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The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01
INTERESTING READING MATTER

CAUrIoE.-Every genuine box of Dr. McLANE's
LIVER Pulls bears the signature of FLEMING Bros.
Pittsburgh, Pa, and their private U. s. stamp
az" Take no Other The market is full of imi-
tations. 1t is the popular verdict that people who
have been accustomed to the use bittess or cor
dials are obliged, eventually, to resort to Nc
Lanes Liver Pills for permanent relief. n8Om6
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COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
ADJOURNED MEETING


Present. the Mayor, Councilmen Hurst,
Hurst, Wray, Beatty, Perdue, Williams,
Rounds and LeSeur.
The minutes of previous meeting were
read and approved.
A petition signed by Noe and Mcclure
asking the privilege of erecting scales on
the street was presented and read. A mo-
ton that the petition be granted was lost.
On motion the report of the Surveyor
employed by the city to resurvey that por-
ton Of the city known as Whites addition
was referred to committee consisting of
Councilman Williams.
The special committee who were in
structed to prepare an ordinance in regard
to Issuing bonds by the city, requested and
were on motion granted further time to re-
port. a-.fof -....,. 49,. f..,....... $751;.
Councilman Williams offered the follow
ing resolution and moved its adoption go
RESOLVED, That the Street Commissioner exam
inc and report upon the condition OF the street
ifin their opinion the same should be repaired,
have the same attended to Immediately ~ "
& A petition signed by Geo. r. Lee, G. NJ.
Stuart and others, asking the Council to al
low them to lay four foot walk on Main
street west of Depot, instead of eight as or
dered, was presented, read, and on motion
granted. ..-....- -.-.
The following claims were presented,
read, and on motion allowed:
Nicholas Francis, work on streets 800. $40 so
IA Harbach ..it5. ~ :" . g ID 80
Committee on Claims made the follow
ing report s.tfa.u" -.H1g-I @5tR 4
80 "Your Committee on Claims have ex-
amined the following claims and recon-
mend that they be allowed and orders
drawn on the city treasury for the several
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--f HAY FOR SALE. srt'f -
New. timothy hay ready to be delivered
in town for two weeks. Leave orders
with s. F. Harvey or at Agricultural Ware
house. J.H. GREEN.
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PLANK WALK.

PLANK WALK.
ID. W. CoRwIN There is grant for a
side walk along Block 3, Lot 8, Loughridge
and Cassiday's addition to the city of Oska-
loosa, the lot owned by you. Unless you
put this walk down within ten days the
city will build it for you and the amount
stand as lien on your property.
W. DUKE,
Street Commissioner
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EDS, HERALD:--In your last issue You
say several of the preachers accompanied
by their ladies have gone to Clear Lake.
AS we are left behind will you please tell
us who those ladies are.
....s ls iW 5go Yours truly, ..w
s II , Yba5g sGw PREAcHERs' WIvEs.
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MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATION.

MANUFACTURING ASSOCIATION.
At the meeting Of the incorporators of
the Oskaloosa Manufacturing company
July goth. for the purpose of organizing
said company, and electing directors there
for, Cary Cooper was called to the chair,
and B. r. 'Perdue was elected Secretary.
At the request of the President the names
of the incorporates were read, viz Robert
Rose, Cary Cooper. w. Fl. Kimball, NJ E.
Quits. T. G. Phillips, VIM. Wells, N. Cav
en-, B. R. Perdue,- D, M. Walton, David
Evans, J. FL. Warren, w. E. Shepherd,
John Seibel, VIM. 81. Wray, l. Frankel, L.
B. Ayres, s. j. Dutton and r. T. G. Lord.
The following persons were elected to act
as Directors until the first regular meeting
of the stockholders. .s ...5..-..- D.. .r.r-.
On motion of W. Wrav meeting ad-
journed, sine die ....., ...-
B. r. PEkDUE, CARY COOPER,
Secretary. President.
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THE OAK LEAF.-The genuine Charter Oak
Stoves have an Oak Leaf on the side doors, and
are stamped with the name OF ''Giles F. Finley,
st. Louis" When buying one of them therefore,
look out for these proofs OF genuineness, and re-
ject all that do not have them
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3D. WANTED.
Good homes for three boys, ages from
eight to twelve years. Enquire at Mahaska
County Poor Farm, or of c. Houtz, Poor
Farm Director, Oskaloosa.
45w4 Fl. P. WEAVER.
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BIRTHS.

