Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-07-15

Iowa News.
Five boys were drowned in the
Mississippi, st Dusuqus, On The Ath
or July, while in swimming.


Mississippi, st Dubuqus, On the %th
or July, while in swimming.
The Sioux City Journal brings
out Dempe. Coleman, formerly oil
this county, for REGISTER Of the Land
Office. .s
The editor of the Waverly Re-
publican Is sorry he did not COME To
Ceder Falls and attend q good cele-
bration. s.... .....a.. ...... .....-
The Mt. Pleasant Jovrnal, has
been changed from an eight to four
PACED paper. Frank Hatton, you're
sensible. .........-- sas
The Independence Bulletin an
nounces that 1t will appear in speck
and span new suit of clothes on the
lst of September next.
The Council Bluffs Nonparie,
says: IA mad dog is the latest sensa-
tion In Sioux City-since they finish
ed up the Wisconsin editors"
The salary of the Sheriff of Clark
county was fixed at one hundred and
eighty dollars per year, at a recent
session of the Board of Supervisors.
Miss Mary E. Spencer, the en-
crossing young lady who was the en-
crossing clerk of the last legislature,
read the Declaration of Independence
at Wheatland on the fourth.
Clinton has female strategist.--
She went to church; found her seat
occupied; cushion on seat; took
next seat back; the congregation
rose to sing and the lady reached
over, took the cushion and placed 1t
under herself.
An ''immediately" married
couple went from the bridal altar
to dry goods shop, i'm Keokuk, the
other day. After sundry purchases
had been made, the ignorant clerk
asked the lady to buy hat for her
boy. With q lueen-like dignity she
responded: No: have only been
married about twenty minutes.
have no boys yeti"
Hon. John p. Irish presented all
the graduates of the State University,
at the recent Commencement, with
solid silver medals, aud, I'm present.
Ing them, made the statement that
he will continue the compliment as
long as he shall live, and have pro-
visions made that II shall be contin-
ued after he IL gone. This is gener-
Gus even for generous John Irish.
The contract for erecting two new
wings to the Iowa State Agricultural
College, has been let to Fawcett Bros,
OF Charlton, at $50, ,475--the work to
DO completed by October 1st, 1871.
Contracts have also been let for the
erection of new barn at cost of
q, 500, a labratory, costing SIS 900, a
work shop, and another professors =
residence, for all of which apprepri.
ations were made by the Legislature
last winter.
IMPROVEMENTS AT CEDAR FALLS
The Carter House, mt Cedar Falls,
has Leen torn up, turned inside out
and generally remodeled, and is now
i'm better condition for the necessities
Of hotel, than ever before. Burr e.
Davis make the Carter House one of
the best hotels I'm northern Iowa.
Street Commissioner, Caleb May,
is on the street with a strong force,
improving the grade aud putting In
new guttsrs. Messrs. Townsend d
Knapp are erecting what 10 TO be q
splendid new banking edifice, to be
built of brick and adj0ins the Carter
House, Waterloo Courier.
The Des Moines Valley Road has
concluded arrangements for the corr
struction of their line into Ft. Dodge.
The road will turn East about one
mile from the Sioux City road, and
by the most practicable route cross
the intervening six miles. The en-
gineer corps has gone out and Is now
engaged In surveying the line. Veri-
ly, the Fort Dodge lion aud the Rail-
road lamb, shall lie down I'm bed OF
gypsum together aud little Cardiff
shall lead them! The millennium ap-
proacheth and the glad days Of rail-
road prosperity are coming fast f..
our once furious sister city,-Grand
Junction headlight.
Engineers are now engaged MAX
ing preliminary surveys Of the line
Oh the Burlington, Cedar Rapids Il
Minnesota Railway north from this
city. The first line Ii being run up
the west side, through Cedar Falls
aud on to the valley Of the Shell
Rock. Two other lines will also be
run; one crossing the Cedar at Wa
terloo, and direct to the Shell Rock
Valley; the other also crossing here,
but running to Waverly and thence
to Clarksville. When these surveys
are all completed and estimates made
the most attractive to the company
will be selected. In other words,
dollars and cents will decide the
question Of the route, and parties in-
terested will serve their interests by
taking prompt action in their behalf.
- Waterloo Courier.