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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1901
Page
4
Muscatine Golf Club plans an 18 hole handicap event for Firemen's parade day. Members to enter by speaking with Robert L. Thompson. Handicaps determined from official body scores and best recent rounds. Wm. Reeder likely to hold lowest handicap with 100 for 18 holes. The club seeks weekly handicaps and visitor days to boost interest.
The YMCA boys plan a Firemen Parade day field meet and seek funds and prizes from businessmen. Offered so far are prizes from Muscatine Electric Railway for 1000 dollars, Pearl City Panitorium 150, Delmonico Restaurant, Anson Clothing 50, Powers Bros Restaurant 50, McColm Dry Goods 50, New Century Restaurant 50, and several others. Additional rewards include cash gifts, goods, and service donations such as a month of panitorium work, racing pedals, handkerchiefs, and barber shaves.
The meet will award 50 prizes in total including 16 gold medals for first place, 16 silver medals for second, and merchandise for third. Five mile handicap race prizes are described as exceptionally fine. Organizers thank donors for cash and merchandise contributions.
Davenport visitors included Drs Hummell Stutsman and Sherman from Burlington and others from Wapello Keokuk and El Reno Illinois. Evanelist Roth Grinnell to hold gospel meeting in the opera house at 7 45 p m. Plans include new BCRN time card and city exchange work plus travel and farm notes.
West Fourth street property holders push for permanent street improvement with tar macadam. They argue it has sanitation advantages over brick, can be sprinkled to control dust, is less porous, quieter for vehicles, cheaper, and when hardened permits safe excavations.
The C R L P and B C R N announce timetable tweaks effective Sunday May 19 at Muscatine. Train 7 to the southwest departs Muscatine 4 35 pm after change, 35 minutes earlier. Train 384 Wilton branch departs 3 45 pm, 15 minutes earlier. Train 386 from Muscatine shifts to 9 30 pm, 10 minutes later, to better connect with through trains. Columbus Junction evening connection remains 35 minutes earlier.
A column titled Peoples' Pulpit is set aside by the Journal for unrestricted reader communications. The initiative invites signed comments and letters from the public for publication. The page underscores open dialogue and community input.
A civic letter argues residents should fund a single large school instead of piecemeal wings. It notes East Hill's four rooms hold 248 pupils while 109 must use one crowded room and urges building a substantial, enduring facility to serve all generations.
In the Barter column a reader seeks a trade offering clothing for tools and another offers books for household items. A third message requests gardening supplies in exchange for a bicycle describing interest in swaps within the neighborhood.
The piece laments opposition to a primary education building and accuses board members of using influence to defeat the proposition. It calls Muscatine voters to support the school tax and warns ballots will be counted Friday.
The report notes Jones on the twentieth floor of the building amid the incident involving a bicycle collection and a well.
Fishing season opens May 15 on Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in north western Iowa. The area offers numerous hotels and boarding houses with reasonable rates. A BCR&N transfer bus meets trains at Spirit Lake to transport passengers to The Inn and Arnolds Park, returning for trains. For rates and schedule, contact a BCR&N agent or Jnc. G. Farmer AGP Cedar Rapids IA.
The Mississippi River between Dubuque and Muscatine is falling slowly with a one inch drop in the last 24 hours. The R. J. Wheeler, owned by Clinton's Davis brothers, tows rafts for Burlington Lumber and reports protracted low water. dredging may be needed and big boats may move to shore by late summer. Ed Calahan predicts very low water by mid June and possible banked boats by August.
The Lehigh Valley railroad line between Niagara Falls or Buffalo and New York and Philadelphia offers entrancing scenery. Panoramic changes of view greet travelers with fast trains and dining cars.
A quotation attributed to George Washington urges people to keep a constant spark of celestial fire in their breast, referring to conscience as a guiding inner light. The line emphasizes moral self-discipline and integrity.
A timeless aphorism from Daniel Webster asserts that status and power do not alter the inherent humane end of every person. The maxim emphasizes humility and mortality beyond earthly titles.
A promotional note touts a memorable journey via the Lehigh Valley route between Niagara Falls or Buffalo and New York and Philadelphia. It highlights magnificent scenery, historic regions, and superb service.
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