BIRTHS.
To John F. Lacey and wife, ten pound son, on
Monday morning, July 30.
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Who rs WESTON Edward Payson
Weston is the young man who in 1867
made himself famous by walking from
Portland, Maine, to Chicago, Ills, dis
lance of 1926 miles, in less than 25 days.
In 1868 he walked 100 miles on measured
road in New York, in % hours, 10 minutes
and 10 seconds. At Dubuque, Iowa, he
walked so miles in 10 hours and 26 min
utes, including one half mile backward.
This pedestrian wonder will be present at
our County Fair this year, and give an ex-
hibition of his skill on the new track, Dv
walking tentimes around it, once back
ward, in one hour.sAll who desire to see
this exhibition can have an opportunity OF
doing so at the Fair, Aug 27-30. g
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In the GAINESVILLE, (Ohio) Enterprise of
May %, we find the following good letter
from our fellow citizen, John Taylor, from
"over the river" Such letters do power
of good. ...'~ a... D.. .rT.s "
a. EDDYvILLE, Iowa, May 8, 1872.
EDITOR ENTERPRIsE.-I saw in late
number of your valuable paper. what seems
to be a criticism from one Iowa man, on
something another had written to induce
immigration to this State. Now, MIR. Ed
itor, as pstronized your paper in days of
yore, but have resided in Mahaska county,
Iowa, over eight years, please hear me a
little .#"..s tfE@ H5H eggs Haa aH
After trying, / find have better herit-
age here than could ever get in Eastern
Ohio, a better chance for my nine children
(six of whom helped to lands), and my
regret is, l was not here sooner, before 1
racked my muscles in the roughs of Muddy
Fork and Beaver, among the stumps, logs,
stones and sleeps.
Now, Mr.. Editor, never persuade peo-
pie to move, but please let me tell or give
you some history by way of illustration. I
know scores of men, even many from East
ern Ohio, who are now worth $4,000 to
500, 900, who never could have been 30
well off in the older States. I might men,
ton John L Henness, Moses Rhodes
nephew, who came to Iowa, he says, be.
cause he was left so poor he tho't Rhodes
looked down on him. He long since fat
tened five hundred and fifty cattle in one
winter, had twelve hundred sheep, five
hundred acre farm and thousand acre
farm, and now has nine teams farming
while he is gone to Texas for thousand
steers And there is Jonathan Briggs 1t
would be good for some of the Belmont
county "Friends" to stop on the Central
Iowa Railroad at New Sharon and see bis
| fix, and that of his sons, and there are
scores of names could mention that are
in far better shape than they could posi-
bly, have been in the older States. Yea,
even your humble correspondent might
have stayed on Muddy Fork till the last
dag after dinner, before he could have fat
tened and sold fifty one thousand pounds
ofcattle and hogs in one year, and then
have over two thousand bushels of corn,
several timothy hay ricks, and fifty head OF
cattle left.
Now, Mr.. Editor, find I am writing
more than intended, and will conclude by
saying that Iowa with her fifty thousand
square miles of fine lands her twelve hun
dred miles of railroad completed, her one
million one hundred and fifty thousand
population, her fourteen thousand school
teachers, nine thousand of whom are fe.
males, her four hundred and seventy thou
sand school youths, her institutions for the
unfortunate, her stately temples and cost.
ly bridges, and last, but not least, her forty
Thousand Republican majority. all go to
constitute great state, both present and
prospective. JoHN TAYLOR.
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T.B. White digging a well on his prem
Uses found soapstone at the depth of TWEEN
ty-fve feet, which bore the imprint of
leaves from trees as plainly as if painted.
REFORM SoHooL.-We have one more
chance for the Reform School. This is an
institution that will bring large amount
