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Newspaper
Winona Daily Republican
Location
Winona, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1900
Page
3
Robert Harms plans a ferried outing to Fountain City for the Jaly celebration with fireworks. A boat will depart Winona at 2 pm and return by 7 pm with an evening schedule.
A jumble of ads and notices includes job leads for a dining room girl at Stu Walls Restaurant and a dishwasher, rentals with rooms for lease, a sale of a 44 foot launch, and household items from the late Mrs Forsyth. Also listed are a tutoring service, furnace repairs, and a binder twine sale with price details. Sears Roebuck catalog sample orders are offered for freight prepaid.
The city page lists a flood of ads and notices including brand names like Gold Medal Beer and Silk, a sale at Lang's Market, Winona Mercantile Co closing out, beds and furniture for sale, and a call for thirty men for steady work. Also mentions Dress hats at Donnelly's, camera shop Elmer, and excursions to Fountainity.
An obscure device uses a fixed weight and a controlled air current to keep the tire in place while spinning. The setup relies on air pressure to stabilize the rotating wheel during testing or balancing.
Three weddings highlighted this June. Grace Ingra ham and Robert Clendening wed at Concord Minnesota with home to Fargo after September. Bessie Whitehead and Charles Hamilton Buck marry in Chicago and plan Winona home. Mamie Miller to wed Dr. H P Boyce in Chicago with residence there.
To day indications show generally fair weather for Wisconsin and Minnesota with some winds. Temperatures mid 60s to 68, barometer rising, river stage readings indicate slight changes with St Paul about 14.0 feet and Winona near 16 feet as forecasts expect a slow fall in La Crosse district over the next 24 hours.
Mrs. S. R. Van Sant visits Minneapolis. St Stanislaus parish house foundation completed. Camp 218 Woodmen initiates five candidates. Degree of Honor lodge installed at Simpson. Shelves for Company C in Pythian building. First park concert of season announced. Morgan and Packard fished at Pickwick. Firecracker serenade at a wedding supper. Curbing contract for St Charles awarded to Steinbauer Co. Runaway injury likely to allow Wm Grams home next week. Crackers price rise tied to wheat. Macadamizing on Waser Fifth street near completion. Diphtheria quarantine in Elba township. Northwestern Railway excursion to Pierre planned. Summer training school July 10 to August 4. Prairie Island outing for Northwest shops staff. Air pipe laid from waterworks to sewer ejector. Launch Josephine launched. Pickwick mill dam opened. steam pump damaged by flood. Spring Valley reunion speaker on Washout impact. Winona line wins damage suit over right of way. Medical Society committee appointments list. Local horses entered for Fourth of July at St Charles. New Kuhlmann Company baseball team formed. Street fair directors meeting planned. Burlingame to resign. John Rose possibly reelected. Bicycle pump installed at Wm. Beyer’s shop with free operation.
Mrs A A Cady returns from Dover visit. Senator Buck leaves for Kansas City Tuesday. Alfred Patterson and family home from Twin Cities. Mina Morse goes to Red Wing for vacation. Jessie Beach of Tracy visits Mr and Mrs E O Brauns. J and E Beers return to Chicago from here. Christine Munger visits Mrs Millard in Spring Valley. Meadow Brook Golf Club hosts weekly hop this evening. Clara Baxter visits Mildred Lambert. Dollie Snyder returns from Spring Valley to Winona. Scott Laird back from Chicago and Crown Point. Maud Weller returns from Ripon. Mick Bright and Hannibal Choate visit Trempealeau. F J Kelly of Kankakee IL guests of sister W A Allen. Mrs Jas Castles and Miss Jennie Castles visit Granite Falls. Goldie Hinessey goes to Milwaukee for extended visit. O E Beardsley and Clara Beardsley of Caledonia visit this week. Adelaine Wheeler of Fairfield Woods CT visits N B Wheeler family. Guy Hopkins heads to Charleston SC for National Educational convention. Judge H L Buck and family move to summer home across lake. Clara Pierce of Des Moines IA, former St Peter teacher, is Miss Mary Thornton’s godchild. Mrs Thill and Estella Huber return to Cannon City CO after visiting John Rose’s family. Hattie Kaiser leaves for Fosaton and Bemidji MN for summer with brothers. B Longley and Florence Longley visit R J Duncan near Minnesota City then return to St Paul. Mayor John Burchard of Marshall and M W Haren visit en route to St Paul. Bargains in trimmed hats for the Fourth at Donnelly’s.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Peter Erpelding from Rollingstone aged elderly. Matthew Ferguson from this city at 35 after disease complications. Edward F. Mues 68 a Winona merchant. M. Rumsey of St Louis head of appliance firm dies after Mississippi steamer trip. P F Goodhue father of E N Goodhue dies in Trempealeau at 79. Mrs Albertine Fick funeral at East Broadway. Mrs Leahean funeral at St Thomas Cathedral. Pineapple Front ad noted.
