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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
5
A concerted effort is underway to understand the situation fully. Officials and observers participate in reviews and briefings as new developments emerge and implications unfold for local groups.
The Journal rejects scurrilous rumors accusing bias in the vacation contest, asserts the event is run fairly, and offers $100 to anyone who can prove irregularity. It warns critics that the matter is handled by management and will be addressed by lawyers if needed.
The Mississippi River is forecast to fall slowly between Dubuque and Davenport. The first barge load of shells of the season arrives in Davenport aboard the Waunette, the only such shipment this summer from the north. Muscatine serves as a center for Carnival City Packet excursion trains with many nightly boat transfers.
J Henry Tiecke died at 5 50 this morning at the home of Jacob Hess East Second street after a year and three months of illness from Bright's disease He lived in Chicago for 15 years worked for Hibbard Spencer Partlett Co later serving as city solicitor He was born April 21 1856 in Muscatine He left a widow Carrie Waller and daughter Florence Surviving relatives include his father Fred Tiecke sisters Mrs Jacob Hess Mrs Tina Tiecke Mrs Ernst Schmidt Tempe Arizona brother Fred E Tiecke Atlanta Ga and four half brothers Louis Carl Harry and Willie Tiecke Funeral will be held in Chicago with burial at the Tiecke and Waller family plots in that city
William Bayard Craig chancellor of Drake University in Des Moines asked the board of trustees for a year’s leave of absence. The request was granted and a new chancellor is expected to be chosen during the year.
The school board elected most teachers for the coming year and chose a slate of janitors across buildings including High School, Third Ward, East Hill and Musserville. Transfers were made to shift several teachers to new grades and buildings as discussions over a new director stalled.
Magnolia Massachusetts June 19 The three sessions of the American Library Association were filled with interest for hundreds of delegates. Morning papers included Anderson H. Hopkins of the John Crerar Library Chicago on the universal library and its relations to other departments. Lane of Harvard replied. Hodges of the N D C Hodges library was also noted.
A move to increase democracy in the Christian Science church replaces long serving first reader Judge Septimus J. Hanna and second reader Mrs Eldora J. Gragg with Herman S. Herring of Baltimore as first reader and Mrs Ella E. Williams of Chelsea as second reader. They will serve three years under the new by laws.
Miss Agnes Hart 21 daughter of Brooklyn contractor Charles Hart reports repeated street accosts. Today a letter demanded 5000 dollars under the office stoop within a week or the heart would be shot from her daughter. Police view as crank. family shares view.
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