The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-05-01
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| A stranger visiting McGregor now woul,
| think from the display of bunting that h,
had run upon the Fourth Of July. Be
sides the flags We mentioned last week, o,
Thursday morning beautiful flag made it,
appearance over Concert Hail. Just before
noon, Brown hoistcd the stars and stripes
over his Young America Eating House, ant
a few minutes later, A. II. S;rouse, just op
posite, displayed beautiful colors. On Sat
urday d. G. Goodrich, still fartcr up tn,
street displayed beautiful flag, and so i
goes. ..On Thursday lot of "abergoines'
visited the Times office, and seemed to b,
much interested in the processes of setting
type and printing. A spy glass was an 90
ject Of special wonderment to them, and
called out profuse demonstrations of dcligh,
rather an unusual thing for Indians tc
exhibit. They had pow.wow in Mozar,
Hall the same evening, on which occasion
they Gel brated the achievements of thei,
ancestors, and scalpcd, fiyurativcly many a
fallen brave. The admittancc to the enter.
tainment was ten cents. On Friday, the
stern wheel boat Flora, plying between
Gal"na and St. Paul, displayed handsome
flag from her flag staff. Her officers wore
very pretty "Union caps" One day
last week, in few hours, portion Of the
business men Of McGregor subscribed
5000 per month as a fund to support the
families of those who may volunteer to
serve their country. 1t could easily have
been raised to $1,000 or more. /. "A mill
tary company has been partially formed
here within the present week. There is
room still for 20 or 80 able. bodied men to
come in. .Jones-cvcrybody in McGrcgor
knows Jones-says he found on his shay
ing box the other morning slip of paper
containing the following note written in
neat feminine hand: "The right man in
the right place-a husband at home in the
evening" jones informs us further
more that his wife could not account for the
appearance Of the letter aforesaid; cfcourse
not.....On Sunday evening, Rev. Mr..
Sloan, Of the Congregational church, and
Rev. Mr.. Moore, of the Baptist church,
preached able and patriotic discourses to
large congregations 4. i. Most all of the boats
plying up and down the river now display
small American flags; they allege that the
wind would tear large ones all in pieces
1.-THE ladies' of McGregor quite unani-
mously wear roscttcs Of red, white, and
blue. Glad to see it; they are all for the
Union-to man.. !. . The river, which has
been up within twenty inches of high flood
mark, on Friday began to rcccde, and is
now falling at the rate Of four or five inches
per day.. We received by courtesy OF
Charley Packard, the Nc Grrgor Press daily
extra, containing all the tclcsraphic DIES.
patches Of the associated press. Charley
has everything in the way of news and
periodicals that one desires.
The p. 0. will be removed to the build
ing recently occupied by VIM Latham as
IA Fruit Store. III. E. Newell and Hoff-
man, Benton & Co., received very large
amount of Drugs, Medicines and Glassware
on Sunday last from Pittsburgh per steamer
Dacotah. I'D. Woolliscrort has taken
partner (not a wife yeD in the person of
Mr.. Ryan; their Fruit Store north of the
Square, looks as neat as row Of pins -.
james Highworden has bought Jerry
Thompson's barber shop and is now pre-
pared to cut and shave all the hair in the
State. ''Jim" is good barber and a quiet
man.. :. Hoffman, Benton 4 Co., have run
up splendid Flag over their Drug Store
G. s. Boynton is the maker. Flags, Re-
settcs, bonnets trimmed in red, white and
blue, aprons Of the favorite colors, national
badges. &C., &C, arc very much in fashion
just at this time. :. /. John Grinncll, ESQ,
Of Clayton, is in town with a quantity Of
Fruit Trees. What you may buy of John
you can bet on. :. /. Prof Eboeck has dress
I'd up his Clayton Co. Journal in new type
from S. p. Rounds establishment and We
should not wonder If We Editor is designing
to get another dress soon, with girl in it.
The Journal is very much improved indeed;
JOSEPH has our best wishes i. The steamer
Hawk-Eye State, Of the ST. Louis and St.
Paul Paul Line, ran up the National colors
on leaving this por. Monday evening last
and was enthusiastically cheered by a crowd
Of citizens on the wharf. ). Capt. IIooc,
Lieut.. Plu,nner and Sergeant Lloyd G.
Harris of the Pr. du Chicn Volunteers
called to sec Us on Monday. The Capt. de-
sires US to say that he wants a good drum
mer and fifer-youns men preferred.
10. S. Wilson, one Of our very best men,
has returned from Denver to remain per-
manently with us hereafter. :. "A. Bakery
is going up in Cowelti's new building now
on the stocks. The drum and fife are
heard in our streets almost every hour of
the day and night. -. A negro preach, r.
held forth ut the Methodist church on Sun
day evening last; We did not learn his name
or his place Of residence. :. !. i. Capt. Slad-
den, ofthc McGregor military company, has
brother who is an officer in the southern
Confederate army.
Wcsther, Markets &c.
Business is improving. The weather is
fine and spring like; showers are abundant
and the grass is coming forward rapidly
Gardening is in order.
The Markets arc improving Flour at
New York, April 29th, was $5,l5@5 go,
and rs high as 1870 for extra. Wheat,
l.2l@l, 2S. The Bremen brings advices of
| favorable weather for crons and consequent