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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1908
Page
5
Muscatine Independents travel to Davenport to face the Game Wardens in the first river outing of the year. The team sails on the Maccabee excursion aboard the W. W. at 8 am and returns at 5 30 pm. McGreer will miss the game due to a trip to Iowa City.
An old advertisement notes Bucklen's Arnica Salve for burns sores piles cuts wounds and ulcers priced at 25 cents at Haver camp's Prescription Drug Store.
Government workers celebrate the completion of a six foot harbor line on the Upper Mississippi between St. Paul and the river mouth. The Muscatine front will finish in a day or two as the Eleanor and Henry Bosse tow the Vulcan dredge to La Crosse to start work.
Chronic constipation endangers health and Foley's Urino Laxative aids digestion and liver and bowel action. It is pleasant to take, does not nauseate or gripe, and promises relief start today. Refuse substitutes. A. W. Morgan, Druggist.
The Wilton junior class will stage the play Mr. Bob in the school hall Friday May 22 with a full cast led by Miss Rebecca Luke Miss Edith Henderson and others. A senior toast and class song will accompany the program. Additional items include church and community notices plus local visits and travel notes from May 19.
The high school exhibit will run all week on the second floor of the P. M. Musser public library with sewing writing drawing and manual training. Visiting hours are 9 to 12 am 1 30 to 5 pm and 7 to 9 pm. The event features Japanese prints and figures and showcases miniature sewing work and various stitches and buttonhole techniques.
A large caravan of 18 travelers from the South pitched camp in Hershey pasture last evening drawing attention in South Muscatine. Women hawked trinkets and foretold fortunes while small items vanished from some homes after their departure. Local police advised the party this morning as they moved on toward the tall and uncut.
Arrangements are being made for the annual Children’s Day event at Musserville Methodist church to be held on a Sunday in late June. The Sunday school department will manage the program and supervise day’s exercises with Miss Ivy Ryan as new Epworth League president. Nearby notes report visitors from Keswick and Ottumwa visiting Muscatine residents.
Jacob Beik of Grandview Iowa died at his home after a prolonged battle with stomach cancer. Born in Germany he settled near Grandview in youth and was well known in Muscatine. Funeral plans were not yet announced as of yesterday.
Mr Carl Parchett s class meets tonight at 70 at Mrs Geo Maylone s Everyone should be present The Fellowship club meets at eight in the rooms The millinery class has an extra session tonight Mrs J H Abbott s class at 230 Wednesday with Mrs Harry Horst 316 East Ninth Street The lesson covers Thirty Years of Silence Mrs J H St John s class at 236 at Mrs Mahaney s home Park Ave and Willow St Board of directors met Monday Bible secretary reports 19 classes in Bible and mission study 27 work for Bibles under Miss Gould s offer
Tammany Hall will send a 65 member delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Five special trains will depart New York on July 4 and arrive in Denver on the evening of July 6.
A New Hampshire man recounts long term inability to eat a light breakfast without colic vomiting and misery. After starting Grape-Nuts he reports freedom from old troubles and weight gain of 30 pounds, eating the cereal regularly at meals. He endorses the food’s benefits with the line There’s a Reason.
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