North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-08
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On frluay, the not day OF the season,
(9s a. ll5) Esq Kriebs telegraphed u:
from Gutenberg, for n bucket of ice.water
We couldn't spare it, JoHN. Don't it seen
nice though, that Gutenberg, Lansing.
Clayton, Dubuque, st. Paul. st. Louis and
McGregor, can have a little cheap chat oil
business intercourse in "thc twinkling Of
an eye?' The Valley Company will be
ustd extensively when finished. ...A man
on the 4th, left a card on our desk, fmed
2.40, with "Colonel, ware you vas all dees
time, wish you merry ford of Ju-Ghrist.
mass. How you like it, eh." We sup.
pose our unknown friend is a German.
We may have lost several glasses Of
lager, and lots of good company, by being
absent. CASPER, the baker, makes splen-
did ginger beer for this warm weather.
We are indebted to him for several bottles
of it. Casper is a superior workman in
any line of business he undertakes. Fam
lilies supplied by the day or week at low
rates.......An esteemed bachelor fellow
citizen of the Welsh persuasion left this
city IN Monday evening for Racine, New
York and Philadelphia to visit friends.
His name is RICHARD JONES, well known
as one of the proprietors of the Cambrian
and about as good a man as is made.
WILLlRNs left for Europe on Sunday even
ing, JONES on Monday for New York and
the only active St. Davids we have left are
Tommy" and Rowland; they are active
enough, however, for six or seven men of
a quiet nature. We shall probably have
some Welsh dispatches by next week..
Ed. Douglass of the M. U. Express drives
a pair of fine bay horses which he calls
"Pat' and "Rowdy''O In defence of
ourself we protest decidedly against this
association of names. Who ever heard of
a pat being in company with a rowdy ?
Ed, cant you change the thing q little ?
Call the rowdy, "Ed" 1.-The Ball on
Friday evening was a brilliant one; a trif-
ling imperfection of the right foot prevent
ed participation, but this did not bar us
from indulging in a few glasses of lager
with FREsE and friends and partaking the
cool Inequalities of James Griffin, the
best ice-creamist, confectioner and cake
baker west of New York. The music and
dancing were delightful.
NJ anro %h,A .c~-.1 ~ .-ll-1
catarrh, wash your nose and head by
snufing cold water do it three, four or
six times q day. Let it run till your
breath smells like a pest-house, and you
as well order a coffin. The country
is full of catarrh, and this simple remedy
is the best ever tried......M Norman has
vacated the Metropolitan, and may now
be found at the Allen House, ready to
all who call. 1t will take several
days to rig the house after its late disman-
ting and close, but John c.. will soon
have it o. K.......John O. French and ID.
p. Graves of the Eau Claire Pinery world
above us on the Mississippi. are renewing
old McGregor acquaintance. Both arc in
good condition physically and financially;
they expect their RATS to-day.......The
Radicals call for the removal of the capt.
toll of the United States, because there is
'disloyal sentiment in the D.. G. What
hey call disloyal is so common now,
hat it will be difficult to find a place
put the, public buildings. Metre
COR is a good point geographically, but
awful unsafe for bogus loyalty. Folks out
are doing their own thinking on the
expenses Of the "booro'' taxes on bonds,
money for the laborer as good as for the
banker and other small subjects of present
O~BERLIN, Ohio, might be a
good place Mt present, but you can't bet on
it long; even the ''colored troops" are
the hypocricy Of the RAIDS, and are
against their pretended friends.
The dogs in town are fading away un-
less they carry the nose a requir-
by the city Ordinance. Look out for
Thornton, the dog shooting Marshall.
Opitz & Fox have removed their stock of
Boots and Shoes to the stand recently oc-
by Jones g. Co., and more formerly
by Wheeler.
Pat Fitzgerald, formerly of the ALBANIA
kee is at Isl Market st. Chicago, keeping
successful Boarding House. So we learn
w. IL. Bates, just from that city,.
Saturday night, July 4th, a hurried
but most tasty ball was got up at the Cam
brian by Messrs. French and Powers, for
1t was a gay darcc till IL, and then
we all kept Sunday......Noble and Odell
will begin to build a two-story Brick on
the two lots just west of the C~ambrian.