The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-30
IOWA STATE NEWS
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public schools.
The potato crop in Iowa Is estimated at
sl5, con, 100 bushels.
There were eighty 1--WE arrests in Davcn-
port during Septembef.
Council Bluffs gets s40O per year from
each Of its saloon-keeper.
The Davenport Daily Gazette celc-
brntcd its thirty first anniversary.
There are four artesinn wells in Du-
buqne and one in Linwood Cemetery.
--conncil Bluffs still has s55.oOO pxving
bonds aud s32, 900 sewer bonds unsold.
The City Council of Des Moines hns
voted not 70 undertake any new paving at
present
Tho premiums for tho last State Fair
are all paid and nearly Ill the business
closed up for 1884.
Two Council Bluffs women we're ar
rested for prize fighting and fined sic each
in The Police Court.
since the 1st Of March there have been
fifty three ,ases of diphtheria.
DIR Frisbie has Just entered upon his
fourteenth year as pastor Of Plymouth Con-
gregational Church in Des Moines.
The Alton Town Hall Company HAS
| filed articles Of incorporation with the Sec
| retary Of State. Capital stock, $4,000.
In prospecting for coal At Peterson,
| lO-foot vein was struck Of what Is pro-
nounced the best quality Of potter's clay.
Jim Snodderly, notorious character
OF Council Bluffs. was fatally stabbed BY
Harmon Shoemaker. in quarrel 1t that
place.
A man supposed to be W. I. Alexan-
der. of Bradgate, Humboldt County, COM
mitted suicide at Black River Falls, Wis,
by shooting himself
A prominent Des Moines hotel clerk
has been telling reporter that some Of the
hotels Of that city were 1t present doing
business at a loss Of $50 per day.
MIR. II. c. Wheeler one of the Vice
Presidents Of the State Agricultural Soci-
ETY., has $500 acres in cultivation. He has
1000 in timothy, 200 in clover GOO in wheat
and oats, 1900 m corn, and 100 in flax.
The remains Of one Of the oldest citi-
gems Of Plumcr Settlement. named Jacob
Young, were found recently nesr Keg Greek
with the throat cut from ear to ear. Opin-
ion is divided az to whether it is q case Of
suicide or murder.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. r. clarkson, Of Des
Moincs, have gons on their regular quad
rennial visit to the od home in Brookville,
Ind Their home was in that place nearly
sixty years ago, and until they removed to
Iowa in 1855. Father Clarkson says he
makes his visit to that place during Presi-
Dental campaigns in order that be may bs
there when it is lively.
The insurance agents of Dubuque havc
been notified by their companies 10 raise
the rates Of insurance on lumber. The in
crease advised is an average Of about l per
cent, which makes $2.5o per 100 as the
minimum rate. The companies say that
the losses on lumber this year have been
enormous--in fact, there has been no profit
in lumber insurance for years. .
There is in the city little girl 10 years
Of age, Sylvie De Orville by name, who
began taking notes from Dickens year
ago. simply from an appreciation Of that
great writer's Characteristic descriptions Of
the various phases Of life and for her own
pleasure. A friend tells aer If she will 60
through Dickens complete works. and make
these selections carefully, he will have
them published in book form. With this
incentive to her pleasant work she is pro-
crossing mpidly.-State Register
There was scene at one of the fash
ionable restaurants in Des Moines two or
three days ago which made fun for the
crowd. A long. lean man from the country
came in and ordered lunch. including oys-
ters and other good things. When he went
to pay the bill he was told il was $l.25.
He locked at the clerk moment. and then
broke out with: We'll. Jerusalem. young
man, Id like to come in this ere place
some day when I'm right down hungry.
and he'd about $500 in my brceches." Quite
a number Of young people were at the "a
bles and heard the remark, and the laugh
ter was immoderate. hut the old man was
not in the least embarrassed.
The Sioux City Journal. in speaking
of the death of DR.. Farquharson, says:
THE death of DR.. Farquh srson. Of Daven-
port, member of the State Board Of Health,
causes a vacancy in the medical profession
which il will be hard to fill. He was one
Of the foremost physicians in the State, and
he had national reputation as we'll. He
was 60 ye,rs Of age at the time of his death,
on the 9th inst. He had been surgeon in
the navy of lS49. serving ten years, and
thus enjoying opportunity for extensive
travel and varied professional study. He
was driven to tho mountains in Tennessee
with many other loyal men in 1861, and
afterward served as surgeon in the army.
He came to Davenport in 1869. His scien-
tific writings made him widely known in the
medical profession. his investigations into
cholera being regarded rs especially valua.
, ble."
The principal of one Of the city school
. buildings in Des Moines is said to have
sent n little boy home one day this term be.
cause he came barefoot to school. Thi,
was reported by the mother of the boy to |
prominent citizen Of West Des Aoines
She did not tell it for publication, or ever
for complaint. but it was told in the cours,
. of conversation. The incident occurred
recently. The woman, who is an honest
hard working woman. was greatly hurt
She said she thought it was not right Her
self and husband are trying hard to pay 70
: a little home, but they dress their childrel
neatly and comfortably. They though