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North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

Men Of all religions, who love and
worship God, are Masons at heart, al
though they may, from prudential mo-
tives or mistaken ideas, affect to despise it,
yet, nevertheless, it lives within them, AID
its principles, heaven born as they are,
indispensable to every heart that seeks
God, through whatever avenue of saliva
ton each may select for himself.
Freemasonry does not presume t. save
any ones soul, but it does presume to tell
mankind that If he can not love their
brethren whom they have not seen, they
cannot love God they have not seen. Its
lessons are intended not alone to make
them brethern, and to love and forgive
each other, but they increasingly keep the
eye upon the greatness, goodness. power
and mercy Of the erternal Father who
possesses the omnipotence Of Pardon
Erch.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

A00VuAJs
The study of nature leads every man
naturally to the love of pure religion
hence every Mason seeks God through
some form of worship most acceptable and
agreeable to himself, therefore our
charges impress upon the candidate that
he should respect the religion Of any
country wherein he may reside. This
leads us to the universally of Freemason.
ry which is also beautiful ideal, for il
recognizes that each man is or ought to be
q worshipper at the shrine of the Great
Eternal, and that to interfere with this
idsality Of universal worship of uaiver.
Sal Father would be Masonic oneIce'
we DO not by the study Of nature mean
20 ignore the study Of divine revelation
Tor the 'Great Light is never absent
from the Masonic altar but any man
who can pass through life and call him
self a worshipper, who does not pause and
reflect upon the natural evidences Of God
and his goodness, mercy and love, is q
paradox and Of all other Frcemasons
should most study the grandeur OF nature
and in proof Of that God in when each
Of them must profess trust before they
can become members of the fraternity.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

The Western Stock journal for March
is on our table, and is no less attractive
and interesting than its predecessors. The
illustrations are first class, and the work.
manship throughout is an honor to the
craft. The contents of this number EN-,
brace the whole range Of stock breeding,
and ought to be read and studied by every
one engaged in that business. It's l6
pages, inside Of the beautiful cover, are
crammed full of the choisest original and
selected matter, upon breeding topics, and
no man interested in stock raising can
better invest his money than by subscrib.
ing for it. Price 500 year. Published
BY J. Il. Sanders & Co., Sigourney, Iowa.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
McGREG0R, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH %, 1870.
HLXAD11 CARDS.

Or. A. B. HANNA, Physician and Surgeon. Al
| calls prompty attended to. Elkader, Iowa. 800
D.W CHASE, NJ. D., eorser Main and nigl
Streets, Elkader. 6s7
?. sNEDIGAR L SONS. Dealers in Hardware
Stoves and Tinwars, Agricultural Implements
Crockery and Glassware, klkader. 687
V. BALLER, dealer in General Merchandise
Hardware, Drugs eaicines, Elkader. 6s7
D. BAYLEss d CO., dealers in Drugs and Medi
cines, Fancy Goods and Sundries Elkader. 6s7
P.GARAGHTY, dealer in Harness, Saddles, Bri
dies &c. Cash psid for hides at highest mar ke,
prices Elkader. 687
PRICE COOK, Attorneys and Counselors at Law
and Real Estate Agents, Elkader, Iowa
Fay Taxes, Examine Titles and practice in thu
COurts Of the 10th Judicial District, and Supreme
Court Of Iowa.
st. WOODWARD, Attorney at Law, EIkadsr
Iowa. 687
A. ". DAUGHERTY& 4 CO., dealers in Dry Goods
Grocsries and General Merchandise. Highest Mar
ket Prices paid for Produce, Eikader. Iowa. os7
+. KALTENBACH, Watch Maker, dealer in Jewl.
cry, Clocks, Watches, Dry Goods, Ac Elkader Iowa.
DIR. }. W. STOUT. Once opposite A. ". Daugherty
Co.'s Store, Elkadsr, Iowa,
W. A. WHITNEY, dealer in Iron, Hardware.
Stoves, Tinware and Agricultural Tools, &C., Elka.
der, Iowa.
YOUNG L COOK, Attorneys at Law, Once over
G. Ryahs Store opposite the Boardman House, Elka.
der, 1swa, will practice in the 10th Judicial District
and In the Supreme Court Of the State Of Iowa.
Special attention paid to collections Of all kinds.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
Fixed up for the TIMES.
Bachelors Fare.

