North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-16
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HOMO anu otAcE ASC"ss
In our last issue we were speaking OF
Fcyre river being able to inspire frog,
the boys got it 'hog." There are several
other errors which the reader can correct.
REV. II. Nagle, now from Sinsinawa
Mound, was in town last week. He looks
well, but says his health may require him
to 60 to Santa Fee, but we hope he may
remain in the northwest. Mrs. Elizabeth
Boynton has returned from her long visit
to Long Island. ....Mr. Reed Of the Chica-
20 Post called on us he is yet in the city
securing favors for the lively radical sheet
he represents. $3.50. Some pleasant folk, sang
us a serenade the other night. Wcdo not
know who they were, but we are grateful.
The last notes awakened us. and then it
was too late to make speech. ...Mr. and
Mrs. Stone and daughter who have been
here some weeks visiting with their
Barnard relatives, and enjoying the west,
on land and water, returned on Monday,
to the village of New York. Very pleas
ant people are they; we trust they will
dream of this region till they are induced
to locate with, or near u.s.. Frank Page
has moved to Clinton, Iowa.. ....A. Kohn
has got home with tons of Merchandise
for sale in the lump or. by the piece at
prices that will melt the heart Of stngincss
lf......Mrs. Daynes is in Chicago buy
ing Millinery Goods for the winter trade.
......Jno. B. Cvnant and lady, are in Wis
consin on a two weeks visit, ....A fight at
Monona is reported to US, in which Mr..
Lawrence Humphrey got badly struck
over the head with an iron poker in, the
hands of Mr.. Mason. Twas told us Mr..
H., would scarcely survive, but since the
first report he is said to be improving......
Thos. II. Daley, late of North McGregor
and the Railroad, is engaged in the pro-
dace business with Gregory 4 Co., at
Leroy, Nina. Tom thinks you can't bet
on Railway or Express Companies for
steady employment. There are too many
personal favorltes on the big states and
actual qualifications often is showed off the
plank to accommodate dummies......
Catching fish and shooting pigeons, wild
duck, woodcock and partridge is the pres
ent order of spvrtsmen herc-away......Miss
Minnie Arnold, of this city, has gone to
Mt. IIolyoke Seminary, South Hadley,
Mass, to commence an educational: course
of three years.
IL. B. Carter of Elkader, in the rockies
all summer, is at home. The NJ. L.
quarterly conference for this station comes
off the 10th and Goth, Elder. Wolfe pre-.
siding. 90. Rowland and Woolliscroft have
rented the principal eating grounds at our
County Fair. They will feed us and drink
us in good style you bet. Other locations
are still in market. Apply to Norm.
Hamilton, Director. No Auctioneers need
apply this VIM. Ross, Esq, will
take notice that those sacks Of -four ground
from Koss wheat, by Davis & Shores, are
just as good as sny article we ever saw.
We like good bread, and now we have it..
Friend William, we wish you abundant
crops, good prices, and life of 70 years
at least...... Rev. W. Sawyer is pcrman-
emily engaged in. the Baptist church of
this city. Mr.. Sawyer is young man,
Though marricd) and he will doubtless
prove acceptable. lie preached his first
sermon here on Sunday last. Rev. Mr..
Mills, an eastern Baptist clergyman, a
brother to Mrs. Colgate, preached in the
evening......The Congregationalists of
North Iowa meet in Conference, Synod Or
Association, at McGregor early in October.
1--WE are panied to hear that our
fellow citizen, E. G. Maddox, now under
medical treatment in Chicago, for cancer,
is not likely to survive. ....Jo. Eibeck of
the Clayton County Journal, made us a
flying visit on this "wednesday morning
We do not insinuate that 10 is the vcrita
BILE "Flying Dutchman" of whom we read
but his business with the Express Co., for
new type was finished quickly and away
he went on the swings of the Elkader