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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
3
The Daily Journal is the official Muscatine paper issued every evening on weekdays except Sunday. The Semi-Weekly Journal appears on Tuesday and Friday nights if pages are ready.
Regional news roundup across towns including Wapello West Liberty Mon tezuma and Millersburg. Journal staff gathers stories about local people and events from multiple correspondents for a broad countrywide readership.
Monday and Tuesday with his cousin Harold Hankins. Mrs. Elizabeth Brockway travels to Morning Sun to visit relatives. Mrs. D. C. McKee and Mrs. John Hankins were Muscatine visitors Tuesday.
Farmers finished corn planting and plowed. Edna Stiles from near Atalissa visited the Naumans. Pleasant View orchestra enjoyed an evening with Levi Wilkinson. Mrs Dana Boldt visited Wm Boldt. Odd Fellows decorated. Mr and Mrs D Nauman visited Tom Nauman near Wilton. Laura Moor and son Morley of Leadville arrived to summer with Mrs W S Pool. Mrs Laurence Peters visited Mrs Fred Wolf. Frank Pingrees and Mrs John Wiley entertained at J M Stearns. Grandma Buckman staying with W E Buckman. Mrs Gus Davison attended Rebecca convention at Wapello. Misses Nora and Elva Markley called at S B Osborn's. Mowry family from Baxter visited Lane's. Fred Wolf building a new barn. School closed with an interesting program. Mr Wilkinson returning for fall term after Cedar Falls summer school. Arthur Stevens family visited Stevens home.
Subscribers receive daily carrier delivery and weekly collection at ten cents per week. Daily one year costs 3.00 by man. Semi weekly one year 40. Circulation guaranteed to exceed all competing papers and at least three times that of any other daily.
Marlborough head Frank J. Stillman runs the Washington bureau while La Coste and Maxwell oversee New York at 140 Nassau Street and Payne and Young run the Chicago office at 948 Marquette Building.
The Journaines set up distribution agencies in Kecklerville Chayka's grocery West Muscatine Sharrar's grocery South Muscatine Morse Washburn's store along the end of the street car track. Extra papers will be on sale every night at these locations. Regular subscribers missing by the carrier can pick up papers there.
Republicans of Muscatine County Iowa meet at the courthouse in Muscatine on June 20 1903 at 1 30 pm to choose seventeen delegates for the state convention at Des Moines July 1 1903 and to elect a county chairman. Representation bases include one delegate per township ward and per twenty votes or a fraction over ten for W B Martin secretary of state in 1902.
Lake Township Republicans convene Friday evening June 19 at Lucas Grove School House at 8 o'clock to select delegates for the county convention. T. J. Hoopes, Committeeman.
Seventy Six Township will hold a Republican caucus at the No 4 school on Friday evening June 19 to choose four delegates for the county convention scheduled for June 20. Warren Meeker, Committeeman.
Boston excursions on the Nickel Plate road run June 25 to 27 and July 1 to 5 at popular rates. Tickets available at City Ticket Office 111 Adams St and Union Ticket Office Auditorium Annex Chicago.
Fruitland Iowa notes birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Placke and visits from Julia Middleton and Blanche Fitzsimmons. Island church program June 21 features a long sequence of recitations songs and declamations by local children with multiple participants.
Kalona residents report visits to Montezuma and Washington for Sunday events. Leona Snyder attends normal school in Washington. Mrs Henry Brown and Verna Slater visit relatives in Nichols and Davenport. R S Fry spent Monday in Washington. Bertha Grady of Muscatine visited Kalona. Josie Wagner Jr. is ill. Oren Mauck from Washington visited. Millie Rogers returns from Cedar Falls. After two weeks in Iowa City Mrs. Wm Hesselschwerdt and daughter Myra return home. Susie Scalf moves to Iowa City for night operator job. her family plans to follow.
June 19 Orono brief mentions of visits and attendances. Nellie Abbott, Jessie Grub of Conesville, Brockways and Hawkins households appear. Cone residents go to Iowa City for commencement. Grace Richey sews for Mrs Storms. Tiptons visit relatives. several callers at Mrs Hawkins. Continuous lines list various small town social updates.
Harrigan Bros. build a summer kitchen at their home and Chas Kincaid’s crew digs piling for the North and South railroad this week. Neighbors visit, vendors move livestock, and a new depot at Ardon nears completion with various local calls and famil y news.
John Teufel and Lauren Henderson returned from Iowa City to spend vacation. First raspberries of the season arrive of fine quality. A new dwelling is moved near Henderson homestead for Mr and Mrs Chas Henderson Jr. Rev J R Hanley preached to a crowded house. Children’s day activities announced for M E Sunday school. Women’s society met at Mrs O Scott’s home for a pleasant gathering. J Wilhelm Tama county veteran, age about 73, dies. funeral in Moscow then Tama county burial is planned.
Mt. Clemens, the Mineral Bath City, is reached without change of cars only by the Grand Trunk Railway System. Timetables and a descriptive pamphlet will be mailed free on application to Advertising Department, 135 Adams St., Chicago. Geo. W. Vaux, A OOP. &.F. A.
Alderman Seiler moves to send a West Hill petition for a new voting precinct west of Cherry street to the committee of the whole. The lengthy list of signers includes Geo. E. Winans Fred Schroeder and many Sywassinks. Also petitions seek sewer and street improvements along Pappoose Creek and Sycamore street and power to open Ninth to Cedar.
The Muscatine school board calls for bids from suppliers for coal and hard and soft wood for school house use in the city for the coming year. Bids must be received by July 3, 1903, to Gus Weiss secretary. The board may reject any or all bids. John M. Appel chairs Supply Committee.
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