Married gents must not imagine that all tho bless
ngs Of earth are enjoyed by themselves. See below
ow one of our wretched' single corrcspo ndents of
nature age sets up his side of life and runs down the
ther:
Funny and free are a bachelors reverie,;
Cheerily, merriIy passes his life;
Nothing knows he Of connubal deyiltries,
Troublesome children and ill.tempered wife.
Free from safety, care and anxiety.
Charms In variety fall to his share;
Bacchus's blisses and venus's kisses
This, boys, tits this, is the bachelors fare.
WiSE-like q csni,ter, chattering, clattering
Tied to lsg-for your torment and dread,
Bsspattering all over, humping and battering.
Hurries ssd worries you till you deal;
Old ones are true devils haunted with blue devils
Young ones are new de ,ils, raising dispair;
Doctors and nurses combining their curses
Adieu to full purses and bachelors fare!
Tho folly days now were once sweet holidays,
Embittered 1t present with wrsngling and
strife.
Wives turn jolly lays to melancholy days,
Always pcrplexing and veXing ones life;
Children are riotous, maid servants fly ut US,
Mamma, to quiet US. growls like bear,
Jennie 10 squalling and Molly Is bawling,
And Dad recalling his Bachelors fare"
When they are older grown then they are bolde,
grown,
Tsrning your temper and spurning your rule
Girls through their foolishness, passion and mu
lishneas,
Parry your wishes and marry fool.
Boys will anticipate, lavish and diss,pate
All that your busy pate boarded with care.
Then tell me what jollity, fan or frivolity
Equals in quality BAcHELoR's FARE!
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

don't know ez hev emmy business t
say word on this subject, az four skor
years hev cum and gone since hev hat
emmy experience az q luver; but doot,
urges me tu warn the yuth, and obey.
don't suppose the immortal gusc tina
wunce saved Rome from destrackshun he's
emmy idee ~ the Importance ov her kacklt
at that hour still she kackled, and hel
name IL handed down in history.
hevn't emmy more idee than that guse
that my words will be ov emmy benefit, es'
pecially tn that portion ov the human
race kalled luvers.
Wun mite as well try tu stop locomo.
tive under full headway by presentin' his
kote tales to the kowkatcher az to endevo,
tn make pair ov benited luvers believe
they amt rite.
Courtin', like sailin', is delightful bisi-
| ness, where yu hev an open SEE, the wind
in yur favor, and yu are boulin, along
taward the port ov matrimony 7ty-fve
nots an hour.
In courtin', however, there il some-
times Surser storms to wether than even
the sailor ever drempt ov; he'd winds aad
hevy secs in the shape of stern parints +;
and hidden rocks and reefs in the form OF
other luvers, with sum chance ov bein'
driv out'n lee shore by the gal herself.
Yet, under ordinary circumstances, a
luver will, in dew kourse ov time, "fetch
port" if he ix kontinually on hiz guard
against dangers, with wun eie :u the star
board and the other on hiz kumpass.
A CRATE menny luvers begin wrong
they thisk that if they>wunce get pinted
for the girls hart, it IL cnuff: SO they hist
up anker, crowd on sale, and the fust
they kno, they are intu the breakers, or
way out tu see under jury masts, with the
konsolin relectshun that the cruise is up.
If the girl is an orphan, an willia' or f
she il ov age, with twenty-five ,housar
in her own rite, if she IL safe, komrara-
lively. run alongside and grapple her at
wunce.
But unless yu hev made up yur mind to
support yurself, partly at least, never un-
dertake this mode ov attack onto less than
the above sum.
hev cum to the konklushun, after
7ty'nine years ov careful study, that it il
better to run away with twenty five
thousand gal than tn try tn live on luv
and stern parint's kusscs exclusively.
Tu be successful in courtin', then the
lu7er must learn to navigate biz bark intu
the parint's favor just az much NJ intu
the girls; and let me tell vi, sighin'
yuih. yu hev got to ''cram up" on naviga-
ton tn do this.
After luver wunce gifts over these OBJ
strnckshuns into smooth water and fair
| winds j; he can sail into married life like a
streak Of chain li,cnin' down a chestnu,
tree?
Don't, oh, mellow yuth, fall in luv with
the paint on the outside NV your prise,
but lern whether she IL see>worthy and il
she IL. get out yer papers, sign the bill
ov laden, and launch out intu life, a hap.
py cuss.
Adieu!
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

Somebody writes as below. We are not
afraid to bet that the writer was, or is, a
member of the recently charged Grand
Jury Of Wyoming Territory, most Of
whom are women. If the ladies 10 not
like the men folks why do they bother
them so? Oh dear!
CLOCK Is LIKE A MAN.-It has two
hands, face, an inside, and outside.
Sometimes the hands point to the truth
but it is not ashamed to show its face
when they don't! 1t is useful bit of
machinery-so is man! 1t often gets out
OF erder-so does man! 1t is often
wound up-so is man? 1t strikes-so
does man! 1t is not always to be relied
on-no more is man
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
WHOLE No. 7Ol.

