The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-12-28
Happy new year!
Tries hard to snow.
Steady cold weatl,.y

Happy new year!
Tries hard to snow.
STEADY cold weather.
Leap year leaps out next Sunday.
Look out for pewter half-dollars.
Chicken thieves are reported ac-
tive.
No game 70 easily caught ~ = bad
cold.
1t is cool comfort to know that the
Ice crop promises fine yield.
The county Supervisors will meet
In regular session next Monday.
This number completes the twen-
ty-fourth volume Of the ADVERTISER.
Stocking reports for this week
were made up early Monday morning.
A gold bracelet lost, in Upton, on
Christmas. Please leave at this Office.
The milk Of human kindness
about now becomes slightly skinned
over with Ice.
-Rowell has still inc lot Of holt
day goods which are selling very fast
and very cheap.
| Some people have been known to
be 80 careful about weighing load of
grain as to wish to stand on the scales
themselves.
p. Wallace wishes no one who il
indebted to him to forget that he must
have = settlement at the beginning OF
the new year.
The "Grand Annual Banquet" OF
the City Hall Association is the COM
ing social event, for which invitations
will be out this week.
Prof. Woods singing class at
Virginia Grove concludes on Satur-
day evening with grand concert in
the church. Admission. p eta.
-Rumor has it that Jno. c. Shell
don has made bad '.mess Of It" in
his business ut Dixon, aud that
there are many and deep mourncrs.
Next Monday morning the usual
annual swearing off, begin to go i'm
to effect. Their continuance varies
from fifteen minutes to six months.
Poultry is rushing into market,
and is welcomed by H. l.. Dean and
twenty or thirty assistants with hos
pitable hands to roomy packing boxes.
Last week was the busiest In
business way Upton has seen during
the fall and winter, eliminating Sat
urday, which was "rusher' for every
body.
Last week Wednesday evening
the Mechanicsville Dramatic Associa-
ton played kathleen Mavourneen,
which was to have been repeated last
night.
Leap year ID just gone-and up
rises old Jones, the bachelor, to say
it's no account anyhow, nor never
will be SO long Ms the girls are allowed
to warm their beds with fat-irons.
-Mechanicsville gave Amos G.
Miller its parting compliments last
week Monday evening. A social
company gathered at tho City Hotel,
ate supper. and "resoluted" eulogisti-
cally.
On the first page Of this paper is
published the letter from South Caro-
lima alluded to last week, and on the
the next page are the comments
thereupon which we could not well
Withhold.
Mr.. Orion is the executive officer,
and in that sense the, manager of
the w. U. Telegraph Co., both ut New
Orleans and in Oregon, rs well rs
elsewhere-this for tho benefit OF the
Coascrrdtire critic.
Rev. II. ID. Parsons, whose mar
riage was announced last week, went
from here to his home in Mt. Vernon
last week Wednesday evening. The
local paper gives particulars Of the
warm reception rendered by assembled
friends.
Young, the poet sings, "Oh, how
pretentious il prosperity, how comet
like it shines?" and some one else
says there is an instinct in the heart |
Of man that makes him fear cloud
less prosperity. Pshaw! Bring on
your prosperity! Who's afraid?
r. NJ. Jeffries, who was sentenced
to eighteen months in the penitentia-
~ for forgery, during the May term of |
District Court, has been parl"ned by |
the Governor, and has returned to his
vicinity. The petition for u pardon
was drawn by Jno. y. Neimsn, Esq,
and received the signatures Of the
Judge, and prosecuting attorney, ~
we'll As Of the prosecuting witness, Mr.
Wallace, and many others.
A large and merry party assem-
bled at the residence Of Mr.. Norman
Eldridge, Of Clarence, on Christmas
day--it being the twenty-ffth anni-
versary Of the marriage Of Mr.. and
Mrs. +. The ADVERTISER folks ac-
knowledge an invitation to be pres
ent, with regrets that II could not
have been accepted and wishes that
the passing years may continue to add
to the score until the silver of to-
day shall have become golden.
CUrs bruises and burns are trouble
some, Forest Tar Salve' will save
the pain.
Two good pairs Of bOb-sleds for sale |