Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-04-20
From As to 500 ncr acre ,

iowa Is good place In which to ge
a start"
What does fellow do out ther
for farming timber and building mate
rial ?"
"Bless your inquiring soul, no west
ern State has more heavy bodies o
timber and larger stonc-quarries thar
the Hawkeye State" "i" ... .'"i
"What sort Of a people have 20,
for population?" .e s..~
Sober, Industrious, economical
open and generous hearted, intelligent
we'll hammered, get up and go through
turn round and come back again, ar,
our kind of folks, friend"
"Good schools
"Our prairies are dotted with sub
stantially and neatly constructed
school houses, and the school rooms
are ornamcnted with the prettiest and
smartcst school marms i'm the world
How do you stand on the niggeI
question out there ?"
Horizontally, prepcndicularly, dag
onally and in every other way radical
abolitionists." ...
"Loyal kind Of people, then?"
ayes, sir-kccp bullets for traitors,
ballots for coppcrheads, bayonets for
corrupt officials" -.'' ...'.
How do you get along with the
draft in them 'ere rcgi'ns ?"
Ever since the brave Lyon led the
Iowa lst, at the battle of Wilson's
Creek, we have managed to keep a
surplus of men on the credit side OF
the national books, and whom honest
Abe made his last regular call for
three hundred thousand more, Govern
or Stone went down to Washington
to look after "footings," and when he
got back issued an address to the peo-
pie too look out for breakers, as the
State was only little over eight thou,
sand ahead Of all calls. Mr.. Draft I!
he is stranger in our State"
Here the shrill whistle of the 9TH
er train set me on my taps and | left
my Yankee companion swearing to a
big crowd that he was going to sell
out and go to that beauty of west
ern States, Iowa.
Mr.. Editor every point Of the COM
pass has its commodity. The South,
treason and barbarism the North,
loyalty and civilization the East, ne
gro philanthropy and shoddy; the
West "fair women and brave men "
but this country has nothing but oil
The people talk of oil by day their
dreams are full of oil by night they
spread oil cloth on their tables cook
their food in much oil dress in oil
clothing business, in all its varied
and countless ramifications, is driven
through on the basis of oil The po
tent power of oil surpasses all human
understanding. / have seen the dis.
honest man of to-day turned to a saint
by striking oil tomorrow. / have
seen plain Miss Nobody, whom all the
French moustaches neglected, sudden
| ly become the belle of all that is beau
tiful, graceful, modest and rosy, by
her dad striking ile,"
All professions are prosecuted and
governed by the merits of oil. The
other day l was attacked with rheu.
matism in the central regions Of the left
knee, and knowing the excruciatine
pains that would distress the Intelli
gencer office, if its valuable cores
pondent should break square off the
brittle thread of life, concluded t.
summon for the afflicted limb the sci
ence of the medical fraternity. I ask
ed my friends whom should sent
for. doctor Oil, of course they al
said. He was called and came, ant
in much less time than it takes t
write it my knee was immersed in al
oil bath. Esculapius left for me tw,
kinds of medicine to be taken internal
ly, with the following instructions
"Oil, in quart bottle, take at one dos'
for physic-oil, in pint bottle, taxi
all at once for an emetic" The rheu
matism died, but survived.
! went to church. The congrega
ton had a new translation of tn
Scriptures. Minister read this text
"They went into land full of oil
and much petroleum-and more OIL
Listened to greasy sermon.
| got into the cars to ride. Listen
ed to a Babel of tongues from al
sorts of men, and the only words
could distinguish were Oil city ur
der 40 feet of water--nothing like i
bigger rain than the old deluge-
oil streams on a high-Alleghany rive
busted-same tract--found AZ lease
came back with ragged bobtaile'
coat--dangerous taking money-guel
rillas-million-big thing-swindle-
do not say a word-between you ant
j lI-oil-bonds- titles - leases - oil
jets of oil-gas spripg-artesian wei
down the creek-oil-lubricating-
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