The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-02-20
Home and Other Items.

Home and Other Items.
On Friday night there are to be two Balls
and one Sabbath School Festival in McGre-
gor in honor Of George Washington. The
shade of the old Hero will feel compliment
ed by the extensive preparations now max
ing in all the country to do his birth night
honor. :. e. Business is tightening up in
town and we count on several weeks of de-
cided dullness. One mercantile firm at
McGregor discharged three competent,
good-looking Clerks last week. 1t is pro-
per to say that this firm is winding up its
business preparatory to q change in the
Spring. The ?. o. caucus chose Will
lard Benton, Esq, as the future Post Mas
ter Of McGregor. Some dissatisfaction is
expressed by rival aspirants but that is al
ways the case. Mr. Benton is an accom-
dating gentleman and will do his duty with
out partality He is Seward man but no
test Of this kind was thought of by the
party generally. The Republicans of Nc
Grcgor are for Peace and Union &. . A lady
teacher in town tells us that on recent &C.
casin she told her pupils to have their pie
COS ready by a certain abiding
as they understood, to the little speeches
they were to make before the school, One
youngster of or 9 asked the teacher if it
made any difference what kind of piece
he got" "No" said She "Well then"
said young mischief, "Ill bring piece of
bread and butter The Southern Home
Journal, sent US by a friend at Union
Springs, Alabama, shows us that the ladies
of the South are as full of warlike thoughts
as the men are. The Home Journal refus-
es to give the old patriotic airs, such as
"Hail Columbia" yankee Doodle" &c,
&C., up to the North Southerners are sad
ly imposed on by reports from the North
and we are just as egregiously fooled by
canards from the South. Truth will settle
all after while, but it may be too late to
do any good. Il. w. Hibbard, wife, son
and youngest daughter leave for Denver
on Monday next. May happiness and
prosperity attend them.
A letter to US from John Conant, Box
Elder station, near Denver, says the Indians
are ugly and threatening; the weather,
judging without thermometer, is 7 or 8
miles below zero. Jesse is still shooting at
antelope but don't hit any. John wants all
the travel to stop with him on their way
out in the spring. Snow to feet at Fl.
Kearney and along the road. All expecting
good times in a month or two. :. !. Frank
Parker, formerly Of this place and Pr. du
Chien, is playing star billiards in Cincin.
matt with Tieman.. Clear your roofs of
snow break down may visit you. >. !. The.
Free Banks of Ill. and Wis, are threatened
with Legislative destruction. The Me-
thodist revival closed on Sunday night; we
have no report of the gains. -. The new
church bell is up; it is far superior 70 the
other. "A little girl at La Crosse went to
sleep with her arm outside the bed-clothes
and 1t frozc so as to require amputation!
INA yonng gentleman suggested to :
pretty little newspaper writer that "young
men' would be a good themc. "Oh" said
she "Tnevcr write on immoral subjects ~
-. James E.sCooke, formerly editor Of the
West Union Recie,o and other papers, died
at West Union on Monday, Feb. 18th. He
was fine scholar and an excellent man.
Fort Crawford, at Pr du Chen, is not yet
taken by the secessionists. Fort Arm
strong, at Davenport, was captured one day
last week-''in horn" Several smart
journalists bit at the hoax ;. The Mil. &
P. du Oh. Railway proposes to pay 10 per
! cent to the McGrcgor Road for all freights
delivered to their line from the new road.
Geo. Church and d. McLenahan will start
| to California about the middle of March.
Another wedding came off in town last
Tuesday We are only one pair behind
now. Who comes next? ;. A new order
is established in McGregor 1t is called the
II. .. Of the L. S." The order is Republic
can entirely and opposes secession. 1t is
| said the members are very strong on Post
Office matters. Outside Republicans swear
like the army in Flanders about the new
order but it don't do any good. Better be
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