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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1902
Page
4
At a Des Moines conference on September 4, candidates and Republican state central committee members unanimously backed the tariff plank of the state platform and made tariff the foremost issue.
Rumor in Brickchurch New Jersey says Secretary Wilson may resign to become president of Ames College. He recently declined a one year hold, hoping Congress will grant an appropriation for a new Agriculture Department building before retirement. If he accepts, the post would be for life with a handsome salary.
William Wagner and Miss Tillie Braun marry at the Wagner home near Montpelier with Rev. E C Fitzsimmons officiating. The ceremony followed by a wedding supper and a departure for Minneapolis after a warm gathering of relatives and friends.
Louis Fiderlein obtained a district court temporary injunction restraining J. W. Lee from building a fence across land described as the ney of section 16. Both claim title, with a pending suit for settlement. injunction served by the sheriff this afternoon.
Pilgrim and Shingledecker say the Labor Day quarrel outside Powers restaurant began after two Grandview men insulted their wives. They arrived at the Journal office to explain they acted to defend the ladies' honor and claim reports of the incident were exaggerated.
One fare of eight dollars and fifty cents for a round trip to Cleveland via Nickel Plate Road on September 26th and 27th with an extended return until October 28th by depositing tickets in Cleveland. First class equipment and service. Three daily trains from Chicago Passenger Station Harrison St. and 5th Ave. Written by John Y. Calahan General Agent 113 Adams Street Chicago for particulars.
Persistent chatter says Rock Island and Muscatine officials may soon look into city friction and work to settle differences between the two municipalities.
The Journal reprints a Colorado Springs Gazette obituary for Charles P Reynolds former Muscatine resident. Born 1860 in Hannibal he lived in Muscatine and Omaha before moving to Colorado Springs 1902. He died August 27 of acute tuberculosis and is survived by his widow Laura Derby Hemenway three children and siblings Mrs Henry Jayne Mrs Minnie Betts and Mrs Hart Fitzgerald plus other relatives and friends.
The Salvation Army asks all donations for a city picnic to be given to support needy children. Deliver to the hall on Walnut Street by Friday afternoon. Children will gather at the barracks Saturday at 8 AM and ride street cars to the park. The South Muscatine children depart from the switch at the sash and door factory.
Wood furnace in good condition offered by Geo. B. Fisch for sale. Firmly functional and priced to move for the right buyer.
The Aequatic club, about 35 members, picnicked at Nesselbush point aboard the Mignon with a cottage supper and a river ride, while Miss Eva Brandenburg and Howard D. Warfield wed in a Congregational church ceremony. The couple, praised locally, left on the El Paso flyer for Davenport and Colorado Springs to honeymoon, planning to settle after October 15 in the groom’s home.
Fish prices list includes oysters at 50 cents per quart, catfish 12½ cents per pound, black bass 12½ cents, salmon 110 cents, sunfish 5 cents, buffalo 7 cents, white perch 1 cent per BP, carp 5 cents, croppies 10 cents, pickerel 8 cents, salmon trout 10 cents per unit. Coal prices show soft coal 3.25 to 4.00, cordwood unsawed 4.25, hocking valley coal 5.00 per ton, cordwood sawed 5.00, hard coal 8.00 to 8.25. Fruit prices list apples 15 cents per peck, crabapples 20 cents per peck.
Hirt and Fesler sign a one year contract with the Journal to publish regular notices. They have operated in Muscatine about two years with a large, profitable stock including Lakeside and Haddorff pianos, organs, and sheet music. They offer honest prices, a wide range of instruments, and second hand pianos in good order.
WISCATINE MARKETS lists corn 66c per cwt oats 30 35c local oats 30c oat meal 30c wheat 55 6ic rye 5iec barley 55c new hay 9 10 hay baled 12 14 illinois hay bottom hay 5 6 hides 5c eggs 1c butter 146 2c creamery butter 20c lard 1112c potatoes 2c Bartlett pears 1.85 2.00 per bu apples 4c per bu onions 6c per bu turnips 25c cabbage 4c watermelons 10 12%c muskmelons 30 60c per doz live stock hogs 6.80 7.95 cattle butcher stock 3.50 4.00.
Calves price 4.00 to 5.00 per head. Sheep priced 3.50 to 4.00 per ewe. Lambs quoted at 3 1/4 to 4 1/2 cents per pound.
The list shows prices for flour sacks, corn meal, bran and shorts, sugar and granulated sugar, coffee varieties, butter lard bacon ham cheese and sage, plus home grown cucumbers radishes beets turnips carrots lima beans and sweet potatoes. Prices range from 10 to 40 cents for various produce and 1.00 to 5.00 per larger unit for staples.
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