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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1906
Page
8
Local items include Pure drugs at Graff s Pharmacy. Several residents announce travel to Texas Conesville Arden Davenport and Wilton for visits business and family. Sash and Door Co advertisement notes dry kindling wood for sale. Milk Co requests cream and eggs from farmers. Many residents arrive in Muscatine for shopping and meetings with relatives and friends.
Mrs Will Furnas of Letts returned after shopping in the city. Mrs Geo Vaughn of Lone Tree came home after several days here. Miss Stella Ames departs for Iowa City to visit friends. Mrs M Welch of Kalona returns after visiting. N R Haulkner to Lone Tree to visit relatives. Mrs P Lukenbach of Adams visiting. Mr and Mrs W S Isetts of Wapello in the city for the day. J Thomas announces a birth in Hershey avenue. Hi W Huttig arrives from Chicago on business. Graff's Pharmacy promotes fruit juice soda water. Regular farm news notes and local commerce entries.
Muscatine Tent No. 9 Maccabee Rally will be held Tuesday evening May 8 at Maccabee Hall. State officers will attend and discussion will cover important matters. The event includes a prize drawing followed by a social with refreshments and a smoker. Visiting Sir Knights and all members are urged to attend.
Minnewakon Council No. 52 held a large meeting at the Redmen wigwam last evening. Twenty five new members were admitted and fifteen applications acted on favorably. The next meeting on the 18th expects a large class to be conferred. The degree team is studying hard to exemplify work second to none in the state.
Commencement exercises at Columbus City high school in the Christian church drew a crowded audience. Only two graduates, Nellie Huffington and Charles Cassabaum, delivered speeches on wealth and obstacles. The evening featured music, recitations, and diploma presentations. A Sabbath-school picnic at the J. P. Dawson home followed, with 19 guests on a wagon ride. A plate shower honored Miss Blair with 14 china plates. John Jenkins of the Welsh neighborhood was noted.
An introduction to Professor Dewey, described as America’s finest pen man, invites residents to visit Sam Berger’s store window to view his work and plan a first lesson free at Muscatine Business College. The notice seeks 100 people for Monday night and promises a writing fix.
A Muscatine notice invites 5 000 people to join a handwriting program led by millwright J Pierpont Morgan. It promises last rites-like benediction upon completion and a welcoming "Peck of Sunshine" greet at the top of the stairs after the Monday night class.
The article argues that Standard Oil built pipe lines to move crude from western fields to coast, facing railroad hostility and denying rebates claims. It counters Garfield’s charges of favoritism and argues water routes and state rates give no unfair advantage, asserting ongoing lawful, honorable conduct.
The Muscatine Business College invites all readers to bring a correct list of misspelled rights for a one week free instruction incentive. Ladies are offered a free dozen calling cards with any order placed next week and asked to phone in their names Monday.
A string of social and religious activities fills the day as Ames and area residents travel to Letts for Sunday school conventions. Visitors include Mrs. KL A Lovelette and baby, Editor J K Latta, Mrs Harriet Reener, Mrs Daniel Peters and daughters, and I C Freeland. Church events feature Rev J C Marshall and Frank Schroeder speaking at Presbyterian and Methodist services.
Readied figures show Chicago wheat and corn prices with bid ranges and closing levels. Muscatine markets report grain, livestock, eggs, butter, and produce rates. Killed by precise bids for hogs, cattle, and veal, with fruit and vegetable retail figures and fuel costs across regional outlets.
Cattle receipts 300 steady with beef prices listed from 4.00 to 6.10 for Beeves and 1.70 to 5.15 for cows and heifers. Hogs receipts 12 000 weak with mixed butcher prices from 6.10 to 6.45 and bulk sales 6.40 to 6.55. Sheep receipts 3 000 unchanged with ewes and lambs priced 3.35 to 6.00 and 5.25 to 7.50 respectively.
Butter steady at creamery 13 20 cents and dairy 14 18 cents. Eggs strong at 14 to 18 cents. Poultry weaker with turkeys 12 4 cents and chickens 12 cents.
Wheat for July at 85 with slight gains and corn at 54 4/4 cents per bushel show modest activity on the New York Produce Market. Market notes indicate steady trading and small price adjustments for grains.
Butter remains steady with street prices at 20 by creameries. Eggs firm with extra firsts at 18 cents and seconds at 15 cents.
New York on March 5 reports alive poultry steady with chickens at 8 1 4 to 12 cents, fowls at 14 cents, turkeys at 12 cents. Dressed meat prices are weak with turkeys 14 to 16 cents and fowls 11 4 to 13 %c.
St Louis produce market shows wheat at July 47 c corn at 45 4 c and oats at 31 c Peoria prices report corn No 3 at 48 1/2 c New York bank statement notes loans up 2 990 400 deposits down 1 409 700 reserves down 4 820 300 surplus down 4 467 800 and U S deposits down 2 713 200
The Iowa Central Railway offers round trip tickets from April 25 to May to San Francisco and Los Angeles with a single fare for the round trip. Return by July 31 and stopovers allowed. Rates apply on any direct outbound route and return by any other direct route. For details contact A. B. Cutts in Minneapolis.
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