Montezuma Train Schedule Adjusted for Weekdays
Train service to Montezuma runs daily except Sunday with passenger departures at 10 am and freight at 8:40 am. Return arrivals show passenger service at 7:10 pm and freight at 6:00 pm.
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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1900
Page
7
Train service to Montezuma runs daily except Sunday with passenger departures at 10 am and freight at 8:40 am. Return arrivals show passenger service at 7:10 pm and freight at 6:00 pm.
Davenport Rock Island and Northwestern Railway Co. lists train numbers and routes with times to Davenport Iowa. No. 1 Sioux City Omaha Clinton No. 3 Chicago Madison Wisconsin No. 3 Rockford Clinton No. 5 Dixon Sterling Denver No. 5 Omaha Cedar Rapids Clinton No. 7 Chicago Dixon Sterling runs daily except Sunday. Schedule shows departure and arrival times with agent L F Berry signing as General Passenger Agent.
Second class trains operating daily from Muscatine to nearby stations including Roundhouse, Fruitland, Grandview, Wapello and Elrick Jct with No. 3 southbound and No. 1 northbound services. Notable notes: No. 2 runs with No. 1, No. 4 runs with No. 8. connections to B, Co. R. & N. and Iowa Central for Burlington, east, west and north routing.
A late 19th century column reports on Democratic headquarters in Columbus Junction pushing temperance fiction while signaling a saloon drive upon reaching sixty five percent turnout. Brewers Association funds the campaign and city funds may be used, with punitive publicity for supporters. Community notes record local events and personal updates.
SEVASTERPOOL items note an oyster supper at the school house on Friday night November 2 with peaches and cake for non oyster lovers. Mr Schmidt of Muscatine will entertain with a gramophone. The rag time party at Brazels drew many from Muscatine and Bayfield. The teacher added a Saturday makeup day after the street fair. The Lady's Literary Society met at Mrs L Schwartz's home last Wednesday. D A Cochran of Skunk Hollow attended Brazels party.
Miss Harriet H. Cole of Racine county, Wisconsin, files a $25,000 suit in Chicago claiming George Taylor, a Hotel Ricardo clerk, promised to marry her a year ago and has failed to wed despite her isolation and longing. Her affidavit states mutual affection began at their first meeting and was later abandoned.
In Bay Beach near Green Bay an elderly woman dressed well attempted death by drowning. Resort owner M R Nejedlo pulled her back and forced her ashore after a struggle. He took her to the county asylum, but she is unknown and refuses to identify herself as Fiedler.
Local notes report a return football game between the Wapello Indians and the Ottumwa elevens at the Fair Grounds on November 3, recalling a prior 0 to 6 score. Other items include church society reorganizations, a horse theft detective meeting, and community notices about travels, elections, and railroad land-buyer rates.
The board of control at Grand Rapids plans a 148500 appropriation for the Michigan Soldiers' Home for the coming year. Of this, 124000 funds current support at 15 per inmate. The rest covers an addition to the women's building, a free house, barn, pumping station upgrades, and new power equipment.
Population figures for Jackson Michigan show 25180 residents with 20798 in 1800. Chicago hosts moves toward a state Sunday closing law and William S Cherry completes a second South Africa expedition reaching Paris. Choctaw Chickasaw Cherokee Seminole and Creek join the Creek council opposing land allotment. New Zealand governor annexes Cook Islands at chiefs request. Russia denies seeking a foreign loan. Pullman denies marriage to Louise Bowers. she denies it. A Madison Wisconsin effort to curb gambling is planned. Fifteen lives lost in Lodi Texas cyclone. American Public Health Association meets in Indianapolis. Antwerp conducts a rat hunt with bounties. Texas convicts contribute to Galveston relief. Windsor royal gardens supply most fruit for the Queen’s household.
Burt Stonebarger sold 500 bushels of potatoes to a Riverside merchant amid a boom for Lone Tree farmers. U B church meetings begin around November 4 with an outsider aiding Rev Emmerson. William Beardsley, Riverside’s first merchant and postmaster, visited last week. An extra train to Iowa City for Vollmer speech ran Saturday. Mrs Mosier, mother of Lewis Mosier, visited from Muscatine. Swift Brick Factory shut for season after a strong run. Anderson Tansy ill at his son in law Mr Steel’s seven miles south. Services next Sunday at the U B church by Rev Emmerson. Road work by many supervisors continues. Frank Reha laying tin on Heitzman building.
West Liberty progress noted as E G Byres nears completion of a Calhoun street residence and M F Melick prepares to occupy a second Calhoun home. Rev J E Newsome hosts a brief visit by Rev D B Abbott and wife before their departure to India as missionaries. L W Henderson travels to Clarion to see son Hugh and family. The piece closes with reflections on melancholy days.
Shimoon's Oriental entertainment will be presented at Wilton College Chapel Thursday evening under college auspices. The program will include illustrated costumes and cultural displays.
Elizabeth Harlan D D graduate of the American School of Osteopathy Kirksville Missouri treats women and children without drugs. Established December 1899 in Muscatine Iowa. Osteopathy described as a scientific method with large past success and many cures after other methods failed. Office and infirmary 212 Linn St Muscatine.
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