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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1908
Page
5
Henry Sieffer, about sixty five, was stricken Saturday evening at his home west of the city and has remained unconscious for more than forty hours. His heart action is good but he shows few signs of life. He is well known throughout the county.
A Rock Island division station team will tour the area next week to outline improvements along the Davenport to Burlington levees, focusing on Muscatine Island. They will leave Rock Island by launch Wednesday, spending about a week surveying weak spots to prevent spring flood damage.
Civil engineers arrived in the city to survey yard improvements by the Rock Island railroad planned for the summer. They may add several miles of track and install spurs along the right of way to aid local shippers, with the team staying for multiple days. The meeting at the Malford mission drew a full house as Rev. W. H. Thomlinson spoke on Saul and Paul.
Residents along Front street plan to file a remonstrance petition at the first city council meeting against erecting a saw mill by the Mississippi Box Company at the river front foot of Orange street. The company was granted permission and leased ground for $10 yearly at the last council meeting, with plans for piling construction and about 20 jobs. Most Front street residents from Walnut to the site have signed urging withdrawal.
The Ramblers, a Mt. Pleasant Iowa club of young men, travel aboard an elegant launch named The Ram bler arriving in Muscatine last evening at 6 30 after departing Burlington yesterday. The group members are Mt. Pleasant residents and part of the local excursion.
A group plans an annual river pilgrimage by launch equipped with comforts for the trip. The young men bring hunting gear and may pause for sport. They stayed in the city and will travel to Davenport soon. Attending were Vernie Morris M C Hall George Luberger Fred Fairchild and launch owner Fred Dutton.
H C Thiesen files a petition in district court seeking 120.60 against John Keating of New Boston Illinois with 1269.60 due including interest for loans and merchandise sold in 1903 and 1904. Morton L Marks Company of Davenport Iowa sues J B McCartney and Julia McCartney for 83.00 for goods sold and delivered. F L Bihlmeier represents both actions.
The remains of Fred Shaw, brother-in-law of Mrs. W. C. Schenck of 1122 Mulberry Avenue, who died about a year ago in Denver, were brought to this city this morning and interred in Greenwood Cemetery beside his wife, who died in Colorado Springs about two years ago.
An advertisement extols Gold Medal Flour as essential for superior bread. The copy frames the product as a badge of quality, urging bakers to choose the brand for best results.
Rev J C A Light of the United Brethren church is returned to the Muscatine charge for another year and re elected secretary of the Iowa conference. He and Rev J H Patterson were re elected officers at Bristow. The next Iowa U B conference meets in Gladbrook in March 1909. Light’s general conference delegate election will be decided in the fall.
John M. O'Brien Jr letters Harmony editor blasting March 21 1908 Muscatine County Democratic resolutions as meaningless. He accuses delegates of being non democrats voting for McKinley and vows Muscatine lacks a democratic paper.
The Kron Prinz Wilhelm sustained a triangular, about 15 foot deep hole in its overhang after a collision with the Crown of Castile in New York harbor. No injuries occurred and the hole was well above the waterline, avoiding immediate danger.
Margery Smith age one year died Saturday night after an eight week illness in Columbus Junction Iowa. She was born March 6 1907 and is survived by a baby brother. Funeral at 10 a m Monday from the family home with burial in Columbus City cemetery.
The jury quickly acquitted Mackown by eleven to one, freeing him from prison after a long battle. He planned to return to Syracuse with his wife and son, whom he had not lived with since they were sent away from Webster City four years earlier after the fire that destroyed the local felt shoe factory.
Kittie O'Connor a servant in Edward Carney's home at 130 Broadway Dubuque leaped from a second story window. She landed on the ground with a sprained wrist and is delirious at St Joseph's hospital. She was insane at the time and had prior asylum confinement.
Muscatine High School meets Van Atta & Elfers Commercial School Five in the first game of the city scholastic basketball championship series at Armory hall. Both teams confident and in prime condition with a large crowd expected. The Van Atta & Elfers team is derived from Crescent Independent Five and shows improved form. Rooters will have reserved seats.
Miss Sue Browning proprietor of the Browning Business College at Chestnut and Second streets has been appointed state stenographer at the state convention of the Women’s Relief Corps to be held in Cedar Rapids on June 10 and 11 by Department President Mrs Estella Plopper of Iowa Falls. Numerous Muscatine W R C members plan to attend.
Webster City Iowa March 23. If George Mackown follows the advice of his attorneys D C Chase and Wesley Martin he will leave Webster City for a new start in life as soon as he can gather togeth
Muscatine squad beats Jamestown 48 to 28 marking the twenty fifth consecutive victory. Season results include wins over Des Moines Y Nebraska Varsity Illinois and teams across Colorado Utah and California with scores listed in the ledger.
Chicago reports Muscatine defeated Jamestown 48 to 28 to complete a western tour with twenty five straight victories. The Hawkeyes dominated after a strong first half and then rested in St. Paul before heading to Muscatine for a celebratory return.
Advertised as a guaranteed remedy to frightful stomach spasms and liver torpor with weak kidneys, Electric Bitters is sold by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store for 56c.
Senator Boies Penrose lies critically ill at his Philadelphia home with facial erysipelas. The 48 year old longtime public servant, Harvard graduate and lawyer, has led Pennsylvania Republican orgs and was elected to the U S Senate in 1897, reelected in 1903.
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