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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1906
Page
7
Muscatine items note Bennett the furrier accepting repairs and storage. Visitors include C M Harris from What Cheer and Mrs D F Stineman from Grandview. Residents and travelers arrive on trains and boats to shop visit and attend local events.
Muscatine last evening organized Muscatine Lodge No. 487 Mystic Workers of the World at the G A R Hall with 39 charter members and 16 applications approved. Officers installed include Prefect Mrs George Nelson Monitor Henry Trader Secretary Perry Drury Banker Miss Minnie Hutchinson and others. The organization plans rapid growth and meets again in two weeks.
Rivermen report the river stage has dropped to 13 feet 1 inch and water levels are fast receding. The decline ends the spring rise and reduces flood risk for nearby towns.
Gladwin Ia May 4 Rev Schreader organized Sunday school at Frog Pond school house. Flora McBride Washington visitor. Nellie Leibler visited with Mamie Denis. Claude Hancher visited at Gus Carson's near Cotter. Cora Summerville visiting parents John and Mrs Summerville. E C Kaufman family visited Columbus Junction. Win Blanchard from Muscatine. Will Boyd recovering from illness. Miss Bessie Weaver visiting Davenport sister Mrs Welsh. Frank Worley chased by cattle near Blanchard Giesler ranch. Geneva Island hopes for no more rise. river falls to 13 ft 1 in. Launch activity and Lafayette Lamb boat news from Clinton.
An old advertisement claims Queer sensations in stomach back or bowels signal dangers and promotes Electric Bitters as a guaranteed cure selling for 50 cents at Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store.
Cedar Valley May 4. The M. E. church will hold preaching Sunday evening and Sunday morning at 11 oclock. The Presbyterian church plans to organize Sunday school. Miss Hazel Ellis returned to Letts after visiting Edna and Florence Stephens. Freddie Passmore fell from a horse and broke his arm.
Haskins Iowa May 4. Mr and Mrs Henry Boyd visit Muscatine at their daughter Mrs QO P Dean s home. Mrs Frank Welliver and Miss Bell Sands were Washington visitors Wednesday. Roy Alcorn of Oskaloosa visits his brother Dr Alcorn. Mrs J P Wallace ill but improving. Riley Miller came from Washington to look after farm work. Mrs H F Owen went to Chula Missouri returning Tuesday evening.
Port Allen Iowa items note Mrs. Robert Orr injured in a scaffold fall with no bones broken, several local visitors including Minnie and Jennie Maxwell in Columbus Junction, and various residents like H F Babbitt and William Nifong enjoying fishing. Mentions of windmill work, lost horse, and ill relative V Clinton. Advertise in the Evening Journal.
The city council conducted a committee of the whole tour through wards one and four. Members present included Mayor Asthalter and alders Kineese Holmes Van Zyl Diercks Sanders Richards and Eppel. The body approved numerous street and drainage improvements and adjourned after unanimously endorsing the committee’s recommendations.
A patent style advertisement touts Dr Hale s Household Ointment as curing any skin or scalp disease or skin sores. It claims prompt relief after first application and urges readers to buy at drug stores for 25 cents or from Kenyon & Thomas Adams New York.
South Cedar Iowa May 3 Born to Mr and Mrs Ben Bigsby a son April 29. Mrs Edith Clute entertained in honor of Miss Jessie Phelps Monday night. H H Rockafellow and family were business visitors in Muscatine Saturday.
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