Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-02-12

AOCaA ShOh~L SLODSs
Judge Palmer, of Butler County,
was i'm town this week.
Lent began last Wednesday, which
made but three days in this week
the others were lent. Viii.
Sonic one wants to know II ve-
locipede Is anything like cent?
ped.
The lecture OF Mrs. Brinkerhoff,
we doubt not, will he one of unusual
interest.
We learn that DIR. Peabody, of
Waterloo, has left for parts un-
known. <s r.
Good Friday comes this year March
28th, Easter Sunday on March 2Sth
and the Attn of July will fall this year
on Sunday.
Mrs. Fannie II. Young, u trance
speaker. lectures this evening, and
next Sunday evening at Universalist
Hall.
The West Union Gazette has been
enlarged recently, to an eight column
paper. 1t Is one of our beet ex-
changes.
The Supreme Court of Iowa adj
iourhed without rendering any de-
cision on the rail road tax ques.
ton. ~a~sr ~..--......-... T.
Rev. James Allen, of West Union,
otliciated at st. Luke's Church in
this city, last Sunday morning aud
evening.
We call attention to the adv. of w.
III. Stickney. He IL turning out fam
ming mills in quantities to supply the
trade at all times,
Tracy informs us that s pounds was
the weight of that local item" -
They don't raise any blank babies in
Grundy, being all fat and healthy.
Henry Vincent, the eminent En-
gIish orator, lectures this evening at
Waterloo. Our neighbors are sure of
no, being sold with MIR. Vincent.
DR.. J. w. Dennis, the successful
physician, informs us that he will
he i'm Parkersburgh sometime during
the coming week. The sick should
call on him.
Drs. Watson and Koch, while out
hunting last Monday, brought down
a white owl measuring seven and
one half feet from tip to tip of the
wings.
Mr.. Rhodes returned from trip
through Kansas and Missouri this
week. He reports mud In those
States as deep as SHOW has been here
all winter.
An exchange urges generosity TO
the poor during the cold winter in
this wise. 1T is said that every
cord of wood given to the poor here
will be so much fuel saved from use
i'm the other world"
Wise & bryant have made extern
sive preparation for Valentine day,
which comes on the lith inst. They
have IA complete assortment of all
kinds-tlie sublime and ridiculous
Go and purchase what you want.
Fiom n statistical table In the Des
Moines Register we learn that the
Baptists of Iowa number II, 305 mem
bers, 1919 pastors, 30o ciiurches-have
contributed for charitable purposes
during the past year s23, 900 and have
Increased in membership !, $3.50.
The Winncbago Press tells OF a
lively little contest between the
"Christians' and sinners" in corr
tributing wood to the minister. The
"Christians" hauled the first day and
the SINNERS" the second day, the
! SINNERS" coming out ahead.
Artemus Wards notice of "good
paper" I'm which 1.-The advertise
ments were we'll written and the
marriages aud deaths conducted with
signal ability" was not SO sarcastic
al altogether AS might ut first appear.
Much can he told of u papers charac-
ter by the study of its advertise
ments, and they are always worth
gIancing over.-Er.
Fifteen years ago a gentleman sold
piece of land in Dies Moines for
$500. A week ago lac bought back
the same lot from the person TO
whom he sold 1t. at the slightly ad-
vaneed price of SGT 200.
That's the way property increases
i'm Iowa. Farmers in the east should
look for the state that it pays to set
tlefn.
REMEMBERS THE pooR.-We have
reliable information that several
families within our city limits,
are In need of food and clothing
AT this season of the year, when
work Is scarce, the poor demand the
charities of the more abundantIy ia
| vored. Our citizens should devise
some means for the relief of those