Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE.
PELLA.
April 10, 1875.

chi EpGu Itofh hViO W Idillc SibS
and other points up the road.
"Henk " McMurrey, who has been
running the freight between Pella
and Des Moines since Hank Carson
left the road, hiss been discharged
and his place taken BY Dave Briden-
stipe.
Snow g. Huber shipped one day
Lass week 577 barrels of grease to st.
Louis, the product of the dead hogs
purchased by them during the past
winter. There were twelve carloads
and ii will realize them near SIS 600.
A large number Of cattle and hogs
have been shipped from this station
during the past week.
The new engines for the X. & ID.
NJ. Ry., are expected to arrive this
week.
TIE pay car on the the X. d. NJ.
"a. Ry. will be up to-day and the
boys" are prospectiveiy happy.
Meal y Bongers has purchased
the American House Of NJ. III. Post,
and Is now e permanent fixture in
PeIIa. The American has the repu-
tAtion of being the best kept hash
cry" along the Des Moines Valley.
Neal " is jolly soul, and knows
how to keep hotel, and is deservedly
popular with everybody.
The X. & d. NJ. Ry, Company has
commenced laying new iron between
Comstock's and Eddyville. New
iron will also be laid between Pella
and Leighton during the season, and
perhaps at other points along the
line. The new road between Sand
Prairie and Keokuk will also be laid
with new iron as coon as it is graded,
bridged and tied. The present Com
pauy seem determined to make it
first-class in every respect.
Rev. G. w. Robey, of the Beacon,
has returned to his home in Ham
burg. He expects to bring his fami-
ly to Pella sometime in June.
The proprietors of the Opera House
made an attempt to "open" it last
Friday evening with sort of sleight
Of hand performance. They raised
the price of admission from Is to 30
cents, and advertised the show"
pretty extensively, but the people
were too green to bite, and the man
who was to astonish the natives
gathered up his traps and left town
the most Disguised Snowman we
ever saw. 1t is scarcely necessary to
state that the "grand opening" was
postponed on account of the failure
to make the people believe it was
worth the fifty cents.
Mr.. Robbins' family came over
from Knoxville last week, and NOV
ed into the brick residence of Mr..
Jacob Reynolds, in the west part Of
town.
The affairs Of J. E. White & Co..
are still in muddled condition, and
it is rot known yet how they will
be settled.
Rev. X. B. Weiland preached his
valedictory sermon in the Third Re-
formed church yesterday, and will
leave in a day or two for Pekin, Ill.,,
his future home.
Joost Viersen, deputy P. M, has
turned Granger and gone TO farming.
Mr.. Vie,sen Is now assisted In the
Office by his daughter Lille.
Henry Moore and the sons of John
Voorhees,, Ave miles east of town
captured an old wolf and her five
young whelps one day last week in
q straw pile on Mr.. Voorhees, farm.
The neighbors paid them BIZ bounty
for the six wolves.
Our dealers here have been she'll
ing and shipping considerable corn
the past week.
Harry Robinson's Minstrels are
expected here on the 18th inst.
Our nursery men are doing a lively
business this season. Shafer Broth
ers sold large quantities of trees to
the farmers in the surrounding coun'
try, the past week, besides shipping
four car loads to points west OF here
on the Valley road.
Col. Laffiand seized a suspicious
looking barrel at the depot here iass
week, marked "rics" and directed
to drug firm In Knoxville. Upon
inspection 1t proved to be whiskey'
and hs took it home with him, moth
flying the druggist to appear In os-
ksIoosa and explain.
KATE KINNEY.