The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-04-30
Mirrors at Alden's.
House cleaning rageth.
Tomorrow is May lst.

-Balmy Spring-Monday, Tor IN
stance.
Potatoes, and good ones, for
sl.2O per bushel at Scott & Vests.
The Town Council meets at the
Mayors Office next Monday evening.
Proposals. to furnish the town OF
Upton with stone are in order.
Flower pots and hanging bas-
kets at the cooperative store. 3ml2
Spring beds and mattresses at
Alden's.
District Court for Cedar County
commences next Monday, May 4th,
at this place.
Jones SLOPES the woman's cru
SADIE will soon close if this is the kind
of weather we are going to have"
WIN. Kettell keeps good brick
constantly on hand and fol sale at
his kiln near the Masonic cemetry. tt
Corn markers run a good deal
easier on snow; besides there's moth
ing like combining pleasure with bu-
siness.
--"Under the snow" sleep good
many unfor'u nate garden seeds which
have been chopped into the irhospi-
table soil in the hope of early greens.
Quite difference between 81 go
and 81 2O-but Scott & Vest have a
car load Of potatoes which they are
selling at the latter price.
1t was only the Tag end of the
storm which reached us Monday.
Down east il blockaded trains and
swamped things generally.
--Peasan' November weather all
last week. Wind grew harder and
colder day by day and each succeed
ing night brought sharper frost.
Go to the cooperative store for
flower seeds including the new Japan
Coxcomb (Celosia Cristata) from the
Upton conservatory. 3ml2
The Presidents veto has already
materially reduced the price Of po-
ta,oes--they can now be bought at
Scott L Vests for sl.2o per bushel.
The official announcement of the
County S. S. convention, 10 be held
at Mechanicsville in May is made in
another column.
A consumer suggests to some Of
our butter makers that they should
put salt in their butter instead of
butter in their salt.
OF 260 criminals in the Iowa
penitentiary, 239 record themselves
rs drinking men, and Il claim to have
been temperate men.
Rufus Huddleson starts for Ne
braska This week. He will drive
through, making Seward county his
objective point.
The O. F'.s who went to Clinton
stopped with Holt>lander at the Cen
trail House, and uniformly report
Just as one would expect-an ex-
celent hotel admiralty kept.
Its woefully hackneyed, talking
about "winter lingering on the lap Of
spring." but it won't answer this
season. It's worse than sitting in
lap.
The property on the corner Of
Meridian and sixth streets, known as
the Riale place, was lately sold to Mr..
Jacob Cripiver, who will remove in
to town.
Those who have missed Mr.. w.
w. Stirling from his accustomed
rounds, are informed that he has been
confined by a severe attack of lung
fever.
District Township, or Independ-
ent Districts will now find those or
der books, for which so much inqui-
nv has been made, ready to their
hand at the ADVERTISER Office. If
THAT useful animal switch has
no pride OF ancestry and no hope Of
posterity,' is the delicate way in
which Congressional orator recent
ly referred to mule.
The Muscatine Tribune saws the
shirt factory al that place has just
received from Upton orders for nine
tn nec shirts! Some of us fellows
up here will be able to unbutton our
coats before long.
"A young man who was nervous
about the moose matrimonial into
which he was slipping his head the
other day, repeated the ceremo-
nv in such a way as 10 promise t. be
slowing and faithful wife''-a sup
pressed ttter prompted him TO add
husband mean
As indicated las week, quite
large number went from here to al
tend the Odd Fellows celebration at
Lyons, last Saturday. They report a
very pleasant timn. The address by
Hon. Schuyler Colfax, WAS delivered
Mt window of the Odeon to twice
as many on the outside as could get
in the building, and was highly com
mcnded by all.
Haven't got better under
shirt than this? See, the thing is
split clear down the backr is what
Upton man impatien,ly exclaimed to
his better half last Sabbath morning.
The lady took look, and collapsed
SO far beyond speech with laughter
that she ran into actual danger be-
fore she could explain to her now
irate lord that he was struggle g with
the peculiar difficulty Of having
thrust his arms into the legs of his
drawers, and was endeavoring to push
his head through the seat thereof
while I'll. loose corners hung tapping
down the b elk.
-"The Iowa Railroad Law con-
tanning s.Tables OF Rates and Charg-
es for the Transportation of Freight
and passengers on he different Roads
In This Stat.,' and the new herd law,
composing the whole law as now in
force.) rs passed by the last session