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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1900
Page
2
Miss Clara Ruff and Miss Margaret Kulp visit Muscatine while many others from Wilton Letts and surrounding towns travel for business leisure and social calls. Local residents Mrs Crankle Major Pishop and families arrive for visits. R V Van Volkenberg funeral noted and Mary Jean injured at Hotel Grand. community social events and camp outings described.
Pauchets band presents the season’s opener at Court Square next Friday. The 21 member group, regarded as the city’s best, will perform a program including Hans Across the Sea Sousa and Stabat Mater Rossini with selections by Balfe Holzmann O Harra Volker and Brooke.
Col Omstead and Major Rule conducted the annual inspection at the Armory. Company C I N G showed a creditable performance with hall and property inspected in the afternoon and drill calisthenics in the evening. Officers of inspection left for Ft Madison this morning.
Mrs Beennie Little entertained about seventy five friends at her East Fifth Street home last evening. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Baptist church presented her with portieres and a rug, along with other gifts. Refreshments were served and guests enjoyed a rare evening.
Ladies can wear shoes one size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease a powder shaken into the shoes It relieves tight new shoes and provides instant comfort for corns blisters calluses and sore spots Cures sweating hot aching feet Trial package free by mail address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York.
Halstead and Son operate Fully Equiped Paint Store on Mulberry Street offering best prices on work and materials for painting projects.
A Muscatine gathering forms committees from multiple groups to push a library proposition before the city council tonight. Key figures Chas. L. Breckon and J. M. Gobble lead, with resolutions to be drafted by Mrs. Detwiler and Gobble for council action and a broader push across organizations remains urged.
Illinois City report covers Children’s Day success at the M E Church with enhanced attendance and festive decoration. A liberal offering was raised for the church educational fund as residents discuss local visits, Woodmen celebrations, and Davenport G A R encampment participation. A barn fire near Buffalo Prairie is reported with heavy potential losses and ongoing inquiry.
Miss Elizabeth Ady returns from Belle Plaine with Miss Nellie Henderson after a visit. Mr. and Mrs. James Dwiggins and Master Herman Lindhart came home near Tipton. The Powers family journeys to Mosinee Wisconsin. Mrs. Protzman hosts relatives from Nichols and California. Nettie Hendrickson returns from California with sister Eyster. Worrall family outing in northwest Iowa. Bina Reep visits Crawlie Louisiana relative W. M. Reep. Charles Jayne and daughter from Nichols visit Dr. W. B. Jayne. B. H. Smith trio travel to Des Moines.
The Pine Bluff term ended with Miss Mollie Flater praised for fine teaching. Students Walter Sherry Kate Missel Harvey Fix Fred Rinner Grace Missel Nellie Fix Leo Sherry Carl Missel Johnnie Metz earned books for punctuality. W D Spruin, cattle buyer, narrowly escaped injury from an ox after a near-accident with a buggy whip. W D Stuin moved his boarding place amid thick snook presence on Pine Creek.
Report shows enrollment number 29 with average daily attendance 25. Pupils never absent or tardy include Laverna Gatton and Mabel Franklin. Luverna Gatton has three years of perfect attendance. Location: No 4 Sweetland township.
A Musserville item notes big C. R. L. & P. engines in the eight hundreds moving freight cars for long strings nearly half a mile. Rev. Sylvester Jones leads Friends church meetings and may go to Cuba as a missionary. Miss Ina Cate and Miss Ella Richter are involved in League activities. Local housing changes include new brick houses for Ella Richter and a painted storefront. Mr. and Mrs. Hardman Reed welcome a baby boy. Charles Moncrief updates his storefront and fence while John Lobhorn moves to Kansas City.
Burge notes report pranks with lard kerosene on Mr Burke cherries and a paint coat. Two young ladies seen in Lovers Lane seeking a ride in a new top buggy. Families travel to Illinois for a funeral, dances and visits fill the week. Local folks visit, ride bicycles, and keep up with sickness and work updates.
In a village street exchange, Lawyer Bartholomew Livingston and Rev Archibald Windham discuss indigestion and overall illness. Windham credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with restoring his health and claims it cured his wife’s rheumatism and their daughter's scrofula, praising the medicine.
Sam Kusche of Ortonville Minnesota reports relief from impure blood dull headache weak back kidney trouble and heart palpitations after four months of Mull's Pioneer Cure. He praises the medicine and notes prices of 25c and 1 90 with a 1 00 draft offer if it fails.
Mrs Mathilde Richter of Doniphag says her catarrh improved after using Pe ru na and Man a lin during the change of life. Another testimonial from Mrs Col Hamilton of Columbus recommends Peruna for women. A free book by Dr Hartman on Health and Beauty is offered.
A public notice promotes Osteopathy as taught by the A O at Kirksville Missouri. It explains health as natural and disease as unnatural and claims all bodily disorders stem from mechanical obstructions to circulation. It offers a free thirty day consultation and examination with hours 9 am to 5 pm daily except Sunday.
The summer schedule lists street car departures from the company office at 5 50 a m 6 00 a m and every 20 minutes to 11 00 p m. From South Muscatine service begins 6 05 a m every 20 minutes to 11 15 p m. A 6 00 a m start from the company office and 6 10 a m from Fair Grounds follow every 20 minutes to 11 10 p m. Cemetery service is noted.
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