of money into the county annually, and
especially while the building is being
erected. The locating commission are Ia
vorable to this county as against Others
providing we give any liberal sum
for its location. What say our citizens
Many have not given anything; others
but part of what they should for such an
enterprise. We must attend to this at once.
Don't wait to be called upon, but 60 to W.
NJ. Wells, j. 81. Green, or some other mem
Der of the committee and put down your
name. The matter will be settled In
few days by the Board.
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ACCIDENTAL SHooTING.-Last Wednes'
day evening John Moorland and George
Lofland went out east OF town with their
guns, for the purpose of practicing. In
climbing over fence Johnny's gun was
accidentally discharged and his left hand
considerably mangled /; part of the fore
finger shot entirely away, the second man.
gled SO that amputation was necessary at
the second joint; and the others more or
less injured. Johnny is good boy, and
every one who hears of this will regret ii
for his own as well as his mothers sake,
We are glad it is no worse, and when we
think ofthe numbered boys handling guns
we wonder accidents do not occur more
FREQUENTLY.
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Great match race between Frank Palmer
of Des Moines, sorrel Dick. of Gslesburg,
Ill, and Reconstruction, of Osksloosa. for
100000, will come off at the Fair Grounds
in oskaloosa, Saturday, August 3, 1872, at
O'Clock, p. m, sharp. Admittance e5
cents. To be trotted according to the
rules of the National Trotting Congress.
Except weight and distance.
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CLAP-TRAP AND CANT.-Invalid reader, if you
are unwise enough to put yourself outside Of any
of the mock tonice guaranteed to contain mo
diffusve stimulan ts' you will inevitably come to
grief. Ask your physician If any liquid prepare
ton, destitute of stimulating properties is wor.
thy the name Of tonic. He will tell you no.
Shun all such nauseous catchpennies. Planta-
ton Bitters, the most wholesome invigorant in
the world, owes the repidIty with which it re-
lieves the disordered stomach and shattered
nerves to the diffusivs agent which conveys it's
medicinal ingredients to the seat or the COM
pleat. Thot agent is the spirit ofthe sugar cane,
the most nutritious and agreeable of all the vari-
cites Of alcohol. The medicinal ingredients of
the Bitters, valuable as they are, would be COM
paratiyely useless without this distrbutive basis
They would ferment and sour. Beware, as you
hope for health, of the horrible compounds of
refuse drugs in a state of fermentation which
humbugs are endeavoring to foist upon the peo-
pie as m edicines.
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MARION CoUNTY.-The Voter relates the
following singular circumstances Mr..
David M. Kersey, living in the eastern
part of Knoxville Tp., about two weeks
ago turned a valuable horse out to pasture
one day, we'll and sound in every way !;
and in the evening it came home, hardly
able to walk, with two deep holes appa-
rently made by some sharp instrument, en-
tering just above the hoof of one fore leg,
from the front, and extending downward
and backward through the hoof. The ami
NAL suffered greatly its hoof, and finally
its ankle came off; and in four or five
Gays it died. There was no appear ance of
poison and no possible cause of the
wound can be discovered. Mr.. Samuel
Strahan of Washington Tp., had horse
killed in singular manner last week. 1t
stepped on one end of a stick of wood, and
the stick flew up and struck the horse in
the flank, inflicting fatal wound. The end
of the stick was SO blunt that it did not
seem as though it could have been so easily
forced through the hide as it was The
horse was worth some $40.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01

