Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-01-23
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Lent beglns Marcn oth this wear
which is several weekly later than
usual.
Notice the ADVERTISED mont headed
"Cheap Homes" This ofsrs a chance
for a bargain.
The State Millers association will
meet in oskaloosa On the second We'd.
ncsday in June.
The Iowa horticultural Society
voted to hold It's next annual meeting
at MarahalI lowp.
An IOWA pullet has taken the first
promivm at the Canada Poultry
snow "Crow, Chapman, crow"
* Marshalltown man is in a fix
y bought note and can't decipher
the name of the man who agreed to
payit.
John Schott, brewer and promi.
nent citizen of Warsaw, ILL.,, disap-
peared last Tuesday, and has not
been heard from since.
Susan Keime will have a large sale
of stock and farm implement at her
residence in Benton township, Keo.
kuk county, on the 3lst of January.
Since tho LIST Of November to Jan
10Th, Chicago pork-packers have
slaughtered and packed l $50, 55s hogs
against l, 3O5, sO7 for the same period
last season.
The question of hell or no hell DOM
exercise some people in this vicinity
half 30 much as the question as ia
where the ice is to come from for
next summers supply.
A petition is in circulation at Gin.
ton, and is numerously signed, ask.
ing the Legislature TO amend the law
80 as to have the school age of chill.
dren commence at seven years.
Judge Dillon has been selected by
the State Bar Association to deliver
the annual address in May. The As
ISOLATION meets at the capital and will
be treated to an eloquent and able
address.
The body Of Mrs. McAndrew, bur.
led at the Catholic graveyard at Keo-
kuk, some two weeks ago, has been
resurrected and stolen, and it is kick.
ing up a great commotion among the
people Of that city.
A man in Upton, Ind, was cured
of dyspepsia by the use of popcorn.
The remedy will hardly become pop.
ular, however, from the fact that by
computation it appears that he had
eaten $50 bushels before the cure was
affected.
The Gazette says Davenporter has
invented an Illuminating gas from
naptha, which can be made and fur.
nished customers at eighty cents per
thousand feet, and q company has
been organized in that city for its
manufacture.
Samuel Lilbnrn is now shipping
on an average about one car load OF
butter and eggs per day or about
10000 pounds per week. Where is
there another man in the business in
the West that can make better
showing.
Oswald Tetum, Orville Tetun,
Charles Tctum, and Jack Black, Of
Nora Springs, Floyd county, have
been arrested, charged with counter
feiting silver coin, taken to Dubuque
for examination and bound over in
the sum of 81 900 each.
In the cases Of Geo. F. Myers and
Daniel Clifford, of Cass township, in.
dicted at Keokuk, for alleged viola.
ton of the revenue laws, yesterday
the U. S. District Court ordered the
cases dismissed at the expense Of the
government, there being no grounds
to sustain the prosecution.
ON Sunday morning the stationery
store of d. w. Ingrahan, and Spen'
Ger Bros. restaurant, at Fairfield
were burned. Ingraham's loss is to-
tai, nothing saved Insurance $4,000
The restaurant was insured for 5000
and lost only about 500. It's thu
old story, q defective flue.
The Burlington thieves made anoth.
er big haul Friday evening. They
throttled a man named j. l.. Daven
port. of Palmyra, NO., on the plat
form of passenger car, wen
through his pockets and secured
/ $4,000. Two men who were suppos
ed to be the robbers, were arrested il
Peoria next day.