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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
5
The Mulford Congregational church Men’s club holds its regular monthly banquet tonight with Attorney C A W Kent as principal speaker due to his prominent anti saloon work in Muscatine. A musical program features the Dealing orchestra and the church Male quartet.
An advertisement advises changing diet to improve health with a ten day breakfast plan including soft boiled eggs fruit toast butter Grape Nuts with cream and Postum Coffee. Lunch mirrors breakfast and dinner adds meat and vegetables with no desserts. The piece promotes pre digested foods and notes a book titled The Road to Wellville and a claim that the letters are genuine and full of human interest.
The Thirty-fifth Iowa executive committee meets in Muscatine at Herman Schmidt’s home to set the date for the annual reunion likely in early September. Members include G. H. Wiles chair man Robert Bodman secretary Herman Schmidt treasurer and Phil J Murphy Fred Giesler and Adam Hartman. The aim is to allow ample time for advertising and notifying veterans as ages thin the regiment.
Elder E. J. Witte of Moline Illinois will speak at the Undenominational Christian Missions church on Walnut Street tonight at 7 30 o clock. Special music is planned and the public is invited to attend as the mission holds camp services this summer in Moline.
Matthew Westrate was elected president and Carl Schmidt 2nd vice president at the First Baptist church men's club monthly banquet. About 60 members attended as Attorney H. D. Horst read a paper on divorce and led a general discussion.
Governor Cummins spoke at Sigourney Iowa yesterday on the primary law and treasury conditions to a comfortably filled but small audience of about thirty five from across the county. Fred E White attended and seemed to approve as Cummins then moved on to What Cheer for another address.
Rev. J. J. Jans returns home from Des Moines after attending the 25th anniversary of St. John's German Evangelical church. He served as pastor there from 1890 to 1892, and members urged his attendance at the celebration.
At a Tri M club meeting of the Park Avenue M E church last evening a picnic for Decoration Day was decided for May 23. The exact site is undecided and further arrangements will be made next Tuesday evening.
Washington Bureau reports Senator Dolliver of Iowa balances a Methodist conference in Baltimore with Senate duties. He travels daily between Washington and Baltimore, rising at 6 AM, attending sessions, and returning late at night. Amid Iowa party conflicts, he campaigns for June primaries and is a possible Chicago convention temporary chairman.
A jury in Allison awarded Mrs. Will Heisler $7,000 damages against her husband’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Heisler for alienation of her husband’s affections. She had sued for $25,000. The May 20 report from Waterloo notes the verdict and context of the case.
The Bible class at the Automatic Button Factory meets at 7 30 tonight in the rooms. The lesson covers the ten commandments and the first Psalm. Members are working for a Bible under Miss Gould's offer. Thursday Mrs Carl Schmidt's class gathers at 3 with Mrs Thomas Hayes at 1115 Lombard.
Miss Ethel Clare Rosenberger and Prof. William A. Barry of Penn college will wed this evening in Oskaloosa using old style Quaker rites with no minister. The ceremony at the bride's father A Rosenberger home will be quiet with about fifty guests. The event has drawn national attention and letters praise the revival of historic Quaker forms.
Local bankers plan to attend the twenty-second annual Iowa Bankers Association convention in Sioux City on June 11 and 12. The program features talks by bank leaders, legal discussions, papers on banking topics, and sessions with reports from officers and committees.
In Oskaloosa Iowa May 20 a veteran fighter John McDonough was badly injured by his wife during a reconciliation attempt. She struck him with a stove poker then stabbed him twice in the thigh and abdomen. Doctors worked through the night and his condition remained serious with recovery uncertain. Authorities await his improving status before action.
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