The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-06-26

Homo and other Items.
The ladies of the Congregational Church
held strawberry, Ice Cream and Floral
Festival in Sperry's Hall on Friday evening
last. l. was well attended The receipts,
we are told, will &c to complete the
basement of the Brick church. Strawber.
ries are so abundant this year in gardens
and on the bluffs around us that the temp.
tation to attend Festival is not so great as
usual. ....J. p. Kriebs, late P. M. and a
long resident Of Gutenberg, is intending
to remove to McGregor to engage in the
Auction business. Good luck to you, JOHN.
Capt. Sladden and Hon. w. Vandever
were here on Wednesday last. The Capt.
had military business at Dubuque and took
occasion to run up and sec his family. He
reports the boys all we'll and in good heart
The Capt called at the Office to see the
writer of this but we were not at home !;
we regret very much to have been absent at
that time but we hope to see our friend here
again before he is ordered to the Border.
little boy at North McGregor, during the
absence of his parents, thought it would be
funny to make lemonade and drink it. The
poor little fellow kept on drinking till con-
gestion Of the brain ensued, and he died !;
he was buried on the 10Th The deceased
was bright child and his parents are in
consolable. The name we do not publish,
but we may state Tor the benefit Of the liv.
ing that matches, fluid, strychnine, lauda.
mum, whisky and other poisons, should be
put out of the reach Of children by lock
and key. During the latter part of last
week Mr.. Eib9ck Of the Clayton County
journal was in this city-he was frequently
in the Times Office. go" has sold half
his office to A. F. Upton, formerly of South
Bend, Ind. Mr.. L. remains in charge of
the paper while Eibeck accompanies his
parents from Dubuque TO New York on
their way back to Europe; after seeing them
on board steamer EibGck will go to Wash
ington, thence to the active portion of the
army in Virginia where he will stay several
months as a correspondent Of his paper at
Elkader. This will give our young friend
a splendid opportunity to sec sights and we
shall look to the journal hereafter with ex-
traordinary interest, to learn how military
affairs down there are progressing. -.
DoDGE the Dodge Of the Nation, had
large audience on Friday night last at the
Congregational Church. Mr.. Hayward was
the singer and Dodge the comic delincator
each did their parts well and were cheered
repeatedly hy the listeners. Some call
Dodge humbug and some think he is
brick" We leave people to their private
opinions. He evidently knows how to get
a full house and as success in any business
is proof Of talent, we accord him extraor-
binary ability in his line. 30. Mrs. Jane
Swisshelm, of the St. Cloud Visitor, says
the Land Office appointee at that place is "a
burglar, an incendiary, ruffian and an in
teresting pup" No wonder Jane can't
get a husband to live with hcr--she Is too
free with other men!. .Alph Scott, late
Of Elkader, has removed to Strawberry
Point. He is lawyer of ability and a first
rate man socially. Capt Il. l.. Freeman
of the McGregor Cavalry, has returned
from trip South as far as Dcs Mcincs and
St. Louis. The Capt says that the pet
Regiment Of Fitz II. Warren, accepted by
| the Governor, has the heels Of the Rangers
and he'll have no more to do with the bust
ness. st. Louis he says is almost desert
so far as business is concerned; for miles
along the river the smoke stacks of the
steamers are rusting and the lcvee is grow
ing into pasturage. He thinks the civil
| discord there is so great tina, fire is not
improbable at any moment. .... Captain
Barnes Of Waukon has just returned from
a visit TO Gov. Kirkwood. He happened
there in the nick Of time. and got his COM
pany accepted in the Fifth Regiment of
iowa troops Can anybody summon en-
terprize sufficient to build nice bathing
house at Nicer sors As somebody (Phiip,
maybe) said to the eunuch, or vice versa,
here is much water but the oppportuni-
ties for bathing are not good. We want to
battle all the year round and it is proper
that we have house for the purpose. The
ladies of this place would regard as bene-
factor that man who will establish set of
bath rooms. -. King & Co., with their
Stock Of Clothing, left for st. Ansgar on
Tuesday morning. Good luck to Mr.. King.
80. On Friday last one-half the First Min
nesota Regiment arrived at Pr. du Chen by
the War Eagle--t the other half went east
by the way of La Crosse Their arrival at
Prairie du Chen was announced by the
firing Of cannon-they went east on spe
cial train at 8 o'clock Saturday morning.