Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-08-21

/ Tho cost OF the new code is 500, $40
| O6. Per copyit costs 1854.
.Goose" parties arshaving quite
run in Des Moines.
| A neat cottage for rent to sma]
family. Apply at this Office.
! Good wood can now be bought b,
the quantity at 1915 to $500 per cor,
! The First National Bank is repaint
ing the front ofstheir building.
More now and late style type re
ceived at the COURIER Job Office.
Fifty Poor Los of the Pottawatta
watamie tribe, have been removed
from Wisconsin to Kansas.
Dr.. Salter, the Congregations
Minister at Burlington, has gone Eas
to spend three weeks vacation.
John Gray is building livery barr
on the lot next TO Col. Summer,
Office.
Grand Master d. w. Adams is ID
address the Patrons of Husbandry, al
a Harvest Home Festival, to be held
at Keosauqua, on Saturday next.
Talk up and work up the County
Fair. Get something ready for exhi-
bition, and do your best to make our
Fair this year decided success.
"A "Reminiscences, Personal and Pc.
litical," was received too late for our
Weekly of this week. It will appear
in next weeks Weekly COURIER.
w. B. Quarton will sell at public
sale his herd Of thoroughbred Durham
Cattle at his farm near Ere mont, Ma
haska county, on Sept. 10th, 1873. 2t+w
There are l,75o oranges in Iowa
The number in the United States on
the 10Th ofJuly, was 5000, with to-
tai membership of $4,000.
A one dollar greenback has been
taken in at Boone that bears the
date Of Singapore, Asia, April 25th,
1877
The Changers Of Henry county
have wisely instituted the practice OF
settling disputes among themselves
without recourse to law.
Our magistrates complain Of un-
usually dull times in their business.
Nobody 10 being sued now a-days,
which dou't 60 far to prove that times
are hard.
The Ottumwa Courier completed Its
twenty fifth birthday last week. II
is q good paper, aud we wish it many
years OF prosperity.-Pella Blade.
Thank you, Mr.. Blade, and the same
to yourself.
The farmers Of Page county aver
that the drouth has already injured
The crop Of that county to such an ex.
tent that It will not produce more than
two.thirds of an average yield. There
has been no rain since July 9Th.
A goodly number of people will
read the serial story, divided into
chapters of convenient length, publish
ed in our weekly paper. Copies OF
this paper neatly put up in wrappers,
or without, can be had at this Office for
5 cents each.
The Ballingall House has caught the
spirit of Improvement and adornment
and is now receiving thorough over
hauling of which we will tell more
about when we see what 1t looks like.
We are indebted to our old friend,
). W. Hayes, Of Fremont, Neb., for
copy of the Premium List of the Grand
Union Fair, to be held at that place
Sept. 23d to 9th inclusive.
Esq. Monroe, of Keokuk township,
has made his annual donation of choice
to the COURIER office
May his shadow never grow less, and
may he raise melons for fifty years to
come, is our sincere wish,
A certain saloon in Ottumwa has
this symbolic element of truth painted
over the door: "The road to H"
and little further on you come to
another inscription "Nose Paint,
Pat. Appl'd for"
FINE FLoUR.--We are indebted to
Samuel Heacock, of the Chillicothe
Mills, for two sacks of his "Family
Flour" We have tried it and pro-
nounce it of the very best quality, and
If he gives his patrons such breadstufl
as this, and we are assured that he
does, we predict for him such a de-
'nand for his -four that it will be hard
to fill orders. We advise persons In
want of pood Hou,. 70 trv n