The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-07-23
The Railroad Meeting.


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The Railroad Meeting.
The large and enthusiastic meet
Ing held in Taylor& BIake's hall ON
evening, July Is, 1863, pur-
suant to adjournment fronAx4hat Of
the previous Saturday, wasSSih lSeI
order hy Mayor FNltQn. upon osoa
motion Gen. q M NJ wasskll Ia.
~ ths chair. |
g. W. DOWN w. sppoi,tea BscIo.
|tary NJ
After briefly announcing t6ses9scfs
ofthe meeting, the chairman intro
duced Hon. VIM. NJ. MCPHERSON, Of
st. Louis, who was greeted with uni
verral applause, being recognized as
tho successful agent for tho North
Missouri Rail Rosd Company, who
has moro than fulfilled lshs pledges
made to our citizens ~ TINT corpor,
alton by his recent purchase Of four
thousand tons ofrails for our st, Louis
and Cedar Rapids Rail Road. WI "
Mr.. MCPHERSON. waived al iindul-
gence III congratulations, and, dooli-
ming 70 engage eng in any gcneralities, Or
references to work, already accom-
plisllod, directed the attention Of the
meeting At once to tho important
steps yot required to insure full and
final SUCCESS for the project 80 vital
to this community, and-thnsf ar-so
ably forwarded. 10
Thought it scarcely necessary to
remind this people that tho time for
speech-making and "Bunoombo" had
passed. That solid work aud ener>
getic application Of means were most
now needed
Hisassociates Of the North Missouri
Rail Raa1 (to,npa and thu osf;vooc
Of ST. Iuuis. had mHie certain nledges
to the officers Of tho St I.ou,s& Ga
dar L. r.. r,rcyious olls connection.
with the North No. Company. lie
would not, say they promised too
much. Neither would he say, that
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furnish Isl aud .av t Il tfailsl and ND t,uin
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TELEGRAM from New York, 1 have pur i
chased tor your road four Thousand
tons oi rails whicl, will arrivo III, Now
Orleans by tho 10Th day Of. Septenl-
ber,-sio extraordinary accidents 81
wind and water preventing, These
rails shall 10 immediately laid upon
your road II IL is III readiness to re-
ceiye them. Our road will have
reached your State line ny the 18th
September. II then your road bed
is completely ready to Ottumwa, We
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