The Columbus journal., 1885-01-14

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of cook stoves and ranges at Wer-
muth s. Bettcher's. 20
Twenty cents a bushel is not so
very bad for corn. The market struck
that notch last week.
The hog market has been the
most lively feature of trade in Col
umbus the past week.
Barring the half-melted snow
drifts here and there, last Thursday
would have passed for q bslmy spring
day.
-krause, Lubker & Co. offer spe-
cisl inducements in order to close out
every heating stove they have on
hand.
H. {. Niblock has opened out in
the insurance business on his own
hook, with headquarters at the Grand
Pacific.
will. Walton, two or three years
ago, paid four cents for q grapevine,
the product from which, last spring
melted him $3.50.
BY q mutual arrangement the
dry goods stores of the city are here
after to be closed at I 80 o'clock, Sat-
urdsys excepted.
The insurance and collection firm
of Martin & Trekei has been dissolved.
J. &. Martin will continue the bust
ness at the old stand.
The young people of the Congre-
gstionsl Sunday school have organ
lied q missionary society called the
Cheerful Workers"
John Timothy, ESQ.,, dealer in
school books, stationery, ETC., at Platte
Center is the authorized agent of the
JOURNAL al that place. 5-tf
On account of q slim attendance,
the dance to have been given al the
rink last Wednesday evening was
postponed TO this evening.
The union prayer meetings which
have been held in the Congregational
church during the past week with
much success, are to be continued
through the present week.
--Chss. Ziegler saith the base burn
er they bought will keep fire forty
eight hours with one bod full of coal.
1t is the prize stove exhibited by
Krause, Lubker & Co. at the fair this
fall. 5-3S-tf
From where we sit it looks IS if
the present tax law could stand tam
pering with, without the possibility Of
making it any worse. Here is q
chance for q ten-stroke on the part of
our legislators. Who speaks first?
Prophecies were being INDUCED
in last week as to what the future
would develop il the way of weather
for the remaining winter months.
Life is too short to waste in conject-
ures on Nebraska weather. It's too
eccentric.
North Bend was treated to a blaze
last week which consumed q building
occupied as a saloon and harness shop.
The loss of the building WAS nearly
covered by insurance as was the stock
of harness, but the saloon mans loss
of 5000 was Offset by only $1,000
insurance.
%. l. Baker has purchased Abt's
ice house, and in this connection re-
quests rs to say that the purchase was
for the purpose of enlsrging the bust
ness to sufficient proportions to pay
him to devote his attention to it next
season, and that ice will be furnished
to consumers reasonable. !
e. B. Hall started east last We'd
nesdsy expecting to be gone some
time on q trip uniting business and
pleasure. He goes prepared to give
great deal of information to eastern
people who may be looking toward
the west with q view to locating. We
wish him abundant success.
Henry Schulz of Des Mcines, Ia,
has been employed by l.. Kramer, as
q cutter for the tailoring department.
He is q first-class workman, as pa
irons Of the establishment will know.
Those in need of good suits, neatly
fitting and well-made, would do well
to call at kramer's establishment,
Eleventh street.
The Madison Chronicle Gays: An
old lady, living ten miles west of
Madison, gave q certain young man
of this town q feather pillow and q
goose, for a New Years present, and
At the same time told him that il be
would marry her daughter she would
give the girl on her wedding day, one
thousand dollars and q feather bed
for . dowry. The young MAJ refus.
ed the liberal offer. The above was
fact, and the proposition was made in
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