Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-11-06

i ne Idtt Guy says tnefe is SrI
II keokuk who holds her hands in
Ter lap all the time except when her
over holds them for her. |
.. w. Lyman has been admitted 10
practice as an attorney. by .IudgeI
,lsan's Circuit Court.
The widows of the suspended Mo.
aocs wesr tight fitting mourning
sarb of tar and ashes. Will it become
popular:
The next annual meeting of the State
Strange OF Iowa will be held at Dcs-
Moines. on the second Tuesday in De-
rember next. being the ninth day of
he month.
The most worried men in town
these times. are the stove dealers,
They are besieged on sill sides to
send hand 10 black and put mp my
stove
The Bloomfield Democrat says the
editor of that paper "has been On a
visit TO Dcs Moines for a week back"
Couldn't he get it without going to
Des Moines?
The latest Tower in this city, appear
ed on Court street hill early this
morning. 1t is properly yelled to-day
aud will appear in due time in calico
sll we'll.
The Des Moincs newspapers, by
their petty quarreling. hurt Des
Moines and thcmselyes.-.Sions CITY
Journal.
= Right.
Jack Morrison. one of the horny
handed farmers of Keoknk county,
and well known As representative
from that county in the Legislature,
gave us a call to day.
ID. IL. Payne. partner of Gen. Weav-
CT in the law business. at Bloomfield.
gave rs call last evening. He was
born in Wapello county. and we are
glad to say is credit to the place Of
his nativity.
J. d. Ladd l. Co. have made ar.
engagements for packing pork in Bur-
lington this season. Next season they
intend building substantial brick
packing honse on the site of that
burnn0 1nwo
In Allegany City, at the corner OF
streets, business men have the follow
ing sentences placardcd on their build
ings: Men of responsibility are
never found loating here. Beware Of
pickpockets and thieves"
We don't want TO make q corner
on beans and raise the price, but DIR
Dio Lewis says beans are better to
beau:ify the complexion than all the
creams and pomsdes ever made. To
which sublime sentiment we fully and
nnequivocally subscribe.
The window frames of the second
story of the City Hall are NJ being
set in place, and it looks AS if the con-
tractors would beat old winter yet,and
have the building enclosed before cx-
treme cold weather sets IN
The Sioux City Jou,Wm says
There is a charming Young girl in
this city who keeps her folks stoves
supplied with wood. which she jay
hawks from ncighboring wood piles
Ii can't be said that she is dead
weight..on her parents.
The Anamosa Euyeha says: Last
season we could get five bushels of
good potatoes for one years subscrip.
ton. This year we consider ourselves
lucky If we can get two bushels for the
same equivalent. Now We ask what
encouragement is this for man with
growing iamiiy:'
Bret Harte delivered his lecture on
The "Argonauts of 49, to 340 people at
the Baptist Church in Des Moines,
Tuesday night. The Lecture Associa.
ton paid Harte $4,000 and charged
81 admission so that ii was decided
financial success. Opinions were about
equally divided pro and con as to its
literary excellency.
The ST. Paul Press solemnl, in.
auires: ..Does the Pioneer really
suppose the people Of this State would
permit the dignity of the chief execu-
tive Office TO be burlcsqued by the
geographic Barton? or turn the chair
Of the President of the Senate into a
roost for the turkey gohh]er of Cot
tage Grove:
John w. Ruble. of Richland TIP
thinks il pays to advertise. He in.
vested 1929 in local advertising in the
Weekly COURIER, and says he made a
good deal OF money by il, as persons
came from long distance TO buy lime
of him that would not have known
that there was John w. Bubble in ex-
istence, had he not told them so thro'.
the COURIER.
OTTuMwA.--A gentleman who j,
travelling constantly. and who hiss Wis.
tied nearly all the towns of Iowa du'
ring the past year, informs MS that nc
city in Iowa is building as many or SC
good buildings MS Ottnmwa.
One of these days when the building
season is over, we shall attempt to
give a resume of the years operations
when il will appear that 1873 has been
the most prosperous yesr Of growth in
the history of the most prosperous and
substantial city in Iowa, which it's
name il is Ottumwa.