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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1903
Page
8
Miss Daisey Strawn arrives from Davenport and Earl Schuyler visits from Cedar Rapids. Barnett Bros offer fine teas and coffees while G. M. Titus sells first mortgage loans and advertises Hobart M. Cable pianos via J. J. Griffith with W. E. Battey. Water stands 9.95 feet today, down one inch in 24 hours. Invest $190 or more at Titus office, 118 Iowa avenue.
Local residents visit and conduct business in Muscatine. Travelers head to Arkansas and Davenport while others plan moves and instruct music classes. Theatre plans include The Mansion of Aching Hearts at Grand Opera House May 4 with discounts for advance seats.
Muscatine Commercial Club forms a district based stock solicitation for 250000 shares to fund the American Gibson Heater Company plant. A committee session refines the stock form and will assign solicitors by district to include every resident with funds. The town vote plans rapid outreach to all potential investors.
Mrs J Maxson of West Liberty hosts Mrs W H Maxson as Charles Faucett hosts the Physche club. Hattie and Grace Horn visit east of the Cedar. Twenty year anniversary party for Mr and Mrs H C McCann ends with a china set gift. Car mishap leaves Carl Mather with a damaged wheel. Algiers lends a spare. Death of Martha Negus in Pasadena noted. Several visits and funeral attendances. building work continues on homes and barns. A C E convention report from West Branch shared. a lecture at the M E church May 4 announced.
Promoters of the Aledo Illinois Interurban plan a Buffalo Prairie to Muscatine line with heavy 70 pound rails to serve a rich, sparse rail area. Survey nearly finished. Muscatine end less active. project hoped to begin within weeks and run part of the line this fall.
Epworth League of First Methodist Muscatine will celebrate its fourteenth founding anniversary on May 17, also marking John Wesley's 200th birth anniversary. Committees for program and decorations are named, and an out of town speaker may deliver the address. The Y P C U of United Brethren will observe its thirteenth anniversary next Sunday with a multi part program led by local young people and guest speakers.
Apron Strings activity and social calls noted with P W Faires hosted by S Mather. Nannie Maxson Anna North spent time with Mabel Kennedy. Chas Schiele family visited Farmington. H C Porter shopped in West Liberty. J J Carkers moved into vacated home. J W Eves did business in West Branch. Pete Vale school begins with Forestine Negus as teacher. Zadock Ellyson and wife from West Liberty were guests at D Barnhart.
Miss Myrtle Johnson visited at her Columbus Junction home Friday and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Teets are visiting a few days in Muscatine. The schools plan a May fifteenth program to close the term. Miss Pearl Hildebrand of Letts organized a music class in town. Miss Lizzie King of Muscatine visits her brother Charles. Will Schweitzer and Ralph Zimmerman visited in Wapello Wednesday. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Allen on April 21. Miss Anna Shepard of Muscatine visited Sunday at Dr. Higley’s.
A Paris anecdote warns visitors about fake coins used by cabmen. A traveler pays a three franc fare with a counterfeit coin, is corrected in the hotel corridor, and ends up being pressed into exchanging good money for a lead token. The note also mentions Bettini’s phonograph demonstration for the pope and Waterloo fever reports.
Atalissa Iowa April 30 1903 a fierce snow storm woke residents as Mrs R P Stucker turned 79. A party of women including Lou Lamp Emma Worrall and many locals joined for a dinner hosted by her daughters in a warm surprise gathering. Omer Stewart returned home to help ill baby, Maude Sanderson and Mrs A W Saturday played baseball against a visiting team with mixed results.
Grandview and nearby towns report a string of social visits with Mr Betler of Wapello in Grandview, Chas King M Thompson and C A Airhead from Muscatine, J R Boal in Morning Sun, and Harry Wibber in Muscatine. Dell Thompson and family from the Island visited his parents, while Mr and Mrs Seneca Finn of Wapello joined D M Bridges and Mr and Mrs Henry Schweitzer and daughter Daisy for family visits.
The Sunshine Club surprised Mrs. F A Straitler at her South Muscatine home on Thursday afternoon. Guests enjoyed a delightful time with refreshments as they bid their host a pleasant trip to Missouri to join her husband in a few days.
Miss Mattie Tschillard and William F. Fischer wed at St Matthias rectory Wednesday at 8 pm. Rev Father Kunkel officiated. The bride wore white desoie and carried roses. Both have wide local circles of friends. The groom is Frank Fischer's eldest son, chief engineer of the South Muscatine Lumber and Box Co. They will reside in this city.
An ad claims Dr Hobbs asparagus pills cure all kidney ailments and offer free samples. The text names Sterling Remedy Co of Chicago or New York and presents a sensational medical cure pitch with no verifiable detail.
Nellie Hines and Mrs Harry Morse spent Monday with Mrs McKean in Conesville Iowa. Dr English was called to see one of Sherman Strong s boys who is quite sick with typhoid fever. John Baker is not so well.
A fossilized tree trunk was located near Gifford, attracting interest from local researchers and residents. Officials secured the site for examination and preservation.
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