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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
8
Local Muscatine items report land prices from 10 to 25 dollars per acre through Chase Land Co with G M Titus as contact. Numerous brief notes cover visits, travel to Davenport for Button Workers excursion, car ads for Rambler and Ford, and small business updates including bonds, insurance, and local shopping notices.
Weed Park club members decided to improve the club house this summer. A committee will study costs for toilet rooms and interior work with a report due next meeting. Funds will be raised via social functions and donations. An elegant supper closed the meeting, and officers will be elected Friday June 28.
Chautauqua headquarters opened on the second floor of the P. M. Musser public library. Office hours run 9 to 12 morning and 2 to 5 afternoon. A telephone is available and staff will explain plans for the forthcoming assembly at Electric Park starting July 18.
An advertisement claims Dr. King's New Life Pills relieve indigestion and starving feelings and offer a cure for 25 cents, promising quick stomach relief.
A prospectus promotes buying a home owned by G. M. Titus at 213 Town Ave with a three hundred dollar down payment followed by monthly installments. The ad markets an installment purchase as the best path to home ownership.
Dr Anna Lee has spoken to big crowds at the A M E church for two evenings and will continue preaching for ten days. She is described as an eloquent speaker who tells many beautiful stories in her sermons.
Downey Iowa on Tuesday afternoon the Fancy Work Guild met at Miss Pearl Jenkins home. Dr McGregor was a business caller in Iowa City Tuesday. The Muscatine Journal agent visited town Monday. Miss Laura Thiele is attending nor-
A minister recounts how his family fled a yellow fever scare and he, isolated, found health gains from Grape-Nuts. He describes improved digestion sleep and weight gain after eating two meals daily of Grape-Nuts with milk or cream, then the family returned to it. The infant nursing also benefited.
Mrs Jane Jenkinson and Mrs Lew Jenkinson with children returned from Cedar Rapids after a week with Mrs Frank Movilan. Downey beat West Branch 10 to 9 in a Saturday ball game. Rebekah members attended a Columbus Junction convention. Ace Brisbane visited in West Liberty. Baptist Children’s Day program drew a small crowd due to rain. Mrs Mary Holloway visits West Liberty for a day with son Albert. Secretary Taft spoke in Iowa City Wednesday. Mildred Jenkinson shopped in West Liberty. John Bright was a West Liberty caller. Mildred Trafford returned home to West Branch after a Downey visit. Sd Hogan called in West Branch. West Branch Sunday school plans a short program. Dr McGregor paid a business visit to West Branch. King’s Daughters sewed at Mrs Ed Hogan’s. Joslin of West Liberty attended Woodman lodge. Max Compton, eyes operation in Iowa City, improving at home. Felkner rode to Iowa City Tuesday. Mrs D P Schenck and children visited relatives in West Liberty.
Cella Willis Blake and Charles Estle sue Homer Roddan and others in district court claiming twenty acres in the south half of the west half of the northwest quarter of section 34 township 76 north range 4 west of the sixth principal meridian. They seek title to be forever quieted and confirmed in plaintiffs with rights of defendants barred.
The state convention of the Catholic Order of Foresters ended in Clinton after two days of sessions. John F. Devitt, local delegate, reported a highly successful meeting with about 200 visitors and strong civic hospitality. A high mass at St Mary’s and a Sheridan club banquet were highlights with speeches by regional leaders and a final session reelecting officers. J W O’Neil of Clinton was named Iowa’s acclamation to head the state delegation to the national convention in St Paul.
The state organization of the Foresters of Iowa adopted a resolution opposing further admission of saloon keepers to the order. The recommendation will be presented before the national convention in St Paul in September during a gathering in the northern city.
The Iowa Central Railway offers round trip tickets to San Francisco and Los Angeles from June 22 to July 5 at one fare for the round trip. Travel via any direct outbound route and return via any direct route with stopover rights. Tickets valid to September 15, 1906. Inquiries to A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minnesota.
Major William P. Bittler from Bloomington dies in Bloomington Illinois after a lengthy invalid period. He was a well known officer in the Illinois National Guard during the Spanish American War.
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