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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1900
Page
7
Various morning departures and arrivals around Muscatine. Emil Kranz traveled to Ottumwa. Ida Smith and other residents left for Newton Cedar Rapids and Chicago visits. Found coat reported. Rock Island offers 1.75 round trip to Burlington for Saengerfest. local stores advertise mat photo frames.
Daily Doings from Muscatine area neighbors cover births engagements visits and gatherings. Personal social and political items provide a snapshot of local life and notable happenings among residents and community figures.
Miss Harrie Houser visits Springfield. Hillsboro trip ends for Foss Corley. Wagner family returns from Kansas. Pickering family back from Colorado. Rev. Schreckengast preaches at M E. Funeral for Adaline Coyle Smith at the West Liberty M E Church with a large homegoing attendance. D. D. Smith, Ottumwa, and other relatives attend.
Property listings offer a 260 acre stock and grain farm near Wellman with a large 10 room house, bank barn, sheds, and extensive improvements plus other neighborhood bargains. Features include a 203 acre Illinois stock farm, a Cedar county 184 acre exchange option, and several hotel properties with trade or cash options. Call for details on exchanges, prices, and qualification.
A large number of war veterans expect to attend the national encampment in Chicago while Wm. Downey and family visit Muscatine Island. Farmers have threshed oats from 30 to 50 bushels per acre. Dry hot weather is trying but tolerable. corn and pastures need rain.
Town residents greet the potential Weed Park streetcar line while noting new home construction by George Hanley in Riverview addition. Local updates include visits by John Robertson of Mt. Pleasant, business in town by Smith Hubbard, and a new son born to Bornie Lev Newman and wife.
Onesimus Stoker of Columbus Nebraska writes of a late night train layover in Omaha on the Union Pacific main line. He notes cooler dry air lighter wind southward and a dry spell in the Platte with scarce fishing pools and a breakfast of catfish pike and bass. He mentions cattle and sheep in western lands and recalls crack the whip train riding memories.
Mr and Mrs Geo W Wibber of Grandview visit and feature Chester White hog farming with over 300 swine. They plan six local telephone lines connecting to Grandview at $15 startup each, using wire fences as poles and Ed Gray to assist with connections. Early adopters include Wibber Schafer Dodder Ben Lieberknecht, with more to join soon as farmers gain phones.
Miss Mary Schwim dies of dropsy in Davenport with funeral at G. E. church and interment at Wildash cemetery. The notices mention visits, travels, and illnesses of local residents including Mrs Jas Boot, Mrs Clara Hughes and families, and others in surrounding towns.
Chas C Walter attended a quarterly Joy meeting with the presiding elder returning to Mr Vannata’s then Hazel Dell. Mrs Frank Walter returned home from Aledo where her Babe is under physician care. the child appears healthy. Old Mercer To residents announce an Aug 7 picnic in Aledo, with F Colline and wife of Muscatine mentioned among readers.
Elder D. S. Holmes attends the Moses Rob erts estate land sale in Rock Island. The youngest son purchases the land, enabling the widow and mother to gain a home with the son. Local notes mention other community happenings and hot weather.
R Lee threshing reported last week with Henry Bedwell threshing Monday. Miss Myrtle Foster Sundayed with Ina Wagner. Rev Mullen was Cedar Bethel superintendent last Sunday. Miss Lelia Lowe worked for Mrs Bill Lowe. Ettie Wagner visited Sweet Johnston. Mrs Isaac Wagner ill but improving. Eva Lee absent from Sunday school due to sickness. Mrs H Bedwell and Flava Wagner shopped in Columbus Junction Saturday night.
R O Childs of Peoria Illinois extols Reggs' German Salve as the best general household remedy. He claims it cures cuts burns scalds old sores and all skin diseases and asserts it is the sole pile cure that permanently cures. Available at J J Havercamp's.
Beeville Texas August 7 The third annual meeting of the Texas Truck Growers Association opened with members from across the state in attendance. Debates on railroad rates shipping stopping of ruinous competition insect control raising articles out of season irrigation and other topics were scheduled for discussion.
In Hokah and La Crescent area farmers faced a smooth swindler posing as government payroll staff and horse buyer. He offered to buy a horse for 200 dollars, received 180 dollars cash after a forged draft failed, and vanished before delivery in Caledonia.
The Interstate Telephone Company in Terre Haute Indiana gathered regional representatives to agree on proration bases for long distance use across multiple firm lines. Delegates hailed from Danville Casey Hume Oakland Ridge Farm Chrisman Mattoon Marshall Illinois and Terre Haute Rockville Clinton Greencastle Indiana.
A reflective maxim notes that many fail by wasting time on others' business rather than focusing on personal goals. It emphasizes self direction and time management.
A public notice proclaims Osteopathy as taught by the A B O at Kirksville Missouri. The promotion invites townspeople to try the science, asserting health as natural and disease as mechanical disruption of circulation. Free thirty day consultation and examination offered. office hours 9 am to 5 pm, Sunday closed.
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