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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1903
Page
1
A meeting was held last evening to discuss the refusal of master builders to sign the scale of wages. The gathering focused on labor conditions and potential actions following the stand by builders.
A meeting of the Carpenters and Joiners union discussed two firms Sheets Freyder and Wickham Diehl refusing to sign the wage scale. No action was announced but a strike date of May 1 is likely if the situation does not change. The union says most carpenters signed the scale, which cuts the workday to nine hours, and disputes center on verbal assurances given to Sheets Freyder.
Dell Kelley and Richard Hiatt will start a panitorium in Waterloo about April 1 after Kelley sold his Clinton Street shop to W. C. Lantz who took possession yesterday. The pair left for Waterloo to prepare and plan relocation with their families to follow once residences are found.
Saint Patrick celebrations centered at St Brendan’s hall featured a social with prize drawings. Donated items included lap robes, cigars, a chair, blankets, tea, shoes, a rug, a table, flour, an album, and clothing won by various individuals. Prof. Thomas A. Macbride of Iowa State University will address teachers in West Des Moines Friday and women’s clubs Thursday at Yoeman’s hall.
Two years after resigning as principal of a city high school Miss Lodwick faced heartbreak when Sidney Shattuck ended their engagement. He cited infatuation as the reason while Lodwick, ill and heartbroken, may pursue damages for breach of promise as her family faces poverty.
Auction at my residence six miles southeast of Iowa City on Monday March 23 starting 10 o clock a.m. Sale of eight horses and eighteen cattle including milch cows yearlings heifers and calves. Sixteen head of hogs including fifteen brood sows and a Poland China boar. General farm machinery including a Deering binder. Jr Leasure and John Hall auctioneers. March 20.
Tickets go on sale at Wieneke’s at 8 tomorrow morning for The Strollers. Prices are 75 cents 1.00 and 1.50 with the first 200 tickets partly reserved. The dress circle back and some rear parquette seats cost 1.50, most other reserv ed seats 1.00 until 200 sold. Afterward 75 cent seats remain. No more than six tickets per person.
City plumbers complain a long standing plumbing and inspection ordinance is not enforced. They urge appointment of a practical inspector to enforce tests and ensure only proper sanitary pipes are used, even offering to pay inspection fees.
Two major announcements mark the university scene. President Silas Northrop of the State University of Minnesota will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa address during commencement week, and Senator William B. Allison will accompany Senator Hoar to the city to deliver the commencement address. The events are expected to draw many alumni and university supporters from across the state. Northrop is noted as a leading educator with broad achievements and influence in national education.
Pleasant weather continues as the stone front of the Price building on Washington Street nears completion. Stone cutters dress the final course and the front reaches the capstone, with rapid progress expected on remaining exterior work and interior finishing to follow.
The firm Baldwin & Fairchild filed for probate of the last will and testament of Mrs. Anna Nusser. The will distributes the estate among heirs, three in the United States and one in Germany, who receives one dollar. The three local heirs inherit the remainder. Stephen F Coldren returned from Muscatine where he spent Sunday with his brother Clymer Coldren.
Neal Jones, city editor for nine months at The Citizen, resigns Tuesday to become city editor of the Muscatine Journal. The transfer is praised as a rare advancement for a young journalist, with best wishes for future success. Psonvles Steam Laundry
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