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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1911
Page
3
Waven operator viewers seek the contact numbers for staff. The listing credits D. Throop as Publisher, with the Managing Editor City Editor Society Editor and others. For business inquiries, offices use numbers 26 or 37.
Washington editors note Pepper's polling of Iowa Democrats and independents on a 1912 presidential candidate. Des Moines reports Clark sentiment growing in Second district ballots. Pepper plans state-wide canvass with ballots and replies promising to reveal Clark support as national Democrats watch Muscatine inquiry.
The Kansas City port welcomed the steamer Chester marking a renewed commercial navigation on the Missouri River, a development of broad interest to communities dependent on river trade. The ship, owned by the Kan, embodies a hopeful return to former traffic levels and regional commerce.
The Kansas City based river navigation company organized to challenge rail lines reports the Chester, its first steamer, with three tunnel propellers and a 1600 HP engine achieving 18 to 20 mph against a four mph current. The vessel, crude oil fired, 200 feet by 35 feet by six feet, carries about 400 tons and features two high pressure water tube boilers and two smokestacks. Additional assets include the A M Scott tunnel propeller towboat, the Annie Russell stern wheeler soon to be converted, plus three steel barges and six more barges under construction at Ambridge, Pa. Equipment costs total about $130,000 with broader capital of $1,250,000 and 4200 stockholders supporting the venture.
Ada lieutenant governor George W. Clarke declares plans to run in the Republican primaries for governor. He is regarded as a strong, widely supported figure in the party, with last year’s Garst affair influencing potential opposition. Commentators note it remains early to predict outcomes as party dynamics unfold.
Fifty years ago reports on crops show rust, etenbug, and army worm damage to wheat. A reliable traveler says the wheat crop will be better this season due to late rains. Forty years ago J B Jester was kicked by a horse, injuring the forehead but not seriously. Ten years ago Charles P Lewis died suddenly in St Louis. remains to be shipped home for burial.
The Waterloo Reporter notes Bert Keltz claimed seven congressmen back his bid for the United States marshal appointment at the Elkis meeting in Sioux City last week, a claim the paper doubts as unlikely.
Iowa report notes a field of oats infested with quack grass in Herzlion township. County Attorney O Brien orders trustees to cut and burn weeds and oats to comply with noxious weed law. Farm belongs to a prominent county farmer amid broader Iowa notices from Des Moines to Plymouth.
Keota Iowa details a busy community scene with relatives visiting Kansas Colorado and Canada trips. The Appleton and Robertson families plan summer stays and local events including a horse drill May pole dance and a floral drill. A missionary Lydia Pool spoke at the Methodist church. The town gears up for a lively Fourth of July with new program twists and humorous stunts.
Tortured for decades by a cure-defying stomach trouble, John W. Modders of Moddersville Mich. was advised to quit work and sell his farm. After trying many remedies he found relief with Electric Bitters, praised as a grand remedy for stomach liver and kidneys. Each bottle guaranteed and sold for 50 cents at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Wilton Iowa notes dated June 27 report C H Wilson returning from Belle Plaine to Muscatine, A R Leith on business in Davenport, Mrs Andy McFadden visiting family in Muscatine, and other locals like Emma Schaeffer visiting Durant. Additional mentions include P A Schmidt from Muscatine, Mrs J A Adams shopping in Wilton, S Hain on business in Muscatine, and Mrs A L Beaver returning to Davenport after a visit. W G Griffith heads to Peoria for business, with various residents visiting friends and relatives.
Local residents and visitors frequent Muscatine, Wilton, Davenport, and nearby towns reporting brief visits, business calls, and hometown news. People include J Andrews of Davenport, Mr and Mrs Gatton and son Lester of Rock Island, Miss Grace Friedrichsen, Miss Vesta Wilkerson, Mary Powell, Peter Daut, Emma Brammler, Clarence Brown, A Callahan, Mrs A Krebs and children, plus W R C members.
Mary Metager Metzger a longtime Buffalo resident and one of Scott county's most respected Germans died after a three month illness. Born in Germany April 18 1831 she came to America in 1849 married Christian Metzger in 1863 and lived in Buffalo from 1856. Surviving children include Fred Henry Théodore and Joseph Metzger and daughter Mrs Kate Mohr. Funeral from St Peter’s church with interment at Rose Hill cemetery. Also notes: local social and sporting items from Buffalo and area.
The notice lists several pre nuptial activities for the Bride on a June day at her home. Charles Clark of St. Louis visits his father Captain W. L. Clark. Mrs. J. Gadd and daughter visit from Des Moines to stay with Mr. and Mrs. C. Appel. Dr. J. C. Teufel buys a fine automobile.
An Alabama man from Coal City, W. Bends, credits Dr King’s New Life Pills with ending a twelve year struggle with liver and kidney trouble. The pills are praised as unrivaled for constipation malaria headache and dyspepsia from Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store.
Port Allen Iowa June 28 sequence notes a timely rain easing drought with a fine Sunday night and Monday morning. The piece lists local visits from Seymour Indiana to West Liberty and Montezuma, health updates on Mrs. C R Chown, and crowd chatter about cherry picking and canning.
North Pike notes show Mr. and Mrs. George Foster entertaining their daughter Mrs. Mattie Smallwood and Htlle Genera Bizzard. John Stotler with Wi cer Smith visited Lone Tree on business. Mrs. A J Mille and Mrs. John Foster visited Muscatine recently. Jim McMichle Myrtle Verda and Loring Cobern suffer from whooping cough. Charlie Passmore, once of this place, now in Minnesota, visits. Roy Cochran and wife welcomed a baby girl on June 22. June 24 gathering at W L Mills' home for his birthday included Grover and family, A J Mills and daughter Lavinia, Kate Anna Maggie Mina Deahr Jed Meyers, ice cream served, Elizabeth Davis and Myrtle of Atalissa, and Mrs Kate Deshi joined Geo Foster on Sunday.
Mrs J F Matters and her daughter Cornelia from Sli ley visited the former's parents Mr and Mrs A Arm bright in Columbus Junction Iowa on a Saturday. Mr and Mrs Leon Tompson relocated from rooms over Shellabarger’s drug store to a dormitory room once lgmented by GC M Fulton.
Miss Mary Lewis left this morning for Quincy after a month with aunt Mrs C A Carpenter. J W Tedford heads to Werds to visit uncle James Eckles for a week. Miss Georgia Gookin returns home to Annaworth for a short visit. Columbus Junction business ladies plan a meadow picnic at MeeKee s pasture Friday night with 55 employed in business affairs. Lola Duncan from Winfield visits aunt Mrs A H Parsons en route to Riverside. Robert McAvoy of Valley Junction arrives in Columbus Junction today.
A brief note reviews Emerson Hough story in The Red Book Magazine for July. The tale follows a young Northerner in an automobile aiding a siege to a girl raised under the old regime, in a vivid fiction setting.
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