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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1900
Page
5
The Young People’s Temperance Union of the city announces a December 28 gathering at Miss Augusta Bertram’s home with member speeches and brief addresses. Expect music, decorations, and refreshments as the group discusses city moral issues and stricter enforcement of the Mulct Law in saloons.
Invitations issued this afternoon for a large society ball the Friday after Christmas at Armory Hall. Managers Leigh Lewis and Edward Schmidt sent about two hundred invitations to the city’s elite. The event closes a six dance series that has provided festive recreation, with Company C parlors secured and card tables available for guests.
In Red Willow County Nebraska the writer praises a healthy climate with no malaria and robust stock. He notes practical farming success, high cattle weights, early spring work, and profitable crops like wheat alfalfa and sugar beets. mentions cheap land, schoolhouses, churches, and a county treasury of over $60,000 with taxes due next year.
Jerry Mahoney works cutting wood across the river this winter. Mr and Mrs David Chandler welcome a newborn daughter. Dick Longstreth engages in butchering this winter. The Baker house on Sherman Street, by the Dale brothers, nears plastering and completion. Theodore Martins hand injury improves but Will keep him inactive for some time. A letter from Mrs James White in Birmingham England describes a stormy ocean voyage with the Little American, and a plan to return in April.
A clerk and shopper discuss preferring higher quality items than the current selection in a Philadelphia store. The exchange suggests a desire for more expensive merchandise and improved goods.
The speaker recalls farming in Iowa for twenty eight years and in Muscatine county since 1852. He closes with a holiday greeting to old Iowa friends, wishing a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Signed Wm. Coleman.
Hawsomever. The store touts a fine line of Christmas goods and invites shoppers to visit Thompson's Book Store to explore a curated selection for the season.
A Brooklyn note humorously questions boiling water for drinking. A joking line contrasts preferring a menagerie to a cemetery, reflecting city life wit in the period.
Iowa accepts offers from California and Stanford to play two postseason games on Christmas and New Year’s in San Francisco and Palo Alto. The squad, though out of training, will travel tonight and practice on arrival. Board of Control approved 9 to 1. Team outlook figures to improve after rest. Brockway remains ill and Warner injures ankle.
Desks arrive for new school room and crowded condition prompts calls for relief. Col Ham of Georgia gave a popular lecture on Snolly Foster in Politics. Various local visits, marriages, fireside entertainments, and notes on band practice, insurance officers, and vacations fill the community bulletin.
Market report from H J Toher Co shows Chicago board figures for Wheat Corn Oats Pork Lard and Ribs with Dec Jan May prices and daily high low and close. Live stock receipts indicate hogs cattle and sheep with opening and closing strength and Kansas City Omaha and Northwest receipts.
Muscatine markets report grain prices for corn at 28 to 30 cents, oats at 20 to 22 cents, rye 40 cents, wheat around 15 60, and flour varying per sack. Hay Timothy around 8.50 to 9.50, Illinois bottom hay 4 to 5, buckwheat 60 cents. Hogs four dollars to four fifty, cattle butcher stock three to three and a half, calves about 4.90.
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