The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-08-20
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Circuit Court next week.

-RepnDllcan county convention
a wees from next Saturday.
A QUANTITY Of hemp mating for
sale cheap. Inquire at this Office.
Attend your township caucus
next Sa, urday.
The Fleming House is going to
have bran splinter new bus.
Mr.. Jno. S. Tuthill is recovering
from the illness which overlook him
SO suddenly abou, week ago.
Jas. Fraseur started Tuesday on
his return to the setting sun. He
took with him quite . number Of
horses.
That much talked-of well is go
ing down in the northwest corner Of
the court yard.
VIM. kettell keeps good brick
constantly on hand and for sale at
his kiln near the Masonic cemetry. II
j Bon ton tin types at Towne's.
90 cents each or four for 80 cents.
There's nothing like a good
negro minstrel show in which to in
vest fifty cents and get your money
back.
y. P. Ferguson and NJ. Nc
Laughlin, of Clarence, and Chas.
Wheeler, of Mechanicsville. were
among Tipton's visitors on Tuesday.
1t takes money to buy millinery;
but you can get the most for the least
money at Hicks Bazaar.
- Our public schools begin the
first week in September--only q
short way off now.
BY request we publish in another
column the call for the Anti Monopo-
" County Convention. 1t meets on
Saturday. September 9TH, 1874.
The great rush is still at Hicks
Bazaar. Lots of nice goods and very
low prices is what does it.
Ed Kinney has SO much help
digging that well that he ~an hardly
fluid a place to lay down shovel full
of dirt.
-LeGrand Byington wishes to
answer John Irish through the Ap-
vERTtsEH. It's "daddy and the
bear" Go in, bear!
-You may praise the good old
way as much as you please, but
they didn't use to know enough to
carry the bait in two-gallon Jug as
Upton fishermen now do.
y shall have Is water colored
pictures on exhibition at nv gallery
next week Of parties vel! known
here. Call and see them before taken
away. ID. Il. TowNE.
- w. Casad's new dwelling is
very greatly improved by the hand
some verandah which has just been
cons ructed along both fronts by
Mr.. Town.
According to the Republican,
when the average Linn county school
ma'am ''gives it up on vulgar frac-
tions, she remarks to the county Su-
perintendent, .Mister, I'm stuck!''
Geo. J. Boal, Esq, Of Iowa city,
was in town Tuesday attending to u
referee trial of the Davis will case, to
which such frequent reference has
been made in these columns.
A. NJ. Kirk paid Upton visit
on Monday. He reports everything
lively and lovely at Belle PLANE,
where he is now very successfully
doing business.
The races at Mechanicsville,
Friday and Saturday, promise to be
lively aud largely attended. Upton
is going to turf! out in force, and
Mechanicsville vans 10 return the
compliment in few weeks.
Quite large number of the
Upton braves and chiefs ran up TO
Clinton last Friday morning to at
tend he races there. :
-Jno. Monohan, Pat'k Carlin,
Ed Golden. Jas. Wills and Ed Kin
ney were the bidders for the job Of
digging the corporation well. The
last named took the delapidated lin
en- off the shrubbery at $3.50 per
foot
Mrs. Me Clelland has put out a
permanent show case on the corner
below her art gallery. 1t is filed
with specimens Of the fine pictures
which she is making and is very
attractive advertisement.
Mrs. f. H. Pound and Mr.. Will
Pound, together with Capt. Pounds
mother, who has been visiting here
for some weeks, started on Tuesday
for the home of the latter near Can
andaigua, New York.
-Tipton is going to be favored
with new piano and organ teacher
IA Young lady from Vinton whose
qualifications as a musician and ar
instructor are very highly vouched
for.
Stewart says that he is not sell
ing boots and shoes at "frst cost
but he won't be undersold by any
body. cost or TO cost. And that
what's the matter.
twenty-five cases of the cele
brated Muscatine boots-the bes
boots in the market-just received
at Stewards Shoe Store.
That was a good sized rattle
snake which r. G. Whitson killed il
his door yard week ago last Sun
day. His snakeship boosted seve
ratrles aud made sorry playmat
for Little children.
Walk up to the captains ofic
and settle, is what every one shoul'
now proceed to do. As one Of on
business firms says in little motto
in another column, "Crops are GOO
and prices fair and there's no excus
for further delay" Start the none
around, everybody. Fifty dollar
will pay q good many debts in fe,
hours if it's only started and KEEP
going.