Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-04
JoTTINos.


school teachers in Iowa.
Hon. S. j. Kirkwood lie to speak at
Agency City on the l4th inst. Those
who attend will hear mighty good
speech and true doctrines.
Quite number of wagon loads of
peaches have been brought to town,
from Mo-, the last few days. They
generally sold for $l.25 per bushel.
The machinery and fixtures of the
paper mill at Dcs Moines have been
sold to an Iowa City manufacturer,
and will be removed to the latter.
The citizens of Council Bluffs have
contributed over one thousand dol
lars for the relief Of yellow fever
sufferers. So says the Nonpareil.
The Keokuk Gate CITY says !:
"You can't 60 in any direction with
out hearing folks say they are 60
ing to hear Blaine when he comes to
Iowa."
The Mt. Pleasant Free Press wish
es that everywhere library and lect-
ure associations would resolve to pay
no man for single lecture over $50
and then have them graded from SIS
to $50 each.
We acknowledge the receipt of .
complimentary to the annual fair Of
the Mahaska county Agricultural So
ciety. 1t is to be held At Oskaloosa.
Sept. 10. IL, IL and 13. Mahaska
county fairs have no superior in the
state.
J. W. Carpenter has brought us q
watermelon, raised on his water
power farm, that weighs 40 lbs. We
always predicted that the WATERPROOF
er would be success, and this mel
on only strengthens our conviction of
its great utility.
From the Oskalooss Herald, extra,
we learn that VIM. s. Edgar, an old
and highly respected citizen of Ma
haska county, died at his residence in
Oskaloosa on Sunday morning. He
was born Aug. 10th, 1926, in Green
field, Highland county, Ohio, and
came to Mahaska county in 1S43.
Geo. w. Wallace says there is no
use of any man saying that he can't
take q newspaper. This season he
raised watermelons enough off Of
two hills to pay for the COURIER for
two years and had some left. He
says he amt going to do without the
paper when it is SO easy to get it, and
he can't see why any one else should.
A. J. Headly has presented us with
come of the finest plums ever grown
in this country. They are of the
Like, Lombard and Washington va
rieties. He also left us . sample of
another very large plum which he has
no name for. He kept his trees free
from cnrcnlio by throwing coal ashes
on them and by shaking the trees
twice day fer about a month.
The Marshalltown Times of the 23d
ult., says: "a young man by the
name of John l.. Smith was killed on
Wednesday, in Buckingham town
ship, Tama county, by one Hand.
The parties had got into quarrel
over pitchfork, and had come to
blows, when Hand dealt Smith ter
rible blow on the head with neck
yoke, from which he died yesterday.
Mr.. Chamberlain, superintendent
of the Kirkville Cheese manufactory,
informs us that no more orders for
kirkville cheese can be filled for 10
or Is days, except for cheese two
weeks old Their orders have been
so unprecedentedly large that their
supply of old cheese is exhausted.
They will soon b. on the market gain
with first class article of full cream,
equal to anything ever manufactured
in the west. So much for making No.
l goods and judiciously advertising.
Two Memphis physicians of expe-
rience give ii as their opinion that the
yellow fever. while it may be confin-
ed to a few cases, will spread in q
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