Children Come and See Buster Brown and Tige At Batterson Stores
Children can meet Buster Brown and Tige at Batterson Stores tomorrow and receive free souvenirs.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
4
Children can meet Buster Brown and Tige at Batterson Stores tomorrow and receive free souvenirs.
Local items note visitors from Wilton Milan and Columbus Junction with plans to Davenport and Fairport. A birth is reported for Mrs. Wm Hudson near Eliza. West Liberty faces Muscatine White Sox at the fair grounds Sunday. Circus attendees include Hagenbeck performers and Esther Finger headed to Chicago for relatives. St Marys school commencement and St Joseph con vent pupils aiding in a musical program.
The Citizens' Railway and Light Co. reports boys jumping on its moving ears has annoyed the company and mayor R. S. McNutt warns parents to stop the dangerous practice or face punishment.
Readable lines advertise Catfish Halibut Mackerel Salmon Croppies perch buffalo and smoked sturgeon at Boston market. Phone 297 Y offers fish delivered to customers.
Regular Muscatine City Council meeting ends with Arthur Hoffman elected city attorney after a formal ballot tie and Mayor McNutt casting the deciding vote. Attorney Devitt presents annual report covering injunctions, nuisance abatements, and transient merchant ordinances. council approves bids for relief hose house work and discusses water works loan and county claims.
Paris officials express unease as Premier Rouvier and Prince Radolin meet with the German ambassador. Berlin hints at a direct understanding with France but backs an international Morocco conference. Officials fear negotiations may fail to yield expected results.
The funeral for Jesse Fay Fowler who drowned yesterday afternoon will be Friday afternoon. The procession leaves the parents’ home on Buell Street at 2 o’clock and the services follow at the Greenwood chapel at 2 30. Interment will be in Greenwood cemetery.
Miss Anna Nagel married Edward C Schaefer at 8 o'clock last evening in the Nagel home on Cypress and Eighth streets. Rev C A Dettmers officiated before about 50 relatives and friends under a rose arch. Harry S Schaefer and Miss Sophia Nagel attended, a wedding supper followed, and the couple will reside in the city after July 1.
Mrs. Ralph J. Lillibridge hosted a china shower for Miss Mabel Leverich on Mulberry Street. Guests played euchre with prizes won by Mrs. E. S. Batterson and Mrs. Earl Hudler. Refreshments featured ferns roses and carnations as Miss Leverich received bridal remembrances. Attendees included Mrs. Hoffman Hudier Heidel Batterson Hoover MacColm Fox Schneer Jean Sawyer Edna Giesler Gertrude Block and Miss Sanborn Evanston Ul.
Yesterday at 2 p m Rev R A Schmidt of the German Baptist church performed a wedding at the parsonage on Walnut street. The couple, both of Muscatine, were attended by H Van Doran as best man and Grace Frye as bridesmaid. They left for Davenport to begin their home.
In the suburban handicap held at Sheepshead Bay on June 15, Beldame secured first place while Proper finished second and First Mason took third. The race marked a close finish with a time of 2:95 3-3.
June updates from Fedinand Illinois include Miss Clanch Hays suffering rheumatism Mrs Parker from Muscatine visiting Hazel Dell Mugs Hayes assisting Oscar Peterson and a Buffalo Prairie medicine show attendance. Local social visits include Miss Ida and Mrs Ambra McGinnnis in Muscatine shopping. Mrs Wm Krueger improving. Will Colberg and Ed Bartlett visiting Chas Mewes and Chris Ruttenberg.
The marriage of Margaret L Grant and William R Archer occurred today in Chicago. Miss Grant once lived here and the couple, who will reside at 3121 Indiana Avenue after July 1, will be at home there.
The Thirty Three club at the Y M C A held its last meeting until September with a large attendance and a fine dinner served by the ladies auxiliary. Superintendent W F Chevalier presented a life story of Roosevelt as an epoch maker, followed by discussion. Ex Senator M Titus spoke on current events and the September topic was announced as Success by John F Devitt.
F X Schaefer received a new twenty horsepower automobile from Davenport yesterday. The car is described as a good looking and powerful machine. Schaefer says it keeps him up to date and will aid his business as the city’s list of such vehicles grows.
An evening raid on Becke and Wilson marble cutters on West Second Street failed when robbers fled after cutting a large hole in the rear glass. Police were alerted and watched the premises overnight with no further incident.
A discussion of nose shapes from classical to modern times links facial features to personality traits. The piece notes Byzantine and Shakespearean figures as examples, contrasting thick, turned up, wide, and alcoholic noses with inferred mental qualities such as vanity, strength, intelligence, or wickednes.
The article notes Darwin took dry earth from a woodcock with a toadrush seed, planted it and it grew. It also cites Newton sending a wounded partridge leg with a six and a half ounce earth clod, which yielded eighty-two plants after three years under a bell glass.
Society cards list Flecta Chapter No 82 meeting on the second and fourth Mondays with Mrs H Sterneman as W M and Mrs August Othmer as Secretary. G A R Headquarters Shelby Norman Post No 231 meets on the first and third Tuesdays each month.
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