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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IASCOTT] !! Davenport Times; Scott Co, IA; Nov 1900 "Town Gossip"
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 16:15:56 -0600


Davenport Times
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
Thursday, Nov. 22, 1900

LONG GROVE
Long Grove, Ia., Nov. 21- Many of the farmers around Long Grove are
done picking corn this practically ending the years' work. The crops have
been good and the farmers can now enjoy themselves through the winter by
hunting quail, rabbits, doing the chores, roasting shins, reading the
Davenport Times and be ready to start in with the 4th of next March with
another four years of prosperity...Brownlie Bros. shipped a carload of hogs
to Davenport on Tuesday of the week. Wm. Brownlie is in the northwestern
part of the state on a business trip, and is expected to return home this
week...Mr. R. Underholt is visiting friends in LeClaire and is expected to
return home on Friday of the week...There will be a chicken pie festival at
the Christian church on Thursday evening of this week. It is hoped that it
will be well attended...Mrs. W.E. Owen returned home from Mitchell, S.D.
where she has been visiting friends...R.K. Brownlie is building a fine new
residence in the Grove. The house when completed, will be one of the finest
in this part of the Scott county. It will be ready for occupance in the
early part of the coming year....Mrs. P.H. Owen of Dixon, Ill. is visiting
with relatives in the Grove.

LeCLAIRE
LeClaire, Nov. 22- Jones and Kylor shipped three carload of hogs to
Chicago Tuesday...W.P. Headley made a business trip to Davenport the first
of the week...The Court of Honor lodge will take in eight new members at
their regular meeting on Thursday evening of this week...E. Fowler was
transacting business in Davenport yesterday...Mrs. W.P. Headley left on
Tuesday for Colfax, Ia. for a short visit with relatives and friends...Mrs.
Lois Spinsby came home yesterday afternoon after spending severla weeks with
her sister at Keokuk, Ia...Charles Bickel is in Davenport on business this
week...Laurel Suiter, the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Suiter, of
this city, died early yesterday morning of diphtheria. This is the third
death which has occurred since the malady first begun here, the child was
taken sick about a week ago; no new cases have been reported during the past
few days. The funeral was held at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.

WEST LIBERTY [Muscatine Co.]
West Liberty, Ia. Nov. 22- The funeral services of George Rolfs were
held in the Presbyterian church, Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Bradley
officiating. Mr. Rolfs, who was a former West Liberty boy was a switchman
and his death was the result of injuries received in the Valley Junction
switch yards...Mr. and Mrs. George Ward left Tuesday morning for Pittsburg,
Pa. where they will visit and attend to business relative to the settlement
of the Ward estate...Miss Edith Lyle of Tipton is the guest of her aunt,
Mrs. Chas. Briggs...Miss Nellie Donnelly has been quite ill and unable to
attend school...Work has begun on the new freight depot. It will go upon the
site of the old one.

TIPTON [Cedar Co.]
Tipton, Ia., Nov. 21- Mrs. Wm. Chamberlain is still very low with
typhoid fever, though reported on the street Monday evening as having
died...William H. Knott is out again but moves about very slowly. His health
has been failing for some months...Miss Carrie Pfaff, of Buchanan has been
visiting her brothers and their families and many friends during the past
two weeks in Tipton...Attorney Jos. W. Bull, of Duluth, Minn. is visiting
Mrs. Eliza Cobb, with his wife. The two sisters and Mr. Bull are all old
time people of Tipton in the war days.


DIPHTERIA CASE IN BUFFALO
Little Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.H. Morehead the Victim.
Several cases of diptheria have been reported in certain parts of the
county in the past few days. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.H.
Morehead in Buffalo is down with the disease and other children in the
neighborhood are said to have sore throats.
The schools of LeClaire were closed some days ago on account of cases
in that place. It is claimed that the water which has been supplied to the
school is not as good as it should be, and that most of the cases of
diphtheria and typhoid fever hat have occurred there have been traceable to
the water near the school house.


Cathy Joynt Labath
Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.html


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