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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1902
Page
8
Millinery shop Wilmering & Co. 323 E. 2nd street invites ladies of Muscatine and vicinity to call and inspect a spring collection during Friday Saturday and Monday March 21 22 and 24.
Local notices describe painters and paper hangers, a display of Easter hats, free medicine samples, a high school orchestra concert, and travel to Davenport. The Ames accident reports Jay Lawrence shot during a quarrel while arbiter, with a chest wound and bullet in the shoulder treated at a hospital.
Frank Grosjean of Muscatine owns a Union county farm. In Creston a man posed as Grosjean granted power of attorney to S. K. Powers to sell the land to Fred Dykeman for 4800 dollars. Dykeman mortgaged 200 dollars. bank exposure halted loan. Merritt claimed Grosjean cannot write English and did not know the area. The deed remains in Dykeman’s hands with a 200 dollar mortgage. Grosjean is notified.
A sequence of notices shows millinery openings at Mrs Sailebury and Miss Markman on Thursday March 20 beginning at 9 30 o clock with hats for spring and summer. Also listed are a vacant house lot for sale on Second Avenue and a McCurdy contact at 320 East Second with advertisements for quality bread and telephone service.
Clyde Leach and Anna Pardee wed in the city at 10 o clock with Rev Stafford officiating. The couple plans to establish a home in Fairport where the bride teaches in the public school and the groom works in pottery. The wedding party included few witnesses and the couple traveled home on the Firefly. The article also notes the Rathbone Sisters dance series at the Armory, with attendance dipping due to Lent, and plans for a regular dance on April 1 after considering a masquerade option.
The Rathbone Sisters meet at their hall for a regular weekly business session this evening. After business, a social session follows with husbands invited. Refreshments will be served.
A major selling event for pianos and organs at H Schmidt and Son Co takes place next Friday and Saturday. Quick action urged as the two day sale offers likely limited stock and special prices.
Mayor Barney Schmidt last evening appointed W. L. Roach T. R. Fitzgerald and Samuel Cohn to fixed terms as water works trustees, ensuring knowledge of the plant. The action follows a state bill on expanding city indebtedness for plant extensions and goes to the new council for consideration.
W. F. Eichhoff announces his candidacy for city marshal. He pledges to enforce all laws tied to the office with support from the city fathers.
Mrs J C Berg departed for Wayland with her children after visiting in the city for her son John C Berg s illness. The attending physician plans another operation for Mr Berg on Saturday. Mrs J M Butler returns home from Winton after a week with relatives.
Special market dispatch through H. J. Toher and Co. reports Chicago trading as of March 19 with open high low close figures for Wheat Corn Oats and livestock. Hogs cattle and sheep prices and receipts noted with market direction described as open steady or strong. Liverpool wheat and corn are noted lower with cattle price ranges for Beeves cows Texas stockers.
Smallpox is called the most contagious disease, yet the Great Piano and Organ Sale at H. Schmidt & Son Co. looms bigger in chatter. Organs at your own price, sale scheduled for next Friday and Saturday.
In the District Court of the United States for the southern district of Iowa Ewald Leopold Dieman of Muscatine Iowa was adjudicated bankrupt on March 18. The first meeting of creditors will be March 28 at 2 pm at his office 300 East Second Street Muscatine to prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and conduct business. J W Eells Referee in Bankruptcy March 19 1902.
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