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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1907
Page
5
Mulford Mission plans a June Children Day program through the Sunday school department. The event will feature songs recitations and an orchestra from the Chapel. Details remain to be decided as teachers coordinate with the missionary society and children show growing interest.
The muscatine slough draws crowds as Iowa lifts fishing ban starting tomorrow marking the May fifteenth season opening. Net restrictions curb small devices to protect youth fish. lawmen warned on fines. Local residents and visitors plan picnics and trips while several townsfolk depart for Seattle Chicago and Rock Island to pursue future plans.
Real estate notice announces lands in the south and west offered for sale by Chase Land Co located at 223 East 2nd Street. The brief classified item identifies the regional land parcels available through the company.
May 14 Chicago reports a deep waterway plan advancing. Joint drainage committees in session endorsed the project and the city council approved it, authorizing nine aldermen to push the bill in the general assembly. The Economy Light and Power company of Joliet opposes, but passage seems likely this week.
May 14 notes show Epworth League members elected new officers headed by President Miss Liberty Zimmerman and vice presidents C. B. Hamilton Jennie Dodds Ella Weller and Daniel Steiner with John Henn as secretary and Edward Henn as treasurer. Anniversary program Sunday's installation follows. Other local items include social gatherings illnesses and upcoming commencement with thirteen graduates.
Miss Diana Cunningham of Muscatine visited Art Cole's last weekend with a friend. Mrs Briggle and Miss Barstow of Springdale visited the Briggles. Port Stotler plans a new house soon. Decker travels to Wilton for business. Alice and Lou Creese visited their sister Mrs Schafnit in Atalissa. Joe Brigle John Demean and families fished along Cedar. Curt Mitchell suffered a horseback accident injuring a rib. Mrs True improves slowly. Rose Barkhurst and daughter moved to Buchanan. L Penzel new county missionary visited the area this week.
East Hill reports cabbage fields almost finished with planting and tomatoes to follow if weather stays favorable. Heinz pickle farms east of town bustle with nearly a hundred workers on three sites as cabbage work nears end and tomato planting looms.
The Washington Chapter plans a special convocation to confer the past and most excellent degrees on three candidates from outside the city. The meeting will be Friday evening the 17th, with further information for companions.
Ardon Iowa May 14 Mrs Anna Byrne received word a nine pound son arrived at the home of Mr and Mrs Robert Dean at Laredo Missouri Mrs Dean formerly Agnes Byrne. Several Muscatine residents visited Arden including Mr and Mrs J B Downer and Mrs Shroeder with kin.
A home mixture mixing Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyonoffe Syrup Sarsaparilla is advised to purify kidneys and eliminate waste and acids causing rheumatism and urinary issues. The ad claims a well known authority supports pharmacy ready ingredients and no stomach harm.
The Royal Arch Masons of the city will hold a special meeting at the Masonic Hall on Friday evening May 17. The program includes work in the Royal Arch degree and conferring past and most excellent degrees on three outside candidates, followed by a social hour.
An old advertisement touts Dr. King's New Life Pills priced at 25 cents from Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store, promoting relief from constipation.
Waterloo man W H Sharp seeks to compel Alma Sharp to reveal her marriage record claiming she had seven or eight prior marriages and that when she wed him at Marshalltown in 1906 she was the legal wife of another. The divorce action hinges on proof of prior marriages.
A blanket mortgage for 3.5 million dollars covering all J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company real estate was filed in Minneapolis on May 14. The loan will secure a bond issue to develop and extend trade, especially in Canadian and foreign markets.
An anonymous letter in Webster City Iowa threatens the life of a teacher if Superintendent Ford is named as an Institute instructor. Holaday reported the letter to federal authorities and identified Ford as the instructor.
Snow began about eight this morning in Lincoln and the eastern Nebraska region with indications pointing to a heavy fall. Temperature recorded at five degrees above freezing.
In St Louis, May 14, Charles Boers of Burlington Iowa faces divorce after his two wives helped each other obtain a divorce on the grounds of bigamy. The two women embraced and kissed in the courthouse as the second wife aided the first in the legal action.
Fare advertised at four dollars fifty cents for a round trip to Minneapolis St Paul. The Iowa Central Railway promotes a popular excursion for Saturday May 18th and directs readers to see the agency for details.
Iowa Central Railway sells tickets to Los Angeles and San Francisco from April 25 to May 15 for round trips at one fare. Travel allowed via direct routes there and back via indirect routes with stopovers. Return by July 31. For details contact A. B. Cutts, G P T A Minneapolis.
San Salvador reports the country has disbanded its armed forces after providing them with a substantial gratuity.
Fire gutted the Nyenhuis residence on Burlington Road as neighbors fought the blaze started near the roof. Fred Bingelli, a milk dealer occupying the second floor, faced heavy losses estimated around 1200 dollars with furnishings carpets and more lost. A defective flue is suspected and the incident recalls a fire on West Hill a year earlier.
The Chicago Produce Market on May 14 shows mixed wheat values with No. 2 red at 93 to 94 cents and May at 93 to 97.5 cents. Corn and oats display modest moves with various No. 3 and white grades. Retail and live market figures for eggs, butter, meats, vegetables, and fruits list specific per unit prices and weekly shifts across buyers and shippers.
Chicago May 14 cattle receipts 2500 steady with Beeves 4.30 to 6.70 cows and heifers 1.80 to 5.40 stocker and feeders 4.25 to 4.75 good prime steers 5.40 to 6.45 hogs receipts 18000 steady to shade lower light 6.00 to 6.50 heavy 6.10 to 6.50 rough 6.10 to 6.25 bulk sales 6.45 to 6.52 sheep receipts 1900 steady 4.50 to 6.85 lambs 6.50 to 8.75 yearlings 6.75 to 7.65.
Butter held steady with creamery at 18 to 23 cents and dairies between 17 and 21 cents. Eggs weakened to around 14 1/4 cents.
Chicago market notes a steady poultry trade with turkeys at ingle high unspecified, chickens at 15 1/2 to 16 cents, springs around 13 1/2 cents. Market terms indicate steady demand and quoted ranges for fresh poultry products.
Butter prices show weakness with street quotes from 24 16c for extra creamery and official creamery ranges. Creamery ranges 18 24c, held 19 22c. dairy 18 24c. Factory 18 22c, imitation firsts 21 22c. Eggs weak with firsts at 16 16%4c and seconds 14 14c.
New York May 14 poultry market shows alive prices firm with spring chickens at 28 cents, fowls 16 cents, turkeys 11 cents. Dressed prices steady with turkeys at 16.4 to 16.5 cents and fowls at 19.1 to 19.5 cents.
Corn retail shippers pay 43 to 45 cents. Oats market 35 to 37 cents, retail 45. Wheat market 65 to 76 cents, retail 1.00. Cracked corn retail 1.25 per cwt. Pop corn on ear 1.15 to 1.25 per cwt, shelled 1.46 to 1.75 per cwt. Pop corn for pecs 2 cents.
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