The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1867-11-01
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y Coe Brothers late Of Calmar, now
900 second street Milwaukee, gen.
cral commission merchants and deal
crs in green and dried fruits, will be
found capital men for people here
away to deal with. --G. W. Hais-
'lct, b. N. McChesncy, Judge Bur-
dick, and several other gentlemen
accompanied us from DEBORAH to
Crcsco, behaving remarkably well.
-On Monday last we made has
I ty trip by rail to Lime Springs sta
tion and were much gratified at the
substantial progress being there
made. Peter Velic has removed his
store mp there and is doing fine
business; II. e. Sharp is erecting
good substantial hotel; G. Il.
Brown is putting up a store build
ing to be stocked by Strother &
Kirkpatrick, and managed by p. T.
Searlcs; Pur'ly is putting in a hard
ware store, Of which Schcllengcr is
to be the boss; w. F. Daniels is
putting up furniture store, which
will be THE PLACE for Howard coun-
ty men to trade at; John Hughes is
the man who will furnish all kinds
Of gear for horses, and Mr.. Ancsson
will clothc the feet Of all the naked;
s. j.. Carey is removing his store
from Foreston to the station, whilst
w. I. Gilchrist, Bassett & Hunting
j. G. Clark & Ciapp, and S. L. Ca
rey are running grain warehous IS;
II p. Marsh represents the lumber
interests Of the place; J. f. Sheldon
is putting up boarding and eating
house near the depot, while Mr.
Howard will furnish liquids to such
; as fear the pure water of northern
Iowa. The station agent at Lime
; Springs is our old friend r. S. S.
Andres than whom no better man is
: found this side Of paradise. The
: shipments of grain from Lime Springs
the,last month has been between
sixty and seventy thousand bu shells.
Some one says that if the best
mans faults were written on his
forehead, it would cause him to pull
his hat over his eyes. Not so with
thegrcatest villain, the record of
his rasrality he hcralds forth as so
many evidences of tact and merit.
~. W.,Moss of Mitchell county
paid us very agreeable visit this
week. BY the way he gave US an
account of someme en- in Usage Has
tings and Neld) who in 1859 desired
some of the wood ofsJohn Browns
coffin to hang up as mcmento in
their parlors. So to accommodate
them, (his disposition is to accom-
amodate, he took a piece Of pine
used as box for shipping parts of
McCormicks reapcrs, enclosed it in
"a letter, directed it to Mr.. Field,
who, supposing he had bit Of Os-
sowattamies coffin, trimmed it with
'red, white and blue for a parlor or
'nament. Perhaps he had better dis
pcnse with it, though it is a filter en-
blem for worship than portion of
I old Johns coffin would bet.
W. Ice will meet those who, wish to
join his juvenile class in vocal mu-
sic, at the Court House, Saturday
Nov. End at four o'clock in the af.
ternoon.-According to the Nc
Gregor News the republicans gained
1000 votes IN favor of negro suf-
frage by postponing the question In
Ohio FIVE years. Perhaps the party
could gain votes every where by an
indefinite postponement of the ques-
tion.-1O0, 600 spindles have ceas-
I'D to whirl in the State of Burnside
because of ''hard times" The SOFT
NESS of the Governor ought to ex-
.cmpt the people of that State from
"hard times. ''-On Tuesday this
section was visited with slight fur
~ of snow. Since then the wealth
er has cleared up and is as fine au-
tumn weather as ever smiled on any
'country.-Peter Haaf has opened
out the saloon heretofore kept by
Esq. Halstead. He is keeping
good respectable place, with cooling
draughts for the weary and heavily
aden.--The Augusta (Ga. } Con-
stitutionalist speaks Of Judge Un-