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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1908
Page
4
Local notices include a store sale price cut at Bat terson Stores with soap deals, private health culture lessons offered at 1017 Cedar Street, and several community updates. Residents, church groups, and attendees are noted along with upcoming meetings and travel plans in Muscatine and nearby towns.
M. W. Stapleton has moved his office to No. 118 119 German American Bank Building.
President signs all bills on arrival including public building and government employee liability measures but pockets a bill compensating inventors for government use, resulting in its defeat at adjournment. The session ends as the Sixtieth Congress quits.
A full First Methodist church in Muscatine heard Dr W H Heppe pastor of the First Methodist church of Portland Oregon give an eloquent sermon last evening. He spoke warmly of Muscatine's blessings and noted he was a native of the city. The audience listened with rapt attention.
A memorial service at the Muscatine county courthouse paid tribute to J Scott Richman a respected lawyer who served nearly seventy years in the field and on the district court bench. E E Cook Judge Carskaddan Henry Jayne and others offered eulogistic remarks as resolutions praising his integrity and long tenure were read to the district court and Supreme Court.
A union man urges workers across the state to vote against Bernard Murphy for lieutenant governor. He says union members will back friends and rebuke enemies, warning candidates to run fairly.
At the Ministerial association meeting this morning it was decided the annual picnic will be held Friday June 3. Ministers and their families will spend the day in the country. the exact location is yet to be set.
An enjoyable family reunion was held Saturday evening at Miss Leona Howe’s home. Five brothers and sisters gathered early for social converse and a six o’clock dinner. Those present included M. Y. Howe, H. S. Howe, J. E. Howe, S. K. Howe of Kansas City, and Miss Jennie and Miss Leona Howe. The Philathea class of the First Methodist church will meet tonight at Mrs. Will Walton’s home at 906 Sycamore street at 7:45. The Colonel Hare Thimble Bee will meet tomorrow at Mrs. H. S. Howe’s East Ninth Street home for an all day sewing.
Industrial group Degree of Honor will meet with Mrs Laura Pressler of 305 West Seventh Street on Tuesday June 2 at 2 o'clock.
Paris reports the murder of artist Adolphe Steinheil and his mother-in-law Mme Jary at Steinheil’s suburb residence in Vaugrand. Both victims strangled and money missing. wife alleges gagging and binding by people posing as models. Steinheil, Legion of Honor member and Salon exhibitor, had sold several pictures Saturday.
Solemn memorial services were conducted yesterday afternoon at the G A R hall by the Major John Circle for their deceased members. Chaplain Mrs. Mary Huffman and President Mrs. Isabelle Norton led the rites as the circle choir rendered patriotic songs and Mrs. Maude McCord read a tribute to the departed members.
Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Peasley were conducted yesterday at 3 PM from the Friends church in Bloomington township. Interment followed in the Friends cemetery. A former resident of Bloomington township, she was originally from Oskaloosa.
Four men robbed the state bank at Cuba Kansas and escaped with between 6000 and 8000 dollars after a fight with citizens. No one was shot. Posses are in pursuit.
Antwerp June 1 The Red Star liner Vaderland which was reported wrecked left Flushing for Rover after minor repairs to the machinery.
A switch engine in the Rock Island local yards jumped the track this morning after rails spread. It was moving at a fair rate of speed and tore up a small strip of track.
Frightful spasms of the stomach, liver torpor, lame back and weak kidneys are overcome by Electric Bitters. Guaranteed. 50c. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
George E. Throop and Frank D. Throop purchased the Fulham property on West Second street from E. C. Pe. The sale was arranged through G. M. Titus Realty Agency, and the new owners are occupying the residence.
A brief memorial note from a committee expressing sorrow over the friend’s loss and his long held kindly presence that will no longer greet them. The message acknowledges the deep sense of bereavement and farewell to a valued companion.
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