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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1908
Page
7
Local business caller C A Frack in Bayfield and doctors and residents from Muscatine and nearby towns are noted visiting or traveling. Advertisements urge Sleepy Eye Flour and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea while several residents return home from visits or trips to Wilton Muscatine and East Eleventh Street.
The Leo Hirsch Button company expands its East Fourth Street plant with a new crushed shells warehouse and large crusher to support chicken feed production. Work on the extension started as the firm reports rising business and plans for storage of crushed shells. Locals note ongoing water main extension on Park Avenue and other community projects.
An extension of the switching track at the Roach and Musser plant is under construction to serve two new warehouses on the old Musser lumber yard site. The spur length is extended several hundred feet linking with the M N and S right of way to speed freight handling for the South Muscatine Sash and Door works.
The Brotherhood of St Paul at Musserville Methodist decides to hold a banquet at the next social meeting on Tuesday June 9 with a light luncheon by the ladies and a program by the entertainment committee. The plan includes inviting a prominent out of town speaker.
Members of Mulford Congregational church seek to form a baseball squad to join a city church league being organized. Tryouts will be held promptly. potential players will be assessed, and a team formed if the showing is strong. Men's club meets at the church parlors for a brief business session and Bible study. Rev. W. H. Thomlinson recently spoke in Sabula, Ia., at the Congregational church.
Half the nervousness and irritability of daily life come from sick kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills promise to relieve congestion and inflammation, cleanse uric poisons, and cure kidney tissue damage. A Muscatine man, Joseph Schwab, reports back pain subsiding after two boxes, with ongoing recommendation of the remedy.
South End Locals report on various residents with travels and visits. Marion Latham plans to leave the city after completing school work to visit relatives near Grace Hill Indiana. Multiple short notes record returns from Davenport Rock Island Clinton Ottawa and Bellevue hospital and illnesses within the Schwerin family.
A brief health ad notes that a Viper in the Stomach belonging to dyspepsia is helped by Electric Bitters, stating the remedy aids liver and kidney troubles and promises results or no payment, priced at 50 cents.
Ola Clifton May 37 reports a sequence of small community activities. Several residents visit relatives in Lenox Ogden Salt Lake City and Utah. schooling ends for local students at Dutch Ridge Edwards Tennessee accompanied by other local social calls. Multiple residents are described as visiting, staying with relatives, or hosting visitors.
George Eis and daughter Fern transacted business in Muscatine. Mabel C Hague went to Muscatine. Erwin Allbee and wife were visitors in Davenport. Mrs Bertie Johnson and family visited at the orphans home in Davenport. John Henke and wife did business in Muscatine. A large crowd attended the baseball game at Stecher's. Chas Hoehlk and family visited Mr and Mrs Claus Tompson. Children day program rehearsals planned at the church. Farmers plowing corn this week. Church meeting Thursday to reorganize the League. Johnnie Metz went to Muscatine with a flour load. Glenn McElroy visited Muscatine.
Mrs Ruth Maylone of West Liberty visits her son Gene and family in North Prairie. Mrs Gene Maylone improves slowly after illness. The school closes May 29 with a basket dinner and program. Miss Monetta Abbot plans to move to Ohio for a future home. Elmer Campbell's fine $75 dog.
A woman fell from a haymow last Friday and broke her neck, with partial insurance coverage for the loss. Corn planting progresses this week as small farmers expect to finish soon. On Monday night a lightning strike hit a large barn at the B. F. Greiner farm.
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