The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-12-14

THE osKALoosA HERALD
LEIGHTON & NEEDHAM, Editors.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1871
Helen Potter
Cough! Gough!! Gough!!
Whatever you do don't forget John /
Cough.
Helen Potter, Saturday evening, Dec
10th, 1876.
Read local of DR.. Arnolds cough syru
at Nugent's.
Read all about holiday goods in Beecl
lcr's locals.
Read Scott, Williams g. Co.'S locals
Grand Jubilee
Old type, the best of Babbitt metal, fo
sale this office.
The Helen Potter entertainment will b
lecture course in one evening.
Read s. J. buttons locals-and don
skip the one calling for settlement.
Redpath Lyceum bureau in privat,
letter says Miss Potter is their best card.
Grants laSt-and best-is There mus
be peace even though we have to tigh
for it,"
Everybody who has not heard Siddons
Dickinson, Logan and Cough must hea
Helen Potter.
Everybody who has heard Siddons
Dickinson, Logan and Cough will want t
hear Helen Potter.
Reserved seat tickets for sale at Mays
& Briggs drug store on and after Dec 90,
for Coughs lecture.
Read the numerous holiday locals oil
Beechler Bros, and then go see thei,
stock. 1t is good one.
Our Supplement is full of good reading
and contains the advs. of some of our best
business men. Read it all.
L. Root Is buying turkeys, chickens and
butter at fuckers old stand Oskaloosa
and Nickcrs egg house at New Sharon
Read adv.
Peter Stump and David Newbrand re-
turned few days since from their trip to
Germany. They look like their sojourn
in the "Faderland" agreed with them.
The ladies of the 1st PRESBYTERIAN
church will give an oyster supper on next
Friday evening, Dec. 18th, at the resi-
dence of Mr. Z. Rogers. All invited.
We have a bran new sewing-machine
never been unlocked, which will be sold
cheap, far below market-price, for cash;
or traded for wood or coal. Call and see
it.
You will never forgive yourself if you
fail TO hear Cough and then perhaps it
may save you from drunkard's grave.
Take warning in time before it is too
late.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.-W. 5. Martin,
administrator of estate of Benjamin Byers,
will hold a sale at the late residence of de-
ceased, to-day, 14th. A good chance of
bargain.
Sale of seats began Tuesday. One hun:
dred sold the first hour. Go at once for
your seats. They are going fast but plen-
ty of good ones yet. Reserve seats 70 cts
Tickets 80 cts.
Prof. Seerley received letter from
Iowa City, dated Dec. 4th, saying Helen
Potter here Dec. 14th. Reserved seats
nearly all sold already" She was in Iowa
City last winter.
Eddyville had lively fire last week,
the 9TH, which burned u brick building
occupied by Manifold, jeweler, the Tri6-
ane office, and sast's law office. Loss
except on building, insured.
The Helen Potter entertainment has been
changed at the urgent request of many
citizens from City Hall to First NJ. E.
church to avoid crowd. No danger at the
church. Let there be a rush.
Read what S. J. Dutton says about
wanting his money; and take what you
owe him and strike for his store, and after
paying him of, invest the surplus in holt
day goods. Read his locals about them.
We have neatly printed and bound
order books, notes, receipts, drafts, scale
books, &c, such as nearly all of our citi-
Zens use more or less of in their business
Call and see. 1t is much cheaper and bet
ter than writing them out
Don't be angry if after having put off
buying your tickets for Cough until the
last day, you find out that all the good
seats are taken. Numbers are coming
from other towns and orders are now in
for nearly two hundred seats.
The first NJ. Z. church is being fitted up
at considerable expense and trouble for
Miss Helen Potter. Let the people of
OskaloOsa and vicinity encourage an en-
tertainment of the highest kind by filling
the church to its utmost capacity.
Sir Knights c. H. Phelps, H. r. Kendig,
l.. L. Hull, w. H. Wray, w. G. Perdue,
L. F. Robinson, w. III. Needham and
probably others have gone to Marshall
town TO assist in organizing the new Com
mandery there. They will have good
time.
Young men, take your sweetheart to
hear John b. Cough, and in after years
you can take your grandchildren on your
knee and tell them you heard, when you
were young, the greatest temperance
orator that ever lived. Buy your tickets
in time.
J. F. Bishop, the talented editor of the
Alton Nesos is writing story entitled
spirit" which will be presented to the
public through the columns of his paper.
The specimen chapters before us evincs
much talent and the pl,t of the story from
the beginning is one of interest.
New STORE AT LAcEY.-Messrs. Jno. G.
Wilson and c. G. Prouty have opened a
store at the new town of Lacey, where
they built q fine two-story building and
have stocked it up with general liAe Of
dry goods, groceries, notions, etc. This