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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
4
In Muscatine officials report the Muscatine North and South Railroad to add a loading track east of Iowa Avenue as legal grants from the city allow. Town observers connect the move to tensions with the Rock Island line amid a district court dispute over encroachment.
The Company C versus Y M C A practice game moves to the Y M C A gym tonight replacing the church venue. Tonight’s regular gym class is postponed to Saturday at 8. The schedule shifts after the Kansas game, with gym and basketball events running Monday.
Word from Dubuque confirms a game with the city Y M C A team around March 13. West Side Y M C A Chicago aims for mid February, Fairfield on February 26, and Monmouth on a later date.
Articles of incorporation show the Automatic Button company based in Muscatine with capital of 50000 dollars, half paid. It will manufacture buy sell and deal in buttons shells blanks and pearl goods. A board of five directors will manage until the next annual meeting in January. signers are Henry Umlandt John Weber and Claus Umlandt.
Local notes report A FE Carpenter of Letts transacted business in the city. Laura M Slater returned from Burlington. Leo H Hirsch & Co invites help at their button factory on East Fourth street. Mrs Joseph N Elliott ill at 705 East Ninth street. Eagle lodge No 10 held a successful meeting with initiations and ballots. Wyomin g lodge No 76 K of P plans a meeting on Iowa avenue with First rank work tonight. Lamar F Taylor from Minden Nebs visits for 10 days at M W Wheeler’s East Eighth street home. An Engineer of the R I road signs a communication seeking the writer’s real name. Wm Benninger’s indemnity payment is received for illness time. May Patten will speak at First M E church at 3 pm on The Light of the World for Junior Epworth League. Patten’s talk welcomes both children and adults. Wm Welch and H Shock from the Peerless button factory fought, ending with finger injury after intervention by the overseer.
An advertisement invites readers to request a premium list of 100 or more names and addresses of people likely to buy Witness and Sabbath Reading papers. It promises a free pastel pansies picture for postage paid requests and provides business contact at 150 Nassau St., New York.
A Muscatine sleighing party surprised Miss Clara Rick with dancing music crokinole and refreshments. Attendees included Misses Dollman Negus Campbell Lyons Briggs Lyons Strake Chayka and Messrs Eis Frank Wilford Moots Baker Hauvernagle Robison Dollman and others. The Presbyterian Ladies Aid met successfully at church parlors with plans for a two week follow up. The city’s young men hosted a closing dance at the Armory with about 16 couples enjoying the night late.
A 30 member South Muscatine group enjoyed a sleighing party at Joseph Vanatta’s Burlington road home with supper music cards and dancing. Prize to Miss Ida Hartman and James Healey. consolation to Mr and Mrs Jacob Hintermeister. Additional events included Schaefer social gatherings with sewing club and a surprise visit by Mrs Schaefer’s friends.
Burlington resident Louis Teuscher 85 on Saturday marks fifty nine years as a mason and the state’s oldest master mason. He joined Des Moines lodge in 1843, tracing his long Masonic line after Evan Evans as the prior oldest.
February Mc Clure's portrays Cleveland as a cautious reformer who checked abuses and restrained bad actors. He reduced revenues, saved taxes, and kept public credit from collapsing while avoiding new doctrines or dramatic actions. A modest public servant, he embodied duty and honesty though he never sought heroic status or lasting laws.
A waiting public can readily conjecture Miss Stone's forthcoming lecture titled My Experiences in Captivity. The notice hints at a talk likely recounting captivity experiences and insights from the speaker.
Police in Muscatine remain on alert for possible mob violence as Kid Noble returns, with officers guarding the prisoner and taking precautions. Despite Noble's capture and a murder trigger, tensions run high and arrival details continue to spark concern.
Oskaloosa Iowa January 31 Judge Dewey sustains the death sentence against Dick Williams for killing Wm Sharper at Buxton The execution will take place March 13 marking the first hanging in the county.
The piece argues memory is essential and unforgiving if poor. It claims memory can be cultivated quickly through daily practice, even while traveling, with every line memorized as progress, citing Success as a source.
An advertisement notes a free trial bottle and pamphlet of Dr. David Kennedy's Kidney Remedy. Readers are urged to mail full name and address to Rondout New York, mentioning the paper. The piece claims high trial success and describes symptoms cured and pricing for bottles.
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