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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
6
Local market prices list corn oats wheat barley and hay with receipts for new produce. Hogs cattle calves sheep lambs and retail food costs follow, including flour sugar coffee butter eggs lard bacon cheese and fruits vegetables and fish, plus coal and wood fuel rates.
Ho ward Hetzler assists Mr. Grete with work while George M. Grimm returns from Dexter. Jester family visits J S Hetzler for Thanksgiving. Sick with scarier fever Boardman Cole. Emma Grimm visits Aunt Mrs Jacob Grimm Pleasant Prairie. John Batchelor family moves to Peter Aller farm. Community members attend Christian Endeavor at Pleasant Prairie.
The Muscatine area faces a shortage of country teachers as salaries of 25 to 30 dollars a month fail to attract young educators. Many leave for button factories and stores in winter, while directors discuss raising wages to 40 or 50 dollars. Nearby counties report the same trend, prompting calls for better pay and retention.
An old style advertisement extolling Dr Fenner’s Kidney and Backache Cure. It claims to purify blood by healthy kidneys and cure backache gout rheumatism and other diseases caused by tissue waste. It lists sizes 50 cents and $1.00 and directs readers to contact Dr M M Fenner Fredonia NY and Havercamp's Prescription drug store.
Miss Edith Sterling returns home to New Era Iowa. Thanksgiving service at New Era chapel led by Rev Lundquest praised crops and stewardship. An evening program featured Mr Blomquest, singing lessons noted, social after, children and seniors enjoying games and refreshments. Next Sunday services and choir music planned. teacher meeting before Sunday school.
Six to eight inches of snow fell in Sweetland Iowa slowing husking. Twin boys arrived to Mr and Mrs Peter Berhmel. J H Harris attended the Chicago fat stock show. J H Van Camp and family moved to the old homestead. Earl Pace moved into vacant farm. Ed Hesson moved to Jasper County. Emma Taylor returned from Detroit. Mrs Miller under doctor care. Funeral of Thomas Winnemore attended in Muscatine. Maud Young visited Duffield home. Moots welcomed a newborn son.
Unattached readers share gratitude for Uncle Sam, neighbors visit relatives in Princeton Iowa, Swan and Farrel families gather, Frank Flinter and family visit, Arthur Weed bedridden with hand boils, Mrs. Hiram Deepping unwell, Miss Ellen Moylan helps with home use, Lulu Oopping brightens Cedarville telephone line with music, J W Frater calls in Mascatine, Swain visits Ransome family and newborn daughter, snow damages telephone lines with breaks at Holmes and Gertz houses.
Washington Iowa news lists visits by Ed Bovee and others to Chicago and Des Moines as well as local moves including C E Hening to Macomb and brick paving plans for the square. Rev. Jas R Logue will leave for Buffalo after 20 years here. Widespread social and travel notes accompany license issuance to Colin Ruth and Myrtle Pickey.
Lee King leaves for Marengo to begin farming next spring after three years with John Farrer. J W Flater heads to Chicago then Maryland for winter. Revival services begin at M E church as Cedarville school opens with 22 pupils. Miss Katie Flater enters her third year teaching. New mail carrier Joseph Smith begins rounds from West Liberty.
Traveler's Guide lists trains between Chicago and denizens including Chicago, Omaha, St Louis, Denver, Memphis, Colorado, Peoria, Fort Worth, St Joseph, St Paul, Kansas City, Minneapolis and beyond. It details departure times for Nos 12 30 16 and 66 freight and massenger services, special Golden State Limited, vestibule trains Nos 11 12 15 16 and service to Evans and Washington and through runs to Kansas City El Paso City of Mexico and California.
Readable segments show times and routes with partial names and notes. The fragment references an item labeled Main Line and Westbound departures with times around 4:20 and 4:49, plus scattered route identifiers and platform notes.
The Muscatine North and South by Co lists daily southbound and northbound trains with departure and arrival times from Muscatine Roundhouse Fruitland Grandview Wapello Elrick Jet and Muscatine, noting Sundays excluded. No. 3 No. 1 southbound. No. 2 No. 4 northbound.
Train No 1 at Wapelle arrives Burlington 1 50 pm and connects to Peoria Monmouth and east. Train No 3 at Wapelle arrives Burlington 10 pm and serves Elrick Junction with east and west routes to Oskaloosa Grimer Marshalstown Mason City Minneapolis and St Paul. Saturday service from Elrick Junction 8 pm to Muscatine 9 30 pm links with Iowa Central No 5 from Peoria. Monday Muscatine 5 20 am to Elrick 7 am connects to Iowa Central for Peoria Monmouth and east. Charles Hioward general agent.
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