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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1903
Page
6
A shoe merchant notes the market uses sevens and eights for men’s shoes and fives and five and a half for women’s. He says sixes and tans are slow sellers, leading to overstock. He adds ladies’ sizes two and a half and three also pile up.
The regular annual Lutheran missionary meeting will be held in Iowa City on August 27. Members from Sharon Center, Salon, and Town City will attend with large forenoon, afternoon, and evening services. The three churches report a growing communicant membership and strong interest in missions.
The St James Kieth & Sic Chesny and others connect with the Chicago central observatory to have their time pieces corrected daily by wire. Most locations receive new clocks. Mr Hands uses his standard clock. Western Union Telegraph Co provides clocks and regulates them from Chicago for central time across Buffalo to Platte Neb.
Last night at the McLaughlin home near Hills a large crowd attended an ice cream social to benefit the Hills Presbyterian Church with generous turnout and frozen desserts.
Charles P. Lee and E. Fenton spent yesterday in Davenport. Miss Emily Riddle returned from an extended visit at Charles City. Mrs Brackett left for Seattle to visit her son Otto. Barth Bros. received a carload of melons from Missouri. The Welsh residence grounds glow with blooms. Mrs. Margaret Schleicher, aged ninety, is ill at home. Nellie Edwards visits relatives in Williamsburg. Fair association work proceeds. Mr. Pickering begins removing a building at College and Dubuque. Dr. Sarah Nimmocks practices in Jefferson Town, aiding Dr. Gussie Grinnell who was recently married. Bertha Sparks leaves for Dana to attend a wedding and travel a month. Leslie Reed and Henry Johnson, school principals, married since school close. Ben Dunkel expects a good appointment after exams in Des Moines. Drs. Clapp Dean Jepson and Mr. Musser depart for northern points to harvest a fish crop.
J. A. Norris & Co. of Cosgrove operates a general grocery store with fresh groceries, dry goods, boots and shoes, hardware, patent medicines, wall paper and paints and harness. They buy country produce, butter and eggs and pay top prices for poultry. They hold exclusive agency for B. B. B. B. four on guarantee.
A guaranteed cure for piles offered with pills and ointment promising relief. Druggists refund money if cure fails. First application gives ease and rest. order via ParG Medicine Co., St. Louis, MO. Also a Melons sale highlight at Barth & Co.'s store with crisp juicy fruit.
Local residents recoveries and health updates include Norman Monsey convalescing from a serious illness with tophoid fever, Mrs. Frank Casper of Newport convalescing after illness, and E. J. Shannahan visiting Iowa City from Kansas City. M. J. Metcalf in town due to his father Thomas Metcalf’s typhoid risk. Miss Walker of Council Bluffs visiting at Dr M B Moon’s home. Zhulo Sholiz’ Cora and Elsie Colony back from Columbus Junction chautauqua. Sarah and Malinda Marner stay with their father in Sharon Township. Luella and Abby Metcalf return from Burlington visit. Josephine Stevens of Greeley, Colorado visiting the Stevens home for a month. Eighteenth annual meeting of the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley scheduled August 24–25 in Council Bluffs with Dr J W Kime of Fort Dodge presenting.
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