North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-04-03
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The spunky Village Of Cresco, is getting
. wide reputation the last issue of the
Times contains a clip from the London
Independent, very fattering to the little
city and to western enterprise generally.
Guess we know the author. If the weather
gets warm We want to see the famous Lon
don-a advertised place.......An unknown
gentleman gives 100000 to an Episcopal
Theological School at Cambridge. His
modesty makes him rare bird: 25ct.
subscription to rafne is usually recorded
now-a-days......Th There are 800 female doc.
tors now practicing in this country. We
almost wish we were sick and lived con-
venient! Prof. Willer of the N. Y. Med
ical College speaks in the highest terms
Of their success. Without wishing to rid
icule any one, wouldn't it be nice though
to have only light fever and be under the
treatment Of a nice tidy duck Of medical
attendant. We fear We should never get
well.....".A visitor, quite prominent in
this state, is among as but he is hardly
good-looking enough to mention Pardon
us brother quill-driver, you know VIC like
you, else this liberty would not be taken.
JOHN LACY, of the Davidson House at Aus
tin, Mimi, is in town on return trip from
the east. Hungerford, Woodcock, Bur-
bank Co. the MEG. WIS. of the west end
of the proposed connection with the st.
Paul and MINI. alley Road will soon have
their track completed to Austin, and then
wont we have ride up that way? The
engineering missionaries aforesaid come
down here occasionly, swing around the
circle, make themselves at home, and re-
port progress. LACY must have good
house or our McGregorites wouldn't all
say so......A letter to friend of ours from
Albany N. Y. contains the following para
graph. ~ saw Gov. Seymour and Gen.
Slocum the other day: both very pleasant
gentlemen, the former an excellent CONVEX
sationalist. The most noticeable thing
saw, however, was Horace Greedy and
Erastus Brooks walking arm-in-arm down
Broadway, from the Delavan Hotel to State
Street. Every body stopped to look l......
VANDYKE, the painter. has removed to the
basement of Peavy's building, near French's
corner. VAN 10 hard to beat in sign pain
ting. The HUNT sign of dentistry is some
thing which no painter in America would
be ashamed of......Wm. Tan, the popular
barber of Cambrian. Block, has associated
with him in business Louis Teabeau who
has worked for him considerable time
TAN l. TEABEAU have about as nice shop
as is got up in this country, and we all
know them to be superior workmen.-
Everything required in the tonsorial line
whether demanded by man, woman or
child, will be promptly done and we'll done.
......RuBLE is now ready to distribute 5000
Of the best got-up Agricultural pamphlets
ever printed. We ask close notice of the
contents as well as the work. More about
them next week.
Williams & Bro. paid Leavitt, of Elk
port, $3.50 for so sheep, weighing lao lbs.
on the average. This was good for all
parties-except the sheep......The cores
ponding Sec. of the Mil. Typ. Union re-
quest US to state that Milwaukee is full of
printers and that those hunting employ
ment had better 60 to some other place..
Rev. Mr.. Pancoast late of this Methodist
parish, has accepted call =" or whatever
you call it to some place in Maryland. We
have no particulars......Al. Hunt, the den
fist, is in the country looking up snags and
toothless gums he is said to be an excel
lent workman. We know him to be good
stage manager and actor, and very
pleasant young man socially. His route
will extend to Cresco.. new sidewalk
from the TINES Block to Charley Walkers
ticket Office and to the Flanders House
supplement is very useful not so very
ornamental.
Geo. D Gardner, Esq. ,lleft us on Monday
morning to visit his sick father in the state
of New York. If the wishes of hundreds
of friends could avail, George would find
his father well and return to his western
home as speedily as railways can carry
him. Gardner is one of those people we
miss when we do not see him every day.
FIRED. G. Walbridge, formerly of West
Union, and now of Kansas City, sends us
two dollars for tickets in French 4 Gill
more's Concert lottery. He says: "Don't
make a mistake and send me tickets that
draw the tcO best prizes, as I couldn't pay
taxes on them!" That is what we call
modest. 1--WE have had so many calls the
past week from commercial gentlemen Of
Mil, Chic, Bos., and N. Y, that we can
not write them up for this issue. "Jim :"
VIM, of the great Hardware house Of
Seeberger & Breakey, now of 81 Lake,
Chicago, placed us under special obligations
and this is our method of acknowledgment.
VIM is about to sail for San Francisco,
where he will engage in BUSINESS at 1874
Leedorf street. May good luck stay with
him ever......Ralph Hughs, of Delavan,
has recently engaged with Peavy & Conant,
at the Cambrian Hall. Ralph is q very
| attentive man in business. an amiable gen.
tleman and social companion who has
already won many friends in this city.
Mark. Jones, of the Temple of Music,
is at home and well, much to the satisfac-
ton of his many friends. Peterson,
Jones and others are at home from New
York with any amount of choice spring
goods close after them. Lent is almost
over... Several liquor dealers of Monona