The Columbus journal., 1893-05-10

Mr.. 8. Grisson OF Springfield, Mo,
is here with a view of locating. Mr..
Grisson is an experienced chicken man
and is looking for q location to start y
hennery.
-B1cYcLEs, BICYCLES. Do not be
talked into buying q cheap machine at a
high price. Fitzpatrick win give You a
high-grade machine, very cheap. Try
him and see.
The season for losses by lightning
and tornadoes is here and it is time to
insure in some good and reliable COM
pany. Apply at the Office Of Becher,
Jaeggi & Co. 2t
We are in receipt of q number of
communications, also suggestions, ETC.,
in regard to the superintendency of our
public schools, for which We have. not
the space this week.
Next Sunday at the NJ. E. church
Rev. Leedom will preach upon the work
of the Junior society AMI in the evening
the society will hold a service in honor
of its Fifth anniversary.
We have a full force of mechanics
to do everything in our line Of black
smiths, windmill, pump work and
wagon making, machinery, etc. VIM.
Bloedorn, Platte Center. l
The new residence of S. G. Inlay in
the western part Of the city is fast ear
ing completion and will be ready for &C.
cupancy June l. The city seems to he
building in that direction.
The man who expects to work his
ends by lying, calculates also on keeping
those he lies about from comparing
notes, and this shows his ignorance Of
the ordinary principles of computation.
Col. NJ. Whitmoyer is to deliver the
address on Decoration day, and the COM
mittee are at work to complete arrange
ments for the proper observance of a day
which has become as sacred to American
patriots as the Fourth of July.
The engine shipped here from Grand
Island for work on the new Platte bridge,
was found, on its arrival here, minus a
number Of parts, such as bolts, oil cups,
etc. The man who robbed it must have
done * from spite or pure deviltry.
Harry Markell started Thursday
for the international convention of gen.
eral secretaries of the Y. NJ. G. A., at
Louisville, Ky. He expects to be alb
sent a week and Bert Coolidge will
have charge of the rooms here in MI.
Ms absence.
Mrs. Helen II. Stires of Columbus,
has been engaged by the Cedar Rapids
r. G. to deliver an Grafton here on
day. Mrs. Stires is a fine
speaker, a former resident of this place
and still a member of this corps.-[Cedar
Rapids Commercial.
One of our Platte Center subscribers
registers a kick against the keeping open
of saloons on Sunday in the village, and,
q business man interested in the vel
fare Of the place, suggests that the vii
lage authorities should see to the en-
forcement Of the law.
The mayor took the bit into his
mouth, SO to speak, and surprised every
body, by appointing Col. Whitmoyer
city attorney; eve the Colonel had no
notion that his name was under con-
sideration by his honor. He will make
a first class attorney, in every respect.
&C. A.. Lutz & Co., the manufactur-
ers Of wooden shoes. are conducting a
very neat, good business, at their es-
tablishment on Thirteenth street, taking
orders now for September and October
delivery. They are men with whom and
for whom it is a pleasure to do business.
-When The JOURNAL editor asked
Judge Sullivan the other day if he had
become a 'pedipulator" of the bicycle,
the Judge replied, "You have coined a
term that deserves to go into general
use and into all future dictionaries of
the English language" We modestly
subside.
DR.. Evans of Columbus, wa in
Genoa yesterday in attendance on Mrs.
John Davis, who is suffering from a
cancer in her breast. IN. v. MOudy
was in Columbus on legal business last
week. ...H. w. Abts of Columbus, reg
at the Metcalf last Friday.
1GenOa Banner.
John Wagner has put a new roof
his furniture store. Mr.. w. was |
formerly a carpenter and builder; w
that he laid the new roof on the
old one without taking of the old
shingles. We suppose, therefore, that
this is a good method, where the old
roof is not too far gone.
j. r. Meagher goes to Omaha today
to meet with the reunion committee.
The Colonel is a much honored man
these days, having just received a COM
mission as department aide-de-camp,
from Commander Church of the G. A.
He holds q similar commission in
the national department.
The JOURNAL was honOred Thurs |
lay with a very pleasant ten minute call
by Ross Hammond, the accomplished
sditor of the Fremont Tribune, who is
Just now resting under a small cloud
raised by Bixby Of the Lincoln Journal
off on a too-confding public
some lines of his own over Hammond's
signature. II Ross don't get ever with
him we miss our guess.