For Rent: Two Good Houses and One Store Room
Two good houses and a store room available for rent. All in well condition and suitable for residential or storage use.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1901
Page
8
Two good houses and a store room available for rent. All in well condition and suitable for residential or storage use.
Several residents travel and visitations noted across the Tri-Cities including Mrs. J A Leyda in the area yesterday and Mrs. C A Mull on a Quincy to St Paul journey. The Quincy port call carried freight and passengers en route to St Paul while many individuals are listed visiting relatives and returning home.
The Rock Island Route offers one fare round trip from Iowa points for the Epworth League Assembly in Colfax. Sale dates August 7 to 18, return by August 19, 1901. Information from any Rock Island agent or John Sebastian G P A Chicago TM 723817.
Yeomen schedule a regular meeting this evening replacing August 14. Members are earnestly urged to attend. Per order.
Many residents and visitors are noted in today’s column arriving and departing by rail and coach. Among them are Fred Bierman returning from St Paul. Misses Braun and Knopp visiting Keokuk. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett from near Wapello. Mrs. Shields to Burlington via Nichols. and numerous others touring Cedar Rapids Lincoln Nebraska and Europe bound.
The regular annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America gathers in Hartford Aug 7 for three days with delegates from across the United States. The event features executive council meetings at Allyn House, daily religious exercises, and prominent clergy and lay members. A closing excursion on the Connecticut River to Saybrook and a Sound trip are planned.
To Black Hawk Tower, tickets for groups of ten or more are available at Tie. The park announces a new management team this year, with a cooperative new manager making visits pleasant for guests.
A daylight rail journey from Buffalo to New York via the Lehigh Valley offers a pleasant experience with every comfort provided. Through tickets to New York and Philadelphia allow a stop-over at Buffalo.
Social evening featured games music and refreshments as Miss Tena Elferg hosted Miss Laura Runge and friends. River beach scenes at Neetelbush's Point drew about 50 youths for swimming and lunch with groups including Gretchen Legler Alice Hayes Edna Giesler Ida Ashcraft Helen Tappe and Cedar Rapids visitor Gordon Morecabe. Mississippi forecast notes river likely to fall between Dubuque and Muscatine through Aug 8 1901.
Lawton residents form a vigilance committee led by business men to curb gambling, robbery, and murder in the boom town. After weekend gambling successes, locals publish a formal notice to stop all unlicensed games in and around Lawton.
The graduating class of 1900 will meet to arrange a class reunion and banquet in Muscatine this September. A committee led by Mrs Alice Hayes and Messrs Paul Tudler and Edgar Francis is in charge of the plans.
The Banner Lodge Moonlight excursion attracted over 650 attendees last evening. Panachet's band provided excellent music as excursionists enjoyed a pleasant river ride and a well spent evening.
Chicago presage asserts a coming downturn following a peak in prosperity. Professor Edwin Erle Sparks of the University of Chicago notes that trusts arise from prosperity and that strikes appear only in boom times, predicting a period of financial low mood in the United States.
The W R C ladies arrange a trip to Ev Brandenburg's summer cottage at Fairport tomorrow. It is predicted that the number taking the Urania in the morning will reach a score.
The W. R. C. and the Foreign Missionary Society of the M E church together with the Ladies Aid Society have all voted adversedly to serving dinner on the day of the Woodmen Log Rolling Picnic in this community.
Messrs. Smeenk and Timm begin construction of a new cottage at Neselbush's Point and expect completion within a few weeks.
Washington reports the Iowa patents granted includes Charles Loker Kensett animal trap Charles Blake Hawarden time indicator John Cole Des Moines automatic band cutter and self feeder Frederick Heidenrich Hedrick kiln John Jobtmoon and E O Henderson Okoboji balanced valve Charles Kahn Russell machine for making wire fences Paul Paulson Irwin account ledger Jesse Wells Des Moines buggy top James Zearing and T McWhorter Des Moines engraving plate Orrin Zimmerman Hampton grain thresher and separator T H Lewh band Des Moines governor for gas generator J L Macy Des Moines incubator.
The Fraternal Brotherhood of the World will hold a special session tomorrow evening and a large attendance is expected as important business is to be considered.
Muscatine Tent No. 9 updated members last evening by initiating six candidates into the mysteries and welcoming 17 new applications. A smoker is planned for next Tuesday evening with State Commander J. M. Emerson in attendance to explain merits of the order.
Miss Alice Walton Beatty will hold a reception for the Clerk's Union at her residence this month. The date is undecided. Clerks will be boarded in wagons at their lodge quarters and driven together to the Beatty home.
The House of Commons unanimously adopted a motion to present an address of sympathy to King Edward and Kaiser Wilhelm on the death of the Dowager Empress Frederick. The event was noted in London on August 7.
Five hundred San Francisco teamsters walked out in sympathy with city federation strikers. Labor leaders act cautiously on expanding the strike while anger over rough dispersal methods raises fears of further trouble.
Chicago markets report a daily mix of grain and livestock futures with Wheat around 70 to 71 percent, Corn near 56 percent, Oats mid 340s, and Rib and Hogs prices steady. Receipts show 33 000 hogs, 23 000 cattle. Kansas City and Omaha hogs noted. weather outlook mostly cooler with light frosts in parts of Minnesota and Dakotas.
A brief note invites readers to take a break at Clear Lake with rest and entertainment. It mentions Towa offering fishing, sausage and hathine as local pleasures and promotes low tourist rates through the Towa Central railway. Readers are urged to ask the ticket agent for details.
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