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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1900
Page
6
RE agents for the United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company of Baltimore Maryland announce official bonds including court bonds and employes bonds furnished.
Regular session notes proposals and committee reports including new accounts, street work, and elections. Resolutions mourn the death of Oswald Pressler and call for mourning drapes. Funds approved for street extensions, ditch cleaning, and tax assessments on properties. council adjourns to next call of the mayor.
In the meantime patrons are invited to have watch and clock repair work done by Realing the Watch maker at 205 West Second Street as a temporary service.
Stockton notes E F Jockheck rode to Durant last Thursday and shipped hogs without 90 pounders. Dozens comment on weather. The C R I & P R R may move the hand car house back here soon, prompting new houses. Mrs Eliza Williams plans to reside in Stockton. local teacher Miss Haller walked three miles in rain to catch a train. A Mische house fire sparked a townwide scramble for half-burned shingles. Bell and belfry await painting, with uncertain timing.
Little Willie Brunson is sick. Mrs. John Brunson of Paris visits. D Fowler to care for Mr. Croft’s home and stock. George Schmidt loses valuable horse. Mrs. Mockmore and children visit Oxford. No prayer meeting due to bad weather. Lodge initiates two members. total 25. Ice houses filling with 18 inch dam ice. Mr. Carter arrives to replace operator Craft, who travels to Kansas City Friday. Sabbath school officers elected. Miss McCleary has a birthday party at Mrs. Stull’s home with candy making and games.
East Buffalo Illinois community reports healthy child after illness, straw delivered by Dale Holmes, weather warm yet cloudy with frost fears. Walter Kimball ships rye to Reynolds, J W Morehead rents near Illinois City moving corn and family. Whitlocks visit Boney relatives. phone lines spread through county. Mrs Ives near death in Joy. J Smith and A W Murdock promote Court of Honor in Hamlet and Buffalo Prairie. surprise birthday party at M Lord farm ends with gold watch for Cora.
Readers are told catarrh is curable in all stages by Hall's Catarrh Cure, taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer one hundred dollars for any failing case and urge sending for testimonials from F. J. Carney & Co. in Toledo Ohio. Druggists stock these pills for family use.
Maurice Whitacre visited Downey on business. Rev and Mrs Bradley to spend next Sunday at Keota. G T Sheldon shipped a car load of hogs to Chicago on Friday. Mrs M Lennabough entertains two nieces from West Branch. Rev Wade C Barclay left for Evanston Thursday to study. Mesdames Henderson and Pickering hosted visiting ladies Thursday and Friday afternoons. I O O F held annual banquet in the opera house Thursday night with about two hundred attendees and a hearty, enjoyable affair.
Washington Chapter No. 4 Royal Arch Masons convene tonight at 7 30 for work in the Mark Masters degree by order of the M E H Priest Geo C Winn serves as Secretary and announces the session.
Local notice seeks buyers of cottonwood sycamore elm and basswood timber. Inquiries should be directed to the South Muscatine Lumber Co Muscatine Iowa for price information.
A compact reflection notes that some learned individuals know many things that prove false. The saying contrasts wisdom with factual accuracy and warns against overconfidence in incorrect beliefs.
Wet weather brings sickness while prosperity grows in Nichols with a new bank opera house and churches. School attendance remains strong as Mr Bodman and Mr Baker take on new duties. Community letters spark caution. a dance featuring Smid and others draws the largest crowd yet.
The grand jury visited the county farm yesterday afternoon to verify State Board of Control reports on sanitation and staffing. Conflicting reports about infirmary conditions circulated, and the jury plans to consider recommending more staff if findings confirm the concerns.
Material from a Muscatine Iowa health column urges readers to consider dietary choices and safe eating practices. It references food safety tips and local resources for guidance.
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