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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1900
Page
8
Daily Journal notes the New Process Laundry delivers high quality laundering with color and finish to suit fastidious customers. It promises smooth edges and intact buttonholes, ensuring linen is kept in pristine condition.
Short items report voting notes shopping finds and travel as well as local events including a library election appeal feed and hay at Jones and Rice visits by Dr King and Frank Dixon business trips by J R Williams and Bertha Grady church lawn festival and a bicycle trip by Louis Byer and Fred McKnight plus moonlit river picnics and hotel guest arrivals
The lawn social for Thursday at the A M E church is postponed due to sickness, delaying the community event.
At Muscatine Camp No 106 M W A seven men were admitted and three applications balloted. After business, ice cream and cigars. Also reported were C H Mark and Charles Robertson’s Dubuque skiff trip and expected return later this week.
The United Brethren church members gathered at Weed Park for a day of picnicking. They arrived in the morning and spent the day enjoying the woods with both Sunday school children and many adults participating.
Mrs. Sutliff, state evangelist, announced ten day tent meetings starting July 19 near Letts Iowa after last Sunday's sermons at the Church of God. She hopes to pitch a Muscatine tent by early September if co workers are found among local pastors, with undenominational aims.
J W Singleton of Cone visited the city on business, with no additional details provided about purpose or outcomes.
Jim Dudley earned praise for six strikeouts as Wellman defeated South English 4 to 3 in a tight contest. Fesler of South English struck out 10 batters in a strong effort. Both teams featured fastball power as South English’s Guthrie to Coffman and Dudley to Weiser led the field.
The Muscatine North and South railroad offers a round trip to Clear Lake with two days board and lodging at Whitaker’s Lake Shore hotel for 11.10 dollars. Tickets are on sale during July and August.
F H McDaniel and sister of Letts are in the city on business. J A Cochran and sons arrived from Letts this morning. G W Bloomer Mrs Wm Bloomer and Mintle came up from Letts to shop. G W Bloomer and family FP H MecDaniels and sister and E H Noble of Letts were among visitors in the city today.
Archbishop Feehan stated the Roman Catholic Church does not seek a priest on Chicago's board of education. He warned that a priest who accepts such a appointment would be suspended from priestly functions and possibly moved to another diocese.
The war office reports for the week ended July 7 casualties totaling 15 officers and 180 men killed wounded or captured. Accidental deaths add two, and two men died of disease. Overall, 72 officers and 1,306 men are listed, bringing total war casualties to 48,188 officers and men.
Oshkosh and Winnebago County endured a third severe wind rain and hail visitation in a week. The storms caused thousands of dollars in crop and property damage, with Janesville Madison Plainfield Portage and West Bend among other communities reporting heavy damage.
The Gold Coast Governor Sir Frederic Mitchell Hodgson and his wife reach Cape Coast Castle today on the Gold Coast voyage. The accompanying party is anticipated to join tomorrow, according to the Daily Mail Acorn correspondent telegraphing from London on July 10.
The strike on the Montana Central, an offshoot of the Great Northern troubles last May, is settled. Only a few workers struck and trains operated normally throughout the day.
The steam ship St Paul arrived from St Michael Alaska with news that martial law had been proclaimed at Cape Nome signaling elevated military authority and potential disruption in the area during the rush to gold fields.
The National Educational Association has been duly organized at Charleston, D C, and begun business. The L A W holds its annual meeting at Milwaukee. Cardinal Gibbons will not travel aboard before spring. Two Chicago youths Hart and Almer badly hurt by a locomotive in a tunnel near Ballimere Md.
A terse observation notes the bondholder stands to gain as others bear the risk of the plowholder’s actions. The phrase suggests a critique of financial leverage and potential inequity between debtor and creditor interests.
Advertises guaranteed fabrics and high quality workmanship. Promotes cassimere and worsted suits priced from 6 to 12 dollars and a new line of negligee shirts with appealing patterns.
London reports William Waldorf Astor has abruptly departed for Germany canceling engagements. Rumor cites his flight as a reaction to the Prince of Wales ban over the Milne affair.
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