Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-03-08
GREETINGS FROM AFFAIR.

MONROE, NEBRASKA, Feb. %, '67.
EVER WELCOME GAzErTE:- Amid
the pile of mail that had accumulated
during our trip to Western Iowa, your
familiar face was among the first that
greeted me on my return. And just
here let me make little confession to
you.
1t wns not because I expected the
principal contents of your columns
would be specially valued by our house.
hold, that made an arrangement to
see you weekly; but because I thought
you would be to me in place of gossip
and small talk in my isolated home =
that / should often see the names of
those with whose face had been
familiar for few happy months -.
that should be appraised of all occur
rences Of interest at the Home, which
I should never cease to love and
when the passing moment had been
thus bsguiled, should have paper to
cut for patterns Zone great need of wo-
man. or to use for wrapping, without
danger of interference from the Lord Of
the Manor.
But found my arrangement for the
peace of the family quashed, the very
first time put scissors to one Of your
sheets. "What are you cutting up
there?" cries my lord. With perfect
seif-posession answer, "My own prop
erty, the CEDAR FALLS GAZETTE"
"Wejl, but don't take the one that has
that notice of the brick machine,-and
that one with the lecture on catarrh
you want,-and then l want to read to
Tom that poem addressed to The Boys,
it is SO cute, and-and-and so there is
nothing for me but to keep file of The
GAZETTE.
would attribute this demand to a
kind of newspaper mania with which
all Printers seem possessed, but can
see a special Partially for anything be-
longing to that vicinity. If stranger,
in calling and looking over the papers
and periodicals OH our reading table,
chance to see you, and say CEDAR
FALLS GAZETTE! where is CEDAR
FALLs?" the answer comes from the
other side of the house, before I, who
should know SO well, can begin to re-
ply,-"Why, away up on Cedar River,
in Black Hawk county-a beautiful
country all round in that vicinity
we'll watered-weil timbercd-not
broken as had supposed; but from
Eoonville all along the route through
Marshall to Farley, and especially from
there up the Dubuque & Sioux City r.
II. to Cedar Falls, the land rolls and
swells in such grand undulations, and
there is such an appearance of enter
prise and thrift !"
When 1t comes my turn, I add
Yes, one who had cauvassed the State
in al electioneering tour, and who
knew every part of it, east, west, north
and south, charged me, as 1 passed
over that road to observe the country
specially, for it was the finest part of
our State" And trust you will not
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when tell you that add,-"A the
people of Cedar Falls are live people,
they know how to do up things about
right-a very energetic people,-never
fail in anything they undertake. They
are genial people too,--know how to
make strangers feel at home in their
midst; and in any benevolent enter-
prise, like that of The Orphans Home,
they are not to be out-done by any
community"
DDAR GAzETTE:-We are here hay
ing very cold weather for Feb. 22d.
The thermometer is nearly to zero, and
it is showing and blowing; or if not
showing it is whirling, till the roads are
full. the mails are irregular, and we can
scarce get mile from home. We have
drifts fifteen feet deep. A stormy Fep-
ruary this. Yours truly,
L. G.. p.
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