Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-06-01
A May.day's Scene.

A May-day's Scene.
z;na a;ELY writer in New York maya
ton of the following graphic descrip-
"I was Moving Sceno:'
served the king the OIL er day, as OBJ
neigbhors farrarations Of some of my
was in having wing, how fortunate 1
| could dwell ycarse my own, where
the troubles of mV year, and laugh at
were forced to pull ufquaintances who
Moving day was nothintakes' annually.
and grew intensely selfisme, thought,
that was so free from anntth the idea
in the midst of my cogitatioilce. But
bell rang, and the servant came De door
MIR. Brown, Missus G--wants to with,
your hammer. She is movin', ancow
things are all packedr
"Of course, was willing to Oblige Mn
G., and l made haste to send her my
hammers new one Just after tea
another messenger came from neighbOr
l., across the road. Neighbor L
was moving, and desired to borrow my AK
for an hour or So The ak sent forthwith,
and then came request from Mr.. c.:
Would Mr.. Brown be kind enough to
lend us scuttle or two of coal? We're
moving, and all our coal is barreled upr
This request was somewhat singular, but,
considering the circumstances, said moth
ing more than to give orders to let Mr..
c. have what he wanted. Yesterday
morning a tatered urchin stopped me, % 1
was passing out of my door on my way
down street, with the request: Ma wants
to know If you will lend her piece of
soaps We're going to move, and everything
is packed upr Without stopping to ask
who Ma was, gave him the soap, and
left At dinner time l went home, and
was at at once struck with the empty ap-
pearance of the dining room. Where are
the chairsS' asked. 'Ohi Jones's folks
are moving I replied my wife. The chairs
are all at the other house, and they wanted
to borrow three or four to sit down to din
obliging, if you have TO stand up to meals
yourself, so long as you can accommodate
your neighbors; so said nothing, but
stepped into on adjoining room, brought
out another chair, and sat down to the Ia
s ss my little eoss rSSs ss IS said
there was in the house. Mrs. T-n
moving and - That's enough; bring
me glass of waterr Our glasses are al
Out, MI. DfOWu, 1hlu hu0; NIB. W
has got company, and all her things arc
packed, so L All rightPI interrupt
ed, bound to keep my temper, anyhow:
she wants it, AT this point Harry burst
mother wants to know il you will let Kate
come over and help this afternoon, Toms
folks are getting ready to novel
uyity Won MI oon hn hind n
TO lend me pint Of milk, said voice at
the window; we're moving!' The
milk was served out, and we were about
turning out attention again TO the meal,
when the bell rang, and Mr.. and Mrs.
W, with seven children, walked in.
why, Mrs. Brown, how do you dor We
are going to move this afternoon, and we
thought we would Just run in and see If
you couldn't lend us our dinner!"
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tablished In 1892 1t is published weekly,
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Gig hit pages, each page of seven columns
the columns being longer than those OF
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OF less thon 10000 Inhabitants. The av-
erage circulation exceeds 10000 copies,
and the advertisements during 1870 num-
bered more than 10000.
THE census of Minnesota shows that,
ont of population of 439,332, 1875, lit