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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1909
Page
8
A string of short items reports visits and travels of residents including Mrs. H. Kruse, Miss Lena White, and Mrs. Elizabeth Hamann, plus business trips by Daniel Hayes and Albert Capps. Local ads promote Sleepy-Eye flour and Royal Blue shoes as well as ice cream from Slaughter's Candy Store.
An 19th century advertisement touts Buel len’s Arnica Salve for burns piles and sores with a 25 cent guarantee. Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store carries the product.
Eighteen young people received their first holy communion at St Marys Catholic Church in a 9 o'clock high mass. Rev J I Grieser celebrated and administered the sacrament. the class returned to the school hall for breakfast before 2 o'clock vespers when they renewed baptismal vows and enrolled in the scapular.
Funeral services for Thomas J. Hoopes scheduled Tuesday at 2:30 PM in the High Prairie chapel. Interment in Chapel cemetery with Rev. J. N. Elliott of First Presbyterian Church presiding. Remains expected to arrive in Muscatine this evening from the west.
Yesterday at our special meetings led by Miss E T Pelasheva in native costume we heard a recitation by Miss Flora G Parsons and a soprano solo by Miss Harriet McQuesten. James Farnsworth returned home near the city from Cornell University Ithaca New York for the summer vacation.
Mr and Mrs Albert Othmer of 417 West Sixth street spent Sunday with friends in Wapello.
The Muscatine squad under Davis leaves for a five game stretch in Illinois after a home stay. They face Lanark Sterling Infants and Dixon Browns in enemy territory while five contests loom and doubt surrounds the lineup. An earlier plan for Iowa games was canceled to accommodate the Browns series.
Denison Iowa June 21 two Negroes Henry Clark and Chesley Hubbard both of Omaha after a swearing in jail charged each other with shooting Lee C Warner killed near Vail Iowa after midnight the incident follows a jail scene and involves authorities investigating a homicide on the rail line near Denison and Vail with victims identified and suspects in custody or under interrogation
San Francisco June 21. The jury in Patrick Calhoun's bribery trial failed to agree after five ballots, resulting in discharge. Calhoun accused Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney of bribery and charged Rudolph Spreckels and James D. Phelan with bribe giving.
In dense fog off Dungeness on Saturday night the Wilson Line steamer Sappho struck the British protected cruiser Sappho. The impact narrowly averted a worse naval disaster as damage was reported but no loss of life yet.
A cruiser sustained serious damage and was beached while a liner remained nearly intact and continued its voyage after a maritime collision. The incident left the cruiser badly damaged but the liner unharmed and unchanged in course.
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