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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1902
Page
6
Schedule notice for the B C R N line in Muscatine. Daily except Sunday service notes freight and passenger times between Montezuma and Muscatine. Agents listed as C M Gorin.
The timetable lists freight and passenger trains with departure and arrival times, including Nos. 30 16 29 11 12 and services to Chicago Denver Kansas City Evans and Evans via the Wilton branch. It notes through trains to Kansas City El Paso City of Mexico and California and route changes for Nos. 7 8 85 86 and 15 16.
Train times from Muscatine to nearby towns start April 20 1902 at 12 noon. Schedules list departures from Muscatine Roundhouse Fruitland Grandview Wapello Truitland and connections at Etrick Junction for Peoria Monmouth and east and at Girick Junction for west. Notes show Saturday and Monday special departures and agent Charles Howard.
The notice lists daily and Sunday rail services including No. 3 St Paul Express, No. 5 Mason City Mail, No. 25 Way Freight, No. 6 Peoria Mail, No. 4 Peoria Express, and No. 16 Way Freight with times. Coupon tickets for all US, Canada, and Mexico points are offered with rates and folders available from A B Cutts in Minneapolis and G L Seevers at Elrick Junction, Iowa.
The Helen Blair steamer runs Monday Wednesday and Friday at 6 30 am and Sunday at 7 am The W J Young steamer operates Monday Wednesday and Friday at 7 pm with similar schedule details given for weekday and weekend departures.
In February 1899 a man reports a lump on the lower lip that was cauterized. A subsequent sore appeared, he took eight bottles of a treatment and after seven bottles the sore healed completely with no recurrence noted.
Mrs. Ella B. Curtis returns from Cherokee after a visit with her daughter. Eleven South Dakota students arrive for Norton Hall. Local clergy changes, college staff additions, and students starting classes are reported along with farmers hauling potatoes into town.
Oak Grove Louisiana reports Mrs Teets visiting sister Mrs Toyne then returning to Madison County. Miss Lola Beaty visits grandmother Mrs Adams before wintering west. Church attendance strong with Sunday service and class meeting planned. School in session with teachers named at local schools. Delegates named for Wilton Sunday school convention. Labor Day program enjoyed including balloon ascent. Roads and mail service improving. Mrs Will Hendricks ill. Witt Bronner family visiting. John TeStrake's barn nearing completion.
Foster and relatives return to Western Iowa. Misses Meyer end Chicago visit. Sunday school convention at German M E church praised. Mrs. Watson and Miss Beulah Miller travel. several teachers listed for fall term schools. births and local visitation noted. Lillie Workman teaches in Petersville.
Births include a son for Mr. and Mrs. Leonard McGinnis on August 27 and a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krueger on the 29th. Mrs. Melvin Rounds and daughter Lois visit her parents in town. Mr. Rounds arrives from Muscatine. Several attend Labor Day in Muscatine. an ice cream festival at the M. E. parsonage benefits the church next Wednesday. Gusta Schnell visits Carbin Cliff and attends a teachers institute in Rock Island before resuming teaching at Kimble school. Miss Susie Edgington begins teaching in the city. township officers hold an audit at Guy Tyler’s store. The annual Sunday school picnic is set for Castle’s Grove south of the city on Saturday.
In Wapello Iowa on September 5 Judge Withrow granted Lincoln A Gipple a three year liquor permit after meeting statutory requirements. W E McFadden also received a liquor permit. The state case against C E Wait for soliciting orders to sell liquor was dismissed. Dunham near Wapello is ill. Minnie Shipman of Narka Kansas visits. mother is severely ill.
In Orono Iowa on September 5 farmers thresh and stack as they harvest watermelons sweet potatoes and other crops. Local residents visitable at L M Cecil home and a list of neighbors chat by wire. A revival by Rev. Smith begins at Pike schoolhouse as Emma Hawkins suffers hay fever and Barton Cecil remains ill.
The Atalissa school began last Monday with good attendance for the fall term. Mrs. Lizzie Embree and children are visiting R. J. Embree. Seventeen Davenport excursion tickets were sold Wednesday morning for the tournament. Threshing runs slow due to damp grain. many will thresh little or none. Frank Pollock, recently arrived from the west, is sick at his sister’s. Others consider using excursion rates to travel east or south this fall. Clyde Heberling returns to Ames Agricultural College. Mr. and Mrs. Suckling and Mr. Stratton leave for home in the east after weeks with the MacIntosh family.
John Webster is dying at his Riverside home after being cut from mules tied in pasture. Leander Pager sold his restaurant stock to Samuel Wood and will seek a new location. Frank Reha works bricklaying in Texas earning six dollars a day. Fr Hildebrand from Lone Tree buys eggs for an eastern firm traveling by automobile. Presiding Elder Thorn preached at the M F church. U B church granted Rev Wald a vacation of two to three weeks. John Webster died Thursday and has relatives on Muscatine Island.
Property buyers may pay over time with payment plans before maturity. The sellers Titus and Jack Son offer extended terms reducing upfront cash requirements.
The Geneva Island boom continues as several prominent citizens buy strips of land for summer cottages. Land that once sold under $5 an acre now commands up to nearly $300 an acre or about $1 per front foot for 300 feet depth. Purchasers include Phil J. Mackey Ed Zeidler E M Warner Fred Mark and J E Howe.
Leona Stafford visits from West Liberty and Roy Wagner heals. Nichols schools begin with Prof. Eland principal Miss Merle Wright intermediate and Miss Bean primary. Cabbage ships to Muscatine. Earl S. Baker heads Mediapolis schools with Lawrence Foley and others. Several locals attend Spirit Lake shooting tournament and the state fair. A class of fifteen joins full connection at the M E church. Bert Nash visits Des Moines for the state fair. James Boston moves to Muscatine. T A Merrill remains home with rheumatism. Final M E church services scheduled Sept 7 and 14 before conference trip to Keokuk Sept 16.
The Gazette notes the school house has been neatly painted and looks fine. Frank Nelson, injured in Tuesday morning’s runaway, is able to be around again.
Local notes from Mannon Illinois dated Sept 4 report Misses Rachel and Ella Schaper returning from camp meeting, families visiting relatives in Peoria Shellsburg and Chicago mission training talks, school openings and staff, and a death prompting Mrs L F E Mannon to travel to Canawba. Also mentions reunions, harvest home picnic attendance, and pupils resuming school.
Russel Story of Aledo will lecture on the Anti Saloon League of Illinois at Buffalo Prairie church Sunday night Sept 7 for a good cause. Miss Della Reeding and Nellie Bales returned from a two week visit to Lettsville Columbus Junction and Washington Iowa. Harvest work continues as threshing nears completion and corn needs three weeks of warm dry weather. Residents share local news of travel fishing and social calls across nearby towns.
On September 2 9 16 and 23 1902 round trip excursion tickets will be sold at all stations on the Iowa Central railway to Ohio and Indiana at a very low rate. Tickets limited 30 days from date of sale. For information contact your local agent or A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minnesota.
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