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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1902
Page
4
William McKinley's last speech to be heard as the giant graphophone, with four horns and up to twenty feet in size, performs two to four hours of music and oratory from five hundred records two miles away. A prize for the best looking attendee, fare 10 cents, at the court square Thursday night June 5.
The Mothers' Club hosted about 200 teachers and board members at the high school. Superintendent Chevalier and club officers welcomed guests, showcasing music from the high school orchestra and a program of readings and solos. Ice cream and cake followed, leaving attendees pleased.
A. Siegel owner of Peoples Bargain Store will move into the current Bississi room on June 1 and expand to carry a full line of dry goods including ginghams calicoes silks muslins percales shirtings denim ducking and more under the new name THE PEOPLE S DEPARTMENT STORE.
Report notes that drivers at a Chicago department store return to work after agreed pay increase of one dollar weekly. The item appears amid a collage of global and national notices including a volcano disaster in South Africa and political moves in the United States and United Kingdom.
Judge P B Wolfe in Davenport Iowa confirms the Davenport Gas and Electric Company's twenty year contract to light the city but grants the city the right to fix a reasonable price at all times. The five year old contract began five years ago and the city had sought to annul it. The price-fixing clause is viewed as a city victory.
Springfield, June 4. Illinois fish commissioners ordered wardens to enforce all fish and game laws to the letter and authorized constables and deputy sheriffs to act as wardens, tightening enforcement duties across the state.
Superintendent W F Chevalier says the school board was told the offer to him was only contemplated and not definite. He would accept if offered, but would not leave his current post at Marshalltown since his salary has risen to $1,500 per year.
The Muscatine county bar will meet at the courthouse in Muscatine on Thursday June 12 1902 at 2 oclock p m to select five delegates for the seventh judicial district convention in Davenport Iowa June 18 1902. The aim is to nominate four candidates for district judges to be voted on in the 1902 general election. Dated Muscatine June 4 1902 by judicial committee T R Fitzgerald J R Hanley commissioners.
The shopkeeper touts Eaco as the most popular flour on the market and declares it the best. Customers flock to McCurdy's for Eaco, highlighted as the preferred choice in-store.
The Kansas prairie dog population has fallen by about 16.8 million in six months while about 67.2 million remain. Prof. D E Lantz pushes a patent poison to wipe them out, arguing they threaten grazing lands as cattlemen demand extermination to protect reduced-range pastures.
Rudolph Gundrum, brewery operator at Mulberry and Seventh, fell or jumped from a southeast second story window at about 3 am while allegedly dreaming of burglars. He suffered a fractured left arm in two places, two broken ribs, a deep cut above the eye, a cut foot, and extensive bruising, with internal injuries feared. The accident drew neighbors who reported cries and possible pistol sounds. Gundrum remains in danger as doctors assess his condition.
Remaining letters for men include Richard Berry T Owen Berry Crook and Ziff The Fair George Fischer Jr George C Gilbert John Glynn Earnest Knight Co Willie Lewis Chas A Lummus Mr McClain J J Maurata E M Palmer Henry Rambacher F Rector Newell Smith W W Thomson W H Tucker. Ladies list includes Miss Ida Bak Mrs Nellie Barnhouse Mrs Annie Jischelor Emma Engbloom Miaalter Griffin Miss Bardie Hartshza Miss Alice Jones Miss Margret Nker Mrs Alex Milne Miss Lizzie Watkins. Please say Advertised. Wm L Roach P M
If you subscribe for 3 months or more you can obtain this handsome book for 15 cents. The Journal states all books are available except a few in bookstores selling for 50c. This is the last chance to buy them. Special arrangements offered for sending to friends out of town.
In Muscatine County district court Chester O Moore vs Louisa Rogers et al centers on land title. Two new hearings filed for September include D H Westbrook vs Haragon Bros for 320 and Noah R Letts vs Haragon Bros for 130. Calendar entries list cases, settlements, and deadlines with multiple parties and railways noted.
A list of upcoming prominent meetings with authorized special rates by B. C. R. N. Rv. includes events in Denver for the National/International gatherings such as the Sunday School Association convention July 16-22 and the Ancient Order of Hibernianus biennial August 26-30. Other cities host annual or national conferences including Minneapolis June 3-8 and July 7-11, Omaha October 16-23, and Denver September 1-6 among others.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on June 3 the same portion of firemen engineers and pumpmen who ignored the strike order returned to work. A few stayed away from colleries but no violence reported. Engines and pumps operate, floods cause no damage, and about 4000 armed coal and iron police patrol yards.
Report notes that road workers have been detained and discussions on the strike situation are under way. Officials and union leaders are mediating to avert disruption while negotiations continue.
The Senate’s final day on the Philippines civil government bill saw few members present as the gavel fell. Debate, constrained by a 15 minute rule, was to resume after routine business. Earlier, the House passed the river and harbor appropriation conference report without opposition.
Washington June 3 An appeal through the national civic federation asks the Delaware Lackawanna and Western and the Delaware and Hudson to settle the coal strike. The Vanderbilt lines have opposed concessions to miners.
A noted aphorism contrasts two fates for women who sin: one remains unseen while the other is exposed and judged. The line reflects social prudery and the peril of public revelation.
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