his arm and started of, and just as he wa
entering the yard Of the customer, he me
Mr.. W--comiag out.
"Ah, Stanwood, is this you?" asket
his old employer kindly.
Eyes, SIR"
"What are you up to now?'
81 am butchers boy, sir"
| "A what?'
"You see have brought your previs.
ions to you, sir; l am regular butchers
boy.'
"How long have you been at work
thus?'
''This is the tenth day sir"
"But don't it come hard?"
"Nething comes hard so long as it is
honest, and will furnish my family with
bread"
"And how much can you make day
at thisy'
Sometimes over dollar, sometimes 8
not over fifty cents"
swell, now, look here, Stanwood, there
have been no less than dozen of my old
hands hanging around my counting room
for fortnight whining for work. They
are stout, able men, and yet they lie still
because l have no work for them. Last
Saturday took pity On Leeds and offered
him the job of doing my hand carting. l
told him l would give a dollar and a
quarter day, but he turned up his nose
and asked me not to insult him. And
yet he owned that his family were suffer-
ing. But you come to my place to-mor-
row, and you shall have something to do.
if it is only to hold your bench up. I
honor you for your manly independence.
Peter grasped the old mans hand with
joyous, grateful grip, and blessed him
fervently.
That night he gave Mr.. Snow notice
that he must quit, and in the morning he
went to the bindery. For two days he
had very little to do, but on the third day
IA heavy job came in, and Peter Stanwood
had steady work. He was happier than
ever, for he had learned two things; first,
what noble wife he had 4; and second,
how much resources for good he held in
his own energies.
Our simple picture has two points to it's
moral. One is--no man can be lowered
by any kind Of honest labor. The second
you are enjoying the fruits of the
present, forget not to provide for the
future ; for no man is so secure but that
the day may come when he may need the
squanderings of the past.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

Love MAKING.-In spite of prosaic
age, hard times, insolvent banks, abun.
dance Of rosues, and counterfeiters, pro-
fessienal thieves, ticket-of-leave men, out
without leave, lawyers who are but harp
les tor the dollar, judges who imprison the
poor, the women and children, and let
rog"es 90 free; in spite of girls of the
period, frisky matrons, and all the a,cusa-
tons pointed against women, and in spite
Of "fellows' who only like their clubs and
their punch, and cannot marry on six
hundred year in spite Of all these,
there is an old custom that will never 70
out Of fashion, and that is love making
and falling in love.
tits well that it is 80. There is nothing
so divine in life rs love. Life without
love, is mere burden, or rather mere
nonentity; unless We love, we know moth
ing that is delightful. 1t is second life,
which lives not for ones self, but for
another. We can know that we eat, that
the fire burns US, but all the beautiful
intuition, the freemasonry Of life. is gone;
without love, there is no life. Love is a
purifier, regeaerator; it exists every>
where. and by no human means has man
been able to crush it.-Er.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

A few days ago a man entered an in
surance Office in Buffalo, and, tossing q
paper on the counter, said to the clerk /:
'That's run out and want to get it re-
newed." AS the clerk unfolded the doc.
ument a broad grin spread over his face,
and he inquire: "Are you sure that this
has run out?" Eyes, said the man,
"my wife told me it had run out yester-
day morning" Whersupon the clerk
handed back to him his marriage certi6-
cate
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

lDTENEss.-The ruin Of most men dates
from some vacant hour. Occupation is
the armor of the soul. There is satiri.
cal poem, in which the devil ia represent.
ed as fishing for men, and fitting his bal,
to the taste aud business Of his prey
hut the idler, he said, gave him nc
trouble, as he bit the naked hook.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

The blood circulates through the body
Of man in about two minutes. The
amount of blood does not vary much from
twenty four pounds, so that twelve
pounds pass through each minute. 1t is
estimated that the blood moves at the rate
Of two and half feet in a second, or at
about the rate OF two mii.s an hour.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

An orchard Of 500 fruit trees, near
Quincy, ILL.,, belonging to Turner & Pau
lin, was destroyed by FIRE on the 9th in
slant.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
Tom Paine's Religious Belief.

