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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1905
Page
7
Numerous residents and visitors in Burlington spent the holiday period with relatives in nearby cities. People named include Mrs J C Van Lent, Miss Maude Sawyer, Prof Witter, Miss Velma Gray, and Grover Wiegand recently home from the Minneapolis cruiser. Advertisements promote Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for health, with several local tweaks and travel mentions throughout.
The funeral of N Oakes, born 1828 in Germany, who died at his Iowa City home Tuesday, was conducted Saturday. He married Mary Shaffer, and they lived in Columbus City area for 47 years. Survived by wife and five sons and one daughter, with many relatives visiting during his illness. A local basketball game at the opera house saw the scrubs win 22 to 19 the previous night. Numerous notes of travel and visits among local residents fill the remainder of this society page.
M W Cook writes from Fairbury Nebraska on how IA place names honor Native leaders. He notes Keokuk Appanoose Wapello Poweshiek Mahaska Black Hawk Tama Monona Muscatine and others, explains etymologies and historic contexts, and suggests Louisa Floyd and Des Moines names’ origins.
The secretary of state plans a new section in the Official Register listing faculty, officers, instructors, and lecturers for all forty colleges in Iowa. It seeks names, degrees, chairs, president, control, establishment date, endowment, income, permanent improvements, courses of study, degree years, and totals for attendance and graduates. Governing board names and addresses will be included.
Omaha dispatch reports a major expansion in Nebraska land fraud cases with 40 federal agents gathering evidence for a special grand jury. Cattlemen Richards and Comstock tied to new investigations, after light penalties prompted dismissals of Postmaster Baxter and U S Marshal Matthews. ex-Postmaster Crowe’s conduct under review.
Public notice to property owners and residents that all sidewalks must be kept clean and free from ice and snow under city ordinances. Snow or ice left for ten hours will be removed by the city without notice, and removal costs charged to the adjoining property. By order of the city council. R. O. McGaughey, City Marshal.
In Chicago on December 27 a wedding set for Holy Name Cathedral on New Year’s Day was postponed indefinitely as the groom Charles K. Warren disappears. The bride Agnes O Donoghue lies ill. Warren, a Monon railroad employee, is missing. Warren’s father says the son is alive and on business in New Orleans. rumors of robbery or foul play persist.
A garbled item notes holiday excursion fares from the Iowa Central Railway for December 25 24 25 and January 1 1906 with tickets at one and one third fare limited for return by January 4th 1906. Details and folders available.
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