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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1908
Page
4
Local notices trumpet wireless umbrellas from Moulton with demonstrations on Tuesday and Wednesday. McColm Dry Goods Co. promotes Brainworth’s Sunny South Shoes and Red Jacket pumps. Frank Ashcraft, J Greenblatt, and community leaders announce sales, elections, and club treasurer updates.
Wheat opened steady but slipped as offerings rose and traders covered shorts. A late rally failed to hold, then buying support pushed prices above earlier highs before another decline. Corn traded under moderate pressure early, then strengthened on forecasts of wet weather delaying deliveries. Oats showed a featureless, steady to easy session with limited demand and modest short activity.
Mrs. Millar Riggs of Sev enty-Six township will act as hostess for the Twentieth Century Club meeting at Weed park tomorrow afternoon. A debate on unrestricted immigration opens with Riis anecdotes and judges named. Also notes a dinner party at 1105 East Front Street with guests from Buffalo Davenport Rock Island and others.
The Muscatine Graduate nurses will meet this evening at the Hershey hospital to plan a benefit for Hershey hospital. A full attendance is desired.
The Colonel Hare Thimble Bee will meet tomorrow at the home of Mrs. Anna Cummins on the corner of Ninth and Oak streets.
William Christopherson of East Second street may lose his left leg after a hunting trip mishap when a gun discharged while dislodging it from a skiff. John Heinbecker of 211 Phillip street suffered a severe hand laceration from a saw. Emory Duncan sustained a deep scalp wound from falling timber. Dr. E. B. Fulham treated all.
The Grace English Lutheran pastor Rev H F Martin of Muscatine received a unanimous call to the Iowa City congregation. He announced his resignation would take effect December 1, after a prior offer to enter missionary work in Illinois was declined. His departure timing remains unchanged despite his acceptance.
Briga dier General Hoxie spent days here squirrel hunting at John Gay's home. Mr. and Mrs. OConnell visited their daughter Mrs. Gay. The Harpers left for a ten day vacation via West Union and Chicago. Suyedam will handle station work in Harper's absence. Local rally hear Governor Cummins. Jennie Reeder returns home from West Liberty. Mrs Norris and family return from Ottumwa visit.
The Dorcas society will meet tomorrow at the home of Mrs. J Worst on East Ninth street.
An advertisement extols Blackburns Casca Royal Pills as a concentrated sulphur medicine with cascava castor oil lemon and cherry root. It claims blood purification, relief from constipation biliousness liver and kidney issues, skin conditions and malaria prevention with inexpensive ten or twenty five cent packages sold by druggists.
After more than twenty years of marriage Minnie Herget sues J. W. Herget in district court seeking a divorce. She alleges hardship including destitution and asks for 15 dollars weekly temporary alimony. The petition cites marriage in May 1886 and separation on January 1 this year.
The United States country life commission mails circulars with 12 queries aimed at Iowa areas. Questions cover farm homes schooling farming returns railroad and postal service, farm labor conditions, banking and insurance access, sanitation, and social improvement among farmers and families.
Charles Whitmore begins vacating his houseboats from the levee foot of Towne Avenue following city council orders. Alderman Leu and Street Commissioner Fuller observe preparations and note Whitmore has rented a city home and will clear obstructions on the levee. Alderman Hess had moved for 48 hour compliance, with municipal help ready once operations stop.
Eight dollars and one cent from a Grand Opera House benefit for Hershey hospital was refused by the hospital board as tainted funds. The money was not offered to the board, and managers prefer not to handle it again. It will go to charitable purposes, though beneficiaries are not yet identified.
Western Realty Company of Muscatine Iowa has purchased the Horton and Morford farms north of the city. The 280 acre property lies near the Mulberry Avenue car line terminal. Plans are undisclosed but a residence addition and possible subdivision into many lots are anticipated, given the location and rapid-growth potential. P. J. Barry serves as president and Thomas Barry as secretary.
A 50 cent Diapepsin case promises quick relief from indigestion and dyspepsia. The ad touts five minute digestion, candy tasting Triangles, and claims of a clean stomach and no need for laxatives. It urges readers to ask pharmacists to show the formula on the box.
The Muscatine Ministerial association met at the YMCA and voted to cooperate with Physical Director Johnson in organizing a church basketball league. Following the success of the recent baseball league, ministers with basketball skills will organize the league at once.
Registration boards in Muscatine Iowa will meet October 22 to 24 and October 31 1908 from 8 am to 9 pm to register qualified voters for the November 3 1908 general election. A final session on election day allows late registrants who were absent earlier to obtain voting certificates. Locations include Excelsior Hose House Champion Hose House Rescue Hose House and Relief Hose House with sessions near polling places.
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