As LocUsTs.-The Charter Oak Stoves are be
coming such universal favorites, and are making
their way into so many house holds, that it looks
as If they were destined to cover the face of the
lands as the locusts of Egypt Unlike them,
however, they are blessings instead OF curses,
and we wish speed to the contamination.
The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1872-08-01

IT WILL PAY.-It looks to us that the
business of canning fruit and vegetables
would be paying one in this county. We
every year ship in thousands of dollars
worth from other and dearer markets to
supply US during the winter months. Ev-
cry family puts up more or less, but no
one can afford to make the necessary prep
arations for doing this work cheaply, un-
less they go into it extensively. We buy
cherries, raspberries, plums, green corn,
tomatoes, beans, peas, ETC., in large guam
titles, put up in markets where the raw ar
ticle is worth more than here, and they
pass through several hands before getting
here. If an individual or company would
tensively, it appears to us they could make
money out OF it, for we certainly can raise
most, if not all the articles cheaper than
the sections that can them ; our timers
can furnish US the cans in quantities as
cheap, work is cheaper, and the profit
should therefore be larger and freight
saved. This is a matter that capitalists
might investigate with profit.
BARNUM.-Everybod has heard of Bar
mum if they have of the American eagle.
Well Barnum. the veritable Phlneas T., is
this year travelling with grand combina-
ton of shows, and will pitch his tents in
Oskaloosa, Friday, Sept. 6. This great
show travels by rail, requiring three and
sometimes four trains of about forty cars
each, with from two to four engines to
each train, in order to transport it rapidly
from one city or large town to another. 1t
is SO large and diversified in its multitude
of appointments, that six separate pavil-
ions are used for the various departments
of the exposition. Barnum cannot afford
to stop his big show in small towns. Only
think of show requiring thousand men
and horses to manage it, and containing
over hundred thousand curiosities, 500
birds, reptiles, and marine monsters, a
double set of performers, double circus
ring, with one hundred of the best per-
formers in the country, a vast group Of
sea lions, wild Fiji cannibals, riding goats,
living giraffes, mammoth giants, ponderous
reptiles, living human wonders, astounding
dwarfs, four times smaller than Tom
Thumb-all these to be seen for the sum
of fifty cents. 1t is no wonder if people
will 60 hundred miles to see it. Extra
trains will run at reduced fares to carry
the people to Barnum's great Worlds Fair
on the day above mentioned. Remember
fha do " and date
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St. Louis, KANSAS City,
The only route running

9A miles the shortest route to Kansas City.
40 miles the shortest route 70 St. Joseph.
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Stop those chills that have been harrassing you
SO long, as they sometimes end in that fatal di-
sease known by some as the"Up Country Yellow
Fever" They can be very easily stopped by TAX
ing Simmons Liver Regulator. Do not delay
go at once to your druggist and get package and
be cured ..-- ... ... 7
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CORRKcTIoN.-We were in error in say
ing last week that the ministers were ac-
companied by their wives, on their Clear
Lake spree. Mrs. Snowden says any body
of men but ministers would have been thus
well guarded on such a trip, and we guess
she Is about right. We suppose they
wished to run loose, and being free from
the criticizing eyes of their congregations,
they thought the straight Jacket would be
but slightly loosened with their home
ntorsaccompsnying. 90
A shooting match came offin Des Moines
in which the following good score was
made as reported in the Register The
match was for fifty dollars side; fifty
birds each distance from trap 81 yards
limit for falling birds 90 yards twenty six
single risers, twelve double risers. The
day was dark and rainy, with considerable
wind. but Notwithstanding all this the
shooting was remarkably accurate. OF the
single risers, Kerr missed 9 Smith missed
2: OF the double risers, Kerr missed
Smith 1.
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Choice dried fruit, apples, peaches,
prunes and currants, lbs for 81 at
MATTIsoN g. Bros "a
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MARBLE WoRKs--A look through the
marbie-works OF Z. d. Glaze. few days
showed US that he was doing an immense
business, and turning out some very fine
work. He has eight hands employed in.
the shop, and their nice work speaks for
their skiii. His stock is large and con.
stantly arriving, SO he is always able TO
supply the demands made upon him. he
has many orders in from q distance, one
nice monument going TO Missouri. His
shop is on Main street opposite Herald
Block and his advertisement in this pa
per. Read it fsD BO + TIKI
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lbs sugar IUI FI 1t
A MATTIsoN g. Bros

100 TONS SCRAP IRON WANTED :
at the Blacksmith Shop of I
80 LEVI Cook.
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LETTER LIST.

