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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1903
Page
12
Reminiscences of Muscatine’s Tremont Hall recount famous speakers and events from its 1857 origin to its decline. Notable figures include John B. Gough Wendell Phillips P T Barnum Horace Greeley and Lincoln era activities with Wide Awakes and war efforts. The hall served as lecture venue theater and mobilization center.
A summary of the First Settlers and Old Settlers association in Muscatine from 1856 onward. The record lists meeting dates, leaders, name changes, and notable speakers, highlighting annual reunions, resolutions for Hon. Arthur Washburn, and ongoing community participation across decades.
Hon. Samuel McNutt gave an extended address on Our Passing Years reflecting on forty nine years in Muscatine County and the lessons of youth, duty, and aging. He recalled teaching in Delaware Mississippi and Iowa, named notable former students, and urged steady moral training for children to avoid idle or vicious paths. He noted local figures Mrs. Cort Weed and Rev. Father Ryan among old associates and closed with a Tennyson quote about the river’s eternal flow.
Muscatine County Old Settlers association held its 1903 meeting with a program starting shortly after 2 o clock. Local men presented oratory and reminiscences while families and guests gathered, dined in the park, and heard speakers including John Mahin W S Fultz R B Baird J Scott Richman Mrs Alice Walton Beatty and Samuel McNutt.
Jacob Houser of Muscatine county is cited as the state's oldest bachelor at nearly ninety-one in November. He lives with nephew Morgan Houser near the county poor farm and is described as wealthy and healthy. A tailor recalls making a wedding suit Houser never wore, a claim he denies, noting no serious thought of marriage. Two years ago he attended the old settlers’ gathering.
A satirical Parisian line from La Vie Parisienne mocks a bride’s view of marriage and a staged boating mishap. The dialogue hints at mischief and bravado with a watery grave joke, underscoring light flirtation and theatrical wit.
An elderly banker recalls lending money to a young man to buy an automobile for eloping with his daughter. He laments the audacious motive and the lack of restraint shown by the borrower, noting how enthusiasm crossed into reckless theft of trust.
The Muscatine County Old Settlers Association began with fifteen men who settled Muscatine as the county developed. Leaders included T. S. Parvin, Pliny Fry, Joseph Bridgman, Suel Foster, H. Q. Jennison, H. H. Hine, Zeph Washburn, G. W. Humphreys, J. S. Allen, Myron Ward, William Chambers, Giles Pettibone, A T Banks, J. P. Walton, and Joseph Williams. Brief sketches detail their origins, roles, and contributions to early Bloomington projects, farming, law, and local public life.
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