Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-08-21
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work goes bravely on"
JoTTINas.
Hon. Jas. F. Wilson speaks at
Bloomfield, Wednesday, Aug. 2Sth.
The Agency City Sunday Schools
are to have a picnic on the 28th inst.
G. A. Bryan & Son, of Agency City,
propose to add run of burrs to
their MILL.
Iowa produced more wheat and
hogs last year than any other state in
the Union.
The Davenport Gazette wants 500
lecturers to reduce their price to $50.
We second the motion.
Pretty women are now divided, &C.
cording to the state of their hair, into
touzlers and non-touzlers.
The Assessors returns in Iowa
show an increase in the number of
hogs this year of6OO,OOO.
The Democratic Convention of the
Second Iowa District, Wednesday,
nominated w. f. Rrannan for Con-
gress.
E. A. Trowbridge announces that
he is q democratic candidate for Re-
corder, and John W. Wellman wants
to be Supervisor.
A. r. Wickersham, Esq, late of
this city, has begun the publication
of y newspaper at Paola, Kansas
called "The Republican Citizen"
Pat Digney, of Muscatine county,
was bitten by blow snake last Thurs
day. A gallon and one pint Of whis.
ky knocked the pizen out. So says the
Journal.
j. d. Fulton has the contract for
the carpenter work on the new pork
house. Fulton is an energetic man
and there will be no tagging in his
department.
The Chicago Times chronicles the
fact that "picnic pantaloons are made
of nankeen this season. They are
much admired, as they SO much re-
semble the custard pie that it is not
easily detected"
According to the North Platte Re-
publican, Governor CARRIER held a
small boys kite string the other day
to give the chap chance to dick
another boy who had "sassed" him.
The other boy was clicked"
A young lady will sit in the dark
with great big man beside her for
hours at time; but you couldn't gel
her to stick her nose in the cellar.
way after 6 o'clock for love or mon.
ey.-Elmira Gazette.
w. A. Nye says that after the
threshing in his ncighborhood, he
finds the average in the wheat crop
is about twelve bushels per acre, of
excellent quality. He reports it lit
tie too dry for corn.
A shrewd Vermont farmer has
been of the opinion Of late that a
mineral spring vein had opened into
his we'll. He has just fished out a
large skunk, however. and he will
sell the mineral spring cheap.-Bos-
ton Post.
A little Cincinnati girl, when ask
ed what God had made her for, re-
piled: "To wear red fodder in my
hat" Many an older person of her
sex has, to all appearances, pretty
much the same conception of Heavens
designs.
II. A. Perkins has again become
connected with the Sioux City Journ-
al, and the firm hereafter will be
Perkins Bros. The press and people
of the state will cordially welcome
him back to his old position on this
excellent paper.
The Post Office Department has
definitely decided that purely Adver-
Using sheets and merely trade journ-
ais, ETC., cannot pass through the
mails at the two cents per pound rate
established for regular newspapers
sent to regular subscribers. All such
must pay postage at transient rates
one cent for two ounces.
VIM. ii. Harrison, the house car
penter and joiner, who lives on up
per Main street, has bought q lot on
Fourth street, on the hill above and
adjoining J. NJ. Hedrick's premises,
of Hon. j. w. Dixon for $3.50, and
will build at once and move into
what he intends to be handsome
cottage house, of which we have been
shown the plan made by Mr.. Har-
rison.
The Chicago Burlington & Quincy
railroad is reported to have closed
contract for about 10000 tons of steel
rails at $44 per ton. The order is di-
vided between the North Chicago and
Cleveland mills. This is very large
order for completed raili Dad in
good state of maintainance, such as
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy al
ways has been.-Cedar Rapids Re-
publican.
John r. Shafer, Secretary of the
State Agricultural Society, writes
us that "There never was finer
prospect for grand exhibition
Many applications for space
have already been made, more
for premium lists, more in
desired than in former
years. Iowa is blessed with a boun-
.iful harvest and her people should
show at the State Fair the finest pro-
iucts of any State in the Union"
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