The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-08-26
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up to the pineries of Wisconsin to supc
T. intend the manufacture oflumber this wiz
= ter. We will see him back again in les
n than year: his p. D. Is Eau Claire =. :.
g Mr.. Carpenter and family, old residents {
l. Monona, left on the Mondays down steam
er for Washington Co, Iowa, their newt
S chosen home. .. John Folsom, of Pr. d
J. Chen, the best gardener in the west, cor
J, tinues to supply our town with rare vege
! tables at The lowest rates. John is the fair
est man to deal with that comes to GU
Q market: day or two since we found al
+ hands in the Office luxuriating on melon
borrooed from Folsom ."B. & E." ad
t vertised ''Harrows' for sale in our las
Times, and B. says it must be left out, a
they have no harrows and do not want t,
be annoyed answering people who have reat
; the advertisement. Is this not proof tina
, printers ink will extend your business
, I'VE notice Mr. Hills of Waukegan il
: town, also J. Shell Case of Milwaukee, r
) H. F. Morgan Of Winona, Capt. Fleming O
La Crosse and many other strangers who
: are at home in McGregor. ..u
An editor received remittance with the
usual request "send paper as long as the
money lasts" Mr. Ed. went for spree,
got broke the first day and wrote his pat.
ron the subscription was out =. Kurtz
& Miller keep one Of the quietest, neatest
places of refreshment there is in this or any
other city Their Catawba, Rhein, and
other brands Of wine are very fine indeed
VIC know this latter fact by having seen a
) few cials Of it at our house-its getting
there is mystery 49,. Fled Wilson, an
old Times Office chum, has returned from
Winona as fat as anybody. He and Mr..
Huey sold that region rich in Ag. Imple.
ments. The old Wanzer House looks
desolatc amid the improvements surround.
ing it. We old settlers remember when it
was in full blast with the famous sign at
the mast head, Fathers House Eat, drink
and be merry, and tomorrow 60 to Mime.
Sofa" Alas! how many have gone to
their long home since those old days of EN-.
igrating hustle.
L. Bigelow, II. E. Newell, and N. Munger
left here last week for ten days fish and
hunt on Root River and its aff1uents. We
almost envy them the pleasure they will
have, and yet these cool nights are not very
well suited to out door reposc. 30. Capt
Shcrwin went on raid last week to the
mouth of the Wisconsin on foraging ex-
petition. 1t is reported that the Alex.
McGregor stopped on a sand.bar and de-
tanned Captain, crew and passengers there
a day or two -. Gov. Kirkwood will ad-
dress the people of this place on the 18th
September The draft in N. Y. is going
on without any trouble: the quotas having
been changed to correspond with justice,
and large appropriation having been made
to buy off the helpless, there is no reason
why the draft should excite any interest at
all. The Government can obtain the men
with the money and the men arc what it
wants.
Drafted men get the same pay and boun-
ty that volunteers do j.. =. We had the pleas.
ure on Saturday last Of meeting Mr.. Lewis,
of Bangor, Me. Mr.. Lewis bore letter. Of
introduction from his son, Capt. Chas. H.
Lewis, the favorite of McGregor and now in
command Of Fort Ontario. (Oswego) N. Y.
| -. .Rumors are now rife that the movement
| of the lower warehouse at Prairie Gu CHEN,
will not take place Immediately, if at all. :.
Kimball of DEBORAH, Mead Of New Oregon,
and Case If Bradford called on us last week.
| 1.-The finest barge we ever saw on the
river is now at our dock. 1t is called "John
Lawler," was built at La Crosse by Capt
Stevens and is designed for the new boat to
be commanded by Capt. Fleming. ;. Ste.
vens in Aliens block is still making sweet
cider for retail or wholesale. He has apples
by the barrel at low rates. People who
want real apple cider should go to Stevens
and see him grind it out. a.
The reduction in K. r. fare is causing a
large turn ont of travellers. Very many
McGrcgor people are absent and more are
going some for goods and some for pleas
ure. Barron, John Benton, w. Hunting,
G. l.. Scott and their families are now cast
Numbers Of ladies' and gentlemen who rep
resent different families are making the
tour Of New York and the East w lyman
shot four dogs at one discharge last week !:
they hadn't stamps on their noses and hence
they died. Press on the slaughter, Joe {!
| 80. Tickets are sold by the Grand Haven
route to Boston and return to Milwaukee
for $50 good till October 10Th. :. A case
of Grim. con. and probable elopement is
reported a few miles west of McGregor we
have no particulars for the public eye and
shouldn't publish them if we had. :. The
Grand Jury of Dubuque County has dis.
charged Hungerford and Lyon for shooting
the Jacob brothers who resisted an arrest
for desertion. VIM. II. Mobley died re-
Gently on the Missouri river. He was in
tue Q, NJ. Dept.
The City Scales are being raised about
feet to keep them out of the mud. A good
thing In three weeks from this time there
will be teams in town that will scare visitors,
from such places as Milwaukee and Chicago.
80. The DEBORAH Republic is in mourning
for the death Of Col. Hughes, Lieut.. Geo.
/ II. Stevens, and other citizen soldiers OF
that county ... John L. Clark, formerly a
lawyer Of Waukon, is now merchant Of
New Oregon. Lieut.. Goodrich, of the
Engineer corps near Memphis, was up last