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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1905
Page
11
From Wapello to West Liberty and Montezuma to Millersburg. All the News All the Time from correspondents across the country. People you know get coverage of local happenings gathered by the Journal’s staff.
In Sweetland May 13, Bessie Moots remains under quarantine for scarlet fever while the Union and Sweetland schools stay closed a week. Frank Bamford and family visited Muscatine relatives. Dr. Oliver from Muscatine attended a sick four year old. Several rains blessed the area. The ministerial meeting at West Liberty was attended by Rev. Morrison.
Gladwin reports a well attended dance with ice cream served by Mrs Browning. Visitors include Ed Arning Mrs Ellis and Alice Wilson from Columbus Junction. A load of lumber and brick shipped to Gladwin.(Carr of Kansas) visited Jim Carr. Sally Carson and Ola Hancher of Ainsworth visited. Chet Walker stopped work due to eye pain from wheel fragment. A number of townspeople were in town.
R F Hancher aids Fred Leather with a carload of lumber unloading while Tom Jarrard arrives from Muscatine. The Milwaukee extra gang of track liners departs for Conesville. Bill Denis and George Hendrixson visit Washington on Thursday.
Sunday visits fill the Maple Grove area as Elmer Jewett and Bert Downing split time with Muscatine kin. Wilton’s Art Kelley and Albert Frick host and travel guest lists include the Rininsland family and J E Edgar.
Mrs R R Hunt and children visited Wapello before moving to Oakville to set up housekeeping. Mrs August McCoy and her son planned an extended Wapello visit with Mr and Mrs R Stevens. Hunt moved furniture to Oakville. Belle Allen heads to Walla Walla Washington for six months. Kurts and Simons Des Moines life insurance agents trained Fred Croskley. Aunt Nancy Hall travels to Washington for visit with Mrs Will Hughes. John Berry and daughters Blanche and Trigie visit relatives. Mr Roberts Welch neighborhood and Rev Ballard U B church to exchange pulpits Sunday.
Miss Carrie Seaton and Lucy Farmer were trading in Fairfield Saturday. Mrs Oliver Lundin of Ollie visited Richland Saturday and Sunday. Miss McCoy visited at home in Washington over Sunday. Mr and Mrs Geo McCarty of Delta and Mr and Mrs Clarence Lacey of
Keota hosts visitors from Mt. Pleasant Packwood Cedar Rapids Ft Madison and Atlantic as residents host relatives and friends over Sunday and Monday. Leo Bridger Mildred Brady and student friends travel from Mt. Pleasant to spend the weekend at the McCarty and Mill Cowquill homes. Louise and Lucille Brady accompany Leon Brady in Fairfield Monday night. Mrs. Ralph Baker arrives from Cedar Rapids to visit Wm Schreivers' home. Mrs. George Howard and Berne Sargent visit local friends this week.
Relief in six hours as a cure for distress in kidney and bladder dis ease. The advertisement claims prompt relief for pain in kidneys bladder and back in both men and women with immediate reduction of urinary retention. Sold by Havercamp's Prescription Drug Store Muscatine Iowa.
Lincoln Iowa May 11 Mr and Mrs Mike Lennebaugh of West Liberty spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in this vicinity. Mr and Mrs Claus Wiese were there as well.
Sunday visitors at Timmerman’s included Miss Minnie Hauri and Miss Erna Hauri. About 45 guests attended a party at Wiese’s with dancing and refreshments. Attendees listed include Leona Timmerman, Lena Herring, Bertha Lennabaugh, Lillian Holdeman, Erna Hauri, Francis Buline, John Berry, George Burr, and many others.
Foley & Co Chicago markets Honey and Tar as a throat and lung remedy while warning against imitations. The product is mildly laxative, contains no opiates, and is safe for children and delicate persons, with Havercamp’s Prescription Drug Store selling it.
May 11 Ardon column notes Frank Benham of Muscatine visited last Wednesday. David Legler shipped a carload of fat cattle to Chicago on Thursday. Mrs. S. A. Allen of Birmingham Mo arrived last Friday and visits Ardon a week. Geo. Baker shipped 85 head of stock cattle from Kansas City last Saturday. Mrs. Anna Byrne trip to Davenport last Wednesday. Rev Ballard of Columbus City visited H. E. Richards Saturday and Sunday. Wm Fletcher shipped two carloads of fat cattle to Chicago yesterday, with him. Mr. and Mrs. David Legler and daughter Rhea visited J. T. Downer family Sunday. Andrew Healey shipped a carload of hogs to Chicago Monday. Felicius Byrne visited friends.
In Muscatine over Sunday Mr and Mrs Abbott of Conesville spent the day at the home of their daughter Mrs Wilbur Chapman.
Mrs Glen Epperly and children from across Cedar visited the Brockway home Wednesday. James McCormick of Columbus City stayed a few days with his son Will after arriving Monday. Ralph Babbitt and family spent Sunday with W A Chapman. Grandpa Echelthberger of Seventy Six visits relatives. The forty seventh annual Iowa classis was held May 3 7 at the Reformed church in Cone with a large crowd. Mr and Mrs Grey Swan and Kenneth of West Liberty visited John Tarpy family.
Mrs Ira Reynolds visits father David Pullen at Taylor Ridge while John Miller and daughter visit Mrs Ernest Colberg at Wrayville. Nellie Louck closes Bay Island school. Laurence Beeney and wife visit Harry Beeney family. Beeney ill. Mary Bopp stays with Mary Reed in Wrayville. A L Brocket and A J Boruff in Muscatine. Lonnie Retherford visits James Retherford. Omer Harter and Ethel Scudder married in Muscatine last Wednesday. groom to build home on mother’s land.
Mrs M Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers a home treatment for mothers with children having urine difficulties. She states spanking does not help and urges write her for information no payment is needed.
Planting started this week in the southern half of the state and the northwest section, marking the early phase of the corn season with fields prepared for sowing.
The ground should be broken up as soon as it dries to prevent crusting on cultivated crops. Early tillage helps reduce soil surface hardening and facilitates subsequent planting and growth.
Tile-drained land shows higher moisture during dry periods and lower moisture in wet periods compared to undrained land, illustrating how drainage systems alter soil water distribution across weather cycles.
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