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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1903
Page
7
The item chronicles arrivals and departures in Davenport with many names and addresses. Judge J W Bollinger from Davenport arrives to handle city business. various residents, missing trains, and trips to Davenport, Muscatine, Fairport, and Rock Island are noted. Ads promote Dr Fowler and Burdock Blood Bitters.
Severe floods across the Illinois bottomlands near Muscatine leave fields muddy and unlikely to yield crops this year. Many ponds form as water recedes, with fish visible and accessible to children along the river shores. J M Kemble seeks quick action on a Davenport and Suburban railroad route through Muscatine, proposing entry via Weed Park and collaboration with Citizens' Railway. council committees to review with aim to begin construction promptly.
The Iowa Central railway offers round trip excursion tickets on July 3 and 4 at one and one third fare for travel to points within 200 miles. The return limit is July 6. See ticket agents for details.
Every Camp 106 member is asked to meet at the hall on Sunday June 28 ready to depart at 1 30 p m for the cemetery to observe Memorial Sunday. The Muscatine band will lead the parade with a good speaker music and singing. Visiting neighbors are invited to join.
The Iowa Central announces limited summer excursion fares from Elrick Junction for June 1 to September 30 1903. Destinations include Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo at 24.25, Glenwood Springs 36.25, Salt Lake City Ogden 37.25, with low rates to Deadwood Lead City Hot Springs and Custer South Dakota. Call any Iowa Central agent or write A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis for folders and rates.
Unhappiness over thinning hair prompts praise for Newbro’s Herpicide a scalp germicide and antiseptic claimed to destroy the underlying cause of hair loss. The ad invites trials with a 10 cent sample and notes sale through Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store as a special agent.
Weather improved crop prospects in Iowa last week according to S R Sage director of the Iowa Climate and Crop Service. Temperatures ran four to six degrees below normal with a dry first half and a partly cloudy second half bringing timely moisture. Rain aided field work and weed control with corn area enlarging and weeds subdued. Spring grains headed and performing fairly well while the hay crop nears harvest and clover cutting proceeds. Apples show fair health with less blight and fruit drop. berries and garden crops are thrifty.
Two men ordered two beers and paid with a fifty cent piece. The barkeeper gave forty cents in change. A quick swap saw a nickel replace the quarter, then the barkeeper corrected the mistake. The pair, part of a saloon round, were detected and police are watching today.
John Boldt, first class engineer on the battleship Boston, returns home on a ten day furlough after a year away. The Boston has just come from France and will soon head to South America. Local residents Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Perley visit the W. W. Anderson home. Ina Lamb, niece of W. W. Anderson, is due from Colfax to Mr. Kemmerer of Eldridge.
On Seventh street, between trains Tuesday evening. No preaching at M. E. church next Sunday due to pastor absence. Mrs J T Hollingsworth visiting in Iowa City. Mr and Mrs W F Protzman attended funeral of Joe Jean in Conesville. Margaret Battey hosted six girls for Minnie Pratt of Omaha, cake and strawberries. Names: Minnie Pratt Beulah Pratt Lillie Stevens Mabel Miller Vera Miller Margaret Battey. Wm Mather of Springdale and son Carl with bride passed through West Liberty to Cuba for eighty days.
Descriptive literature and timetables describe a rail route with convenient Chicago and New York terminals and a Niagara Falls stopover. Free mailed material available via the Grand Trunk Railway System Advertising Department at 135 Adams St Chicago. George W Vaux A G P T A.
Muscatine saloonkeepers report losses from twenty five cent pieces in a daytime and evening period as slick fingered artists operate in multiple establishments. In one case two strangers entered a saloon yesterday afternoon.
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