A father seeks return of his under thirteen daughter who ran away to La Crosse with a young man. The pair boarded a steamer and disappeared during an excursion. The sister later confirmed they were living together in La Crosse. If she is not brought back, the matter may go to court.
The Northwestern Miller outlines bullish wheat activity with bucket shops long on market and a likely closing up as a big crop arrives. Elevators hedge in Chicago and Minneapolis, millers settle cash differences instead of shipping flour, and Minneapolis prices exceed Chicago by about 10 cents.
Grain buyer G H Krymdick asserts yields will be better than last year barring adverse conditions. While last summer's rains reduced wheat and barley, this season moisture is less damaging and corn prospects look excellent. Winter wheat has begun to be harvested around Stockton with average yields noted, spring wheat and barley to follow mid July.
The Green Bay road schedules four special trains for Independence Day between Winona Merrillan. The first departs Winona July 3 at 5 30 p m arriving Merrillan 8 25 p m. The Merrillan to Winona trip runs July 4 morning at 6 00 a m reaching Winona 8 65 a m. On July 4 afternoon service departs Winona at 5 30 p m arriving Merrillan 8 25 p m with a five minute stop, then to Winona at 11 25 p m.
Closing out sale announced by Mrs J Villaumie offering millinery goods at heavy discount with emphasis on Fourth of July hats and to hurry for bargains.
The Winona postoffice reports for the year ending June 38 show a strong rise in receipts, nearing the 38,000 threshold needed for first class. The year’s total is about 2,000 short of achieving that grade, promising future improvement.
A party of ten couples from the Woodmen of the World will travel to Trempealeau this evening to visit the local lodge aboard the Garthe Smith. The group includes Messrs and Mesdames V. Streiff N. Steffes and James Mcintosh. Also noted is a job listing seeking thirty steady workers offering good wages.
The steamer Quincy, with the excursion party aboard, ran aground on a sandbar a short distance above La Crosse early this morning. After efforts to refloat, the vessel remained stuck, details of delay and assistance sought are reported.
The vessel has been removed from its current position and will try again to come up the river tomorrow after the local agent was notified to arrange the muster and assist the attempt.
Captain 8 R Van Sant nominated by Minnesota Republicans for governor. Born in Rock Island Illinois he enlisted early in the Civil War, served over three years in the Ninth Illinois cavalry, later studied in New York and Knox College, then entered the boat yard business in Le Claire Iowa. He moved to Winona in 1883, served as alderman, was elected to the state legislature and was speaker in his last term.
Company C earns applause on return from ten days at Lake Guy with an 11 30 drill in front of the post office. Sergeant Bohn posts top company score of 132. The regiment marches to Rest Island, escorted by Company E, amid heat and dust. Governors Ling and staff enjoy demonstrations by Adjutant Buller and others.
Farmers are warned by state experts to resist drought driven panic selling as speculators push for low prices. Dean W. M. Siegel of the State Experiment Station urges keeping cattle, noting widespread feed in neighboring states and willingness to pay fair prices in the coming months.
The Fort Collins Courier reports Miss Claire Avery, formerly of Winona and daughter of Rev. George P. Avery, has won one of four annual art department scholarships after only one year of study. This summer she attends Prof. Dow's Landscape school in New England as a student artist.
