The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-03-04


County Council met Tuesday.
West Branch is going TO be in
corporated.
-. O. Westcott's illness confines
him to the house.
Arthur MAYNARD. Deputy Sher-
iif. is sick with sciatic neuralgia.
$40 was paid for money orders
at the Upton post-ofiice on Tuesday
The school exhibition we I'M
'lerstand to have been postponed one
week.
r. Pritchard is already at work
making assessment of the town OF
TiptoE.
Flour reduced fifty cents per
hundred at the Upton steam mill.
Price, $3.50.
Bear in mind that the John
Bagley timber land is to be sold at
auction tomorrow.
--Report of Teachers Institute
held at White Pigeon received, and
on file for publication.
Last week Wednesday the jury
staid with Bsilff Orion all night
and still he wasn't happy.
a shawl was found in Bunker's
Grove on the 20 h ult. The owner
can call A; Mr.. Moreland' S and get it.
A young lalv writes The ADvER
User pleasant little letter Fl IN far
off Washington territory. We shall
try to find room for II soon.
Gil on w. 4. Young at the CO.
operative store and see the EAGLE
and Rockford cultiva'or, also tn"
Eaole hay rake and Morrison pillow.
Rev. b. c. Barnes. Pastor, has
had special services at the NJ. +.
church in Red Oak for two weeks
with thirty accessions to the church.
Elect excitement ran 50 high
in Clarence last Monday thai parties
telegraphed here to learn if certain
would be voters bad been naturallzed.
tan Inquiry is made elsewhere
involving the always important
question Of S. and CTS and therefore,
we presume, demanding a reply from
some one.
Rev. r. d. Parsons goes to Ce-
dar Falls to Gil out the conference
wear for Rev. A. B. Kcndig, who
leaves his work there to join con-
ference in Massachusetts.
John G.. Parkhurst, whom Tip
ton used to know as member Of the
Prkhurst & Thompson concert
troupe. has just concluded musical
convention at Monticello.
1t is Orion who gets off the joke
on the new attorney by saying that
when Ferguson marched up to be
sworn in he supposed he was some
fellow about to he naturalized.
Prof. Hickey met the Sunday
Schools last Sabbath afternoon rs an
nounced. A term of lessons, which
we understand TO be free 10 all, be-
gan last evening at the NJ. +. Church.
The present term of school closes
three weeks from next Friday.
There will be no vacation instead of
one week as previously intended.
making the summer vacation SO
much sooner and longer.
People having instruments in
the Recorders Office that have "been
through the mill' had better take
them away. They are not kept in
the vault, are not wanted there at all
and will be safer with their owners.
A Clarence correspondent says
good word for "Phil," the ADvER-
Users itemizer at that place. He
saws to him, "Go in! do the best you
can, and if it don't ALWAYS precisely
suit us we will not gru,nble SO long
as the intention is good"
Since the cows have carried the
day at the polls. The old pound has
been torn down to furn sh material
for the fire engine test. Should II
new pound become necessary II will
have t. be gilt edged one AID sitn
ated in a more aristoora,ic p,rt Of
town.
All our ~; ghharing towns made
the issue Al last Mondays election
on the beer question:, bu in Tlptan
it was mix Instead II beer that
agitate! the public mind. 1t is not
anticipated, however, that the anti
license policy # city government
will be changed.
James and Samuel Thompson,
Of Grand Junction, we're At home
last week. Only a short time ago
they, with the rest of Mr.. John
Thompsen's boys and girls we fear
TO say how many lest we should make
the number too small) were at home
together for a holiday visit.
Wilton had red hot election
Monday. Prohibition or license was
the issue, and the latter carried the
day by one majority on Mayor and
from three to nine on the rest of the
council. 1t was really a temperance
victory, since the majority in favor
Of beer was very greatly reduced
from previous elections. One more
such effort will apparently win the
day.
Capt. Mitchell and Mr.. Will
loughby, agents for the Champion
Fire Extinguisher Company, with
their assistants, arrived here last
Saturday night ready for business
They had just delivered one engine
at Muscatine, and since the grand
success at the fire alluded to las,
week, the feeling is such that that
city viii probably purchase one OF
two more Of them.
The "Champion" men unloaded
their engine from the car Monday
and took it into Mahaney's black
smith shop where they at once pro
ceeded to prepare it for use, as vel
as to remove the effects Of three