Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-16
TRIPoTAcE.

Marion street, next TO S. B. Fuller's.
Charley Bachman has the largest
and best stock of Watches and Jew
clry, in Southern Iowa.
We are indebted to Howe n Mussei-
man, of Gem City Business College,
Quincy, Ills, for beautiful litho.
graphed specimen OF penmanship.
Geo. Green has purchased the inter-
cal Of VIM. Gregson in the Renlons-
port paper mill, and the firm is again
G. s. j. Green.
Shaug, the Green street PHOTOGRAPHS,
is making great improvements in his
gallery. Shaug is a live man, and
keeps up with the times.
Jesse Bnckner, OF Highland town.
ship, has a sale Of Stock and Farming
Utensils, OH The 30th OF October, at
his residence.
| Messrs. Brown &c Christie have
opened ont an insurance Office in the
room formerly occupied by j. O.
Briscoe.
! j. f. Parker is building an addition
to his residence on Court street hill,
and Mrs. rumroy is giving her resi-
dence thorough repainting.
The improvements now going for
ward on the Ballingall House, are
making ii the handsomeat hotel in
Iowa.
The Daun boys have purchased a
big stock of confectioneries in New
York, and will begin to receive them
next week.
A new article OF commerce in this
community is black haws. We cav
q man peddling them on the street. to-
day, for 10 cents quart.
A young man at Evansville coughed
up twenty-five cent currency note
the other day, and he has gone right
back to the boarding house whose hash
he formerly complained of.
The Gate City has two column re-
view of Col. Ingersoll's Life and
Times Of Horace Greeley, which is a
well deserved and highly compliment
airy notice.
The tightness OF the money market
is likely to prove dead lock to work
on the City Hall. Parties who agreed
to buy the bonds cannot now spare the
necessary funds.
Sam. l.. Hamlin, an excellent cab
net maker who has worked for Eaton
& Arthur Of this city for some fifteen
years, is Off for California to-day to
stay If he likes it.
We have just completed SOD very
handsome Marriage Licenses for the
County. Cooley now sells them for
$l.25 only. Call soon, gentlemen, be-
fore the stock is out.
Nick Baker is buying all kinds of
grain and pays cash as usual. He
pays e3c for oats, 40c for rye and SOC
90 for wheat. If parties do not wish to
take these prices he viii store grain
and hold for higher prices, giving
warehouse receipts for grain so stored
Postmaster General, Creswell, in-
tends 10 renew his recommendation
for tho crtabii.hment or rvatuffice
savings banks throughout the country,
four per cent. interest to be paid on
deposits, and the money to he invested
in Government bonds.
The Monitor congratnlates itself
that the Delhi bank didn't close dur
ing the panic, although there was q
heavy run on IL all the weel,--some
coming with wagons even, TO carry
off the amount due them. But then
| II was only sand bank.
A Detroit man went into Autograph
Office and wrote the following moss
age. 'eT0 the Lord in heaven Where
shall l go next? The world 10 grow.
ing worse every day. There ia not an
honest Christian in America" He
was informed that the lines didn'
connect.
The old banking house OF w. b.
Bonnifield, Main street, a few doors
below the Iowa National Bank, has
been handsomely reftted, and John
Dunning, thorough Boot and Shoe
man, presides therein over one of sthe
finest stocks of boots and shoes in The
city Go and SEQ him.
According to California paper,
young lady of that State in telling a
gentleman about her Yosemite trip
eaid the scenery was goTgeous-per-
fectly Tavishing--but she didn't like
their style of locomotion down there.
"How's that aaid her friend, Hhow
did ron locomote p "Why, don't you
think, she replied, II had to ride Ia
clothe5pin.'
The Rev. =. E. Baker was little
facetious the other day before the M.
f, Conference at Cedar Rapids. He
stated that when he entered the work
a. an itinersnt preacher only seventeen
Years ago, he had wife and one child
now he has ten children and is worti,
seventeen thousand dollars---seven
| thousand in real estate and ten thous-
and in children. He asked the Con-
ference for supernumerary relation
which was granted.
1 Anti-Monopolists, Democrats, Re-
publicans, and all others will please
take notice that there is no monopoly
In Boots and Shoes, and also that Den
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