St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-09-25
A. b. F. HILDRErH D. D. ". CARVER, EDITORS
st. Charles, Iowa, Sept. Is, 1856.
Wants of St. Charles,

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Wants Of St. Charles.
Our town Of ST. Charles possesses ad-
vantages unrivaled by those of any
other town in this section of Iowa. 1t
has already obtained good start, and
new settlers coming here can soon
make themselves comfortable in al
most every particular. We have
good Touring mill several saw mills
in the place and vicinity; single mills;
lath mills; lime kilns; hardware stores,
and indeed stores Of all kinds; all the
various professions of law, medicine,
&C.; together with numerous other
conveniences that go to make up or
supply the comforts required by the
new settler. on 7~ l.rf
But Notwithstanding so many Of our
wants are supplied, there are many
others still unsupplied. This is
large country and there is great
deal of room in it. H
First, we want great many farm
crs to come and till tho soil of our
broad and fertile prairies. We regard
the sturdy yeomanry who devote them
selves to the pursuit of agriculture as
the bone and sinew Of the country, and
without sufficient attention.to this in
terest, the building of towns and cit
les is all in vain. Every thing that
the farmer can raise (and in this
country what can he not produce p
meets with a ready sale at largely re-
munerative prices, and will continue
to do so. ;u@s
We want additional postoffice and
mail facilities; these are seriously de-
manded by the rapidly increasing bust
ness of our town and county. The
mail now arrives and departs buttwice
week, and yet we have daily stage
and are soon to have two railroads.
These latter our own people can cstab-
lish, but the mail accommodations we
shall probably have to wait for until
"old fogydom" is routed from the
postoffice department and "young
America is installed in it's place. Sta
tistics Of population, business &C., are
so slowly prepared and published by
government officials that before they
come to be perused by the fat-salaried
slow.and-easy office-holder, whole coun-
tics, towns and cities are built up and
populated, and the fogies will swear
By their books that no such places exist,
and of course no wants Of postoffice
facilities and mail routes can exist.
The first necessity Of new settler
is house and home. To this end
builders are wanted and building ma
terials. We therefore want more car
penters, stone masons, plasterers, ar
chitects, brick-layers, and mechanics
Of all industrial pursuits. Day labor
ers and men of all work are in great
demand, and two dollars per day is
their lowest wages.
We particularly want a planning
mill, matching machine and manufac-
tory Of sash, doors and blinds; moth
ing could be more profitable. We
want wagon makers and cabinet ma
kers the opening for these branches
is rare and inviting.
We want GLACIERS, painters, brick
makers, harness makers, tailors and
shoemakers. We want more saw mills
and more lumber sawed at the mills
we now have.
We want barber and hair dresser
to trim the human lineaments of our
hirsute appendages, and take the
brushiness out Of that upper cover
ing" which is mans shame, and wo-
mans glory.
We want mantua-makcrs milliners,.
seamstresscs, and pretty young ladies
aid injfnitum.
We want respectable, enterprising
men of all trades and pursuits to come
and settle among us as citizens. We
want-ah, what do we not want p
We want every thing which goes to
improve and build up society, increase
business, favor refinement, cultivate
the fine arts, elevate society socially,
morally, and intellectually increase
the happiness of man, further the adj