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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1902
Page
6
Sept 9 in Springdale Iowa Mrs W A Phelps enjoyed a large social surprise hosted by the community with fruits cake and lemonade. Neighbors and friends praised the hostess and wished for many returns of the pleasant gathering.
John Salton delivered two loads of fine hogs to Montpelier shipped by O A Bohnsack. Isael Bancks beams over a bouncing boy born September 2. O A Bohnsack couple toured Davenport Tuesday. Mrs J C Watts joined Ladies Aid Society with Mrs Frank Kelley on Friday. Hazel nuts abundant and fine this year.
Reports from Riverside Iowa dated September describe the death of Flanery after drinking battery fluid mistaken for whisky. Other items note injuries from a threshing accident, travelers returning home, a minister visiting and preaching, local deaths and visits, plus a youth working in Muscatine and sisters visiting. A town game result, household deaths, and a sudden death of Mrs Strape are also recorded.
Wilton Iowa reports ex-citizens in Chicago held a August 30 reunion at Washington Park refectory with eighty four attendees. A Methodist church cornerstone was laid in Wilton while services occurred in the Baptist church due to rain. Local residents travel and visits include Mrs Dove Iowa City, Mrs Johnson and Helen Kansas visit their parents Warren, Miss Knott Tipton visiting Bessie Nicolaus, Miss Amanda Kelley Davenport visiting Wilton, and other wanderings. A lightning strike burned a barn on the Frank Bacon farm east of town damaging 50 tons of hay potatoes and tools. barn insured for 1000 though no insurance on the day. Wilton fair opens today.
Weather remains mild as farmers hope for continued warmth. Rev. Wm. Fowe attends Des Moines conference this week. The potato crop likely to fail. Lindly Hoopes visit Wood home. Sunday school convention at Wilton praised for hospitality. Miss Marie Howe visits from Muscatine. Pr Joan Snider and wife visiting Jester family. Frank Ramford to return from Missouri trip. local Republicans name delegates to county convention. Hessen family shared a Sunday meal at Longstreth. Infant of Martin Goddard improving after illness. Miss Schafer from Muscatine visits Duffield.
Advertisement notes a cleaning and pressing service called New Panitorium by Luelen Rraos located at 2 Fast Second Street next to Grand Hotel offering clothes cleaning and shoe shining.
Frank Federtein left for Ames agricultural college while Charlie Overman went to Cedar Falls for schooling. Leonard Lamb Jr began teaching east of town in Moscow township. The Shheibenberger sisters visited Mr. Griscel then returned to Dayton Ohio. Cyrus Pettee, now of Perry, Iowa, visited briefly. Mrs. Hannah Helmes hosts nieces Grace Miller Minnots and Rebecca Green Ohie. The Stockers plan a Philadelphia trip to visit relatives. Della Merkine of Tipton visited her sister Vankie. John White of Bernick, Pa., stayed with J. W. Melick. Gen Black shipped hogs yesterday. Jasper Stearns bought the Heberline farm and will move back to the township. Rex and Mrs. Smith of Newton spent Sunday with sister Will Plumb.
The week was three degrees below normal with clear days aiding threshing. Frost on Sept 4 caused no material damage while showers were widely distributed. Corn shows good progress but risk from early frost remains. oats losses expected due to lodging. spring wheat in better condition. potato tops rot or blight reported. fall apples crop improving.
Geneva notes report Miss Hattie Parker has resumed teaching as families grapple with the whooping cough. Labor Day attendance was uneven while Julius Salzwedel builds galvanized wire fences. Marie Jacoby begins at Sweetland Center after visiting friends. Cal Stiles is sick with a cold. Mrs. Steen visits from Chicago and Crocker brigade reunion looms.
C B Vail of Muscatine shipped nearly 500 bushels of fine apples from South English Iowa to be iced at Muscatine and sent to the eastern market. Geo M Lyle of Paw Paw Michigan trails with a car of Michigan fruit including peaches pears plums and grapes finding a ready market as local crop is short.
A transit notice in the Montezuma region lists daily departures except Sunday. It records arrivals from Montezuma and mentions passenger service with a scheduled code. The fragment references are incomplete but indicate a transportation timetable.
The notice outlines revised timings for Nos. 12 30 16 11 20 7 15 trains and changes to routes. It states limited vestibule trains run Chicago to Denver via Kansas City or St. Joseph and adjustments to Evans service, through trains to Kansas City El Paso and California, with Nos. 15 16 operating daily except Sundays.
Train timetable text shows eastbound and westbound departures from Wilton with numbered services. Times listed include 7:30 going east and 12:10 going east with additional westbound entries around 10:16 and other partial digits. The fragmentary OCR suggests a rural or main line route listing with platform or track references.
Rail schedule details show departure and arrival times for Muscatine North and South by Co. trains No. 1 through No. 4, with connections to Iowa Central and other lines. Stop points include Roundhouse Grandview Wapello Fruitland Elrick Junction and Muscatine. General Agent Charles Howard notes service starts April 20 1902 at 12 noon.
Iowa Central lists daily and Sunday train options including No 3 St Paul Express at 10 p.m and No 4 Peoria Express at 5 36 a.m. Southbound No 6 Peoria Mall and No 16 Way Freight serve Sunday schedules. Coupon tickets available to all points in the United States Canada and Mexico via A B Cutts Minneapolis and G L Seevers Elrick Junction Iowa.
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