The Chicago and Northwestern on June 17 opened two sections of a new line from Belle Plaine to Fox Lake and from Mazon City to Belle Plaine via Blue Earth. Passenger and freight service are now available on these segments connecting Belle Plaine to Blue Earth and Fox Lake. The total CNW system mileage rises to 8,462.85 miles after adjustments.
Advertisement extols a Fourth of July river excursion aboard the steamer Lion for family outings to Mempeaieau with cool air scenery and a women’s union luncheon. It touts picnic refreshments and a cheerful, patriotic day while joking about quick remedies like Rocky Mountain Tea.
The Inks of the Meadow Brook Golf Club hosts a July Fourth program with Marfield cup qualifying play at 2 pm, gentlemen’s driving, ladies’ putting contests, music, fireworks displays, dancing, and refreshments. Open to members and their young lady guests with expenses funded by member subscriptions.
Congress revised the militia law to provide a 1 million dollar annual appropriation for arms ordnance stores and camp equipment. The War Department asks adjutants general to report current strength of state organized units and actual drill and parade attendance.
The Hosiery sale at Choate's started Thursday morning and sold several thousand pairs yesterday. Trade today appears set to be even larger with ample assortments and full size ranges available.
Money on call nominal at 2 percent. Prime mercantile paper at 8 and 4 percent. Silver certificates quoted around 61 to 62 cents. Barnsilver at 61 1/2 cents. Mexican dollars at 48 1/2 cents. Government bonds steady.
New York grain market June 29 shows Wheat futures at 88 cents for June and 87 1/2 cents for September and December. Corn futures trade July at 48 cents and September at 48 1/2 cents with steady tone overall.
Butter receipts 6,461 packs with weak tone across whole market. Large white prices around 94 to 9 9c, large col 9% to 9Nc. small white 9 to 9 9Mc. Sugar raw strong, yielding 43 16 to 96 test. refineries firm with prices for crushed, powered and granulated at 6.80.
Fragmentary Minneapolis market item with garbled text and numbers. Reads as a dated market listing or classified note with illegible names and figures making precise details impossible to confirm.
Close shows cash wheat prices with No 1 hard at 86 1/6 cents, No 1S northern at 84 4/5 cents, No 2 northern at 8 1/2 cents, No 3 northern at 79 1/6 cents. Arrivals include No 1 hard at 86 1/2 and No 1 northern at 84 1/2 cents. July at 84 2/5 cents and September at 0.75 cents.
Wheat and rye futures mixed as No 2 Northern and No 2 red traded around 83 to 84 cents. Barley and oats showed declines with No 2 and No 3 white oats around 28 to 40 cents.
Cattle receipts totaled about 25,000 with prices mostly steady to 10 cents lower. Good to prime steers traded around 35.20 to 35.80, cows and heifers 2.80 to 4.70, Texas fed steers 44.0 to 45.0, and sheep around 13.20 to 14.75 with light and heavy mixes noted. Tomorrow’s receipts estimated at 16,000 with 4,467 left over.
Chicago reports clearings of 22,204,516 dollars and balances of 2,072,156 dollars for June 29. The figures reflect daily banking activity in the city.
Butter firm with creameries at 14 to 19 cents and dairies at 16% cents. Eggs quiet with 10 thousand cases noted. Dressed poultry steady with turkeys at 6 cents, chickens around 7 to 8 cents, and spring chicks at 11 to 7 cents.
Wheat weak and quiet in forenoon trading with Liverpool and Argentine shipments influencing prices. July to December futures show declines, receipts heavy for Minneapolis Duluth corn oats and rye quoted with cash prices for No 2 red wheat and No 2 corn and other grain futures noted alongside small supply data.
Partial OCR shows a Chicago business notice with references to TanDE Qrotatroms F. G. Logan Co private wife I C Sap correspondent Date Block telephone Winona Co Northwestern Co and numbers like 04 299 and 29 28 We infer dates and financial figures but the text is garbled leaving unclear events names and outcomes.
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