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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1900
Page
4
At a regular city council meeting bids will be opened for the 100000 dollar Muscatine Water Works bonds issued to purchase the water plant. Details include bond terms, interest options 4 414 or 5 percent, semiannual interest, delivery by Dec 4 1900, and a 2000 dollar bid bond with each bid.
Details of municipal bond issue for water works including 80 bonds of 1000 each and 40 bonds of 500 each. Bonds dated December 4, 1900. Three bid rates 4 percent 4.5 percent and 5 percent. Bids open October 18, 1900 at council meeting. July 10 1900 election on purchase passed 1078 to 240.
The city outlines its remaining bonded debt of $270,000 from old railroad bonds refinanced in 1898 by First National Bank of Chicago at 4 percent. Proceeds will buy the water works plant. the population is about 15,000. The Board of Water Trustees includes Roach, Cohn, and Fitzgerald. Bert C. Benham notes bids may be rejected. banks and buyers from Muscatine, Davenport, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston, New York, Minneapolis, and others are in correspondence.
Third Ward Club meets at K P hall with program and business. Court House steam heating underway with jail connections excavated. Football enthusiasts plan to form a team at the Y M C A rooms Saturday. Political Equality Club canceled last night due to few members. another meeting will be called. Market square busy with hay and corn at about 30 cents per bushel. Green Street sewer work rapidly progressing from Hershey Avenue to Third Street. Citizens must register to vote. registration opens for three days starting the 25th. Sneak thieves broke into Ed Niver's foundry on East Second Last Tuesday and stole items.
Autumn arrives with late fall poetry and quacking ducks. The first contribution, Fall style No. 1 The Coming of Winter by Fred Shamit and H. H. Herr, describes northern blasts, frost and fading youth as autumn winds through the landscape with imagery of leaves, rills, and hazy rays.
An aged man of about sixty sits in an arm chair and recalls youth as moonlight fills a dark room. His gaze rests on a photo of a girl, awakening a tender dream that brings tears and a quiet, reflective mood.
An aged man recalls his youth as he reads a self penned verse in a time worn book. The lines speak of a vanished star and nights of dark longing, ending with a solitary refrain of being alone. The memory of that boyhood fancy sustains life for him.
The article highlights Clear Lake Iowa as a premier summer resort attracting visitors from Iowa Illinois Minnesota and beyond. It notes cool breezes pleasant fishing sailing and bathing with ample hotels and cottages. The Iowa Central Railway promotes low round trip fares and descriptive books via Geo S Batty. Hood's Sarsaparilla is recommended for rheumatism and Hood's Pills priced at 25 cents.
The Iowa Central releases a new pamphlet titled Clear Lake, Iowa, and the Oaks promoting Clear Lake as a charming summer resort. It highlights Safeing and Bathing, The Oaks Hotel, the Bath House and Toboggan Slide, and offers travel directions. Copies available from railway agents or Geo. S. Batty at Iowa Central Ry Marshalltown Iowa.
National Convention of the Christian Church in Kansas City Missouri runs October 11 to 18, 1900. One fare plus two dollars round trip with tickets on sale October 9, 11, 12 and 15. Continuous passage both directions. return by October 20. Joint agency fee fifty cents per ticket collected at execution.
A group including G. A. Reinicke W. B. Bark and Jno. J. Havercamp signs pledge to refund money on Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure coughs and colds. The agreement also guarantees a cent bottle to prove satisfaction with a money back offer.
Senator C A Carpenter of Columbus Junction will speak on political issues at Hopewell Schoolhouse Muscatine Island Tuesday October 9 at 7 30 pm. Everyone invited to attend. The Wapello Republican Glee Club will provide music.
Steady jobs for experienced button cutters. No beginners. Keithsburg Pearl Button Co., Keithsburg, Illinois.
An advertisement for Weeks Break-ip-A-Cold Tabs promises sleep help and a cure, but cautions there is no cure. It states no pay and a price of 25 cents with J J Havercamp named as sole agent.
Round trip tickets offered on first and third Tuesdays for one fare plus 2 dollars, valid twenty one days with stop over privileges. For details contact Bissell Wilson, District Pass Agent, 111 Adams Street, Chicago.
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