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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
7
Local items include visits and short trips by Mrs. Herman Schmidt Mrs. William Molis and others to Letts Columbus Junction Arden Davenport Wilton Wellman Burlington and Ardon. Health ads promote A B C Family Tea with eye and liver remedies. Several residents return home after visits or travel for business.
Miss Beatrix Oliver presented in a recital at the Y M C A auditorium before many friends. Her teacher Mrs Amalia Schmidt Gobble arranged a lyric soprano program that showcased her talent with pieces by Somerville Chaminade and Ferry.
The Iowa local fire insurance agents plan a Waterloo convention June 18 with Ellis hotel as headquarters. expected attendance includes 40 to 50 state and company officials led by W F Grandy of Sioux City and John Marshall Jr of Chicago. Discussions focus on lowering rates and improving business practices.
The Good Luck Vase goes to Miss Sue Browning of Muscatine after a Ft. Dodge meeting among finalists Miss Ray Hanchett Waverly and Miss Margaret McClain Ft. Dodge. The vase, seen as a charm for finding a husband, is prized by the unmarried women of the W A C.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages as a constitutional disease. The ad claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Sold by druggists at 75 cents. Address F J Cheney and Co Toledo Ohio. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Constable John Duncan destroyed forty quarts of beer and eight pints of whiskey seized in a police raid on the cabin of Will McCloskey along the river front last week. The liquor was dumped into the sewer.
Mrs Mary Burns shows slight improvement from inflammatory rheumatism. Miss Amy Hampton returns from college where she studied music. Tom Spitznogle welcomes a baby girl. Nellie Tollee improves after stomach illness. Nurse Ahita Stapella from Muscatine cares for the Noble family. Bert Shotwell remains ill but stable. Eliza church plans Children's Day on Sunday June 20. John and Mrs Miller sick. Cynthia McGreer aids them.
Althaus departed this morning for West Liberty to visit friends for a few days, according to local notices.
Prairie Grove residents welcomed Charles Stotler and his son Henry of Pedee who recently left for Cedar Rapids to begin duties at a railroad machine shop. Dr. Heck of West Liberty attended to duties here Wednesday. Charley Schiele did business in West Branch last week. Charles Montgomery and his wife from West Liberty visited at the parental home Tuesday through Friday. Wm Longerbeam and son-in-law Meyers of West Branch were in Prairie Grove Friday morning on business. A number of the pupils of the
An article reports physicians agree long hair can be encouraged but cures for baldness are unlikely. Dr. Nott discusses Q-Ban Hair Restorer and Tonic as aids for color restoration and hair growth, noting no cure for baldness though healthful living helps. Readers can obtain a 50 cent bottle or request a sample by mail from Hessig-Ellis Drug Co.
Prairie Grove Sunday school attended the Children’s day exercises at the M E church in Springdale Sunday afternoon. The article lists visits by residents from West Liberty and West Branch, a new Iowa Dairy separator installed, and local home building and carpenter work underway in Union Valley and nearby areas. Friends and families are noted visiting Iowa City and Oskaloosa.
Mrs N E Bishop and Mrs Caroline Ping returned to Mediapolis after visiting their brother G W Orr and family. Mrs David H Fouse and children visited at R W Owen's home. J E Freeland of Ainsworth was a business visitor. Harold McWilliams arrived from Iowa City to visit his brother Charley before departing to Farmington Iowa.
A sweep of social notes shows Dentesty graduate returning to Iowa City, A J Schmoker on a Washington visit, families from Montrose Muscatine and Lawrence visiting relatives, and many trips to Washington and Muscatine for dinners, funerals, and school events. Quarantines ease as James Baker and Lydia Forris recover from diphtheria and house fumigation ends.
Soreness of the muscles whether caused by violent exercise or injury is quickly relieved by the free application of Chamberlain's Liniment. The liniment is also valuable for muscular rheumatism and always provides quick relief.
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