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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1902
Page
5
An advertisement for Paine's Celery Compound claims June use arrests wasting diseases and strengthens nerves. It asserts benefits for nervousness sleeplessness rheumatism liver and kidney troubles and cites Alice Terry Wood of Helena Montana praising the remedy after four bottles and renewed health.
A large gathering at Eagle Lodge No. 10 on Friday evening elected officers for the next six months. Fred J. Betzhold received the Workman degree. Elected: Past Master Workman John B. Reay Master Workman H. A. Barger Foreman D. W. Borgstadt Overseer David Holiday Recording Secretary N H Howe Receiver S L Johnson Financier E H Dolsen Guide Geo Luckhard Inside Watch D C Young Outside Watch W B Doty Trustee John Apel.
The Grand Trunk Railway train Number Eight departs Chicago daily at 11 05 a m heading to Detroit Mt Clemens Niagara Falls New York and Philadelphia. It offers wide vestibule coaches cafe parlor car and Pullman sleeping cars with quick time and top accommodations. Information and timetables available from Geo W Vaux A G P T A room 917 135 Adams St Chicago.
The church schedules a Children's Day morning service at 7 30 with a 1 30 Sunday school and 3 Young People's Endeavor gathering. A 7 30 sermon titled Words and Works and Christian Workers of Iowa Echoes from a Great Religious Convention. Public invited. Pastor H D Herr.
Holy Communion at 7:30 Sunday. Sunday school at 9:30. Morning prayer and sermon at 19:45. Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30. Litany Friday 7:39. All Saints Chapel Evensong Tuesdays 7:30. Rector F. F. Beckerman.
George West asks why Muscatine stock yard scales show weights 20 to 30 pounds lighter than city scales. He urges the city sealer of weights to investigate the discrepancy.
The Farther Lights of Baptist church holds its regular monthly meeting led by Chas. Hoefft in the corner of Seventh and Welar streets Monday evening June 9.
The Muscatine High School class of 1902 received diplomas at the Grand Opera House in a ceremony featuring Rev. J Madison Williams of Des Moines. The event included decorations, a student procession, and remarks by Supt. Chevalier and other officials.
A nationwide petition drive by 15 000 Pullman conductors seeks wage increases and better gratuities. Petition notes longer hours and harsher working conditions on dining cars sleepers and parlor coaches. If ignored the conductors threaten a strike led by officials across first class trains.
Wanted men to work on sewer construction. Apply to Korneman & Kember at once.
A Scranton man Testifies after using Grape Nuts for a year and 156 packages, recovering from paralysis and nervous debility. He reports steady strength, daily work, and a preference for Grape Nuts with Postum Coffee, urging readers to try the product and its recipe book.
Muscatine public schools end the year with exams and report cards issued. Superintendent Chevalier will finalize the annual report soon. The year is deemed profitable and the district plans extensive repairs and two new buildings, with teachers taking summer vacations.
An old advertisement urges users to train their bowels as they train muscles and brain. It promotes Cas carets Candy Cathartic tablets stamped C C C and warns they are never sold in bulk, available at druggists nationwide.
Large turnout for Prairie Encampment No 4 S O O F election results in an able corps of officers: Chief Patriarch Samuel Hoover High Priest S D Bailey Senior Warden Geo Scholten Junior Warden M W Sterlin Scribe Henry Heinz Financial Scribe C J Hackett Treasurer Charles H Gobble. Installation set for Friday evening June 4 with anticipated pleasant proceedings and additional work in second and third degrees.
Niles Michigan June 7 workers unearthing earth at a gravel deposit uncovered a human skeleton at Dowagiac. The grisly find is believed to point to a murder and may aid police in solving a case.
In the Southern District of Iowa Frank E. Scott a bankrupt creditors are notified of the first meeting June 17 1902 at 2 PM in Muscatine Iowa at 300 East Second Street office. Creditors may attend prove claims appoint a trustee and examine the bankrupt before J W Eells Referee in Bankruptcy.
An ad from Smellen Bros at 222 East Second Street urges cleaning and pressing services with shoe shines, located next to Granu hotel.
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