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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1901
Page
8
The article notes how using the New Process laundry removes the fatigue of handling laundry and yields colors and finishes that outpace other services, with linen returned in excellent condition showing a marked difference from rival launderies.
Notes announce a pancake supper at Hotel Grand hosted by Episcopal ladies with a menu to view in a adjacent column. Mentions loans, corn meal from Jones and Rice, Y M C A Star Course tickets, and. Sam R Stone departing west this morning. Also includes diaries and office supplies from Thompson's Book Store and a Banner lodge meeting schedule. The river is frozen six feet above low water with last month’s average level at 3 feet 4.1 inches.
Tonight at the A P O N T meeting in the AUW hall the election of officers is on the agenda. Titus and Jackson announce two separate stocks of general merchandise in good towns for sale.
Chas Wagner, a 35 year old Cone resident, vanished from his home on New Year's evening taking about $200. Neighbors fear foul play as he left without warning. his wife, baby, and friends are left perplexed. Wagner is tall, German descent, with broken speech and was seen drinking earlier that day.
Real estate bargains and sales notes fill the page. Titus & Jackson advertise properties while Scheetz's hosts a January sale on housekeeping goods. Hawkeye Lodge holds a meeting and the Star Course ticket drive reports over 300 sold with 900 in canvassers’ hands. funeral of Mrs. Leysen noted at St Mathias. Mary Weggen ill with multiple illnesses and schemes for cloak sales dominate neighborhood notices.
All members of Muscatine Lodge No. 5 I O O F are ordered to attend the regular meeting Monday evening to work in the initiatory degree.
Large turnout as Woman's Relief Corps installs new officers for the coming year. Past President Mrs Lillie H Baird conducts the ceremony with officers led by President Mrs Sarah Fox and Senior Vice Mrs Anna Cummins. Retiring President Mrs Clara Batterson delivers the annual address.
Attorney J. W. Eells, retiring Muscatine County clerk after several terms, is named referee in bankruptcy by Judge McPherson. He has bought out J. R. Williams and will resume law practice and insurance work from offices over Eb Day's Art Store on East Second Street, strengthening the county bar with his return.
The Presbyterian church holds a week of prayer with Rev. Dwight W. Wylie of Davenport assisting the pastor. Services are nightly at 7 30 except Saturday, in the lecture room.
The Y M C A Star Course debuts at the Grand Opera house on January 14 with patrons urged to secure seats. Robert Downing and The Poor Relation shows are selling fast with reserved seats in high demand.
A new Burlington Route Passenger Department book titled California offers 72 pages with 62 illustrations highlighting California scenes including climate Monterey Yosemite Valley and San Francisco. It details how to reach California and lists Southern California resorts plus Pasadena Santa Catalina Island and Coronado Beach. Send six cents to J Frances Omaha Neb for a copy.
A letter quotes Mrs. J. Bremen of Rifle Cole praising Beggs Cherry Cough Syrup for curing a long standing threat and lung trouble. It is advertised as treating coughs colds asthma bronchitis la grippe pneumonia whooping cough croup and consumption with endorsements from J J Havercamp.
Wichita dispatch reports Mrs. Mary E Lease will not pursue divorce from Charles Lease. The suit was prepared but never filed and will end unless renewed in conflict. Reconciliation was brokered by their adult children in New York. Mrs Lease plans to return to Wichita, abandon politics, and settle into domestic life.
Mrs Henerkyve Kamp, claimed relative of Oom Paul Kruger, objects to Grand Rapids and Helland Electric Railway crossing her Wyoming township property. After opposing condemnation, she fired at workers with a shotgun and tore up track. Deputies captured her after a standoff. bonds to keep peace planned. In Carbondale, Oscar Henderson and Bert Mason died under derailed freight cars. Mason injured with broken arm and collar bone. Henderson suffered internal injuries. Charles Wiler leaped from a fast freight, losing a leg and other injuries.
Marcen Louga a 58 year old prominent farmer of Mount Auburn township has been adjudged insane. His father and an uncle were in the same condition. A son and daughter are in an insane asylum. Louga's wife was his first cousin.
In Rockport Indiana citizens form a vigilance committee to rid the town of disreputable people. Warnings prompt a dozen colored men to depart the town without ceremony.
Readers in New York City schools raised S27.107 for Galveston school children relief. The effort shows broad civic support amid wartime hardship and charity drives across the city.
A limited run of 700 Star Course season tickets will be available for purchase now, inviting fans to secure access to the season’s events. Early buyers are urged to act fast as quantities are restricted.
The Board of Supervisors in Fruitland began the year by accepting resignations of county officials and approving bonds for new officers while two incumbents tied to the Titus amendment hold over. Officials elected to fill offices assumed duties, but the legality of resignations and bonds remains unsettled with no active justices due to held over terms.
The Narvis home hosted a 6 o clock dinner Friday for guest H C Sessions Past Supreme Master Workman of the A O U W from Sioux Falls South Dakota. The Saturday Evening Card club met with Miss Edna Kennedy with progressive cinch and light refreshments.
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