Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-03-31

Correspondents ed.-It is not our
4 aim to make the GAZETTE merely the
organ of Cedar Falls. We desire to take
in much larger field, ana make it en-
/ phatically the organ of Northern Iowa.
! Should we achieve this desirable end,
we fear our mind would not be satisfied,
but grasp then after the whole State.
and then after other States, and then af-
ter the world, and perhaps if finally we
should be enabled to cry "T'he whole
boundless Universe is ours ~ we should,
Alcxander-like, complain. But we see
no good reason why the local inteli-
gence of the GAZETTE may not be large
iy increased. We feel quite sure that if
we were in Butler county or Grundy
county, Or any other county on the face
of the earth, we could find something
to write about. The world is made up
OF little things, and little thing in our
own midst is OF greater importance to
Us than big thing semcwhere else. Ii
We were able we would hire some BEN
ny-a-liners to perambulate Northern
Iowa and pick up items for the GA
lETrE. a man in Grundy, for instance,
who didn't 9 know of anything worth
telling" would read with interest our
correspondents letter telling of the re-
turn OF that mans son from the army !;
OF the sale o! his neighbours farm, and
row Mrs. Jones little daughter fell
down the well. 1t isn't philosophic
reasonings and long disauisitions on
learned subjects that are wanted. We
wouldn't give flip for 'cm. But the
little items OF everyday occurrence, ex-
pressed in the fewest possible words,
something like the following:
sa Go-AIIEAD COUNTY, Iowa,
March 2sth, 1865. !
EDITORS GAZETTE - The immigration into
our County this spring promises to be large.
and already three families have arrived and
bought farms. agsEfs frssF
Deacon Jones sold his farm last week for So.
900. He says he is getting too old to farm it,
He reserved five acres for homestead
Mr.. smith, jr., is going to set out about one
hundred apple trees on his place this spring
He had last year one tree thai bore q b,lshel of
fac fruit, and quite number of trees that
bore more or less.
Widow Dodd's little g,rt got kicked by
vicious COW last week. and il is feared she will
be crippled fol life.
There has been no maple sugar made here
yet, though the farmers have generally pre-
pared for big crop. You may eS pect in a few
days good sized cake of my wffe's makinal
Our school commences next month Miss
Ciarinda Bell has been secured as the teacher.
Yours, &C., TIMOTHY HEDGES.
Nov that's the style! Timothy
Hedges is a good correspondent! We
want more of the same sort. Ii in ev-
cry little village we had some one on
whom we could rely to send US items it
would be immensely satisfactory to us.
The GAZETTE is local paper. Four
fifths of all its subscribers take it for it's
local news. If it contained double the |
amount of local news, it would have
double the number of readers. oh, self |
ishness, Ell? Yes, in great measure
seifishncss; but not altogether selfish
ness. We make our bread and butter
to be sure, by publishing paper, and /
the better paper we publish the more
bread and butter We may reasonably ex-
pect. But isn't it evident that tho peo-
pie and country would be greatly bene-
fitted? What place does not desire a |
newspaper? Not to be found, we take
it. Well Tor the same reason that every
people desires newspaper, we urge To-
cal correspondence with the GAZETTE.
Your having paper needn't deter you.
BY using the GAZETTE you gain that
much additional advantage. If you
have no paper and can't use the GA
lETrE what earthly use would paper
be to You if You had one? We have al
ways given rs much local news as we
could; now We want the people to give
IS much local news as they can, and
well put the two efiorcs together.
Ess5a tVho rants q Piano or llfc,odeon?--
We have due bill for one hundred dol
afs on julius Bauer & Co., Chicago, Ia
heavy and responsible house, to be re-
'elved as part payment for a piano, or
'ther musical instrument. We will sell
I CT considerable discount.