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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1900
Page
6
A jumble of notes from a local daily recounts residents and visitors in Des Moines and nearby towns. Names like Fort Meade, Stratford, Atlantic, Yale, Cedar Falls, and Des Moines appear with reports of social calls, club meetings, and business travels.
Cleveland returns from Butler county with four Jersey cows for his herd. Fred Kimball arrives home from Des Moines after tending at the Iowa Business College. Mrs. Geo W Crosley comes back from Fort Madison after a couple of months away. A R Wolgamot returns from Waterloo where he testified in the Smith v Meyers suit. Miss Pearl Person returns to Waterloo after visiting Waterloo cousin Miss Hallie Smith hosts a gathering for Cedar Falls sisters and others. Matt Colcord from Fort Dodge travels via Waterloo with daughter Katie for Sisters' hospital treatment. Weeley Martin returns from Waterloo where he was an attorney in the Smith v Meyers case settled before verdict. Mrs C A Near and son Dwight head to Eagle Grove for a few days while Dwight returns tonight amid Irma Smith’s illness.
Elizabeth Emery born in Shefford Canada on August 15 1837 died March 12 1900 at her daughter's Des Moines home of heart failure after months of illness. She married Isaac Wilson in 1853 and left nine children including L J Wilson and Bertha Allen. Funeral held at Blairsburg church conducted by Rev B F Myers with relatives from Des Moines Grundy Center and Bilairsburg in attendance.
The Webster City Feed Shed owned by Norman Robinson is rented by W H Perry Co of Blairsburg. They promise first class service with 10 cent hay until further notice, open day and night with electric lights, and daily weekly or monthly horse boarding at reasonable rates. Call when in the city.
The three week old child of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Napper died at their Mulberry Center home seven miles northeast of the city. Heart failure was the cause. The funeral, conducted by Rev. L W Nine of the U B church, was held yesterday afternoon. Interment followed at the city cemetery.
A day or two ago a careless shooting incident broke a kitchen window at Mrs. J. H. Buller’s residence on West Elm Street. The report condemns the shooter as a fool killer and questions why he has not faced the people to learn proper muzzle direction.
Brother M H Beaumont of this city received a telegram announcing the death of his only brother John R Beaumont in Seattle Washington on March 13 1900. No cause given. Deceased lived in Webster City about six months three years ago and worked as a bookkeeper in Beaumont Laundry. He will be remembered by those who met him during his stay.
P Shurman manager of Shurmans Department Store returns from a twelve day trip to Chicago and St Louis with heavy purchases of spring furnishing goods. Stock is arriving and shelves will be crowded to showcase the new goods. He is a shrewd purchaser promising bargains for customers. Watch for his paper announcement.
The Hakes celebrate a nine pound son born Wednesday at their home. Fred Schmoldt's family at Indianola Iowa welcomes a baby daughter. Nathan Grabschied of N Y Clothing and Shoe Company announces a Hamilton county boy and four other children in his home. Uncles and the nation share in the excitement of a fourth son. At the Bishop farm near Woolstock a baby girl arrived Wednesday morning with mother and child doing well.
The Clarion Monitor criticizes a proposed $2,000 appropriation to fund a traveling board aimed at promoting public libraries in Iowa cities and towns. It argues the state already has paternal and maternal oversight and calls the library commission a needless expense, urging lawmakers to discard the measure.
Multiple used threshing machines listed for sale by C. E. Howard of Port Huron Engine and Thresher Co. Webster City Iowa includes engines and separators with sizes 12-horse 36x54 and 30x50 plus a stacker sheller and portable engine. Call or write for prices and terms.
Advertises new wholesale business opening in the Hunter building near the express office. Promises cash purchases with low expenses and cash discounts to cover costs. States willingness to supply goods in any quantity and at any time and seeks a share of local trade. Signed J I Siegel.
Mayor Wray enforces a strict system for vagrants in Oskaloosa. Each tramp is arrested, brought before the mayor, and fined with work on streets and alleys to repay the penalty. The method is credited with reducing the nuisance and increasing city revenue.
Farmers note that late freezes allow sowing now but do not hasten harvest. Best results rely on adapted seed free of foul seed and new bloodlines. Machinery cannot separate cockle from wheat, and selection mirrors heredity and environment. Thistles and potato seed quality cited as cautions.
A fractured Kentucky themed piece mixes tall tale scorn with a fatal Algona death. An unnamed stranger, death by knife, a National Employment Bureau ticket, and a Wright county school applicant who favors corporal punishment headline a jumble of 1900s local life.
Capetown dispatch reports the British first class cruiser departed for England today carrying the naval brigade that has been operating in South Africa aboard.
Capetown reports joyous reaction across the colony as British forces take Bloemfontein. Gun salutes mark the moment with crowds cheering and the mayor carried to a town ball amid holiday mood.
Capetown report dated March 14 states General Plumer advances to within forty miles of Mafeking as relief remains elusive.
The British war office reports General Lord Roberts occupies Bloemfontein and that the Union Jack waves atop the capitol building in London on March 14.
Pretoria dispatch reports Commander Delaney describing two Boer repulses at Abra hams Krool on Tuesday. About 40 000 British attacked first then second assault on strategic hills left of our position. Three hundred burghers held from nine to sundown with limited British gains and Boer losses not yet fixed.
Capetown March 15. Transvaalers at Bloemfontein threatened to turn their guns on the town if peace advocates urged fighting but the threat proved futile as the war party fled. The British now operate the Free State railroad.
A horse tied outside a south city home suffered from cold and hunger after days without shelter or adequate food. Neighbors complained, Police Ash and Marshal Ostrand intervened, placing the animal in a barn where it could walk only with difficulty. The incident highlights need for a cruelty prevention society.
Four car loads of cattle and one carload of hogs were shipped from here today over the Northwestern. Arthur Leonard of Willis & Co. suffered a dislocated shoulder after being thrown from his buggy last Monday March 14.
Henry Johnson on the sick list. A. A. Loomis sale well attended on Tuesday. Claud Mickel and wife moved to John Vulgamott's farm on Wednesday. W. O. McConnell elected school director Monday afternoon. F. A. Huddleston moved to Loomis farm on Wednesday. Charles Nelson visited Jake Plankenborn on Sunday. Mies Showmaker hired for one year to teach Pleasant Hill school. Charles Julian moved to Brushy on Wednesday. March 15.
Weekly list shows uncalled for letters for the week ending March 12 1900. Names include Rev John Charlaon Olet Dyndey Laura E Daniel AW Fauci Mrs Hezisah Garten John Growsenbacher August Lyon BC Sorplis L Meyers Dora McKage Wm Nolaon Sadie Pab Ines Bmith F M Fuller Mrs M J Taylor Mrs Ann Taylor Frank Willson JC Williams and P A. If unclaimed within two weeks they go to the dead letter office in Washington D C Hatten postmaster.
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