Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-05-12


A WHoPPER-John Sweet speared
pickerel in the river at this place,
the other day weighing 10 pounds.
New ABB. G.. Jennings talks
meat market to the people of Cedar
Falls through the GAZETTE this
week.
NOTICE TO BRIDGE BUILDERS
See notice elsewhere Of bridge to
he built across the West Fork, at
| Finehf ford.
SERVICE. There will be service at
the Baptist Church next Sabbath
Rev. MIR. burlington, of Waverly,
will otficiate.
UNTIL month Of June, Ice Presby-
terian Society will EJECT for Sabbath
services In the Baptist Church, wor-
Shipping in union with the Baptist
Society.
GROWING We are having fine
growing weather. Everything with
the ncrUc to grow is shooting ahead
at rapid rate,
| CLEANING UP.-Street Commission
er May is "scooaing up" Main
street, giving an improved appear
ance about town.
!
| Mr.. EDlToR.-DUes that High
Joint Commission" we hear so much
about of late, refer TO the fet.lock or
the knee joint?
- 4 Stock MAN.
We think it does, but would refer
enquirer to Greeley's work on "What
| Know about Farming.
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| STEAMISG FooD.--T. l.. French is
testing the new method of fattening
hogs by the stcaming process. He
has drove Of about forty, and is
using Clarke's patent steam boiler,
made in Rockford, Ill. French
thinks it success--the machinery
and the process of cooking food.
ANOTHER RAILROAD COLLISION
| We learn that n terrible railroad co.'s
lision occurred in Mt. Vernon town
ship, on the marrow guage road"
last Saturday night, about II O'Clock,
near Palmer station. The fireman
! Ln La, bat 10 lt
no bones were broken, and the engi-
neer narrowly escaped serious in
jury, Further particulars are given
| by our Mt. Vernon correspondence.
TRIPLETs THEY CAN'T BE BEAT.
stephen Small who married A.
| Picrce's daughter has made haul at
last. He had been married twenty
years without children, when his
wife died. One year ago he married
| Miss Pierce of Eldora, who present
| ed him " it'll triplets last week. The
children are all boys, all alive and
Kicking, aud weigh in the aggregate
twenty-one pounds. Mr.. Small IL
sixty-two years old, and the proudest
man in Iowa. Mrs. Small il we'll
and around, nursing the three chill
dren. Hurrah for Hardin county
and EldOra. They skunk the
world.-Eldord Lct1gCT.
CANE BACK STRAPPED FROM THE
FIGUT.-"Jcss," of Cedar Falls, took
a fancy to "Red Handed Mike" and
was induced to go down to Clinton
to spunge him Off during the fight.
Mike paid the fare for his second
down, and promised him $50 as S,s"i'
us he had whaIed his autag"nist.-
After the fight, Mix borrowed
watch of iIis second got iutO boat
on the mississippi and dug out. u
"Jessn lonCeG it as far ba. X as Cedar
] Rapids, pemuilcss and alone, and
there succeeded in &c ttiug ride the
! rest of the way home. Jess is
sick Of prize fights. lie thinks they
/ don't pay worth cent.
! DEATH OF Mr.. PARRoTT. Mr.. II.
r. Parrot. an old and respected citi.
ger of Butler county, died on Friday
of last week. In n notice OF his
! death the Acklpy Mirror says of
him:
DuriGg his residence Of seventeen
years in the county. he won The re-
spect and confidence of all of his az
, quaintances, by his honest dealings
with his fellow men, and Accumulate
ed an immense fortune lay his habits
Of industry. Last Sunday at 1890
a. NJ. the funeral services took
place, Rev. J. Gossard Officiating
BY the death of Mr.. i. the commu-
nifty has met loss that will he deep
~ felt. ard the bercaved family has
the sympathies of large circle Of
friends.
AN OUTsIDER's OPINION or WHAT
THE G., G. +. & W. II. r., WILL Dc.
A prominent lumber dealer in Du-
buqTs. not knowing he was talking
to Grinnell, Cedar Falls & WinoDa
man. told one of our citizens the
other day, that the lumber trade was
bound TO change from the present
| ~ SlplD Oh IuiLlhE upmH WIZ iiNGl W.
Dubuque and Clinton, and then dis
tributed by rail TO all points in Nor
thern Iowa. The bridge is being
built across the river at Winonn, aud
likewise railroad from that point
! to the lumber regions Of Wisconsin,
called the Green Bay & Wisconsin
Railroad. The proposed road to
Winona will tap the lumber country
direct, and give the people Of this
section facilities Of immense value
in the lumber line, This gentleman
referred 10. gave his reasons why
lumber by this route could be dis
tnbuted In better shape, without the
disadvantages of rafting, and at fig
ures that would startle the people
who remember old prices. ...
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STEAM FIRE. ENGINE.-The GA
ZETTE announced last week, the pur-
chase of steam fire engine by our
city council. The agent of the Sis
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