The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-01-19
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IOWA ITEMS.
J.J. Rider, Of Wilton, died suddenly,
ON the Sth inst.
Keokuk pork men have packed $4,000
hogs this season.
Since Christmas the hardware dealers
of Des Moines have sold nine hundred
pairs Of skates.
The State Billiard Tournment at Dav.
export was failure, for want Of deleg-
ates. ..........
1t IL stated that q magazine for the
Odd Fellows of Iowa will shortly be
started at Council Bluffs.
The Herald says one of the anti rail.
road men at the Oskaloosa election the
other day voted a ballot of Know
Tacks."
The Fort Madison Plaindedler says
the penitentiary "is full and more than
full, but still the prisoners como"
The Muscatine Journal says the four
prominent candidates for the Harlan
Senatorial succession are, Harlan, A Ills.
on, Merrill and Howell.
A Mt. Pleasant school girl, Alice
Kaufman, spelled twenty.one hundred
straight words recently, and got a fine
Bible for for her smartness.
Bellevue will be a city yet, because it
has the men to make 1t so. Twenty.
five Of them have subscribed thousand
dollars each for railroad from there to
Cascade.
The five per cent tax In aid of the Iowa
South western railroad carried on last
Saturday, by vote of two to one, in
English river township, Keokuk ceun-
ty.
Horses and Cattle owners use Equine
Remedies.
In Crawfo county they have new
kind Of man and wife trouble. A Mrs.
Hunter has sued Sarah Morgan for s..
600 for seducing her husband. Sarah Is
said to he worth several times that.
Equine Remedies over top every
thing.
The commencement of the Medical
Department Of the State University will
occur on the first of March. The adj
dress Of the occasion will be delivered
by Gov. Merrill, who vii: also confer
the degrees. The number of students in
attendance Is thirty-six.
Equine Powders restore Horses and
cattle.
The contract for broken stone for con .
crete for the foundation Of the new State
House was let to the Des Moines Stone
and Limo Company at $3.50 per yard.
and the contract for cement to the Des
Moines Coal Company at 81 .65 per bag
OF 275 pounds, bags to be returned.
No question about Equine Remedies.
Concerning Government lands in
Northwestern Iowa, the Upper Des
Moines says; "Once more we answer
the oft repeated question, What is the
chance for Government lands in your
county?' We answer that in this
county there are no more Government
lands but choice lands can be bought
of the Railroad Company at low rates
and on long time. Orif the settlers pre-
fer homesteats, these can be found in
Palo Alto, Emmett, Dickinson, Clay
and otter counties west of KOssuth.
There are still many choice locations In
those counties subject 10 entry under
the Homestead Act"
The report Of Prof Heinrichs, Of the
State University, on the several specim.
ems Of Iowa stone offered as being fit for
the Capitol foundation, lie one of the
most thorough and complete examina-
ton of 1owa's stones that has yet been
made since the State was organized, and
the Commission has properly decided to
publish 1t in pamphlet form for the BEN
eft of the public. It will make q docu-
ment OF one hundred pages, and be
issued as soon as the work can be done
by the State printer. All the stones
were tested as to their porosity, resist
ance, and geological composition, each
being put upon its own merit, none
was known to the Professor as to the To-
GATOR or owner OF quarry.
Equine Powders produce a natural
change.
At the Slate Agricultural Convention
at Dcs Moines on the 18th inst, forty
two county societies were represented.
The Treasurer read his report showing
total receipts Of the late State Fair to
have been $ll ,2ss, so, expenditures, So
65s,l7. Officers were elected as follows:
President. Il. II. Shanklapd, of Dubu-
que; Vice President, s. +. Spofford, Des
Moines; Secretary, J. NJ. Shaffer, Of
Fairfield. Directors-F. L. Downing of
Oskaloosa, Jno. Grinnell Of Clayton. s.
B. Hewitt Of Wright, Edwin Smith
Of Scott, { all reelected J, and Col. John
Scott. of Story, elected to fill vacancy.
BY vote Of 81 to q it was decided to
hold the next State Fair at Cedar Rapids.
Kookuk was the only competitor.