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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1902
Page
7
S. G. Stein returns from a Chicago business trip while Mrs. P Frambers and Irene visit relatives there. Deputies and townsfolk visit relatives in Conesville Downey and Iowa City. Students and teachers move between Muscatine Columbus Junction and Bayfield. Chores include eye exams, clothing cleaning at Luellen Bros. and a Joliet visit for M. C. Hayes.
Passenger fare to Boston from Chicago via Nickel Plate offered October 7 to 11 with return through November 12. Vestibuled sleeping cars and first class service. Low rates to New England points. Write John Y. Calahan Chicago for details.
Real estate bargains advertised at Kemble’s 116 Iowa avenue. Local society notes report Thomas Barnard’s improving health. Visitors include Mrs Clara Batterson and daughter Miss True in Davenport. Others travel to Iowa City for studies and visits to family and hospitals.
The Pennsylvania Special features an Observation Parlor and Private Rooms in its new Observation Compartment Cars. The 20 hour Chicago to New York service departs Chicago daily at 12 noon and arrives in New York the next morning at eight Chicago time. Tickets and space may be secured through H. R. Dering, A G P Agt, 248 South Clark Street, Chicago.
$19 round trip Boston to Chicago with travel Oct 7 to 11 and return by Nov 12 for 50 cent ticket deposit. three daily trains with through sleeping cars. dining cars offer meals from 35 cents to $1. city ticket office at 111 Adams St Chicago. Full details from John Y. Calahan General Agent 113 Adams St Chicago.
The C R N P Ry runs a special train for A O U W Day from Muscatine at 7 30 a m arriving Cedar Rapids at 10 00 a m with return leaving Cedar Rapids at 12 00 midnight. Round trip fare is 1 25. C M Gould.
Col Frank W. Mahin leaves Muscatine for Nottingham to take U S consul post, exchanging with Silas C. McFarland who moves to Reich enberg Austria. Nottingham Daily Express praises both men and notes rise in exports to America including lace machinery and general trade.
Mrs. Alice Gould of Maywood Illinois reports coffee made her weak and anxious. After switching to Postum Food Coffee she gained 18 pounds in six months and feels rebuilt. The family even notes their cat drinks Postum while rejecting coffee.
Major Meigs tours up the river aboard the Col Mackenzie using an iron pole sounding device on a barge to map river bottom profiles. The deepest spot was near the Burlington bridge with a forty foot no bottom reading. the instrument records to twenty three feet and marks shoals and snags for timely removal.
Washington Iowa sets Oct 1 reunion of the 19th Iowa and 5th Iowa infantry with Col. F R Earle of the 34th Arkansas Confederate infantry as a guest speaker. Col Josiah Patterson of Alabama forces expected. Local committee includes Col W B Bell and J W Morton. Reduced fare from all Iowa stations on certificate plan. tickets to be redeemed at home station.
Mrs. John Stone returned home after illness at her son James' country residence. Her three sons Samuel Chicago Sanford Eldon and William Burlington came to her bedside with Dr Hamilton attending and Mrs Dr Wilkins as nurse. Several locals attended the Columbus Junction fair and a Baptist church Japanese lecture proved instructive. Col umbus City visitors A G Achison and wife. J McCoy and family with T E McCoy spent Friday together. Council Bluffs home work meeting with Miss Mary Brockway biweekly, last held Sept 19. Elder Miller recovered a long lost watch from the parsonage yard.
Invitations issued for the wedding of Miss Cora Gunzenhauser and Albert M Ekelberg on October 1 at 7 pm at Grace Lutheran Church corner Iowa Ave and Sixth Street. Miss Gunzenhauser is daughter of Mr and Mrs J G Gunzenhauser of this city and Mr Ekelberg of Columbus Junction. They will be at home to friends after October.
Miss Ellen Hanley hosted a Friday launch party for about 18 friends aboard the Mignon visiting Geneva Island. The group enjoyed a 5 to 9 pm excursion with chaperons Mrs. Hanley and Mrs. LeQuatte and a bounteous supper at the Hanley cottage. Attendees included Frank Butler, Wallace Day, Ed Clark, Harold Will, Andrew Asthalter, Chester Richards, Walter Lumpe, David Grant and several Misses. Orange S. Terry of Toledo arrived Saturday to visit relatives and attend the Crocker brigade reunion. his daughter Daisy had been visiting Muscatine relatives. Terry left Muscatine 21 years ago. previously, he was a jeweler in the city.
An advertisement claims catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Cure is said to work on the blood and mucous surfaces, backed by physician endorsement and testimonials. Sold by druggists for 75 cents, with Hall's Family Pills likewise promoted.
Amusements notes promote Chauncey Depot as star of Chas Boyle’s latest laugh producer The Star Boarder. The show features a strong cast, Sousa impressions, and an up-to-date orchestra. Tickets available at standard prices.
Miss Thomas Biddle defends the so called 400 in a new book to be published in November. She argues fashionable life in New York Atlantic City and abroad includes refined men and women who abhor ostentation and wealth displays. She says true gentility comes from education ancestry or earned entrance and contrasts it with rapid fortunes and coarse notoriety.
Iowa Central railway offers greatly reduced one way tickets for harvest hands and laborers to Minnesota and North and South Dakota through August 19. See your local ticket agent.
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