The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-02-04

Losr.-A Fur Collar on last Thursday
evening on the road between Toledo and
Monticello, or at Monticello School House.
The finder will please return 1t to this
office and receive liberal reward.
For lively go-ahead-ativeness we doubt
if our neighborihg town Of Montour can
be excalled. One day last week Festival
was gotten up by the children of Mr.. D.
s. Glidden's school for the benefit Of the
Kansas sufferers, and the handsome sum
of $1,000 realized
For the convenience of such of our pat
rons as may desire to subscribe for The
Prairie Farmer in connection with the
CHRoNIcLE,we will supply the two papers
(thc regular price of the former being
215, including postage, and of the latter
81. if ordered together, for only $685..
Among the curiosities of advertisements
is the following: ''Saloon for sale at half
the cost of fitting. Central location.
Mean business. Address," etc. The
italics are ours. 1t would seem as if the
character Of the business might have
been inferred without an explicit state
ment
At certain store in Toledo last week
a young blood went with his sweetheart
to get pair OF shoes. She sat down and
put on number and started to walk
across the room moaning over cramped
toes. Arc they too small. "Oh, no! They
are just right, but my foot is too dsrned
big, that's ALL"
The Iowa Loan and Trust Company of
Des Moines, Iowa. is prepared to negotiate
loans on improved farms in sums of from
$3.50 to $4,000
For full particulars inquire Of
JACOB YEfsER, JR.
Toledo, Tama Co. Iowa.
This is suggestive paragraph, says an
exchange, in relation to the composition
of the next House Of Representatives: in
the next House of Representatives there
will be eighty-six ex-rebcl officers and
soldiers, and % Union officers and sol
diers," 4 pretty showing, and one which
needs no comment, but its something that
will set men to thinking.
Prof Chas. Ford, Of Normal, Ill, has
been delivering series of Lectures to our
citizens on the subject Of Temperance
and Phrcnology. He is a good speaker
and his lectures contain much truth and
information He has large number of
pictures AID apparatus with him by means
of which he is enabled to make his points
more clear to his listeners
We understand large number of the
farmers of Tama County are taking our
advice in regard to the GrassAopper, and
are refusing to have anything to do with
it. A few who would otherwise take il
are afraid to subscribe, knowing as they
do that it is only temporary concern
and they would get swindled out Of their
money.
TO UR SUBscElBnRs.- can now OBJ
tain TIE CHICAGO ALLIANCE (of which
Prof. Swing is one of the Chief Editors
one Of the best papers now published, and
the regular price of which is $500 per
year, for Sl.25 postage prepaid. This is
rare chance and you cannot afford TO let
it pass. Send TO us and we W i'll see that you
get il promptly.
ffaying been called by the Presiding
Elder to hold for him the quarterly meet
ing at lama City next Saturday and Sab
bath Feb. 6 and Z, there will be no scr
vices at the Methodist ChnYch Second
quarterly meeting for Toledo charge oc-
ours on the following Saturday and Sab
bath Feb. 18th, and 14th,.
L. II. ROBERTSON
Mr.. Jas. Hedge, editor Of the Toledo
CHRONICLE, the leading paper of Tama
County, dropped into our sanctum on
Tuesday last TO exchange greetings, com
pare business notes and talk over old
times. For three years Mr. Hedge was
our right hand assistant, and we are pleas