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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1906
Page
4
Local notes report St Matthias graduating exercises tomorrow at 2 30 p m in the opera house with general admission 35c. Other items include social events, arrivals, and local visits.
Deeds filed with the county recorder show H. L. Mitchell et al to Charles Coon for Jot 3 block 70 Park Place addition city. consideration $100. J. Henry Frohm to Benhardt Beel for Jot 22 in Warfield's addition city. consideration $1.
FOR RENT three room house with barn five dollars monthly inquire 911 East Sixth Street. WANTED bench and machine men for work in planing mill sash door and general millwork factory no one but good mechanics need apply Central Sash and Door Co Topeka Kansas WANTED a moulder and sash and door men wages 3.25 for eight hours only first class men need apply address the D W Walsh Planing Mill Co Colorado Springs Colorado
Court opens with Judge Jackson presiding. An order extends filing until June 16 due to lawyer delays. Jayne versus Kleinfelder dismissed as settled out of court. Entries show multiple cases with plead dates and deadlines including St. Mary defendants and amendments.
Muscatine beat Kewanee 4 to 1 at Kewanee in a Three I league game. Lundy allowed 6 hits while Kerr scattered five walks and struck out two. Muscatine scored early and again in the sixth and eighth as Chavka Wood and Rudd drove in runs. The Independents arrive for a Davenport matchup today, after a 14 to 3 win by Davenport over Cedar Rapids.
Returns from Saturdays primaries show R J Reaney leading for representative by 250 votes and W C Saunders favored for sheriff by about 80. R R Hunt leads for county superintendent by 500, with C S Hewitt O C Farmer and R S Johnson as supervisors nominees. Remaining county officers to hold over.
The third and final recital in a series will be given by Miss F J Manlove's piano pupils Tuesday evening June 12 at the public library Invitations will be issued soon Miss Manlove operates a large class and is a noted local teacher The program includes works by Elmenreich Behr Reinecke and Mendelssohn among others performed by various pupils including Anna Sheppard Florence Mark Gladys Hudler and Bernice Wiegand
Verna Mucha daughter of Mr and Mrs J O Mucha marked her seventh birthday Saturday with twenty attending friends. Gifts were given to the guest and refreshments served by Mrs Mucha.
The Three Leaf Clover club gave a dance at Fisch's hall Saturday evening with Dealing's orchestra providing music. The entertaining committee consisted of Misses Sarah Healey Emma Horst and Anna Kuriger.
The monthly meeting of the Missionary society at First M. E. church is moved to June 11 a week from tonight instead of next Wednesday as listed in the year book. Hostess is Mrs. R. M. Chase.
The ladies auxiliary of the Y M C A will gather Wednesday at 7 30 P M at the Y M C A building for a regular session.
Iowa City June 4 Special Judge mania sentenced Fred Davis to eighteen months in the Anamosa penitentiary for breaking and entering a jewelry store and stealing rings.
Presiding Elder Rev. John Willits of Oskaloosa Ia preached at the M E church. Catherine Boyd of Princeton visits her son David Ott and family. J E Willits is prostrate with alarming illness. Mrs M J Ballard travels to Memphis Tenn for daughter Mrs H O Bauer’s sickness. Mrs Ezra Fuller 76 died May 30 at home with burial at Eliza cemetery.
An elderly veteran recalls years of coffee use harming his health with malaria fever relapses. Advised to quit coffee, he switched to Postum and improved within days, now working hard at 72 and praising Postum's benefits. The testimonial ends with a note about the Postum Company and a booklet in packs.
A reflective prose piece extols candlelight as a household sun and moon guiding reading and contemplation. The author muses on Milton and Taylor, linking midnight meditations to celestial imagery and contemplating a broader solar system topic.
A British pottery maker on tour buys a Sevres vase for several hundred pounds. He shows it to his foreman who returns it with a curt critique admitting he designed the piece and values it at five pounds as a foreign imitation of his own work.
A shivery tale among Hudson river residents links the stream to Rambout Van Dam a specter who rows endlessly toward judgment day. Colonial era drunken escapades allegedly end with Ram bout vowing to row home for a month of Sundays but never arriving.
