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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1907
Page
7
Henry Heinz and many others travel for business and social visits from Davenport to Muscatine Cedar Rapids Ottumwa and beyond. Residents like Miss Icy Teel Mrs N J Hine and Mrs Charles K Gurley arrive or depart for short visits while others plan trips to Chicago, Mt. Vernon and Columbus Junction.
News arrives from Adjutant General George Newman that the annual state encampment of the G A R will be held in Dubuque from Tuesday to the following Saturday. About fifteen Muscatine residents plan to attend as a monster drum corps and many veterans groups expect large turnouts with excursions on the Mississippi.
In Rochester Iowa on Saturday a man broke into Roy Giles’s home with intent to steal. Mrs Giles upstairs spotted a stranger and escaped to neighbors as the intruder fled via a downstairs hallway and window. Roy Giles and neighbors pursued. the suspect Harry Phillips was arrested in Tipton after surrendering. He claimed to be recently released from Anamosa penitentiary. trial deferred to September first. evidence included disturbed carpet, open closet, and blue suit with leather slippers.
Cedar Valley notes show Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lindle calling in Muscatine. Vernetta Swickard of Nichols visits Hattie Grigg, while Bertha Glockoff of Davenport visits Albert and Mrs Geertz. Local folks attend Nichols commencement. other visits include West Liberty relatives and Redfield Indiana guests.
A testimonial note promotes Cooper's New Discovery as a vitality improving stomach remedy. It asserts energy and ambition return after two bottles, citing A. G. Latubus of Detroit as the user who recovered from stomach trouble and fatigue.
Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store reports about 500000 bottles of Cooper medicines sold during Mr Cooper's recent Chicago demonstration. Agents note strong demand and widespread public interest in the remedy.
The notice lists residents who visited relatives and friends in Muscatine and nearby towns, including Miss Mabelle Brownwell Ida Drake and 24 guests for Bertha Glockoff’s Saturday gathering. It also records Maggie McKillop’s funeral at the M E church and burial at Klien's cemetery Moscow, with pallbearers named.
J A Cole filed charges against Al Morris Hank Snyder and Charles Walters for stealing hooks from a refrigerator car on the North and South tracks Sunday night. Morris was released after a preliminary hearing. the other two remain at large. Hooks valued at sixteen dollars, possibly discarded as a joke, with two suspects fishermen from Illinois living on river islands.
Mrs Adolph Brunke and Miss E Brunke from Watertown Wisconsin arrived in the city last evening and will vie with Mrs A Schaefer in the upcoming event.
The city prepares a children’s day event at First M E Church next Sunday at 11. The program blends Children's Day exercises with graduation for the primary Sunday school class, featuring Mildred and Margaret Johnson Linda Hocke Lyle Hocke Julian Havercamp Durward Foster and others. Performers include Sylvia Robertson Margaret Payne Clyde Moulton Tony Payne Emma Parkins at the organ with multiple solos and choral numbers leading to diplomas and Testaments presentations.
A health note extols Cascarets as safe bowel stimulants that aid natural movement without weakening the bowels. It contrasts castor oil and other physicks with Cascarets, notes packaging and price, and warns to buy genuine CCC stamped tablets from Sterling Remedy Company through druggists.
A magazine piece argues the greatest menace to a woman's happiness is organ disorders and urges women to study wifehood and build health with a tonic noted for specific powers. It lists symptoms like fatigue, dark circles, backache, headaches and irregularities as signals to act now.
Harry J. Sopher of Muscatine will graduate from the scientific department at Penn College Os ka loosa Ia along with 43 other students. He plans Y M C A work, summer athletics study at Lake Geneva, and directing a department in Chicago. The feature includes his athletic record and community ties.
Taylor Carlisle, longtime local blacksmith, plans a new brick one story shop under contractor S E Wagner in Columbus Junction. Nearby events include the eighth annual Rebekah lodge convention for Muscatine and Louisa counties, and an Interurban railway meeting held in town.
North Prairie notes Bert Townsley and wife with children from Waterloo plan a Monday visit to parents. Mrs J G Scholton of Michigan called on Mrs J Reesink Tuesday. Miss Manzaret McKillip funeral attended by locals Tuesday. James Te Winkle of Muscatine visited Reesink Bros Tuesday. Children’s day program booked for June 16 at 8 p m. Mrs Ella Chamberlain returned home from West Liberty Tuesday after visiting her brother. League meets next Sunday with Miss Pearl Greiner leading. Sunday school at 2 p m taught by Miss Snider boarding at P B Lakes this week.
In the Southern District of Iowa Davenport division the final meeting of creditors for Herman S Stolzenau bankrupt No 51 will be held at Thompson and Thompsons office Muscatine Iowa on June 17 1907 at 7 00 a m. The trustee has filed his final report showing all assets have been distributed. Ralph C Williamson Referee in Bankruptcy.
Allan Line advertises weekly sailings from Montreal via the St Lawrence River with new steamers Victorian and Virginian a triple screw turbine engine and Tunisian Corsican Ionian twin screws. Rates start at saloon sixty dollars and upwards second cabin forty dollars and upwards one class cabin forty dollars and upwards. Allan & Company 174 Jackson Blvd Chicago.
The White Collar Line lists steamers Columbia and Helen Blair with Davenport Rock Island and Burlington routes. Service notes midweek departures at 6 30 am and 7 30 am Sundays, plus Monday Wednesday services to Burlington with post May 1 changes resuming Helen Blair on Sundays and Muscatine return, under manager W A Blair and agents W G Block Co.
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