Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-09-11

The Polk County Fair came out
| 1929 minus.
| 1t takes nearly the whole pages OF
the Des Moines Republican to contain
the Polk county tax list.
The Minneapolis Times asks: "Shall
the city be halocausted for the want OF
steamers and reservoirs r. Give it up.
Heman p. Graves has commenced
tearing up the ground for his new res
idence.
Z. L. Burton returned from three
weeks visit East, on Saturday even
ing.
Asahel Terrell, Esq, on south side
of the river has sale on the 18th, and
expects soon to remove to Missouri.
The cupola on the Ballingall is be.
ing finished up. A little more bottom
to that cupola would mako it look
better.
Prof. Palmer, Supt. OF our schools,
arrived on Friday and is now busy at
work organizing classes and getting
the school in running order
Augustus E. Lyon will have Bar
boz shop at the county Fair on the
grounds. Go and see him and let him
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cure your headache. lodw
FIRE AT KEoKuK.-A Are at Keokuk
last night burned the stable of r. f.
Bowes and dne carriage. Also the
house of Roger Lofts. Loss about
1900. Insured.
1t now turns out, according to the
veracious testimony Of a Chicago
drummer, that it was starvation and
not cholera, which has been depopula-
ting the Burtis House boarders at Dav-
export.
IF You don't want the SCOT, don't
go up the chimney" was the reply Of
an editor to respectable" parties who
requested him not to mention the fact
that they had been arraigned before
the police court.
A certain woman the world spoke
wisely when she said: "If could be
born again, and consulted at my birth
as to what one gift / would take, j
would pass by wit beauty, culture and
social advantages, and choose tact"
The State Fair at Cedar Rapids con.
tinued to loom up yesterday. Five
thousand people were In attendance
and $1,000 received at the gate against
$500, the receipts of the second day
last year.
Keokuk county had very success
full fair last week. The Nescs says
there was more stock and better than
ever was on exhibition there before,
Some of the fine stock from that
county will be shown at our County
Fair next week.
Q. Tower, Commission Merchant, o.
Court street, seems DESTROYS .pf meeting tn,
Changers views as dealer or 'smiddle
man." between tue producer or consumer
on outside market. Try him.
-ep,1O4tw.
Notice the advertisement Of E. T.
Sage & Co., Agency City. They wan,
10 buy large lot of grain aud grass
Iced, and are about as nice men to
deal with as you will fluid in this
prairie country. Give them q call
when you want to sell.
The 7th annual reunion of the Army
of the Tennessee, of which Gen. Sher-
| man is President, will be held this
year at Toledo. Ohio, ON the 18th and
18th Gays of October. Gen. John A.
Logan will deliver the grafton, aud
pleasant reunion is anticipated.
Some of the more enterprising news.
papers are publishing lie particular
| of the Parkman murder OF over 90
| years ago. There is nothing like keep
ing somewhere in the neighborhood
of daily events. Though we admire
the Minnesota editor the most who
published the ten commandments.
eyes, take her and welcome" re-.
sponded an Illinois farmer, when a
young man asked for his blushing
daughter. "She's run away with a
school-naster, eloped with a Snowman,
shot wildcat, aud whipped her
mother, and the sooner you take her
the better.
Two Milesians were standing at the
Fairmont Water-works in Philadel-
phia, watching the big wheels splash
ing the water in every direction, when
one Of them remarked: "Mike, ism,
this quare country, where they have
to grind their water before they can
use it?"
| Judge Williams Court il now in It'll
second week this session and will
doubtless adjourn this week, If it doe,
not to-day.
The Dockc; mas gradually dwindlet
down and cases have been dispatched
more rapidly than usual. Several i'm
portant cases have been continued ani
others taken away by change o
venue.
| Alvin Lewis has bought Amor
Shauls farm across the river two mile
from this city for $7,4s0. The farm 1,
. spleen Id ono. with good brick hous,
upon It, contains l42 acres, and over
looks this city presenting q splendit
view. This Is good sale for bot
parties. Mr.. Lewis gives Shaul il
part payment two frame dwellin,
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