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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1900
Page
2
Lou Hill raises a Park Place frame as L F McColm arrives from Letts. West Liberty and Cedar Rapids residents visit Muscatine. A fire at Neidig's store is quickly put out. Several tra ctional arrivals and departures mark a busy day as weather helps business and road travel.
E F Rehmel recently named Weed Park Police describes the large task of park upkeep. He has cleared stumps and planted flower beds with donations from M E church ladies pending city water access. A dwelling for the park warden is proposed to improve daily supervision and park safety. The plan relies on park funds and popular subscription. Picnic parties increase activity while order remains good.
Howard L. L. B. Bartlett returned from Des Moines with a law degree from Highland Park College of Law. He is among sixteen graduates and the first alumnus to graduate and pass the Supreme Court examination. He attended the Alumni banquet where Attorney General Remley spoke.
The Muscatine city board of health met in a special session May 11 1990 presided by Mayor Schmidt with Aldermen Richards Schott and Ryan and Hetzel. They adopted a resolution authorizing the city health physician F E Schmidt to purchase necessities for infected smallpox patients and to seek payment through proper channels, while stating past bills were unauthorized and rejected.
On motion of Alderman Richards the board adjourned to 7 30 p m on Tuesday next.
Week ending May 11 1900 details transfers of Muscatine area lands with numerous parcels and owners including Eyros Begey Johnson and Cohn. also notes Iowa City BPOE chapter influenza horse epidemic at Webster county new post offices at Ludonta and Harson plus Johnson county tax take. Bank filings and criminal concerns at Kellogg Shenandoah and Oakland.
Mr and Mrs F Thomas of Myrtle Iowa report busy plowing for corn and fruit prospects unless a heavy frost arrives. Children work on the pickle farm, clam digging is underway up the river, Gus Tobias nears completion of a cottage, and Mrs Walters and Frank Royster remain ill with Mrs John Snyder also listed as sick. Mr Endicott seeks cancer treatment in Mt Pleasant for five to six weeks.
Richland with a capital of $25,000. Robert B. Van Gorder of Boone was sentenced to two years and a half in the penitentiary for bigamy. The Baptists of Belwein will spend $4,000 on a church addition and new parsonage. Thomas Hampton of Blakesburg has been served with a permanent injunction against selling intoxicating liquors. The Ottumwa post office receipts for April show a gain of 11 4 per cent over last year. The Wapello county institute will be held in Ottumwa starting July 16 for three weeks. People of Waukon believe Cedar Rapids Route will build to their place to secure iron traffic share.
The seventh annual Brotherhood of St. Andrew convention in New York opened in Utica on May 12 and will continue through May 13. Delegates from all state chapters attend, with representation based on one delegate per chapter and one for every ten members or fraction thereof.
The Presbyterian Church at Iowa Avenue and Fourth Street offers Sunday services at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m The morning sermon titled Saved by Hope and the evening sermon Three Hundred Braves A Sabbath school begins at 1 45 p m with Dr J T Martin as superintendent Bible class is taught by the pastor C E meeting at 6 30 p m led by Miss M White Pastor J N Elliott leads the church.
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