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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1900
Page
6
Local business leaders in Muscatine discuss adopting a thirty day billing and settlement system to curb trade credit. Merchants report better cash flow, fewer delinquent accounts, and urge wider adoption among grocers and dry goods firms, with the Journal inviting reader letters on the plan.
Muscatine Journal quotes a four day Northern Pacific journey from St. Paul to Seattle by fourteen men. They describe grand scenery, blue water, high travel costs, Nome immigration, and a planned June arrival aboard the Valencia with health and spirits high.
Parace H Herr received a small 1845 temperance song and verse book from H E Parmalee. compiled by Gen T B Bonner of the N E Cataract, it circulated in New England anti alcohol societies of the 1840s. Herr plans to share it with Y P C T U members for study.
The Iowa State Normal School announces its commencement exercises from Friday June 8 to the evening of June 13. The Baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by the institution's president on Sunday afternoon June 1. The events are described as elaborate and among the school's most successful.
The Geneva sewing society met at Mrs. Robt Hare's home. Crops look fine and Decora tion Day was observed at the school. Road work will begin as corn planting finishes. Mrs. Geo Stiles, daughter of Mrs. Mary A Gilbert, promised notes on Geneva's history. Mrs. Gilbert, longtime area resident, died leaving six children and many descendants. The community extends sympathy to the Gilbert family.
Last evening an informal reception for Miss Guild of Chicago was held at the Y M C A rooms. The event aimed to acquaint temperance workers with Miss Guild and clarify points of the movement before Miss Eva Shantz reports to speak at the First Baptist church Monday night.
News from New York reports that famed actress Della Fox has been committed to the asylum at Astoria Long Island. Once the leading burlesque star in America and Europe, she drew large crowds in Muscatine and other cities. locals will be shocked by the star's decline and confinement.
The Young Woman's Guild of the Presbyterian church runs a market at Batter music store offering lunches confections cakes and potted plants to boost receipts. Tonight they’ll serve ices and ice cream. proceeds fund lecture room improvements with patronesses Mrs Elliott Mrs Lilly and Mrs Peck.
Delegates from southeastern Iowa gather June 12 to 14 for the Iowa Synod Lutheran conference hosted by Grace Evlish Church. Rev. J L Murphy leads preparations with sermons by W J Funkey and talks on duties, catechisation, church papers, and Sunday school supervision.
Havana voters cast ballots under Governor General Wood’s date for municipal elections. Republicans back delay until McKinley’s reelection, Nationalists press immediate American withdrawal, Conservative Democrats seek an American protectorate with insular governance. Results pending. contest described as close.
The essay reflects on Decoration Day twenty years after the Rebellion, noting veterans aging, a largely immigrant population, and the day’s misuses as a holiday. It urges teachers to educate pupils about patriotism and the sacrifices of brave heroes to honor the nation and its history.
The Kansas City Star notes H J Heinz, Pittsburgh pickle magnate, has donated 20 000 to Kansas City University to further education in the West. Heinz is a leading benefactor and longtime president of the university trustees, described as a federal contributor to its fund.
South Muscatine residents spent Decoration Day with mills giving half to full days off while graves were decorated and families fished the slough. Fishermen lined four mile bridge and eight mile wagon bridge as locals walked plowed land and shared poems. Social visits occurred at Annie Ruthenberg’s home and rose bushes were planted on Rose Lawn Avenue. Local tradesmen and residents traveled between Musserville and nearby towns with various errands and visits.
A mass meeting of wheelwrights and wagon makers will be held at the Labor Lyceum tonight. The discussion will center on a proposed regulation scale of prices and the advisability of a national union.
Painters discovering Mrs. Ann Greenwood dead in her locked Grundy Center house report a decomposed body with a foul odor. Coroner summons inquest. possible heart trouble suspected, foul play considered unlikely. Separate Muscatine Water Works talks discuss city purchase of the plant, awaiting council report.
Seventy five magnetic healers from across Ohio plan a meeting at the Ohio Magnetic Institute to contest the Love medical law as unconstitutional. The Pyseopath y Non Medical Association gathers members and Cincinnati and Newark are represented. Attorneys are engaged to challenge the act as class legislation.
In Clinton Iowa Benjamin Rea and his wife reconciled after tears and a close embrace. Mrs Rea had tracked him to a cottage with a woman named Bessie Tiffany of Emmetsburg Iowa prompting arrests. The couple will relocate to Chicago and Bessie returned home.
Bipin Chan dra Pal, renowned Indian lecturer, departs New York after addressing the Comparative Literature Society of New York Barnard College, the People’s Institute, and the Unitarian Association. He was hosted by Rockefeller parlors and the City of Boston during the liberal congress.
Iowa Lodge No. 2 meets Monday before the full moon. Secretaries J. Wrocarenen and Morcak note the sessions. Iowa Lodge No. 8 and Washington Chapter No. 4 R A M hold Friday and Friday convocations before the full moon respectively. De Molay Commandry No. 1 plans an upcoming conclave before the next full moon with recorder and secretary listed.
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