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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1908
Page
7
Local notices mention Graff selling drugs and display ads for candies and tea products. Residents visiting Davenport and Wilton stopovers are noted along with drugstore recommendations. Frank Bowman offers second hand buggies and Mrs. A C Martin visits relatives in the city.
A Bible class for ladies whose husbands attend the Y M C A is planned for Friday evening from 7 to 8. All interested women may join even if not a Y W C A member. Miss Wilson and Automatic Button Co. classes will meet. home tailoring is discontinued for now. Lunches are available with member discounts.
Bloomington Ill Jan 29 Thousands attend the Sunday revival as crowds swell and 222 conversions are reported with a packed excursion train arriving from the west. The evangelist speaks on the Unpardonable Sin and the total converts reach 2697 amid women fainting episodes and lively audience participation.
Horatio Beane leaves for Adel to visit brother John H. Beane. Samuel Tucker dies of blood poisoning at Mercy Hospital Burlington. funeral at old stone church near Dodgeville. W. B. Hiller visits Monmouth relatives. Levi Kemp to California. Hiller and Hunt to see friends in Iowa. Miss Nellie Hale suffers grippe. Rev S B Ross attends Des Moines temperance meeting. Mrs Ellen Judge dies in Muscatine. burial in Des Moines. Crescent Society meets with Mrs C W Warren. Court opens for January term cleanup.
Hudler and Fisher of Wilton power a eight horsepower gas engine for wood sawing in Pine Mills. Roy Hartman leaves for Iowa City February 1 to visit friends and the state museum. James Reeves of Lyons County tends his sick brother Ira who is very low. Mrs Keck of Council Bluffs visits sister Mrs S Reeves for several days. Mrs W Hartman visits with Mr and Mrs Bronson of Sunflower Ridge Sunday. B Stecher attends church at Muscatine Sunday. Mr and Mrs EF Sissel of Pleasant Prairie visit Mrs SS Irwin Sunday.
Rev. P. M. Conant begins nightly revival at Island M E Church with 7:30 o clock services all week inviting all. Visitors include Rev. W. L. Clapp of Brooklyn Ia who is welcomed by locals. Local residents and visitors share news of travels and health updates among families and neighbors.
A health article extols resting the stomach over excessive exercise and promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a digestive aid. It claims the tablets digest 3,000 grains of food, increase gastric juice flow, prevent fermentation, and cure dyspepsia and related symptoms. The ad urges mailing a free sample and lists F. A. Stuart Co. of Marshall Michigan.
Saturday and Sunday visits feature Eli Frizzell and son traveling from Woodburn Ia to attend his father J O Frizzell's death. J W Newkirk on a Muscatine business trip. L L Webster return from Newport Ia. Mrs Mary Fitzsimmons improves after illness. J A Contriman returns from Chicago. Edna Barlett visits T H Spright home. Mrs Babcok visits from Olive Branch. Mrs Smith returns to Wapello. Allie Contriman and Abbie Spright visit Muscatine. Ladies Aid Is land M E church to meet Ella Kemp Feb 6 for an all day gathering.
The Powers family tenant house near Mannon burned last week, destroying most household goods with only 100 dollars in insurance. Other local notes mention Miss Carrie Mason recovering from illness and several visitors and relocations among residents including Lewis Litchler and Ed Stevens. Revival meetings continue at the chapel.
January 15 1908 notice invites bids to clean and reopen Drainage District Nine Wales Ditch across sections 1 and 2 774 west in Muscatine Iowa. About 2600 cubic yards of earth to be removed along about one mile. Bids due noon March 2 1908 at County Auditor's office. Plans available at auditor's office. A S Lawrence County Auditor.
The Iowa Retail Clothiers Association will hold its third annual meeting in Des Moines February 18 and 19 at the Chamberlain hotel. Hundreds of retailers are enrolled, with manufacturers' agents attending. Officers include President H. G. Larrimer, Vice President J. B. Will, Second Vice President M. D. Goldman, and Secretary-Treasurer Lon Pollock.
Local residents make business and social calls in Grandview and nearby towns. Notables include Jas McCray of Wapello visiting, Mrs H H Snyder in Wapello, and Bert Kammerer en route to Muscatine. The community notes include illness updates, meningitis closures, upcoming lecture at the opera house, and church trustees chosen.
New Era notes a successful leap year social held at the church on Thursday evening. Cottage prayer meetings now occur every Tuesday evening replacing Wednesday sessions. Mrs. Isaac Meyers returns home after a Muscatine visit. Miss Junge of near Davenport visits sister Mrs. Henry Fitchner. Rev. and Mrs. Olander paid a visit Monday.
An advert claims Dr Hale offers Kelief ointment that cures itching burning and obstinate skin diseases after the first application. The preparation is clean and non greasy and priced 25 cents, available at drug stores or directly from Kenyon & Thomas Adams New York.
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