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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1902
Page
4
Pianos selling fast with fifteen more to be sold this week. Stock includes all styles and finishes from $250 instruments on sale from $125 upward to higher grades. Open evenings with easy terms and low payments. buy this week for a lower price than spot cash.
The Muscatine public library reports a rise in November circulation to 4555 volumes issued over 24 days with an average daily circulation of 189 and 65 out of town visitors. Compared with October’s 3808, the month shows a 747 increase aided by three more open days and recent gifted books from local citizens.
Des Moines dispatch reports Col. Horton of the Soldiers' Home was re-elected to commandant by the trustees. The decision pleases Muscatine friends who commend his successful leadership.
Local brief notes that Titus and Jackson purchase a home, with notations about property transfer and a neighborhood welcome. The item records a simple real estate transaction without further detail.
Items list local people with illnesses marriages and legal notices. A marriage license was issued to J. L. Tarpy and Agnes B. Tipton. Various residents recoveries, hospital notes, and city sessions are noted along with a mental health case at the county facility.
In La Crosse Wisconsin on December 1 an aged horse owned by William Bristow drowned after leaping from the river bank into deep water. Witnesses say the act appears self inflicted, noting the animal habitually wandered toward the Black River to drink but never before failed to return.
Senor Herran of the Columbia legation said Minister Concha must go to New York due to ill health and that Herran is empowered to conduct Panama canal negotiations for Colombia in Concha's absence. The move relieved the State Department amid fears negotiations would stall.
Mrs. Albert Olds is ill and hopes to recover soon. Mrs. Frank Healey improves after sickness. John Housman remains ill. McCoy family relocating to the city. Thanksgiving dinners shared and funds donated to Salvation Army. Healey Gibbs line down. Dorcas Sewing society enjoyed a day at Mrs Shoe maker's. Shiloh scholars attend Kalorama as Shiloh school is closed. Fat Stock Show in Chicago looms this week. Welcomes to newcomers Walters family. No society next month. January report awaited.
The annual tax sale at the treasurer's office drew a large crowd but offered the smallest list in years. Remaining properties will be sold next Monday at 10 o'clock. H. H. Arnold and Howard M. Bartlett led purchases while James Featherstone was absent abroad. No major assets like water works were offered this year.
Helen Blair of Ottumwa, a resident of a house run by Alice Walton, swallowed a bichloride tablet on Saturday to end her life. A physician used a stomach pump to save her, and she is reported recovering. Neighbors claim similar incidents occurred but were not reported.
A light bay mare weighing about a thousand pounds is taken up by Gordon Bennett of Fruitland Iowa. The horse is blind in the right eye and has a wire cut on the right front foot.
The First M E Church hosts a series of mid week events including a Monday Bible study at the parsonage at 7 30 pm and an officials board meeting in the church parlor. Thursday prayer meeting in the lecture room is followed by the Sunday school teachers monthly business meeting. Choir practice is also listed. Friday hosts all day sewing at Mrs Mac Colm s East Fifth street for the Christmas sale supper with many workers needed.
A hostess asks Freddie how he enjoyed his dinner. The boy replies that their home meals aren’t better, but there is more of it.
Under auspices of the Federation of Women's Clubs of the city another popular lecture will be given at the P M Musser public library Tuesday evening by Prof C C Nutting of the state university. The subject is The sea bottom and Its Inhabitants and a stereopticon will be used.
On Tuesday December 2 the C R I P will run a special train from Muscatine at 7 15 p m to Lone Tree and return after exercises Fare for round trip is 50 cents Cc M Gould
Yeomen are requested to attend a social at Mrs. Howards South Muscatine. Meet at 7:20 to arrive by 7:30. Refreshments will be served by the hostess with guests asked to contribute. All Yeomen urged to attend.
A child asks a paradoxical family question to her mother about a hypothetical sister relation. The dialogue centers on whether the speaker would be her own aunt under a playful but puzzling family scenario.
We thank our neighbors and friends and the Button Workers for kind assistance during our recent bereavement. Royster.
A humorous dialogue captures small Johnny negotiating a quiet moment for a quarter, and Mrs Waggs remarks about her husband’s drinking as a failing, while Mrs Jaggs counters misinformed claims, noting it as his pronounced success.
A humorous dialogue from Puck contrasts a “storage battery” term with a child’s misinterpretation and a South American tourist’s quip about insurrections. The exchange riffs on language and misunderstanding in a light caption.
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