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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1909
Page
9
Local fraternal and veterans organizations list meeting times and places in Muscatine and Shelby areas. Entries include Muscatine Afrif No 815 VFW style post, Shelby Norman Post 2231, Mosquiteine Triem No 95, Muscatine Hive No 18, Wyoming Lodge No 76, Bend City Lodge 143 Modern Brotherhood of America.
A C TU W EAGLE LODGE No 10 A 9 and W meets every Thursday evening at K P ball Town avenue Brethren in good standing are cordially invited to meet with us Fred Belter M W G 8 Howe Recorder EB G Dolsen Financier Pickerel 10c Ib
The bank lists H G Stein as president D V Jackson as vice president and M Hughes as cashier with capital and surplus at $50,000 each. Directors include S G Stein D V Jackson J R Reeling BR K Smith J CarskaGian F P Sawyer and M Hughes. Safety Deposit Vault Boxes for rent.
Spring weather favors ground preparation and planting as Heinz farms anticipate the largest onion cabbage and tomato crops in years. Nearly all produce set out with only a few acres of pickles remaining to plant. East Hill locals report Hazel Bird’s ankle healing, Mrs. William Martin's illness, a sick child improving, and Arthur Matthews returning from Iowa City graduation exercises.
Chicago June 17 market report notes mixed futures with wheat at about 1.14 to 1.15 dollars and corn around 71 to 72 cents for July, oats near 50 to 51 cents, pork lard and ribs traded, hogs steady with mixed lots and dairy products priced. Cash grain and live stock prices list No 2 red wheat 1.50 to 1.55, cattle and hogs showing varied bids, and retail prices for butter eggs vegetables and fruit in local markets.
Chicago on June 17 reports butter steady at 23 26%c for Creamery and 20% 24%ec for dairies. Eggs steady with receipts 19,400. firsts 20c and prime firsts 21%¢c.
Chicago market notes for June 17 show poultry steady with turkeys at 14 cents and chickens at market levels.
Readable text notes Cascarets sold as a leading cure box for a week long treatment, advertised as the world’s biggest seller with monthly availability.
New York Produce Market notes butter barely steady with receipts of 8,300. Creamery extras 26 cents. Eggs weak with 15,700 receipts. extra first 22 cents, first 21 cents, officials 20 1 2 cents, seconds 20 cents.
New York June 17 poultry trading notes list live chickens at 23c per pound for broilers, 15%c for fowls, and 13c for turkeys. Dressed poultry shows irregular patterns with broilers at 19 to 23c, fowls at 14 to 16c.
New York June 17 Wheat July at 31.23 and Corn July at 81.4c. Market notes indicate steady activity with prices quoted for futures.
Wheat for July at 1.11 and a half cents, corn at 72 1 2 cents, oats at 48 4 3 cents. Market prices listed from St Louis grain exchange with standard daily quotes.
Rev. A I E Boss and his wife will depart Muscatine on June 28 for Salt Lake City to lead St. Mark's Cathedral during his two month vacation from Trinity Episcopal church. The absence is not a true vacation as the parish ponders leadership changes and health benefits for the couple.
A short advertisement claims death on the scaffold is painless compared with weak back kidney trouble and promotes Electric Bitters as a remedy sold for 50 cents at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Wilton Iowa June 17 Readers note a flurry of visitors and travelers as residents return from Muscatine and Durant. Faye Ayres Anna Hendricks Lessie Wieger Florence Wieger Jennie Kelley Amelia Allen Ella Dice Ollie Hain and others are listed among those connected to Muscatine Tipton and Iowa City with departures and short visits noted. Numerous business visitors arrive in Muscatine including C P McHugh Everett Duncan Edward Clark Leonard Friedericksen and P Schmidt.
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