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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1908
Page
4
The note invites customers to visit during the summer slowdown to look at watches and ask questions. It emphasizes the cool store, available telephone, ice water, and a friendly atmosphere. It mentions ongoing watch and jewelry repairs whenever not selling goods and a willingness to assist even if no purchase is made.
Charles Stark visits Buffalo as a business caller. Inhalation noted as tuberculosis treatment. The Bowman Festival on St. Marys church grounds features the best running rig next Thursday evening. A baby girl born to Mr and Mrs Fred David on West Fourth Street Saturday night. John A Robbins promotes Relia ble Insurance. Mrs Sarah Blanchard returns to Portland Oregon after months with Muscatine friends. Miss Mollie Powelankey heads to Davenport to meet sister in Cincinnati tonight. Mr and Mrs J L Hebert of Davenport visit East Eighth Street cousin Mrs W H Fayle. Hebert sings at St Matthias Catholic Church yesterday.
Hundreds of shoppers packed 2nd Street Saturday evening with Sneichen and Casper's New Shoe Store busiest as buyers rushed for the new footwear selection.
Mrs Hershey Eddy former wife of Chicago organist Clarence Eddy opens Manoir Denouval on the Seine at Poissy near Vanderbilt estate. The $2,000,000 residence features a Versailles style pipe organ and a private island with an electric barge for guests. Notable Franco American society figures attend the house warming and more entertainments are planned for the summer for her daughter Mrs Vogel arriving from New York.
Plans are nearly complete for the laying of the cornerstone of the new postoffice building in Muscatine on Wednesday afternoon. Wyomin g lodge No 56 Knights of Pythias leads a large fraternal and social group with many organizations invited to participate. A parade through town, with bands and carriages, precedes the ceremony. The program lists prayers, remarks, singing, and speakers including Mayor B Schmidt and Congressman A F Dawson, with music by Pauchet’s band.
Today two excursions entered Muscatine, one on Sunday, with the steamer W. W. bringing Rock Island and Moline visitors for Christ Episcopal church Sunday school event. A musical program by choir boys accompanied the trip and visitors toured parks. The Columbia carried about six hundred from Burlington yesterday, with Turn Verein directing the excursion, and another Burlington boatload arrived this afternoon.
Company C to appear for an evening drill at Electric Park. Maneuvers begin at 8 o clock with many attendees. first drill of the year, planned weekly during warm weather under Captain Norton.
The longest day brought heat as Mrs. J. P. Walton recorded 90 degrees yesterday and 91 degrees today. Weather records show the town enduring a rare summer scorcher with temperatures climbing higher than the day before.
Christian Jagow, prominent local German resident, died this morning at 11 at 1035 Newell Avenue from a stroke of paralysis suffered a year ago. Aged 60, he came to this city in 1885 from Wisconsin and belonged to the German Lutheran church council and the Mutual Aid society. He is survived by his wife Carolina and five children Herman Walter Mrs Lee Rainbow Mrs Henderson and Emma. Funeral Thursday at 2 from the German Lutheran church with Rev. George Meiers officiating.
A joint Muscatine and Louisa county board meeting at the court house heard objections to the Drainage District No 3 improvement assessment. Many complaints were filed but no action was taken yet. J E Kline of Prairie du Chien was arraigned before the insanity commission and adjudged insane. he will be sent to Mount Pleasant asylum.
Charles Butler sang at the First Presbyterian morning service after arriving Saturday night. He will give a concert at the Tabernacle on Wednesday evening and also performed a few numbers Sunday evening at the First M E Church in a capable recital.
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