Judge Alexander c. Morton, of Colum-
bus, Ga, friend and executor Of Thorn,
AS Paine. has in preparation life Of the
celebrated free'thinker. The ground tax.
en- upon the mooted question of Paine /.
belief is defined in the following extract :
'lle was not an atheist or an infidel,
aor was he a scoffer of religious views and
teachings, but he had his own. !Ie pro-
mulgated them in his Age of Reason,
when he wrote, i believe in God, and
hope for future existence. The kew of
Heaven is not in the keeping Of any sect,
nor ought the road to be obstructed by
any To Samuel Adams, in 1903, he
wrote: i trouble not myself about the
manner of future existence. / content
myself with believing, even to positive
conviction, that the power which gave me
existence is able to continue it in any
manner and form He pleases, either with
or without this body and it appears
more probable to Inc that shall continue
to exist hereafter, than that should have
had existence as now have before that
existence began. consider myself in
the hands Of my Creator, and that He will
dispose of me after this life consistently
with His goodness and JUSTICE"
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

We are often more crueil, robbed by
those who steal in our hearts ,has by
those who treak into our hauses
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
LOUIS M. ANpRIcK.

Attorney at Law, Reynolds Block. Entrance b,
tween lac and las Dearborn Street, also Madison
Street and Custom House Up. o. place, CHICAGO.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

JOHN LUTHER 4 BRO, manufacturers Of wag.
ons, Sleighs and Cutters.
FLICK BRO, dealers in Dry Goods Groceries.
etc. etc. Forwarding and Commission Merchants
AMI preprietors Of the Gutenberg Flour Mills.
CRAWFORD HOUSE, near Steamboat Landing
N. Crawford, Proprietor.
WM. SULLIVAN, dealer In Dry Goods, Groceries,
and Forwarding and Commis mission Merchant.
JEFFERSON HOTEL, Schiller street, between lst
ana "a streets, Henry Ihaman Proprietor. A1rThs
House has large yard and good stablisg attached.
WASHINGTON HOUSE, near Steamboat La nding.
II. II. Frsse, Proprietor. Coed stsbling attached.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
HENRY HENsEL

Manufacturer Of best and latest styles Of Wagons
Buggies and Sleighs. Repairing done well, prompt
and durably. Clayton, Iowa. 500
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
WEST UNION HOUSE,

Corner Vine and Elm ets, West Union, Iswa, II. J.
Ingersoll. Proprietor. Good stablinx aud charges
moderate Stages going east west, north and sosth,
call aud leave with passengers morning and evening.
v522
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
nanRnocu : sroNrn6AN

Samuel Murdock. John +. StoAeman.
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, will practice IN
the Supreme and District Courts of this State.
Once opposite LIST National Bank, McGREG0R.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
MURRAY HOUSE.

Main Street, McGrcG0r. Iowa. A desirable home fc
the travelling public, with good barns and Sheds n
tached fer the safe protection of horses and wagons
412 NJ. MURRAY PropristOr,
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
WHITE SPRINGS HOUSE,

WHITE SPRINGS HOUSE,
West McGregor, Iowa. J.R. COVEY, Proprietor.
Farmers will do well to try the accommodations of
this house. Good Sheds for Stock. 6Ss
p. H. Larkin. T. Carrall.
LARKIN & CARRALL,
Manufacturers of Wagons, Sieighs Seedsrs, Piows,
and Horse Shoeing done to order and General Black
smithing.
ly6S7 vOLGA CITY, IOWA.
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23
EVANS HOUSE.

Opposite Ferry Landing, McGregor. Re.furnishe'
and fitted up in good style for guests. Patronag
respectfully solicited. II. FLANDERS, Propri
etUr. 414
North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-23

Dr. HUNT late of Syracuse, New York, re-.
spscttully Informs the people Of Mc6regor aud vica-
ity thaths has opened an O1ias In Church Sidwsls
bloc where his sons have their Dentistry Esa blsh
Ment. DR.. HUNT 10 an old practitioner. He can be
found day and night at his Office except when profess
sionallv absent. All who wish to be treated upol
All Female Chronic successfully
Nc0rsSor, Iowa ,Juud i2d, 1869. 6C2tf
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-12-02
Fair and Festival.

Tho Ladies Of the Catholic congregs-
ton will hold FAIR and Festival Christ.
ma, week in Mr.. j. Is. Phillis' Hall cor
ner Tenih stree. and the Levee, commenc.
ing Monday evening 1.-THE 10Th inst, and
will continue during the three successive
nights.
There will be varied assortment Of at
tractivc and fancy articles to suit the taste
OF al.
A beautiful Album, to be awarded by
ballo, 20 the MOST POPULAR YOUNG
LADY in the city. a VERY FINE
NEW PIANo-yhieh cost Ave hundred
dollars, to be rafisdfor at ono dollar per
chance.
Nothing will be left undonc to please
all. supper, afty cents admi,,ance, %
cents.
The public are invited 10 attend.
Doors open u, 7 O'Clock pm
Dee. &Tue. +. & 10, ?o&2l.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-12-02

