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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1906
Page
4
Local notes list many residents and visitors: Miss Kate Connell travels to Bayfield to teach for a week. Mrs. M. E. McCord heads to Adams to teach. Adelia White sails to Cranston to teach. Elizabeth Schaefer to Chicago to visit relatives. Fay Messenger to Pueblo to visit relatives. J. S. Wilson and others arrive or depart for business or to visit. Various train and boat departures reflect busy mobility in the region.
The Ministerial association of the city forms an organization with B C Preston elected captain for a charity game against lawyers. Practice starts this afternoon at the fair grounds and the game, if dry, will be held Thursday after noon with funds donated to the Y M C A. A ministers picnic to Whitmore's launch is planned for next Wednesday with families invited.
An excursion from Burlington aboard the steamer Columbia drew about 250 pleasure seekers. The trip was organized under the Grace Methodist Episcopal church of Burlington, with the boat arriving at 3 o'clock and returning at 4.
Herman Parker, a local favorite, married Miss June York of Maquoketa Iowa last Wednesday at the bride’s home. A wedding dinner for 36 followed the ring ceremony. The couple will reside in Delmar Iowa as Parker begins a new position.
The Muscatine Maennerchor and families gathered at Mittman's pasture yesterday morning around 8:30 for a day of foot races and other amusements. Pauchet's band provided music, with a noon dinner and evening lunch. Over 100 attendees enjoyed a festive atmosphere before returning to the city around 8:30 p.m.
An Ames Agricultural College associate professor A T Erwin may visit to lecture on farming and horticulture. The Y M C A education department will likely organize a class, charging a nominal fee, offering practical knowledge to local gardeners and farmers. The program aims to enroll during the vacation period.
Secretary Shaw received a telegram from W H Anthony of Davenport inviting him to speak on June 13. Shaw initially declined due to prior engagements but after conferring with the President cancelled those commitments and accepted the Davenport invitation for Wednesday evening. Frank J Stillman
Members of the Highland Noble lodge meet in Tagle hall tomorrow to choose delegates for the supreme convention at Waterloo on August 2. Delegates chosen at Castle No 15 include J R Whitney C J Hackett Josephine Hackett Hannah Asp Alma Scott and J B Vamatta.
The Y W C A cooking school opened this afternoon in the basement of the First Congregational church. A large number of women and girls attended to hear Mrs Wade speak and taste the prepared dishes. Each meeting will feature a new menu and grow in interest with subsequent lectures.
C F Nevius former YMCA secretary addressed the men at the association building yesterday afternoon. He spoke on western life and its influences. The gathering was the final summer meeting at the building before two weeks of no sessions and a shift to Citizen's Railway park afterward. Tonight Nevius presents a stereoptican lecture on the Wonders of the Northwest with free admission.
A letter was read at the Western Federation of Miners convention from Ohio coal miners asking to desert the United Mine Workers of America and join the Western Federation in a mass switch.
Washington June 11 Hon William Pinckney Whyte of Maryland took his seat in the senate as successor of the late Arthur P Gorman in a formal arrival ceremony in Washington D C The event marks Whytes entry into the chamber after Gormans passing providing Maryland representation in the upper house.
Minneapolis dated report states Commander Booth Tucker of London, international secretary of the Salvation Army, becomes engaged to Col. Emma Reid who leads Salvation Army forces in Ireland. Marriage planned in London with date yet to be settled.
St Matthias alumni gather at the school building on Eighth Street for an annual reception this evening featuring an entertaining program previously published in this paper. The event is among the loveliest of graduation time and draws alumni and invited guests.
In St Louis Missouri the hearing of evidence in the Missouri ouster proceedings against the Standard and Waters-Pierce Oil companies was resumed today before Special Commissioner Anthony.
The Royal Reserve society hosts an event in Yeoman hall near the hardware store on Tuesday evening June 12 at 8 o clock A large class will be initiated followed by a program and refreshments.
George Means 21 a Gilbert druggist and May Brokhausen 19 of Tama eloped to Marshalltown and wed at 1 AM after May argued with her parents Mr and Mrs Fred Brokhausen the wealthiest residents of Tama.
A cable from the Guatemalan foreign affairs minister reports a crushing defeat of revolutionists who crossed the Handuras boundary and the Salvadoran frontier. The dispatch states the action occurred at a place named Mongoy.
Banner lodge members will meet Tuesday evening at 8 o clock p m with important business. No assessment for June.
The W R C members are requested to meet at W R C hall tomorrow afternoon at 2 30 o clock for a gathering.
Arthur G. Reinke, charged with embezzling 14000 dollars from the Marshall & Ilsley bank in Milwaukee, Wis, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary.
