Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-22
JoTTINas.

| LuSA0uA AuuACatce kOOu grain mar.
ket in this country.
Capt. John Van Dyke, prominent
citizen of Keokuk, died at Sioux City
on Sunday evening last.
Marshalltown is about starting q
barbed wire mandatory which will
employ some forty hands.
Ex-Governor Stone addresses the
Republicans Of Knoxville on the eve
ming of Saturday, the 25th instant.
J.-B. Fugate and 1. T. Flint have
become partners in the publication of
the Great Bend, Kansas, Democrat.
The Sheridan Guards will hold
their second grand annual ball on the
night of Sept. 18th. Make note of
it.
The wholesale Grocery house of j.
H. Merrill & Co. are getting in about
steamboat load of wash tubs and
wash boards.
The Artillery Company are getting
their uniforms. They will go into
the first engagement in style, if they
never get out.
Our merchants tell US that business
is improving very much, and that
farmers are buying much more tree
ly and paying cash.
The Communist platform, epigram-
atically expressed, is about as follows:
A loaf for every loafer, with full
privilege of loafing.-Register.
The colored people propose to have
q grand time at their September cele-
bration. Alexander Clark, Of Mus
catine. will be one of the speakers.
Charles Bennett, of Boone, Iowa,
is charged with fraud in taking the
benefit of the bankrupt law, and has
been arrested and held in $1,000 bail.
Mr.. Isaac E. Groom, of Marion
county, claims to be the oldest Iowan
extant. He was born in Pittsburg,
Van Buren, county, March 23d, 1888.
Isaac, go up head.
The North Missouri Road have
fully repaired the bridge over Big
Soar, and trains are running regularly
again without the tediousness Of q
transfer at the bridge.
Our fruit show for the season has
been started. AS starter w. b. Wy
cof brings US bunch of Transcend
ent Crab, about 10 inches long, that
has 81 splendid Crabs on it.
Mr.. Worcester has rented his new
business house to Messrs. Fred Swan
son and John Vollmar, who will &C.
cupy it as Merchant Tailoring cs-
Enlistment, at an early date.
Burlington had $4,000 fire on
Saturday night. 1t started in Bower
socks auction room, and burned out
the building adjoining occupied by
Frcxell Bros, furniture dealers.
The Haxtun Steam Heating Co. are
putting steam heating fixtures in the
residence Of DR.. Warden. Several
others of our citizens contemplate
making similar improvements.
A young clergyman of MARSHALL
town was indiscreet enough to put
his arm around the waist of a young
lady in that town, and is now under
two hundred dollars bonds for assault
and battery.
Col. Ballingall informs us that
Capt. Jaques will be elected Major of
the 9Th regiment, probably without
opposition. Four companies have
been heard from and no opposition
to speak of has been manifested.
The new aud handsome gilt sign
on the front of our office is sample
of the excellent workmanship of r..
A. Wilson. AS sign or ornamental
painter Mr.. Wilson is success and is
not cxcclled by any man in Iowa.
Twenty-nine barrels of whisky
were found in one drug store in Dcs
Moines by the police and captured.
Some intimate that twenty-nine
barrels is pretty large stock for
medical purposes, but they must bear
in mind that Des Moincs is an awful
sickly place.--Plain Talk.
We are indebted to John Hall, Sec
of the Mahaska county Agricultural
Society, for an invitation to their fair
which is to be held August % to 81,
inclusive. Mahaska always has sue.
cessful fairs and we shall be pleased
to attend.
L. T.. Gray informs us that Machine
men in Jasper county have threshed
oats that averaged 100 bushels to the
acre. Wheat is averaging from 25 tc
80 bushels per acre, and yet the farm
ers complain about as much as they
do in this county.
| We hear very little about oul
looming County Fair. 1t seems to III
;. it is high time for the officers to b,
astir in this matter. There are yer,
large number of tho Premium List
printed by us yet remaining in thi
Office. Ought they not to be distrib
uted?
i Tho law suit of which we mad,
mention yesterday, in which tn
amount in controversy was 60 cents
was settled, yesterday, by judgmen
being rendered against DR.. Sherwoot
for cents and $3.50 in costs, an,
1886 in costs being taxed up to tn
livery stable man-Dr. Witherspoon
This does not include the attorney
fees, which will be at least $40 EACH
Marshall Times.
AAc CuooAAuB outuhnCue COHh
mences at the Fair Grounds mex
Tuesday and will continue tire,
days, under the management of E. 7
Martin, of Chicago. $l,225 in casi
prizes, National rules to govern, and
all professionals are to be barred
from participating. Live wild pig
cons and Sage rough ball will b.
used. The programme, which viii
be published in time, is very attrac
tive one, and each purse is to be di
vided into three or four prizes
There will be four purses shot TO
each day.
Keokuk and Des Molnes Railway.
GENERAL TICKET OFFICE, }
Il KEoKUK, Iowa, Aug. 20, 1S77.}
Dear SIR Commencing Aug. 23d
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