TuRrE colored individuals who sign
their name. deacon Campbell, Deacon
Green and Deacon Abbcruutha' ask ex-
Deacon Hopkins, all Of the Firs: Colored
Baptis. church, "to attend to his own bust
ness The Dcacons say that the ex.Des-
con 81. moro useful man ont Of the
church than in it, and declare that elder
Shores was nominated as solicit ng agent
for the church by the oN-Dcacon himself
This last declaration will be better under.
stood when we remark that the ox- Deacon
has avcrrel, over his own signature, thnt
elder shores, who i. abroad soliciting aid
60 build church, is not an authorized agent
Of the church.
If the ex-Deacon is truthful man,
Shores is not authorized to solicit onatiopH.
If he is not truthful man, why did Shores
in his memorable controversy with the
efervescent Bradley, illuminate his Phil
lipics over the cx-Deacon's SIGNATURE The
public will refuse 20 breathe "easy,' until
this'stunning inter rogatory is satisfactorily
answered.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-12-02

Capt. Nike McCawley, came out in her
place as a'Cairo and Paducah packet. The
Howell brought I73 plows and 6 tons sun
dries for reshipment South. Mr. Isaac
Cooper ia clerk Of the Howell, and passen-
gers can rely on receiving every attention
possible.
Tho Pink Marble reshippod 80 tons
here for points below Memphis.
The Tyrone brought out 200 SKIS wheat
GO bb!s meal, tons sundrcs for Cairo 3i1
bbls potatoes, $50 SKIS corn, 90 bbls whisky
for reshipment South.
The Belle st. Louis discharged here
662 b'les cotton for resbipment East and
CAL SKIS dried fruit FOR Chicago, per Illi-
nois Central railroad.
The Emma Floyd has been raised and
will repair ut Louisville Her freight is
coming out 70 Cairo on barges in tow Of
the steamer Dwight Newcomb, and will
DO reshpped hence to its destination.
The Belfast and Dexter are due to-day
for New Orleans, and the Colorado for
Vcksburg
The Quickstep is the Evansville
packet this evening.
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-12-02
Boys, Girls. Parents. Everybody, Look
Here!

Boys, girls, fathers and methers-thcsc
TWO paragraph, are especially dedicated to
you. F. Saup, 10. Commercial avenue
hG- brought On the largest stock of TOYS
and ccuioctionay,e, ever opened in Cairo,
Nc sha.. 40, attcnpt to enumernto. We
shall only say thu, the supply embraces
everything yet invented To- please, in
s,ruct and entertain little boys an! girls
Many Of the toys are highly ornamental;
others are very curious, and all are fully
forty per cent. cheaper than like article
were ever before offered in this market.
Little boys and girls, even folks of mature
growth, lind il impossible to pass Saups
establishment without stopping, The at
fractions inside are irresistible. And no
wonder. Think of twcnty-six largo cases
OF toys-steamboats, locomotives, SOL
dicr., horses, dogs, eats, elephants,
dolls, toy furniture-toys that walk and
cry-do everything but think and talk
animals that howl and bark and sQuenl
and bcllow-balls, marbles-thngs cut
rious, things ingenious, things ornamental
nd all so cheap that anybody can secure
II full supply for Christmas Z '' .
Then again there are the confections--
the largest and best stock ever seen in
Cairo. Candies, mint and gum drops,
fancy candies and everything in
the candy line, and all of tho purost quail
ity and most popular brand. But enough.
If you want toys and confections for the
holidays or any other days, there Is one
place where you can suit yourself beyond
doubt, and that place is at +. Ssrps Ioa
Commercial avenue novl7ts
The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-12-02
RIVER NEWS.
ARRIVALS.



The weather continue clcsr and mild.
The river has risen three inches since
last report.
The Mississippi..i falling slowly ns
It. Louis, and no rise l. reported ut any
point above.
Tho Ohio |, abou, stationary at Pitts
burg with seven fass water in the channel,
bnt another rise of twelve inches is OK
pectcd. Abou. two million bushels of
coal have left vittsburg in the present rise
for Cincinnati, Madison and Louisville.
The river il rising slowly at Louisville
with twenty six inches water in the chate
over the fills. There is nearly five feet
water from Louisville to Paducah, and four
feet from thence to Cairo.
Til arc has been rise in the Cumberland
river, and Thirty inches is now reported on
tho shoals and falling. . .rt.."
.--Businoss here continues good
Tho Continental received sev tons
here for the Soath. 1918
The Grand Tower, Julia and Forsyth
ssch added from 20 to 80 tons here.
--The Ella Hughes went to Nashville
yestcrd day morning and the Ida Howell