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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1902
Page
5
Cheap John announces relocation to the old Nick Neven Second Hand Store at Second and Mulberry streets. It will close out stock at great bargains to make room for new inventory and offers to buy second hand goods at full value. Call or send address for a visit. 501 Mulberry Street.
The Muscatine Evangelical alliance schedules January 4 to 11 for a world wide week of prayer with daily union meetings at 3 p m in a rotating church order. On Sabbath pastors deliver sermons and suggested topics focus on church unity missions and youth.
In a Union Signal poem Mary A. Lathbury narrates a girl leaving to elect seeds for the poor sick in a hospital. She greets flowers with generous thanks requesting pansy, poppy, and sweet pea seeds to share, imagining a future garden that helps others.
Through passenger service will be established for season on January 5 1903 over Pennsylvania Short Line via Louisville Macon and Atlanta. Leave Chicago 8 40 p m arrive Jacksonville and St Augustine second morning. Dining and observation cars. Ask H R Dering A G P Agt 248 South Clark St Chicago about it.
Washington D C Dec 27 Many inquiries are being received at the post office department from the north west relative to the delay in establishing rural routes which have been reported favorably by officials in the field Sup t Machen explains few establishments are now being authorized for the reason that funds are not available nor extensions There is sufficient on hand for any other purpose One appropriation bill pending contains an item of 500 000 for the establishment of routes many of them in the northwest which have been approved
The Salvation Army distributed about 60 baskets to the poor on Christmas Day and hosted an evening entertainment for children at the hall. The crowd enjoyed candy, nuts and toys, making many homes brighter, as officers thank supporters for making the event a pleasant occasion.
The Lehigh Valley Rail Road offers vestibuled limited trains from Buffalo to New York and via Niagara Falls from Chicago and the West. Dining car service a la carte, with stopovers allowed at Niagara Falls on through tickets to New York and Philadelphia.
The Muscatine Journal tops Iowa holiday editions with thirty six pages, followed by the Corning Union Republican with twenty four pages, leading all smaller town papers.
A quoted exchange centers on trust, with one speaker questioning reliability and the other admitting confidence only in a person’s self interest. The remark frames caution about those pursuing their own advantage.
Mrs James Chapman came home to Weisman after a visit in the city. Leigh Loomis returned to Ottumwa to begin duties at the Courier. Roy Hill and Ben Brant returned home from Geneseo after visiting several days. Miss Cora Summerville left for Columbus Junction to visit. Mrs A Wade returned from N Bast's home to Wellman. Mrs M Dale returned to Riverside after visiting Mrs Hertzler.
Society notes recount a Christmas dance at the new Armory hosted by Prof. F Leslie Clendinin with Parudhet orchestra, plus a Baptist church Christmas night program and a Christmas Eve marriage of Frank L Ferra and Marie H Schauland at Lucas Street home. Fetrows to reside at 502 West Sixth Street.
Miss Effie Robinson aged 16 and Carl Hoyt aged 17 eloped from Bishop Hill in Henry county driving seventy five miles amid a northwest gale to wed in Dewitt Iowa. Police captured them and the fathers brought them home where Hoyt was whipped and the bride to be scolded.
The undersigned pledge to refund the price of a 50 cent bottle of Greene’s Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure coughs or colds. A 25 cent bottle is also guaranteed to prove satisfactory or money refunded. Signers include G A Riemcke and N B Barkalow.
A slim young woman in a sporting goods store explains that a pricey racket she bought as a birthday gift broke during the first trial and seeks a new one. The clerk, amused by her polite explanation, promises to replace it and the next day the firm ships a new racket.
The Iowa Central railway will offer excursion tickets for homeseekers on the first and third Tuesdays of November December January February March and April 1903 to selected points. The program aims to promote settlement by providing affordable travel to prospective settlers.
In the west southwest south and southeast at the low rate of one fare plus $2.00 for round trip limited 21 days from date of sale. For full details inquire of any Iowa Central ticket agent or address A B Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn. Pay you to call for rates and further information.
On the first and third Tuesday of each month until April 1903 the Iowa Central R A will sell colonist tickets to points in Arkansas Southwest Missouri Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska South Dakota and more at extremely low rates for those regions if you are planning a trip to any of them.
Waterloo, Dec 27. The third annual Iowa Gideons convention opens today with Christian traveling men as members. Local organizers strive to make this convention the most profitable yet with a very large attendance expected.
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