Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-12-13
JEsuP, Dec. IL, 1872.

/ Ed. BULLETIN:-Aftcr Rip Van Win
town seems to have touched bottom
There Is now moro hopeful feeling pre-.
yailing, and better demand for dwell.
ings than there has been for two or three
years. Our traders are doing living
business, a fair amount OF grain is finding
0 market here, and we are confident
that we are now on the up grade.
Our grain buyers, Messrs Heyt, Town
send and Cramer, are paying fair price
for grain, while the Lairds, Demming,
Newton, and Depoy & Cameron, will
give as good bargains as can be obtained
in Independence in groceries and dry
goods, and Taft will furnish anything
and everything in the hardware and tin.
ware line, aud Brown and Smith will do
their customers in the drug business.
This is one of the best locations in
Iowa in which to make home. Our
schools stand high, and deservedly, too,
We pride ourselves on our new school
house. 1t is as roomy and commodlous
as any in the county. We have three
neat and comfortable churches-thc
Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian, and
they are well attended, though since Mr..
Bogg's death the Presbyterians have had
no regular pastor, Mr.. Phelps, of Indc-
pendcnce. supplying the pulpit occasion
ally, to general acceptance.
There is no healthier town in the
world than Jesup. During the past sum.
mer and autumn. when bilious diseases
did SO abound, we were exempt. There
was not single case Of ague or intermit.
tent fever here It is true, we arc not a
seaport, and have no "Wapsie," and are
not even county seat, yet our freedom
from miasma, and consequent good
health-the greatest earthly blessing
more than reconciles us to these trifing
inc Onvcnicnces.
Rents arc low in this place, especially
for stores. l know it has rather bad
look to see SO many unoccupied stores in
village. What pity they could not
be set out on the prairie where they are
so much needed for dwellings. They
stand here as SO many witnesses Of ill-di-
rccted enterprise. We are not alone in
this feature, however. 1t occurs in a ma
jority Of western villages. though not al
ways to the same extent There is at
this point an honest, legitimate, living
business for half dozen stores of the
different varieties, and no less than thirty
men and firms made strike for that
business, and every one had to put up
building Of his own. One after another
- the weakest first-thcy went under,
but their empty stores remain. The par
ties now remaining in business are rated
in sound condition.
The question of the title to large pOr
ton of Jcsup has been in the court Of
chancery for several years, which fact
has deferred people from coming here
our prosperity and business, but that is
now settled, and purchasers can obtain a
perfect title.
The matter that should have men,
toned first, on account of its importance.
l have inadvertently left till the last
Of course mean the horse complaint
We have got 1t. It is no respectcr of
persons or prcventives, but visits the
high and humble alike, though one only
has died. the property of 8. S. Taylor
It has raised the price Of wood, has pre-
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driven men into new occupations, and
| has shown US as VIC never realized before
how much the noble animal enters into
our lives and habits.
can't get up my wood, SO have gone
in to help the women folks, and hold the
baby, turn the clothes wringer, wipe the
dishes and perform on the churn.
Isaac Muncey has harnessed up cou-
pie of cows, and his hoy" (unclc Rich
mond) goes singing along merrlly, dri-
wing them to mill and to meeting
Friend Merrill, when his horses got SICK,
took 10 reading Dnxtur's Gull, and now
exhibits unmistakablc evidence Of a-lcan-
ing to straisht orthodoxy, and Represent
ativc Hovey spends his time watching
his old black marc for the first symptom
of the epizootic.
Thus we wag along. This year it is
the horses and the hens that arc prOstra-
ted, next year it may be the pigs and the
men. MOODY 6IoW.