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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1906
Page
8
The Guarantee Loan Co. offers loans on personal property pledged as security including horses cows carriages pianos and household goods. Goods stay in your possession and the firm promises confidential business practices with evening hours Wednesday and Saturday from 7 to 9.
Local notices list for sale items like dry kindling wood and two second hand phonographs, plus ads for ice cream from C S Sanitary Milk and roach Musser Sash Door Co. People travel on the Firefly to Keota and Columbus Junction, visit Davenport and Letts, with several residents seen in town. A Y W C A cooking school offer and funeral attendance noted.
Notices include church excursion aboard the Columbia to Burlington on August 1 and various travelers departing by Firefly or Wilton train. Ads prompt summer cottage rentals and local merchants promote sun day treats and cigars as residents visit friends and conduct city business.
Judge Jackson adjourns the district court for today and tomorrow out of respect for Lyman Ellis a prominent Clinton Iowa lawyer and longtime member of the Clinton Bar association whose death Friday is mourned by the legal community and many locals.
Tomorrow night the St Marys lawn social serves from 5 o clock with Pauchets band providing a concert. Menu includes roast beef roast veal mashed potatoes peas cold ham veal loaf potato salad lettuce pickles strawberries cake coffee and tea.
Deed filed with the County Recorder shows John F. Soll transferring to F. M. Murfin et al. lot 19, block 27 in Park Place addition to Muscatine for a consideration of 60 dollars.
The Tuesday menu for the YWCA cooking school lists Onion Soup, Fruit Salad, Cream Dressing, Berkshire Muffins, Fairy Ginger Bread, and Ginger Punch.
Advertises travel by Grand Trunk Railway through Niagara Falls Muskoka Kawartha Lakes Georgian Bay Temagami St Lawrence rapids Thousand Islands and more. Recommends obtaining tourist publications from Geo W Vaux at 135 Adams St Chicago for pamphlets.
Local Musser program shines as South Muscatine children participate in a well received Mussville event. Students perform, volunteers assist, and organizers report strong attendance and community support.
Readable excerpts describe Children’s Day programs at Musserville M E Church and South Muscatine Friends Church with student recitations songs and school performances. Local residents including Harry Phillips and Ruby Collar are noted among small incidents and ongoing community efforts for the Green Street mission project.
On a Saturday near Columbus Junction a buggy accident north of town left W F Orr with a broken arm and finger and several bruises while Mrs Orr suffered heavy bruising. The party was returning from Iowa City after a year at the state university when a shaft broke causing the crash. Mrs Wilton is resting well.
Mrs. W. T. Barnett of Letts arrived back by the Firefly on Saturday afternoon after spending the day in town visiting friends.
A physician lauds Postum Food Coffee in Alkaloidal Clinic as curing heart trouble indigestion and nervousness when used in place of coffee. He cites family use for three years and urges boiling it twenty minutes before serving with cream. The Postum Co. of Battle Creek endorses it and hints at The Road to Wellville promotion.
A Burlington paper questions whether the body found in Muscatine is James W Hill. Mrs Mat tie Hill insists the remains are not her husband after an alleged exhumation visit. The piece details conflicting statements by Mrs Hill and the brother who identified the body. It notes skull injury and pension timing while listing local attendees at a school closing song event.
At School No 8 Fulton township students staged a spring term closing program Friday afternoon. A picnic lunch followed in the yard before the school house was decorated for performances including recitations by Tracy Voss Mamie Plett Hulga Ehrecke Eadie Plett Mollie Voss Myrtle Harry Boldt Har ry Ehrecke Otto Schroeder Hulea Ennecke Eddie Plett and Ellery Plett. Songs featured Welcome The Wind Mill Tulips Our Dollies and Fishers with a Doll Show dialogue and various acts highlighting four years old and farm pride themes.
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