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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1900
Page
2
Local advert in Muscatine Journal promotes a 25 cent bottle of Carboleum mixed in water and urges readers to obtain a booklet at McBride & Cope's. Prices and full product details appear in the short classified notice.
W E Battey offers optician services at 217 East Second Street. Various arrivals departures and travel notes thread through Muscatine as Miss Edna Thompson from Joplin and Mrs Lewis Mack from Denver visit, farmers, tradespeople, and clerks move on the Wilton and Firefly trains, and local clubs and schools plan picnics and shoots. The Muscatine Pressed Brick Co completes a 150000 brick kiln. tourism and social events fill the week with prayers, auctions, and excursions.
Wyoming Lodge No 76 hosts visiting brethren from Wilton West Liberty and Fruitland on Friday May 25. Three candidates will be conferred the rank of Knight. A recent fire caused no material damage to the lodge room or property and the evening will proceed as planned.
The Journal cites Miss Maria Neyenhuis as delivering one of the best pupil responses. When asked her favorite study, she names Reading, saying she would know nothing if she could not read the Journal.
Real estate ad lists 80 acres near Annondale Cal for exchange for Muscatine city property or nearby farm land. Numerous houses with 7 to 10 rooms on Eighth Street Mulberry West Sixth and nearby streets, plus parcels on East Hill East Sixth Fifth Street Park Place Monroe Oak and Woodlawn Cedar. Also 22e 1500 1400 1500 2000 in prices. call or write for full particulars.
Solicitors have canvassed Muscatine city gathering names for a twentieth century city directory. They are sorting thousands of slips into alphabetical order and plan free distribution to subscribers. If you moved or need name changes, report them now before printing.
Weather brightens after rain as Wapello residents note new enterprise. Local youths attend class day in Morning Sun while Mrs. Anna Gause visits Muscatine. The German M FE church plans an May 24 ice cream social. Commencement for Wapello High is June 7. Baxter Bros. cannery expands toward a 3000 acre corn goal and a larger storage building.
Southwest Muscatine notes Frances Welch recovering from mumps while others report illness and life updates. Mrs. Nelson Long remains ill at home in pain. Lena Fulhmann visits Illinois City. an Angle relative travels from Missouri by horse and buggy. Local fishing activity grows, new house under construction, ongoing rain, mud and weeds. Mr Endicott returns from Mt Pleasant after cancer treatment at home. Fulhmann elder breaks arm. Dr Tyler treats. Mrs Ane P Cole dies in Illinois City. friends mourn.
The provision of tickets to theatres and money for ice cream helps the little folks earn pennies for the missionary basket. The piece describes a valuable community institution supported by local generosity and youth effort.
Mrs Pieper has house painted. Visitors from Rock Island and Walnut Iowa include Claus Lorenzen Mrs Jensen and Mrs Nissen and Tillie. A serious fire at Broders farm southeast of town destroyed a 26 by 40 barn and shed with hay and tools. a spring cell burned. Neighbors saved other buildings. A negro tramp seen nearby is suspected. a five year old boy claims to saw him light the fire.
Sunday visits anchor a quiet Cedar Valley week as families like the Fraters and Holmes share time together. Weather and farming updates describe oats growing well, fruit bushes damaged by green worms, and a near miss from a lightning strike near Pine Mills causing shocks but no injuries or fire.
Mrs John Hooley shows improvement. W S Baker reshingling store room. John Kirchner visited Iowa City Friday. B Kirchner hauling brick for new store addition. B H Black and wife called on Hooleys Tuesday. Mrs Frank Younkin and daughter from Spirit Lake visiting relatives. Miss Lilly Buck returned from West Liberty for a weekend. Neugent family from Ka lona visited Neu gents. Dr F F Carl拆 barn torn down and brick hauled for a new barn and house. Cherokee Medicine Company crowds attend shows. Mrs Daisy Ward wins souvenir spoon for best looking lady Tuesday.
Isabella Duggan Neal born in Bangor Maine November 17 1800 married November 16 1823. Six children six to him and wife later died aged ninety nine years six months and three days. Pensioner whose husband served in the 32d Maine Infantry in the War of 1812.
Cyclists complain streets with shell debris make rides dangerous and unsafe on sidewalks. They warn shells spill from wagons as they pass and puncture tires, urging a solution for safer rides in the countryside or reform.
The Honorable John Wanamaker, ex postmaster general, has given Parsons College 500 dollars. Commencement week begins June 2 with the Foster prize debate on the Nicaragua canal resolution. Highlights include a baccalaureate sermon by the college president, Rev. S. M. Johnson lecture, music concert, and prize contests. Graduation exercises close June 7.
New York reports that all large ocean liners sailing to Europe last week are crowded with tourists bound for the Paris Exposition. Company offices indicate transatlantic traffic and revenue are meeting expectations as the exposition booms for steamship lines.
The sale of J. B. Haggin's yearlings begins in Madison Square Garden and runs through Saturday. Promising trotters and papers are on offer, with expectations of a tidy sum for Haggin, proprietor of Rancho del Paso Stud in California and Elmendorf Stud in Kentucky.
Reindl and Reindl, architects, advertise their services with office at 109 Second Street on the second floor.
A terse remark suggests that when a man enters his office with the aim of becoming editor, the entire town quickly recognizes the change in his role and status.
A watch that will run for $1.00 advertised by Frank the Jeweler's. The notice mentions the Inspector C. R I. and P. Ry. involvement or oversight.
Sergeant Buck Taylor, aide to Governor Roosevelt, praises Pe-ru-na as the best catarrh cure on earth. He says it cured him and supports sending a testimonials book from The Peruna Medicine Co, Columbus, Ohio.
The Rock Island Davenport Clinton line opens schedules aiding Muscatine riders. South bound times list Clinton to Rock Island with stations Harrison St Camanche Folletts Princeton LeClaire Tile Works Valley City Gilbert Davenport Rock Island. North bound trains show Clinton Harrison St Camanche Folletts Princeton LeClaire Tile Works Valley City Gilbert Davenport Rock Island. Through sleeper car to Chicago via Clinton and C N W R R. Nos 15 and 16 are freight carrying passengers.
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