New Sharon, July 20, 1914. sd 81
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NorE.--Guess observer" Is mistaken
about the October election this yesr.-EDs
HERALD. sNgl .Alt .my q 4
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In the GAINESVILLE, (Ohio) Enterprise of
May %, we find the following good letter
from our fellow citizen, John Taylor, from
"over the river" Such letters do power
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-30

RUNAwAY.-On Wednesday the fine
team of Captain Fisher, of the Empo-
Ia water mill, concluded to relieve the
dullness by a little entertainment in
the way of seeing how fast they could
run, and how long they could stand
They started from the NJ. X s. 7. de-
pot, and arrived ut Commercial street,
half mile, in good condition. On
this street the exhibition was first
class, In every particular. They ran
north TO 9TH avenue, took turn
around a few houses, came back oRtO
Commercial, then took circle cast
toward the Presbyterian church
Finally they came back unto Com
mercial and started south. They ran
as far rs Frederick's grocery anC
brought up against some posts whcT
they were secured. When thcy ar
rived ut this point they were vel
nigh "playc,l out" and brought viii
them the tongue and fore-wheels
having deposited the other parts of I'll,
wagon mt various places ON their route
Altogether it was the most sGccessfu
runaway we have seen in many years
and the street was lined with excite,
people, many OF whom we noticed ae
tuallv raised little dog trot, whel
the team would occasionally turn.
corner and pass out of sight, they de
string 70 see it all.
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Row.-On Saturday night last two
gentlemen named VIM. aud Isaiah
Phillips were arrested by Marshal Gill
chriest and policeman Nesbit, on the
charge of drunkenness. One of them
resisted, when George Rice interfered,
and attempted to release the prisoners.
He dragged Nesbit across the sidewalk
in front of Haussler's barber shop, and
kicked him several times in the face
and about the eyes, the marks OF
which are plainly to be seen. The
Phillips were put in Jail until Monday
morning, when they were brought be-
fore the Police Judge, plead guilty to
the charge of drunkenness and were
fined 50 each and costs. George Rice
was arrested Monday OH the charge Of
resisting the officer. He was fined $40
and costs. Just two weeks before he
had been taken up and fined for the
same offence. No sooner was he Ie-
leased on bail than he was arrested for
assault and battery, taken before
Esquire Pinkerton and fined $40 and
costs. Both these cases Mr.. Rice ap-
peaIed to the District court. He pro-
poses, If we understand the matter, to
test the cons titutionality of the laws
against the offences of resisting an
officer and assault and battery.
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Teachers INsTITUTE.-Thc Lyon
County Teachers Institute has been in
session most of this week at the State
Normal school building. There arc
about seventy teachers in attendance.
The exercises are interesting, and are
attended by n number OF our citizens.
Prof. Hoss delivered lecture before
the Institute, Wednesday evening, at
the NJ. Z. church. His subject was
Religion in Politics." and to say it
was fun of the soundcst suggestions
and good advice, is only to assert what
everybody would expect from such a
source. Prof. Hoss has fine delivery,
and knows how to put though Is on pa
per and then how to send them TO an
audience in the most effective way.
We only wish the address could have
been heard by & larger audience
Next week we shall publish the pro-
ceedings of the Institute.
Another lecture may be expected
this evening at the church. We are
not able to give the name or the sub
ject, but advise our people to be in at
tendance.