A gentleman recalls a beggar asking for alms and learns the saying that fortune visits all. The old man retorts that fortune knocked at his door once before he was away and since then sent his daughter Miss Fortune. The man misunderstands the pun.
The Detroit Free Press quotes the Blanks as saying they no longer bother with appearances. They use their remaining funds to stay comfortable rather than dress up wealth or project status.
In London Answers a humorous exchange unfolds as an old man offers to buy a lanky youth’s half fare. The conductor responds that the boy appears well supported at home and must pay full fare.
Harold confesses he asked a woman to marry him thinking she was sensible, only to be surprised when she accepted.
An excerpt from Farmers' Bulletin No. 245 explains soil composition and plant nutrition. It covers organic and inorganic matter, soil air and moisture, and the nine essential plant elements supplied by soil, including nitrogen from legumes via soil bacteria. It emphasizes humus, aeration, and deep plowing as keys to productive soils.
The piece argues continual cultivation of good dispositions and compares exchanging wornout eastern farm buildings for food in the west to benefit both regions. It notes average people work cheerfully, explains sparrows insectivory and non-protection due to their impact on other birds, and praises a King road drag achieving a mile of roadwork in ninety minutes using timber beams pulled by four horses.
Experiments on spraying potatoes show that thorough season spraying costs 4 to 6 dollars per acre but yields an average gain of about 23 dollars per acre over three years compared to unsprayed fields.
A writer's female friend lost a lace handkerchief on the lawn and, while searching, noticed it was woven into a mourning dove nest base. The article likely was not placed there by intentional aristocratic bird behavior.
The article notes the Jersey cow in the family garden co operates to enhance vegetables and fruits with milk cream and butter. It forecasts the cow’s return near mid June and compares the season’s anticipation to Christmas.
Field beans offer a good option for run down ground or late plantings. Use a corn planter to drill beans after preparing soil, may replant to space rows about a foot ten inches apart. If so, cultivate with a fine toothed single horse implement. June 1 planting in latitude 42 minimizes weevil damage.
In a farmer household the burden on the wife should be eased by labor saving devices, ample water, dry wood, cupboard space, a quality cook stove with good draft, and convenient aids. The writer urges husbands to equip the home so the woman is not required to fetch cobs, coal, and water while men plow or operate machinery.
The article notes horses with the heaves from the upper Mississippi valley improving after relocation to North Dakota and the Canadian northwest. It attributes this to climate and forage differences, including cleaner air and better hay and grass, reducing dust and mustiness that worsen the ailment. One heavey horse bought for 75 sold for 150 after six weeks recuperation.
The late Governor left a family injunction to plant a pecan tree at the head of his grave and a walnut tree at the foot. He wished the trees to bear and be shared with the plain people of Texas, making Texas a land of trees as a lasting memorial beyond wealth or honors.
In Des Moines on June 4 a conservative tally shows Perkins at 646 and Cummins at 641 with Rathbun 96 and other anti Cummins delegates 38. Cummins must win 180 of 225 remaining delegates to secure nomination, while Perkins appears set to carry Black Hawk securing the third district majority. Scott County not yet counted.
The board met at the court house this forenoon and spent most of the day on routine matters hearing reports and approving bills. No bids were submitted for the Goshen ditch and it will be re advertised.
New towns emerge along the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad extension into central South Dakota. Thomas A. Way, Townsite Agent in Watertown, S. Dak, invites inquiries for full particulars.
In a heated prewar House debate Mr Potter of Wisconsin challenged Mr Pryor of Virginia to a duel with bowie knives at five paces. Pryor refused, deeming the terms undignified. The next day both were absent during roll call and a Quaker noted Potters prior engagement while Pryor was said to be in the hands of Potter as clay.
Professor Jastrow discusses how Sir Walter Scott could hold two trains of thought simultaneously. He notes Scott could form a word for a thought while preparing the next idea. An amanuensis observed mismatched dictation that later fit as the passage continued.
The Gulf of California teems with life beyond pearls as dolphins dominate waters near Carmen Island. A steamer sighted a vast school near Escondido Bay. the leaders turned and chased the vessel in a playful display before veering southward.
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