Terre Haute Indiana June 11 Fourteen thousand miners returned to work in the bituminous field of Indiana. Within a few days 2000 more will be at work in Clay County black field as an agreement there is assured.
The K L G P Sewing society will meet with Mrs Luther Woods at 615 East Fourth street on Wednesday afternoon June 13.
Eighteen people riding a Cleveland and Southwestern electric car were injured when the vehicle jumped the track at a curve between Elyria and Grafton late last night. Officials believe all will recover.
New York June 11 Dr Walter R Gillette and Robert A Granniss former vice presidents of Mutual Life Insurance Co were indicted on forgery and perjury charges by a special grand jury investigating insurance matters under District Attorney Jerome Gillette accused of making false statements in the grand jury room with five alleged forgery instances listed
An attack, likely by strikers, struck the Hanna Coal Co check house in Dillonvale Ohio early today. Sixty shots were fired from a hill about 200 feet away. No injuries reported.
Stop and Think. If you stop to think you will decide that the safest place for money is in first mortgage farm loans. G M Titus, 213 Iowa avenue, has them for sale in all sizes. He has had 28 years experience.
A new bareback riding act titled On the Way to the Grand Prix Race Paris appears with four spirited horses and a gaily dressed troupe. The performers execute dangerous gymnastics from wagon to horse and back, showing novelty, precision, and a dramatic sketch interpretation on horseback.
The closest judicial inquiry in England before 1200 gathered about sixty venerable persons to hear testimonies about the death digger in the fields named Mart Solsover. The event reflects early methods of assembling authorities to determine cause and responsibility in a public matter.
A traveler notes Basques in the Pyrenees offering bread and corn to honor the dead. In San Sebastian he observes a fisherman's daughter praying in a church, kneeling before ancestral tombs with baskets of fruit bread and grain.
European hunters near Innsbruck find a stag with a ladder caught on its antlers. The animal speeds away leaping hedges until the ladder jams between trees. A pursuing dog forces the stag to shed part of its antlers and flee, revealing the ladder belonged to a farmer who left it by a haystack.
Treacle meaning syrup and soothing remedy traces to ancient antidotes against viper bites. From theriyakos wild beast to medicinal antidote, then to comforting substances and finally to any syrupy preparation as Chaucer noted Christ as treacle of harm.
The Mackenzie River system shows how islands form from uprooted trees and debris carried by currents. Flooded trunks drag earth and stones to the riverbed, sinking and creating shoals that become vegetable islands, later stabilized by willows and peat forming new land surfaces.
A fish dealer shows a live lobster with a brown inklike marking on its inner thigh spelling J O E. The dealer explains lobsters can bear names like Joe Jim Jack John or Julia, seen by inspecting the markings.
Deed filed with the county recorder records Joseph Kayse transferring lot 9 in Warfield's addition to Muscatine to J. Henry Froehner for a consideration of 1.56 dollars. Transcription provided by G. M. Titus.
In a comic exchange, a bridegroom demands ten dollars for his bride’s dowry. The bride’s father quips that the daughter swallowed the money as a child, prompting further lighthearted banter between the parties.
The great temple of Diana at Ephesus burned in 356 B C during the night of Alexander the Greats birth. The arsonist Herostratus admitted he sought fame, and was executed with torture. Ephesian senate banned pronouncing his name on pain of death.
Local want ads prompt reader interest with varied listings and opportunities. Honest sellers, job seekers, and service providers respond to brief notices, hoping to connect quickly. Strong local entities appear, including downtown merchants and neighborhood clubs.
A minister advised lifting one foot slightly off the floor to stay awake in church. Keeping the foot poised in the air prevents sleep, a simple and effective remedy cited by National Magazine.
Mrs. C. Schultz of Fruitland returned home at noon aboard the Firefly after a morning spent shopping in the city.
F. P. Gillette departed at noon for Rock Island to attend to business matters.
Born this morning to Mr and Mrs Matthew Sans of East Second Street a boy arrives creating a new family member and adding joy to the neighborhood house.
City desk rebukes reporter Cobb for a line about Lieutenant Rogers at a dance noting the misgendering and clarifying the lieutenant spent much of the evening among the crowd of popular attendees.
A humorous exchange reveals a writer explaining to Haw ke that the piece is fiction not for a magazine. He jokes the tailor will get payment soon, implying a playful deadline. The quip frames a writer's mindset and light publishing banter.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a man under a pedestal and a question about firing a man once, with incoherent references to a night, outgairs, and a bocce game. The readable text provides no clear event, names, places, or dates to anchor a full record.
The fragmentary OCR reads as a garbled note about a political topic. No clear person, organization, place, or event is legible to identify a coherent news item.
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