The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-05-05
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you want anything in the wood
work line, from a clothes-pin 10 .
superb mansion, just call on John
Guthrie, who is prepared to take
contracts and build houses, or do any
kind of job work in the way OF Car
pentering. John is q handy, good
honest workmen, and can do a nice
job, as we know from personal
knowledge. His shop is on Main
street, above Durfee & Pollard Z
Wagon shop. If orders are left in
P. o. Box 800, they will receive
prompt attention.
Then, when you have got your
house built, you must paint it. Of
course, inside and out, and for paint
that will stick where it is put, and
make your house shine, and for beau
tiiul, smooth and permanent inside
painting, or for plain or brilliant sign
painting, or paper hanging, calsom.
lining, or anything in the line of
painters business, give Mr.. Else a call.
He will take contracts for either
painting or fresco work, and guaran-
tee satisfaction. Shop on Main
street.
And to the ladies, we want to say,
Mrs. e. Knott, the fashionable
Miliner and dress maker, on Green
Street, will suit you in anything you
may desire in the line she advertisee.
She has entire new patterns for
dresses, sacques, etc., and makes them
up in good taste. Since her location
among us, she has steadily gained
favor, and is second to none.
We have few groceries in our city,
and any of thcm will compare favor
ably with any other city in the
State, and among the very best,
whore you may find just what you
want in that limo, Hughes & Hol-
brook, on Green street, is one. They
keep general assortment, and make
a special point to have in store fresh
country produce, apples, etc. They
deal largely in grain, meat, fish and
game, and pay cash for produce.
For something good to eat, and
when Farmers coming to our city,
remain during the dining hour, a
good place to go, is at Nichols Res
taurant, on Market street, whore
everything is served in good style
and with punctuality.
A we'll made mattress il a comfort
able thing to sleep on, and cheaper
than most Of beds. If you are de-
sirous of anything in this line, give
Mr.. Il. Gaylord call. Find him
in the rooms recently occupied by
Derby as an Agricultural warehouse,
on Main street. Mr.. G., under
stands his business, and is good
workman, putting nothing but the
best material in his articles.
And, not to make too broad a joke,
or spring from the refreshing embra.
ces Of sweet sleep into the frosty
hugs ofold Death, and not stopping
to account for the reason why such
thoughts comingled as those of the
mattress and the subject now to be
spoken OF, we will rouse our-self
from the enchanting delight of sleep,
at which time the tired limbs and
aching brain is at rest, gathering
strength for successive struggles, and
turn our thoughts to that last sleep,
in which the spirit wings its flight to
that undiscovered country from
whose bourne no traveller returns y
and which is period in every ones
history that ends the paragraph Of
his career. The mortal coil that has
been shuffled off then, could as easily
rest upon the bosom of earth-oi
which it is part, as it can amid the
timselcd gaud and sombre paraphre-
MALTA of modern usage; but since it is
mete, as custom dictates, to place the
cold lump of senseless mortality in
the gorgeous casket, then Mr.. l. N.
Dougherty should be consulted, as
he makes coffius IN the highest style
of mechanism, and of beautiful finish,
furnishes shrouding, and hearse,
is to be found at his place of business
ready to attend calls atsll times, and
charges very moderately for services
Shop on Main street, with
Mr.. II. b. Cochran, who, rs an up
holster, mattress maker, furniture
dealer &C., is man Of good taste and
mechanical ability. Mr.. Cochran
furnishes and puts on the finishing
touches TO rooms in fine, artistic
style, providing he is allowed tn.
materials to do it with. He re-seat.
cane chairs, mends broken furniture
and makes himself generally useful
in his line of business. Above all
he is skillfuI workman, ant
prompt.
The west end OF our city is i'm
proving very rapidly-many very
fine residences are being built, and .
large number of eligible lots are still
in market for sale, of viii Oh Mr.. I
collars has patch ofthem. He Offer
very reasonable terms, and they are
just the item for laboring men t.
look up. There is no question. bu
that it is healthy part of tho city
easv Of access and watar can he nro