The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-03
~ Of Its Newspaper of Thirty
Years Ago Recalls Many Changes
\ Made by Time and Enter
prise.
.IMPsE AT OLD TIMES
the Advertisers Of That Day Have
Gone, and Business, Customs and
public Interest Have All
Changed.

)t a copy of The Hamilton Pointer
exactly thirty years old tomorrow.
is dated April 4, 1890, and is
ume 1, No. 3, of the ancestor of
present Hamilton Press. 1t was
blished by Miller and Macarthur.
latter being the present publisher
the Press, after being city clerk,
MISTER of one of its principal
arches, the town undertaken and
wing in other capacities useful to
community.
Of the fifteen advertisers in The
milton Pointer of thirty years ago,
{ one business remains, and most
the owners of them are dead. The
lite bank of Hamilton with r. r.
lllace as cashier, and H. M. Elder,
pears in the old paper and has
nply changed it's name and itself
o national bank-and this Is the
ly contact between the advertisers
thirty years ago and the present
y in Hamilton.
The Pointer is. about as big as a
If of this page of The Gate City
d is exactly half advertising and
II news and editorial
The Old Time Merchants.
Among the advertisers are Gray &
iggles, who assert that they en-
~ an artist to hang their paper;
ckinson & Bartlett, in lumber;
mes A. Anderson, agricultural inn
sments; e. H. Leroy, jeweler;;
imble, Hanft & Co., in lumber; 3.
nee & Sons, general store; the
ne Drug company; DR.. F. NJ. jack
n and DIR. P. J. Hessian have pro-
ssional cards; the latter is now
acticing at Graettinger, Iowa.
The time tables of the T. p. and
!, the Wabash, the Keokuk and
estern, and the c., B. & Q. rail
ads are carried, as well as quar-
page of cards of churches and
cieties. These last include the
ethodist, the Presbyterian, the Con-
egational, the Episcopal and the
ltholic churches, as wei as the
ati-Horse Thief association, meeting
cry Saturday on or before the full
Don, the Masonic lodge, chapter and
astern Star, all regulating their
ceilings by the full moon, the Odd
SLOWS and Rebekahs, who meet
gularly regardless OF the moon; the
u. r. and Relief Corps, who meet
.cok ding to the moon; the A. o. y.
Nho disregard the moon; the
Endeavor and the Epworth
ague, which meet weekly, and the
WI club, whatever that was in those
,od old days, which met at the
hool house every Friday evening.
The long, leading and only editorial
about the township election, and
strong objection to libels and SIAN
rs circulated about candidates,
hich the paper calls guerrilla tao
70. "A,
Important News Of That Day.
The news is about obtaining fire
OBJECTION by cisterns and hand en-
mes, with an election to determine
neither to spend that much money
Hamilton now has a real fire en-
ne and water works-a meeting of
e business men about improving
e slough, an Easter fair at the Cen
egational church, and short items
it'll some personals.
Sherwood & Guthrie had begun
gging for a new building, Charles
rub and F. L. Miller were beginning
e building of two new houses at
fifth and Oak streets. Modern ad-
,rtisers, up to the minute, may
arm something from the pay local
the ladies of the Congregational
lurch who paid five cents line for
is:
IN. B. Lane is expected to be with
at the fair tonight where you can
him on his recovery"
M. B. Lane headed a drug company
hich seems to have had a fire, was
so an insurance agent who removed
S Insurance office TO his residence
st then, and was a good advertiser.
ne can only wonder whether he
1t hurt at the fire and was forced
continue his insurance in bel while
from his burns.
In those good old days, eggs were
Ivertised for ten cents a dozen, hut
+ at fifteen to twenty rents a
,und, plow shoes at S1.25 and coed
Its of clothes for five dollars.