The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-04-15

represented by the top of the T being
IS by 80 feet, and the front projection
p by 80, and is surmounted by Lellfry,
in which hangs a beautiful Troy bell
weighing SIG pounds. The bellfry sup
ports small observatory, the floor Of
which is seventy feet from the ground,
and above which rises flag staff thirty
three feet further towards the blue. The
work upon the inside of the building is
not yet complete; but it will be finished
and furnished in the newest and best
style. The front portion is divided OH
the first floor into halls and ante rooms,
and on the second floor, beside the en-
trance hall, into small library and
beautiful large music room. The
main part Of the building contains four
handsome school rooms, recitation
rooms, &c. So much space has been
given to the building that but little is
left in which to speak of the school,
which is, to all appearances, worthy the
beautiful house that it occupies. The
Principal Of the school and teacher of
the highest department is Mr.. Edward
X. White, a young man of energy and
ability, who evidently understands his
business as teacher perfectly; and
short time spent in his room evinced
the fact that his pupils were we'll
! aware that such was the case. The
number of pupils enrolled in this de-
| partment during the year is 80. The
Grammar and Primary rooms we were
Misses Hattie A. Chase and Laura c.
Simpson presided respectively over 50
young ideas in the former and 90 in the
latter room. These numbers are of
scholars enrolled, and aggregate 1914,
while the average attendance as we
We're informed by the Principal, has
been so high as l2O.
AS has been previously said, the num-
Der of business houses is large in proper
ton to the number of dwellings: and
the amount of business transacted bears
the same relation to the number of in
habitants. A rather hasty estimate pro-
duced the following numbers in each of
the professions or kinds of business
named:
hotels, dry goods, agricultural
implements, l hardware and imple-
! ments, l furniture, 8 harness shops, 4
blacksmith shops, 3 Saloons billiard,
, livery and sale stables, ? wagon and
carriage manufactures, > variety and
millinery stores, . drug stores, 3 boot
and shoe shops, l tailor, ! jewcler, =
elevators, grain dealers. This does not
give fair idea of the amount of bust
ness, from the fact that many Of the
houses enumerated above as in one
kind of business are III reality prosecut-
ing from two to five. The names of the
individuals and firms with their re-
spective businesses will develop this
fact
Simmons, Hanna & Ferguson are
dealers i'm dry goods, groceries, boots and
shoes, &C. Their store room ia very
fine one, said to be the best in the coun-
ty. Messrs. S. & RI. have long sold
goods at their present stand; and
having recently enlarged their facilities
for business have taken in 4 third part
ncr, Mr.. Ferguson, a practical business
man from the East
+. O. Campbell has a fancy and mil
lincry store, also sells groceries and no.
tions. A. McKibben & Son, dry goods
and groceries. Macomber & Lord,
new firm, will soon open full stock of
dry goods and groceries at Stones old
stand. c. NJ. Gilbert, a man long iden-
titled with the growing interests of
Clarence, has large store well filled
with dry goods, also keeps groceries.
Hecht. Reed 4 Co., another firm that
has long been doing large and success.
full business here, still hold forth at the
old place and offer to the buying public
any quantity of dry goods and groceries,
as well as agricultural implements ofall
kinds. The extent and wealth Of the
farming country by which Clarence is
surrounded, may be inferred by the
quantity and quality of farming imple-
ments and machinery sold here. q. ID.
are two firms exclusively devoted to
this business, while others combine this
with other branches of trade. Church
hill Il Thompson have monopoly of
the sale of hardware, stoves and tin
ware, as also do Crosby & McMnn in
their line, manufacturers and dealers in
furniture; but we are informed that
neither of these firms takes any advan-
tage Of the lack of competition. Drugs
and medicines are dispensed by Hart &
Smith, and f. Listenwalter. If"AIan-
uel,' of whom we have school day re-
collections, compounds drugs as success
fully as he used to "parse verbs,' he
won't poison any one, at all events.
jerry Hart and Geo. +. Smith, the
members Of the first named firm, are
both well known in Upton; Geo. L.
/ having transferred the light of his gen
ial countenance to Clarence only n few
weeks ago. The jewelry business is
conducted by J. A. Smith. Mrs. S.
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