The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-09-05
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Chas. Z. Daniels, is finishing up the
late CARTER Bros. Agricultural Ware
house on Main Street, for Boot and Shoe
store of mammoth proportions. Mr.. Dan
iels is permanently fixed at McGregor and
so agreeable is he as dealer and citizen,
that we hope he may never get away.
GILMORE, of North McGregor, has dubbed
his Hotel the Western Depot House. Ton
tells us he is getting into first rate trade;
we know he keeps a good house. .....Si.
Mitchell, formerly of Howard Co., (now of
Montana) sends us the Montana Radiator,
very interesting mining sheet Mr.. j.
G. Falcs of that Territory, now on visit
at his McGregor home, finds information
in it very fattering to the large interests
he owns and represents in the new City Of
New York, Is miles from Helena. "Si''
80 Fales says-is on the road to $780,
600 and not far from the goal. More on
this subject when space allows......We fri
ed to find HaveAs of McG., and Morgan of
Winona, in the city of Brotherly love, but
looking for an individual there was quite
useless you might meet him by accident,
but not by inquiry.
VIM. Tan has rented of Evans, Rowland
& Jones the half of ther west room, up
stairs, for tonsorial saloon-possession
Oct. LIST. TAN is an excellent barber and
hair-dresser, quiet, unobtrusive, mind
his-own-business man.. The burnt dis
trict is being rapidly covered with brick
and the streets arc filled with building ma
terial. Will notice as the work pro gress-
es. Our little city will look pretty -
before snow falls......S. Peterson, S. j.
Eckcrt, L. Metzgcr, Ira Benjamin, L. j.
Strousc, j. McRaith, Ravens, and others,
whose names we have lost, are at home
from business and pleasure visits cast
We had nice time in Chicago with Nc
Raith, as he returned from sunrise. II.
B. George is again on the street, but his
health is by no means good. Fresh air
and good constitution will bring him up
all right. .....P. O'Brien has elevated his
store to grade, put his sales-room and
warehouse in one Enclosure, and is now
ready, as he always has been, to sell the
needy all they want in his line at the low
est living figures. G. Wright, John
Grinnell, Judge Murdoch, Capt. Contel,
DR.. Reid, of the Mil. Wisconsin, Capt.
Cleghorn, Alfred Egbert and Perry Fox,
of Michigan, (these two We taught in the
b-a, Ja kerr, ker class in 1885, called on
us last week. We had many more calls
than these, but the names are not remem-
bered at this instant, and our compositors
are in hurry. Davenport-bound
up-discharged regiment of apple bar
rels at our wharf. Peaches and apples are
abundant here now......Oh, what specta-
Gle we saw in Chicago little girl, trim.
med in lace and nice clothes of all kinds
a beautiful tortoise-shell head-cover, with
a chigaon or waterfall nearly as large as q
peck measure. This desperate votary Of
fashion leaned forward like Hawkeye
facing a snow-storm to keep the center Of
gravity When will ladies (?) learn that
initiating spiders in the attachment of such
bundles to their otherwise pretty heads, is
disgusting to elderly gentlemen and the
butt of ridicule to younger masculinity?
L. j. Strouse & Bro. are moving their
stock of Clothing and Furnishing Goods
back to the old stand of A. II. Strouse
opposite M. McKinnie's Stove and Tin
ware store. III. is not afraid of "ghosts,
and therefore his customers will find {
| splendid assortment of fall and winter
goods, just purchased in the eastern cities
for their usc..... Mr.. Grohe, Agent at Post
vile, has packages of goods for nine par
ties in that region. See circular and claim
your merchandise. Col. Brainard, late
of the Boscobel Standard, is gone. Per-
sonally he was friend of ours, and We
regret the course he has taken: Political.
ly he was not a " johnson man, as some
of our sweet contemporaries assert.
Mrs. ii. c. Scott has returned from the
Water-Cure establishment Mt Kenosha
Wis. where she has been some months fol
her health. We are glad to learn that she
is much improved in health. As the
Queen of Song and the life of the social
circle Mrs. S. is most welcome at her Nc
| Gregor home. .... Flanders has rented hi
Mill to Thomas Davis, Esq.......John Nal
10y has sold his house near Mr.. Colgate,
to A. j. Fleming.