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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1903
Page
8
Notices invite attendance at Wilton fair on September 8 to 10 and report Muscatine mass meeting about reinstating the 9:30 p.m. Rock Island train. Local residents, merchants, and officials discuss petitions and relief measures amid upcoming events and regattas on the river.
Special train at 7 will take Masons to Wilton for third degree work and return at 11. Fare 50 cents round trip. Open to any persons wishing to spend the evening with friends in Wilton. Chas. H. Gobble, Committee.
If you want Choice Investments or to borrow money or buy a home or insure property secure 1st mortgage loans call or visit. Tel. 109. G. M. TITUS, 118 Iowa Avenue.
Tomorrow and Wednesday this week the McColm Dry Goods Co. will display and offer for sale a complete assortment of dress goods silks waistings and table linens. The event runs Tuesday the 25th and Wednesday the 26th.
The Muscatine district Court of Honor No. 677 meets tonight in regular session with initiation and refreshments. All members are requested to attend.
Citizens will assemble at City Hall tonight at 7 30 for a mass meeting. Discussion will cover the Rock Island Road removal of Wilton train and the initial steps toward relief funding. Large attendance urged.
Tomorrow evening the St Matthias band concert and lawn sociable will be held under the ladies of the church. All arrangements are complete for a general good time. Concert begins at 7 30 sharp.
The river year 1903 proved favorable for boatmen. High spring water was usually followed by low midsummer flows, making navigation unreliable and often leaving vessels stranded on sandbanks despite efforts to free them.
As July ends and August begins the river runs deep enough to ease navigation after years of sand bars. River workers recall eras of four foot depths and boat layups while this year brings abundant water and steady steamship trips. Delays come only from mechanical mishaps or freight handling challenges.
The steamer St Paul being rebuilt by Diamond Jo Line at Dubuque will miss this summer’s passenger traffic. A boilermakers strike or related delays push back completion, after earlier reports she would begin service by late June.
The forty first annual West Liberty fair concluded Friday night, featuring 1 400 single tickets sold Wednesday, 4 400 Thursday, and 1 500 Friday. Judges were distant experts, the fine art display impressed, and receipts from meals totaled 402 dollars, with expenses near 160 dollars, profits aiding the Ladies Aid of the M E church.
The article notes families camping on the grounds and R. A. Griffith visiting with exhibits a few days earlier. Grace and Day Newsom at the M. E. parsonage are improving after illness. Miss Ethel Dickerson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Dickerson, fell while cleaning floors Saturday morning injuring her back and is in pain.
Prices listed for grains and produce including corn oats wheat bran shorts and rye with figures per cwt bushel and sack. Live stock cattle hogs sheep and lambs along with dairy items and fruits shown with unit prices and ranges.
The list shows fruit prices for Bananas at 2.00 or 15 for 25 cents per dozen, Oranges at 40 cents per dozen, and Figs at 20 cents per dozen. Fish prices include Catfish, Carp at 6 cents, Black bass at 1.15, and Salmon at 1 loc, reflecting varied per unit listings.
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