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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
6
Gossip notes list residents and visitors moving through Jewell and nearby towns. Names include Sutton Litchfield Bonner Knudson Murphy Cooley Lewis Brin Olmstead Edwards Shaw Bishop Knoop O Dair LeRoy Hanssler Lundy Siegel Cook Siegel Martin Smith Marten Ruppel Tremaine and Wille with travels to Waterloo Minneapolis Denver Des Moines Eagle Grove and Story City.
Mra T A Conklin visits Algona for a few days with friends. H G C Tuttle J H Servis and Geo H Shaw were visitors at Fort Dodge yesterday. E H Martin went to Boone to handle business matters for a couple days. Chas Wright formerly of this city now of Tama called on local cigar dealers. Mrs Roy Renillard arrived from Minneapolis for a visit. County Superintendent Gerber and son Ralph travel to Des Moines where Ralph plans Drake University summer school. Mr and Mrs Levi Cottington return from Reedsburg Wisconsin after death in the family. Mrs Kinney of New York leaves for Pueblo Colorado to visit relatives. Mrs Shane and son Nevin return to Jesup after a week with relatives and the Trambauer family.
Bankers from four states gathered in Sioux City for the Northwestern Bankers association convention. Addresses covered banking topics including currency reform, banking system concerns, and the banker’s burden with local and national figures presenting.
Neighborhood notes report Mr and Mrs M Pringle and daughter Della visiting the White family northeast of Woolstock Sunday. D Douglas has rheumatism recent days. Mr and Mrs McAninch of Webster City spent Monday with the Flaws family. Boone river boat riding due to low water. June 18, 1
Pleasant Hill hosts a children's day program at the school house on Sunday June 21 at 7 30 p m with all invited. The report lists local visits and family news including Mrs Frank Riley visiting Stanhope and Lucile Sterling attending a carnival with Cecile Julian.
Mrs Wm Primrose and daughter Bertha of Dows visited Mrs H E Ford this week. Rev Johneer and family from Williams were here Tuesday. Mr Austin bought stock hardware in Fort Dodge. Wm Wilke of Webster City visited Wednesday. Spring term closed with a picnic in Peter Christensen's grove. Lute Shields spent Sunday in Williams. Inex Johnson Williams is vacationing with H Jp H Wilise H E Ford and Fred Austin visited Webster City Saturday and Sunday. Stella and Essie Osteihmer attended Wallace Bros shows at Iowa Falls Saturday and visited relatives until Sunday evening. June 18.
Mrs F M Bibler visits Mt Vernon for a graduation week as term ends. M B church hosts a full children day program. M E tent meetings begin a week or longer. Bert Casey loses a barn to fire with hay grain and chickens burned. Primacy election draws attendees. Webster City trip for drainage dispute hearings. Carnival goers report a good time. Telephone wires and poles extend a thirty mile route. Enoch Hemming moves dry goods into the Neel building. Hiko Wepel Sr. remains low after a paralysis stroke. wife and daughter Rosa suffer asthma and rheumatism. Grandmother Thompson learns of a granddaughter's sudden death by poison. Berryhill family quarantined for scarlet fever showing some improvement. An exchange of horses occurs between American Express depots in Kamrar and Marshalltown. new horse arrives to replace one used.
A Odessa based committee of fifty influential Jews met in St. Petersburg with Interior Minister Von Plehve and Finance Minister Witte to plead for relief. The czar's ministers agreed to classify all villages as cities for Jewish residence and lift the fifty mile frontier ban, enabling Jews to live anywhere in the country.
Chicago June 19 waiters refuse arbitration and seek broader action inviting engineers and elevator men to join. Committees begin organizing new strikes while hotel owners meet strikers with little result. The general meeting vows not to arbitrate and to widen the strike further.
Lowell textile workers near end of three month strike for a 10 percent wage rise in cotton mills. A peace overture was discussed at a regular meeting with the textile council.
The Litchfield Mfg Co promotes a superior corn cultivator with 300 samples this season. They seek farmers near Webster City to inspect the units with plans to place two machines in town for field testing. Interested parties should call the office within a day or two to arrange a viewing.
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