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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1910
Page
8
For rent furnished rooms at 113 E 3rd Street and 301 W 2nd Street, all with light housekeeping. Enquire at 1601 Orange Street or call 6 Y for details. Address journal listings and inquiries at The Journal.
Fort George, at the Fort Gorge junction, is described as the commercial center of British Columbia and a vast inland empire with vast timber coal and mineral resources. The notice claims $100 million will be spent on railroads in three years and 25 000 workers will be employed by 1911 with a payroll of $100 000 daily. It promotes Fort George Townsite ownership with government title guarantees and offers maps and plans from Natural Resources Security Co Ltd Vancouver.
Real estate, first or second mortgages or any valuable property accepted. Lowest rates and confidential handling. Immediate funds on application. We pay off other lenders and offer more money. Call or write Reliance Loan Company, office over the old Post Office in Muscatine Iowa.
A local lender advertises loans secured by household goods including furniture pianos horses and other valuables offering flexible borrowing on any appraised value to meet financial needs.
Quotations from H. J. Frenzel show wheat around 95 and corn near 60 for July contracts. Hog prices steady with pork and lard in the low to mid twenties and a reported receipt activity for today and estimates for tomorrow.
Chicago market notes show strong cattle receipts with beeves marked at 5.80 to 8.75, stockers 4.00 to 6.50, cows and heifers 2.90 to 7.15, western at 5.50 to 7.80. Hog receipts 19,000 with prices around 9.40 to 9.70 and averages near 9.55 to 9.65. Sheep receipts 6,000 with lambs 5.75 to 8.90 and ewes 3.50 to 6.00. Butter at 27c, eggs steady with firsts 17c to 18c, poultry easy with turkeys 15c and chickens 15 or 16 cents.
New York markets report butter barely steady with unchanged prices and receipts of 12 100 pounds. Eggs steady with no price change and receipts of 19 400 dozen.
The Muscatine markets report livestock prices with hogs, cattle, lambs, and veal at multiple price tiers. Hay and grain values, feed costs, and various produce items including butter eggs poultry and beeswax are listed with regional rates.
Creamery butter thirty seven cents. Eggs twenty cents. Potatoes sixty cents. Pickles sour ten cents per dozen and sweet six cents per dozen. Cane sugar five dollars seventy five cents per one hundred pounds. Twenty five pounds one dollar sixty. Seventeen pounds one dollar. Beet five dollars sixty five cents per one hundred pounds. Cranberries ten to twelve and a half cents per quart. Cabbage four cents per pound. Sweet potatoes twenty five cents per peck. Oranges thirty to forty cents. Lemons twenty five to thirty cents per dozen. Pineapples twenty five cents. Parsnips twenty cents per peck. Lettuce ten cents per head.
The text lists regular meeting nights for local orders including Masonic Blue Lodge Chapter and Council sessions on set dates each month. It notes officers and secretaries for Masonica, Washington Chapter, Webb Council, De Molay, Yeoman, Red Men tribe and other groups along with contact pointers.
B P O Elks Muscatine Lodge No. 304 holds Monday evenings at 8 o'clock sharp at the Elks Hall 412 Fast Front Street. Club rooms open daily from 6am toll. Visitors welcome. J B Reay E R W W Richards Secretary.
Degree of Honor convenes on the second and fourth Tuesdays in Workman Hall with officers Mrs Moliie E Wiles chief of honor Mary Croueen financier and Gussie Mull recorder. The Modern Brotherhood of America lodge 343 meets the second and fourth Mondays at Yeoman Hall corner of Iows Avenue and Third Street with Dr B H King president and Eugene G Barnard secretary inviting all members.
Muskssine hive No 13 meets on the fret and third Monday at Teemes ten Carrie Harris commander Nettie Lucas record keeper
Fr O and Muscatine Aerip meets each Tuesday at 7 30 in Fagie Lodge hall above Dunbar restaurant. Vigil members always welcome. L E Aickens w P 3 Mu OP Gof Secretary
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