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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1903
Page
4
The Johnson County Teachers' Association sets the fall meeting for October 21 at Sharon Center after a one week postponement due to rain. The event was originally planned for the prior Saturday.
Mrs Lies and daughter Ethel of Oxford visited the city today. Mr and Mrs J F Gill returned from Chicago. A marriage license was issued for Alfry L Chelf and Ada Scott. Miss Aona Gay of Marengo visited her sister Miss Fay Gay. Farmers entered fields to husk corn and noted better yields than last fall. David Crippen injured a shoulder after a fall on a icy walk but avoided fracture. Mrs Z C Thornburg of Des Moines visited Miss Eda George. Thornburg organized the Portland party where the two became acquainted.
fragment mentions leaving orders at Thames Hardware Store and contact phones at 39 Keokuk Street and 1018 Louis J. Smith.
Dr Stockham announces two public lectures in October with a private women's session on the 17th at 4 30 p m and a public talk on the 28th at 8 p m Mrs Edna Barrett Jackson will sing at the event Tickets are on sale at Wieneke's bookstore.
The Rathbone Sisters will hold their regular meeting at the K. FP. bull to morrow evening. Trains from the west were late Saturday night due to a stall wreck west of Grinnell. A marriage license was issued to Robert H. Moon and Miss Florence Fairail. Mrs. Dougherty and Mrs. E Kaufman leave tonight for Springfield after visiting relatives here. Miss Ella Tomasek returned home after a short visit with her mother Mrs. Mary D. Jones on East Market Street. J. J. Kund, now in Martin's dry goods store, and a Cedar Rapids friend visited in Iowa City Sunday.
List of remaining letters at the Iowa City post office dated October 9 1905. Recipients include Barclay Looney Cassady Maher Douglas McDonald Guittke McKay Hemmingway McQuillen Hick Meisiing Houser Moore Jackson Sager Johnson Shannon Lawson Stiles Lindsey Woodward Anderson Center Beranick Holderness Burdick Lewis Connell Morgan Overbolt PM.
The week brings two marriage licenses issued by the clerk’s office. Edna Dennis returns home after a successful stage season. Ames College receives a $175,000 bequest from George W. Catt. Superintendent L H Langenberg releases the Des Moines report noting $73,810.28 paid to teachers, with Iowa City contributing $26,642.05. Traveling notes include Eugene R. Cochran’s rural route inspection trip to Arkansas and Texas.
In Denver a petrified apple found by an Australian miner sixteen feet underground is offered for four thousand dollars. Louis Lowry claims he won’t sell even at double that price, noting the fruit is as hard as rock with a glossy russet skin and that he has rejected a fifteen hundred dollar bid.
Vice Admiral Sir Gerard Henry Noel arrives from Yokohama with a large British contingent and is greeted by officials at the station. He and staff ride in imperial carriages to Hibiya Park for a mayoral garden party as Tokyo crowds line the routes in festive reception. Prince Tokugawa attends and pays special attention to Noel.
The mayor welcomed an admiral with a proud history and Japan's ally status in guarding peace in the Orient. Admiral Neo replied briefly as 7,000 British sailors and marines were welcomed in Tokyo with free streetcars and discounts, crowds, a Maple Club dinner, and dancing.
Heath Will case featured debate before testimony by an interested party regarding the will's drafting. Defense lawyers initially refused to name proponents, but a Saturday motion by contestants compelled disclosure of trustees D. A. Reese and Ed. Switzer. Judge Jackson adjourned to permit travel home to Muscatine.
The markets section notes stock and grain figures provided by P W Dehner, broker located at 107% E Washington Street in Iowa City. The text presents price data and market activity for today.
The report lists Chicago market figures for cattle bees sheep and car receipts. Prices include heavy cattle 4 705 55, beef cattle 3 50 6 30, cows and heifers 1 30 4 53, Brockers and feeders 2 20 423, and sheep 33 000 market with strong lambs. Carloads show Wheat 91, Corn 278, Oats 863 with estimates Wheat 69, Corn 40 nts, 477.
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