The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-04-11
TRAER CORRESPONDENCE.

The infusion of young warm blood
| into our city affairs tells. In less than
one month they find a lawsuit on their
hands. The old administration worked
three years and could not do that. The
difficulty arose from "mending our ways.
which is greatly needed.
| ECONOMY isssomething in do
nestle economy, I am at loss to account
for. Farmers as rule are observing and
enquiring as to the best way to make
money England would like America to
send their wool, cotton, ffa.- and other
staples to them for manufacture and re
! ponrar1un ada MAKE aTdoI OF ourselves IN
| general. That is called free trade, and
| is death financially TO all who do it. That
is the principal farmers are adopting now.
Hogs are selling here forts2 40 per cwt.,
they are returned to us in Traer, as fol-
lows; side pork, 12sct per b; shoulder,
12Act per ID: hams 16, and lard 12ict per
ID. And to make us pay theie prices for
hog product they are only sending their
hogs to Cedar Rapids, distance of As
miles. My opinion is that portion of
them slaughtered at home and sold at 1
less than above prices would pay the far
mers better than Grange elevators and
Grange stores, and be more satisfactory
to their neighbor consumers. The facts
are that the retail prices for pork, hams
and shoulders and lard is simply robbery,
and the beauty of it is many farmers are
selling hogs and buying back at above
prices.
] notice the county newspapers make
mention OF a successful surgical operation
performed by DR.. Scott of Traer in re-
moving tumor from the person of Mrs.
Geo. Amos of Howard township. DR.
Scott is young man who came here from
Clinton County last fall and has by his
skill as physician and surgeon and strict
attention to his calls, built up large
and profitable practice. Any person in
need of skillful and attentive physician
can find one in him.
John Zehring. esq. of Lincoln Nebras-
ka one Of the original propiretors Of To-
ledo and well known throughout Tama
County,spent the Sabbath with us. He is
selling Soda Fountains. He has also the
exclusive sale Of White Sewing Machine
in Nebraska.
The first tramp has put in an appear
ance, young, healthy, and clean looking
man, we'll dressed for an apparent labor
er; he wanted dime for food. Could get
no work, and was hungry, was on his way
to Wisconsin pineries where he could OBJ
tain job. That settled the dime. / re-
tainedI 1t Shortly after again saw him
in the street, he had found dime and
more; his appearance denoted that he had
not been to the bakery.
The Lightning Rod men are in the ''ru-
raj district" swindling the farmers out of
what the cloth peddlers left. Some tran
sactions that have heard Of are really
rascally. They take contract by the |
foot estimate the number of feet at about |
,ne third it really takes. Saying if it
comes to more than that. they will dis
count two dollars. Thus they pay their
money for naught, and curse the Traer
merchants for not repairing the roads for
. miles around thatlthcy may haul their
grain to pay transient scoundrcls.
Rev. Mr.. Bissel of the Congregational
st churcl, gave yesterday history of his
pastoral labors in the past three years. /
vas promised the statistics for to-dsys
but have not received ii +
i present writing. will give them next
seek. Il was quite. interesting in . local
Jew.
How dry the Chicago dailies would be
we're it mot for the war news they manu-
acture every day as circumstances de-
nand. Each appears to have it's own fac
DRY, no two tell the same story, and
none Of them true, and that is
that Is called Independent Journalism.
DIRD.-ln Grant on April 9th, the wife
i George Barker Of dF0psy on the heart
ne family have lived in this neighbor-
lood for some "A years:
RECORDER.
A woman may give intellect, genius.
nd virtue to profession, and fail TO find
atyOuNge; but, If the same woman were 4,