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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1900
Page
7
The page catalogs births weddings and community events with brief notices from residents and local figures. Highlights include joys from family milestones and reflections on civic and cultural happenings across towns.
W. E. Battey offers latest appliances for accurate fitting at 217 East Second Street. The notice highlights a broad selection and professional service aimed at precise home installations.
A flurry of names shows residents leaving for Davenport Rock Island Letts Canyon City Colorado Springs and What Cheer for business and leisure. Many travelers set for Denver Wilton Mount Pleasant and Tipton while others visit friends in Joliet Illinois and Toronto Ontario. The city notes a Twentieth Century Directory listing 64 dressmakers.
Grand View residents travel to Grinnell for a short visit with J F Swain’s parents in the valley. The community notes hay making corn plowing oat harvest, local accidents, social events, and visits across Cedar Rapids with multiple names and activities.
Multiple real estate listings offer a 260 acre stock and grain farm near Wellman with a large house bank barn and fruit trees, plus 203 acre Illinois farm, a good hotel in a live town, 184 Cedar County acreage, and a $4 000 residence. Exchanges are proposed across properties with cash differences and long balance terms. Contacts invite buyers to call for property sales, exchanges, or purchases.
Arnold and Weidlein sconsed. From Kansas City attends the National Democratic Convention. Mrs. Isaac Storms has been ill three days and a physician was called. Miss Cora Fitzsimmons and Sadie Webster visited Lettsville last week. The Peltons visited Mrs. Liebernecht in Letts Friday. Wm Countryman’s cancer flares again. Mrs. Orren Kemp and children spent the Fourth at Newport. Mr and Mrs G W Webster spent the Fourth in Fairfield visiting sons Herman and Willie. Mrs John A Hahn visits from western Iowa.
A large audience gathered at the Y M C A rooms for a visit by Secretary Jean, a national officer of the Young People's Temperance movement. Mr. Deans Chicago reports praise the movement's future. Members spoke on faults, improvement, and harmony. Plans discussed for a coffee house at Huttig's factory with social and economic aims pending stability. New South Muscatine group shows promising signs.
East Buffalo notes a peaceful Fourth of July with residents visiting Edgington Hayes Grove and Illinois City for celebrations. Murdock family visits Ili nois City and praises Rev Robertson's oration. Muscatine band provides music. Crop prospects look good with hay, barley, and oats advancing. Local families visit kin, while political conventions disappoint Democrats over Bryan-Stevenson ticket and 16 to 1 plank. Eloy Kimball improves after illness. weather mild after a cool spell.
A brief notice urges readers to engage their winter supplies before conditions worsen, highlighting McQuesten & Sawyer Co as the supplier. The call to action emphasizes timely purchase ahead of advancing winter demands.
Island residents spent the Fourth at a picnic at the lower end of the Island while others fished or visited the Wild Cat's Den. Presbyterian student Mr Bryson preached at Fruitland Hall and returned from Pennsylvania. Mr and Mrs Gravatt welcome a daughter born June 27. John O'Brien returned last evening.
Hopewell held a pleasant community event where attendees helped clean the refreshment stand and praised the hosts for a good time. Local residents noted family visits, home improvements by Wm Placke Sr, and plans to dig shells after Mr Elliott built a new boat as crops in the area await rain.
John R. Hirshman of Arkansas stays several weeks in Moscow and will improve his land which may be named Hirshman’s Lake. A May revival sermon by Joe Hanley, family reunions on the Fourth, and farm life updates mark a lively local miscellany with residents visiting relatives and noting good crops and hay.
R. O. Childs of Peorte NJ endorses Reggs German Salve as the best general household remedy for cuts burns scalds old sores and skin diseases. He claims it cures piles permanently and notes availability at J J Havercamp's store.
Humboldt Iowa July 10 B H Harkness aged 70 died at his residence at five in the morning from heart failure after a twelve hour illness. A Republican stalwart active since 1867 he served as postmaster for sixteen years and chaired the county board of supervisors nine years. His death shocks the community and finnerly affects Mrs Harkness who is in Europe.
The advertisement asserts Hood's Sarsaparilla is written in blood of millions, cures stomach nerves kidneys and blood, and benefits thousands with poor appetite tiredness and debility. It proclaims as the best medicine money can buy.
In Sioux City Iowa a dispute over lien priority on the improve ment bond fund has led to a federal court restraining city treasurer Hittle from further disbursements. Otis A. Vickery of Los Angeles seeks $20 000 in bond claims, arguing funds should be segregated for each assessed lot. The total unsatisfied claims exceed $200 000 as the case tests whether bondholders paid first or if funds should be tied to specific properties.
In Oconto Wisconsin on July 10 Mrs Peter Davis died at 10 am from Paris green poisoning. Her sister in law witnessed her drinking a green fluid after a joking threat to end her life. A mustard water dose earlier provided brief relief before she took breakfast and died. Mrs Davis had been married one year and was an Oconto native.
The annual gathering of the Associated Bill Posters of the United States and Canada opened in Atlantic City on July 10 and runs for three days. Members from all regions attend as the West challenges East for control, with talks of a split or power sharing. Key issues include pricing for theatrical and commercial ads and boycotts of nonexclusive advertisers.
The annual Colorado State Sunday School Association convention begins in Denver with five prominent workers Marion Lawrence E C Excell Alexander Henry F Lewis and Robert T Ronsall visiting from Toledo Chicas Columbus Philadelphia Cincinnati on a two month tour across eleven states to review strengthen and encourage northwest Sunday school work.
On July 9, 17, and August 1, 1900 the Iowa Central Ry offers round trip excursion tickets to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Glenwood Springs Salt Lake City Ogden and parts of South Dakota Wyoming at one fare plus two dollars. Tickets valid to return until October 31 1900. Inquiries to ticket agents or Gee S Batty G P T A Marshalltown Iowa.
Halstead and Son promote painting and wallpapering services with focus on quality work and best prices. The ad highlights their long standing expertise and family trade branding.
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