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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1908
Page
8
Local residents travel for visits from Davenport to Des Moines and Chicago. Quoted names include Mrs H D Dollman G M Titus and J M Carlisle with brief notes on departures and upcoming stays. Local ads promote real estate loans candy and flour brands Sleepy Eye and Big White Chief.
Good business chance offered with a substantial millinery stock for sale. Immediate contact requested with seller G. M. Titus at 213 Iowa Avenue.
Rev L D Young of Washington opens a week of prayer at the First Presbyterian Church with a talk on Peter the Confessor. The audience shows strong interest as he outlines Christian life requisites and Peter the Apostle's actions. Meetings continue through Saturday with a temperance sermon tonight from The Twelfth Apostle text. Cottage prayer meetings are listed for each ward with home leaders named.
The K P lodge installed officers led by D E Smith acting as installing officer. Officers named include Theo Bentley as Chancellor and W G Griffith as vice chancellor. A joint G A R and W R C installation followed with C A Curtis as installing officer and a social hour after. Several locals, including Geo Woodhouse and Miss Gertrude Moynahan, were noted in travel and visits around Wilton.
Rear Admiral Emory commands the second division on a Pacific cruise and shares a flair for style with his superior Fighting Bob. A past incident recalls him off duty in civilian clothes chasing and beating a bully who taunted him. Known as Prince Bill, he remains meticulous in uniform on deck.
The Tremont bringing reports from Manila and the Far East describes storms and tidal waves that stranded nine steamers on the Hokkaido coast with Hashi Maru sinking and twenty men lost. Forty sailing craft wrecked and many lives lost. Sapporo reports fifty eight fishing boats wrecked and over a thousand buildings flooded with drownings.
John De Forrest of 603 East Fifth Street shows a yellowed condemnation deed dated August 17 1779 seized for traitorous acts, executed in New Jersey Essex County now Union County. He found it while settling his father in law's estate and has owned it about 25 years along with other curiosities.
Des Moines dispatch reports Mrs. John C. Cottrell is ill in Kingsley. She is the wife of Kingsley mayor John C. Cottrell and Plymouth county legislator. Cottrell seeks divorce to marry Des Moines woman Mrs. A W Hough, with her husband already arranging a divorce.
The navy department reports 60,000 tons of coal sent to Honolulu and plans to place 100,000 tons at Manila by April 1. Shipments are prepared in case the battleship fleet returns to the Atlantic coast via the Asiatic station.
Chicago markets show futures and cash activity for wheat corn oats and livestock. Prices move across May June and January contracts with mixed highs lows and closes. hogs and pork prices listed with daily car counts and cash grain quotes.
Chicago market report shows cattle receipts at 20 000 with steers 3350 to 600, cows and heifers 125 to 450, stockers 225 to 415, westerns 510 to 690. Hog receipts 56 000 with values from 410 to 457 for light to mixed, 415 to 452 for heavy, 440 to 450 bulk sales. Sheep and lambs receipts 14 000 with sheep 325 to 535 and lambs 500 to 720. Butter steady in Chicago market.
Chicago dairy and poultry prices show steady markets. Creamery items at 20 29 cents, dairies at 1184 25 cents. Eggs steady at 26 27 cents for fresh stock, others as low as 18 cents. Turkeys range 8 to 11 pounds, chickens 10 to 9 1/2 cents, springs around 9 cents.
New York market report shows alive poultry firmer with chickens at 12 cents, fowls 14, turkeys 14. Dressed poultry firm with chickens 13 to 294 cents, turkeys 12 to 17, fowls 9 to 13. Butter firm at 22 to 29 cents for creamery. eggs firm.
New York produce market reports grain futures with Wheat May at 1.12 and Corn May at 69.7 cents. The brief market note lists the price quotes for the January session in New York.
Peoria market report shows corn No 3 price at 5 442 and 55 cents per bushel. Trade activity summarized from Peoria market data.
Market list shows corn at 60 cents, oats 40 at 45 cents, wheat 80 to 90 cents retail, corn meal 20 to 25 cents per sack. Fresh eggs 20 cents a dozen, butter 25 to 27 cents, beef and pork items priced per pound or per hundredweight, and assorted fruits vegetables and poultry with varied unit costs. Muscatine Produce Co. and local shippers set regional rates across live stock, dairy, and groceries.
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