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Muscatine Journal

Location

Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Aug 03, 1903

Page

8

Mount Vernon visits and steamer arrivals dominate local news

Local resident Tom Fagan visits Mount Vernon while several passengers travel on the steamer Quincey and Helen Blair. Multiple Davenport trips and social visits unfold as residents depart for St Paul Des Moines and other western points, with a river stage report and lodge meetings noted.

Need More Lights Streets Are Dark After Nightfall

Residents of South Muscatine urge city council and lighting company to install street lamps on corners to improve safety after dark. They demand arc or gas lighting similar to up town, note petitions circulating in Musserville, and expect action soon. Also reports on Missionary society meeting, church floor completion, blackberrying trip, and relatives being entertained at the Smith home.

South Muscatine Fourth Ward Musserville Missionary Society Friends’ Missionary Society Will Snider Indiana Street Lenham Avenue

Social Roundup From Muscatine Street Scenes

A long column notes a family dinner party with Misses Osie Lake Rita Herrick Bertha Sherwood and others. It then covers residents visiting Davenport Burlington Iowa City and Moline, local train and steamer trips, plus Paudhet's band at City Railway park and a Baptist minister praising the park.

Oregon Street Osie Lake Rita Herrick Bertha Sherwood Harry Boiler Fred Boiler Henry Hoke T. B. Michel South End Burlington Andrew Cracker, Jr Philip Street Moline Barbara Roth East Eighth Street Ada Nagle Oregon Steet

Diamond Jo St. Paul Delay Moons Boat to Water

The Diamond Joline is unlikely to be ready this year to launch the remodeled St. Paul in time for the river season. Workers are on the ways but far from finish due to missing parts and materials. With only a month of favorable business left, the St. Paul may miss sharing the line’s end of season traffic.

St. Paul

Pleasant Afternoon at City Railway Park Concert

Several thousand people enjoyed a first class band concert yesterday at City Railway Park. The pleasant afternoon drew large crowds to the park for the outdoor event with music and social gathering.

City Railway Park

Mrs Percival Hummel Dies at 72 in La Porte

Mrs Percival Hummel died at her home in La Porte at age 72. She had been married 55 years and is survived by her aged husband.

Percival Hummel la Porte

Des Moines Engineer Fairman Disappears Leaving Family Destitute

W. J. Fairman a stationary engineer from Des Moines has vanished leaving a wife and two children in desperate need as his whereabouts remain unknown.

W. J. Fairman Des Moines

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Schaefer Schaefer’s Laundry 2Nd St Reliance Loan Co J. E. Kranz Tom Fagan Orange Street Mount Vernon Quincy T. J. Fay Quincey Lizzie Thiesen Durant H. C. Thiesen Albert St. Clair East Third Street Davenport Helen Blair Royal Neighbors Sunshine Club Henry Dunker Elm Street Harold Purdon West Seventh Street Bayfield Fd. Wild Lute McBride New Hampshire Street Keotu John C. Miller Heinz Nichols Havercamp's Geo. Volger Lulu Germany Fred Miller Fred Switzer Louis Heberly East Hill Court of Honor John Mahin West Second Street Knoxville Geneva Little Chicago Margarette Nichols Wilton Shirley Johnson Locust Street Frank Neidig Cherry Streets Tamisiea East Sixth Street Elsie Jones Hugh Selman Alpha Wabnitz Griff Johnson Hilbert E. E. Mull Chestnut Street Oskaloosa Omaha A. P. O. N. T. Lodge Batterson P Building East Second Street Clarence Schmidt East Seventh Street West Liberty Thos. Keenan Pittsburg Thos. Wilson Pine and Second Streets Lillie Kell Frank Hinkle Kansas City Muscatine Lodge No W. M. Bowman Coon Rapids J. L. Klein Iowa City Treven Blair Ellen Waltman Columbus Junction William Blasimner Cedar Street Mildred Ruffner Little Brother Mt. Pleasant S. A. Wymer Front Orange Streets West Branch Harden George N. Lane Mary Anderson Harry Anderson Marengo Mrs. C. C. Goldsberry D. B. Huffman East Fifth Street Grace Johnson St. Joseph Missouri Pearl Davis T. B. Prosser East Fourth Street G. A. Moore Diamond Jo Line C. C. Smith Edna West Sixth Street Weavercamp Lettie E. Anderson Minersville Pennsylvania J. H. Coon Hoopesville Musserville M. E Edward Eberling John Faulhaber Owen Smith Goll Ball Sporting Goods M. C. Hayes & Co Ogsc Jardinieres Butz’s Fair Home Savings Bank Paudhet Muscatine Judson Kempton First Baptist Church Mississippi Chas. Whitmore Boatman Barnard's Model Laundry Blanchard Blanchard Packing CO H. F. Barnard Co., Jewelers Watch Inspectors C., R. J. & P. Ry
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