Earnest Statement From Blue Grass Iowa
An earnest statement issued from Blue Grass in Scott County Iowa dated November 26, 1883.
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Newspaper
Moline Review Dispatch
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1884
Page
7
An earnest statement issued from Blue Grass in Scott County Iowa dated November 26, 1883.
Dispatch representatives and friends of the temperance cause met at the Methodist church in Port Byron on Wednesday. Mrs. McKee led devotion with Miss Ella Taylor as secretary. Mary Metzgar named president. Sessions covered abstinence, diet’s role in intemperance, and WCTU work. adjourned to 2 PM with papers, addresses, and prayers, closing after thanks to visiting members.
Fanny Davenport will appear at Burks Opera house next Friday evening in what is billed as the season’s greatest theatrical event. Reserved seats go on sale at Fluke's book store Tuesday morning. Des Moines Register reports a ten mile race between Jo Gamble of Molime and Richard Bromley of this city. Bromley won after Gamble’s disqualification and ride, finishing in 88 minutes 14 seconds.
The Coventry locomotive named after inventor Charles B. Coventry will begin service next Sunday between Davenport and Chicago. It claims to remove dense smoke and cinders with a novel boiler design, straight smokestack, dual flues, and smoke arches that trap particles, reducing fuel waste and emissions.
At about eight this morning E Johnson, owner and resident in the store building on Fifth avenue, interrupted would be thieves trying to force the back windows of the store room. They fled but left evidence suggesting a possible entry had he not awakened.
The Congregational church schedules a social winter music series with two performances per month. Tickets cost fifteen cents each or two for twenty five cents. Speakers include Hon J W Green and Judge H H Benson of Davenport at Milan on Saturday Oct 25.
Detroit Free Fret Binks tried to cut costs by supplying his own glass for frames. He broke several sheets, mismeasured, and damaged multiple frames while assembling them, finally concluding the 10 percent saving was absorbed by the losses.
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