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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
5
Local items report Graff selling drugs and various residents traveling or visiting. C Schultz and J B Van Atta depart for Lone Tree and Arden for brief business. Burlington and Grandview ties noted with Van Defort. Real estate loan offers and farm loan ads appear. Ollies like Sleepy Eye Flour and Big White Chief flour promos recur.
Miss Luella Pearce, deaconess of Philadelphia, spoke to the Woman's Home Missionary society at the First Methodist church home of Mrs. P. W. Francis. She outlined the deaconess work since 1888, now 1400 in the U S, and described roles as nurse traveler aid parish visitor and settlement worker. Edna Francis led the music. meeting was among the year’s most successful.
The second series of prayer meetings was held yesterday at the McKee and Bliven Button factory in South Muscatine with about one hundred employees in attendance. Rev H F Martin of Grace English Lutheran church spoke on practical and entertaining topics and a Y M C A secretary also attended. A quartet is being organized and a music committee was elected to arrange future meetings.
Ice dealers plan to cut river and slough ice as mild weather hampers river freezing. Skating remains popular with hundreds of children and adults on Muscatine slough. Rock Island to resume track resurfacing between city and Columbus Junction around February 15 with foreign labor and later expand local yard trackage. Residents travel to California for winter, while others relocate or seek work in Washington and surrounding areas.
East Hill notes report Miss Eva Seevers state YWCA secretary addressed Park Avenue Methodist Ladies Aid on Christian Service. She praised local YWCA youth work, shared narratives, urged Christian women to support evangelistic efforts at the association building. Feast Hill locals add regional travel updates.
G. R. Hawkins and E. Flo Hawkins begin a series of evangelistic meetings next Tuesday evening at the Seventh Day Adventist church between Locust and Spruce streets on Fifth street. The nationally known evangelists, who have led many successful meetings, invite all to attend and participate.
Railway postal clerks Roy F. Johnson Frank Field and F C Shinabarger have been promoted from class two to three due to increased work and heavier mail along the Muscatine Montezuma route. The change includes a higher salary and was announced by the Post Office Department, General Superintendent Alex Grant issuing the notice.
Frank Bowman and William Grossklause, previously of Muscatine, left Dec 17 for St Paul then Seattle. They met Leindecker brothers Howard Jayne and Tim Murry in Seattle, continued to Portland and California, spending the winter traveling and visiting major cities along the route.
In a lively committee session all members attended as debates split over how delegates should be apportioned for the convention. Attor ney General H W Byers won the temporary chair, replacing Leslie M Shaw amid speculation. The body settled on basing delegate seats on the 1906 governor election results Cummins.
The record shows a motion to base representation on the governor's vote in 1906 passed with seven yes votes. Committeeman Wright may have opposed. Epps reportedly did not vote. Des Moines awarded the first convention. Cedar Rapids and Waterloo voting yielded seven for Waterloo, three for Cedar Rapids. Waterloo to host in a 6000-seat hall. counties to send delegates at large plus one per 200 votes for Cummins in 1906.
Fragmentary figures list multiple No 3 items with varying percentages: 51 to 56 percent for some, 55 percent for another, and 56 to 57 percent for a yellow item. No clear event or context is given.
Cattle receipts around 3 500 with steady to strong feeding values. Beeves range 3.65 to 6.25, cows and heifers 1.30 to 4.50, stockers 2.25 to 4.15, western cattle 3.70 to 4.50. Hog receipts about 40 000 and prices mostly lower from 4.15 to 4.55. Sheep receipts 10 000 weak with lambs 5.25 to 7.30 and yearlings 4.90 to 4.80.
Chicago markets on January 10 show butter steady with creamery at 20 19 ½ cents and dairies 18 25 cents. Eggs are easy at 24 26 cents.
Chicago January 10 poultry market shows weakness with turkeys at 8 to 11 cents, chickens 19 cents, springs 8 cents. Market tone unsettled with buyers cautious and prices softening across classes.
New York markets show alive poultry dull with chickens 12 to 16 cents, fowls 14 cents, turkeys 12 to 17 cents. Dressed poultry listed at 12 to 14 cents for chickens and 14 to 17 cents for turkeys.
Butter remained firm with creamery and specials at 31 31 1 ec held 23 29 Kee. Eggs stayed easy and unchanged.
Wheat for May at 1.33 dollars and corn at 69 4e in New York market trading dated January 10. A brief snapshot shows futures and cash prices for staples, reflecting early 20th century commodity activity.
Corn prices listed for Peoria market, No. 54% is quoted at the session on January 10, with focus on grain prices for traders and buyers.
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