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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1917
Page
6
The city council authorized Street Commissioner E T Alten to purchase two carloads of crushed stone for Oregon Street. Poor conditions, deep mudholes and pools after rains have made travel difficult. crushed stone is expected to stabilize the roadbed. Payment will come from the automobile fund.
Three city scales are planned with locations identified on council records. The Davenport area includes Puritan Ice Mocoane and Home Society sites, with providers Haynow and Pacoc to fund 8 cents per construction and cover. costs and materials noted. The measure covers scale operation, weights, and bonds, with use of South Third and Second Street sites and a weightmaster payroll discussed.
A near fifty piece program is set for Park Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. The event includes a baptism, a children's chorus, recitations, and songs with participants such as Viola Tieder, Richard Takers, Vivian Watwote, Halen KID, and other local youths. The program aims to honor Children’s Day with religious readings and musical performances.
Lowell Massachusetts resident Mrs Margaret Quinn reports three years of change of life symptoms including headaches nervousness and hot flashes eased by Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. The note lists suffocation, backaches and palpitations among warning signs and invites confidential advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lyon Mass.
Funeral services for Joseph Owens a Welah neighborhood resident were held today at one o'clock with interment in Zion cemetery. He died Friday morning after a lung hemorrhage while at work. survived by widow Mary Evans and six children Mrs Thomas Jones Mrs James Edwards and others in the Welah area.
Ming Loretta Devitt daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J B Devitt of Woat Third atroct Wir received a medal of honor at Marymount College and Seminary in Turrylawn New York for general merits and attendance. About one hundred finalists competed for the honor. Cardinal Marley of New York announced the awards and Devitt plans a summer visit before returning to the academy this fall. Norway regulates prices Cabinet to submit bill cutting provisions costs beyond maximum prices.
Gide Calla to place 1750 yards of dirt on the bridge as part of rapid repair work. Fuller Brothers win the contract to fill the abutment area at one dollar and seventy-five cents per yard with completion by July 20. The project will improve street drainage and traffic flow after each heavy rain.
Sunday morning services at the Ira Congregational church will feature a pupil led program for Children Day starting at 10 46 a m. The program includes invocation the Lord s Prayer anthem readings recitations and songs by primary and school groups with a general Pershing portrait to be featured as a supplement in next Sunday s Chicago Sunday Herald.
Garden City Anglers invite members to join the M. E. and S S special cars from Muscatine. Train No. 2 departs Saturday at 8:50 a.m. Train No. 6 leaves Sunday at 9:15 a.m. Weather will be favorable and a weather man will accompany the group.
Johnson County's share of Liberty Loan bonds totals 770000 with support from the Rox tary club and local bankers. A campaign will start immediately to cover eight days as Iowa City and surrounding areas push Liberty Bond purchases amid a strong local banking and merchant showing.
An advertises Pineapple Pepsin Compound as a corrective for stomach troubles. It asserts pineapple juice and pepsin aid digestion, promises permanent relief from stomach issues, and markets a bottle atioc with directions, citing Henderson Drug Co and other outlets.
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