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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1900
Page
6
Local Muscatine notes cover births, social happenings, political commentary, and writings from correspondents. Highlights include community events, personal milestones, and reflections on neighbors and sages.
The Lettsville news column reports the death of Mrs Barbara Miller Goon sister of local milliner Miss Retta Miller. She long resided in Great Falls Montana and was a reader of the Muscatine Journal with Lettsville locals.
Stockton residents recount visits from Mr. and Mrs. Jacobsen and kin from Walnut Iowa after European travels. Frank Adams and family moved into the Putzier house. Langfeldt returns from Chicago. his brother died and was buried. Cattle shipments reach over two hundred head. local birthdays and minor home improvements noted.
Dr E K Tyler from Muscatine visited his mother when his horses bolted after he tied the sulky team with a single strap. They leaped free and bolted south, creating a tense moment in the Illinois town. His wife, mother in law Mrs Judge Headges, and others were with him.
A carriage runaway nearly collided with a horse power and saw near Brayton’s lane. Rev E Shepherd halted the danger, injuring only a broken tongue. Funeral services for Father Fuhrman drew many, led by Rev Kettlecamp at the M E church. Uncle Brayton travels to Ogalala Nebraska. Charley France heads for a family visit. Sheperd reports a firm sale price. Mrs Oates visits Dr Twigg and may travel to Arkansas.
Smoke was seen at John Dutremont’s west Riverside residence where the family had been away a week. Firefighters found the bureau ablaze with all contents ruined. Plastering fell from walls but the blaze was quickly controlled. Nearby, local moves include Goody quitting the restaurant business and Albert Fretingburg moving into Swift brick. Frank Hack bought 890 acres of land near Lee Payer.
In Musserville the Fourth ward caucus boosted young delegates and expects about 400 Republicans to travel to Davenport Friday night to hear Theodore Roosevelt. Community notes include church reception plans for the new M E pastor on Oct 12 1900 and local family visits.
Detroit Oct 4 Rev J J Axtell once tainted by a five round clash with a Royal Oak saloon keeper and later asked to resign from the Congregational church has become a barber and passed the state board exam with the highest percentage. He drove rivals from the shop and now has an invitation from Royal Oak Baptists to lead their welfare program. This ends a yearlong contract dispute with the Congregationalists. Bundy suicide shocks Portage Wis after buying a 38 caliber revolver and shooting himself in the head leaving a note for his Oxford wife.
Mr and Mrs C C Walter attended a dinner at J M Warich in Aledo for Co H 84th Illinois Volunteers Arch Kile of Muscatine was present Politics not exciting yet but McKinley will win Farmers plowing and fall grain prospects A Illinois State Fair trip reported Weddings noted Pastures green with rain and one light frost Methodist preaching planned Buffalo Prairie church soon
The jury in a $12,000 libel suit brought by Dr. W. C. Irons against Sheboygan Telegram editor W. B. Talmadge disagreed and was discharged after a week of trial with about seventy three witnesses examined.
October events list GOP gatherings with speakers Theodore Roosevelt Gov. L. M. Shaw and others. Train schedule mentions Muscatine trip at 6:00 p m for one fare round trip. Locations include Lake Township Lucas School Durant North Prairie and Will organize a McKinley and Roosevelt club.
Fairport Oct 10 and Conesville Oct 9 notices list A S Lawrence and W L Reach with local officials and Senator G M Titus. John Herriott appears in the October 24 item.
A brief list records dates and figures for Senator Titus and Senator Dolliver in Wapello and Muscatine Ward meetings with Ward club schedules at K. P. dance hall and Stewart's Hall. It notes a local remark on a humorist unable to make butter from his jokes.
Petitions are circulating in the county to place a 3 percent tax measure on the ballot to aid the Des Moines Iowa Falls and Northern railroad through several townships. A secondary note remarks on a woman's quip about bachelor life, unrelated to the tax item.
Oakland notes McKean family visits report Mr Albert McKean slowly improving. Oct 13 box supper at Baker school invites all. Chas Reese loses a horse. Kate Hines improves from illness. Ramner leaves for Oklahoma prospecting. Mrs Sable visits from Davenport. Many attend Al Peters sale. Lumber hauled for Tuttle's new house.
Kansas City official report states J A R Elliott defeated Fred Gilbert 99 to 97 at Exposition park on the previous day continuing their rivalry in a close basketball contest.
Advert says take heed of indigestion nervousness and impure blood to avoid chronic dyspepsia and nervous prostration. Hood's Sarsaparilla is pitched as a safeguard that steadies the stomach quiets nerves purifies and enriches the blood and maintains health.
An advertisement proclaims Hood's Pills cure all liver ills for 25 cents, urging readers to purchase the remedy.
The Cambodian prince alleges brutal acts by the French in Indo China. General Osman Pasha, related to the Plevna hero, fled from Turkey to Paris. Perry Belmont declines a Democratic congress nomination.
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