travel to Linn County for a family matter.
A Washington DC based company promotes Rholoids claiming it forms a soluble compound with uric acid and carries it from the body. The offer invites readers to test Rholoids by sending name and address for a mailed trial. Full size treatment priced at $1 is sold by A W Morgan at 107 West Second Street.
Mrs Helen Barton of Chicago writes that after a week on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound her nervous prostration and illnesses improved and she fully recovered. The advertisement extols the remedy for female ills including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous exhaustion inviting women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
Caroline Mott’s cessation noted with local kinfolks. James visits grandmother Hannah James in Springdale. W. A. Phelps attends stockholders meeting in Des Moines after cattle deals in Independence. Fr weB events include skating, a Self Culture Club session with Hamlin Garland bio, and a Montgomery home party. Several residents travel for work or family matters amid a heavy late winter snowstorm and la grippe cases.
The Junior B Y P A of the First Baptist church has postponed the planned gathering at the church parlors on Friday evening.
The Shelby Norman Post honors departed comrades M. O. Stanwood and A. B. Rehmel with memorial resolutions. Stanwood, a former member of Company B, 3rd Iowa Infantry, served bravely until 1865 and is remembered by the post for his citizenship and wartime gallantry. Rehmel, of Company II, 30th Ohio Infantry, is saluted for faithful Civil War service and post leadership. Resolutions set aside memorial pages, copies for families, and publication in city papers.
Word reached in this city of the death of Barney Benson of Stanhope Hamilton county Iowa at about thirty years of age after years of illness. Born in Norway he came to the United States as a boy living in Chicago before moving to Stanhope. He is survived by his parents in Norway a brother Ben a daughter and five sisters. Mrs Jensen will attend the funeral in Stanhope.
Hundreds of long lasting pile cases are claimed cured in days or weeks by Pyramid Pile Cure. The ad says operations are often ineffective and the remedy relieves swelling, congestion, ulcers, and fissures, with a home treatment that avoids business downtime. A free trial sample is offered, then a 50 cent box. Pyramid Drug Co Marshall Michigan.
West Chester brief items report visits and illnesses including Miss Bessie Conger of Washington at the John Jayne home, M R Hamilton stricken with la grippe, and plans for gatherings at the M E church parsonage with Geo and Martha Washington hosting. Also noted are several travels for horse trading, a knee injury from stepping on a nail, and ongoing revival meetings in Lexington with Rev Morrison assisting Rev Smith.
Dave Richey returned from Chicago with sheep. Rev. J. C. Brown held revival sessions at the M E church. Mrs. F A Johnston visited with Mrs C B Horton. Miss Grace Chapman returned from Iowa City. George Brown went to Chicago with hogs and cattle. Leander McKee Jr visited from Columbus Junction. County Clerk W S McKee stayed a couple days from Muscatine. Henry Vail from Muscatine checked on farm north of town. Grace Reformed church youth plan an event at the schoolhouse next Saturday with supper. Nellie and Grace Gunderson hosted a farewell party for Rosa Miller.
In Copperas Creek on Feb 26 Henry Attson of Maquoketa visited the McNalls from Saturday to Monday. Wm. Mewes moved his saw mill above Illinois City on the Wm Thomas farm and will begin sawing. John Mills and Emory Mills of Bay Island visited the Hesser home Sunday. Joe Watson from near Wrayville stayed with his sister Mrs Ed Reynolds from Wednesday to Friday. Carl Kleist visited his parents G and M Kleist Sunday. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Fred Martin on Sunday Feb 16.
Simple remedy notes that La grippe coughs often lead to pneumonia and promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a safe cure. The ad claims it stops the cough and heals lungs, with a yellow package and no harmful drugs. A. W. Morgan, Druggist, warns to refuse substitutes.
Mayor I J Asthalter proclaims a March 2 election for mayor assessor treasurer police judge wharfmaster and four aldermen across wards one to four Polls open 7 a m to 7 p m at ward hose houses Excelsior Champion Rescue and Relief Hose houses with seal and attestation by City Recorder Gustav Weis on February 14 1908
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