GRAND RIVER NEWS - 30 Jun l895

BINNINB, CHAPMAN, WOODARD, REARDON, HOWARD, GREEN, TAYLOR, BRADSHAW, SNYDER, GREENLAND, OVERHOLTZER, DAUGHTON, PETERSON, GRIFFIN, MILLER, BROTHERS, PENCE, SWITZER, MCCROSKY

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 1/8/2002 at 19:51:10

Leon Reporter
June 30, l895

HENRY BINNING and wife returned from their
pleasure trip from Missouri.

MRS. C.H. CHAPMAN has been quite sick for
some time, also MRS. GEO.
WOODARD.

FRED REARDON is a happy man now it is a girl.
FRED puts his head in a
barrel and says papa, to hear how big it
sounds.

W.B. HOWARD is painting the Baptist
Parsonage. W.B. is one of the best
painters in the state.

WM. GREEN is treating his house to a coat of
paint.

TIP TAYLOR's new house will soon be finished.

BILLY BRADSHAW and wife have moved to our
city.

MRS. GEO. SNYDER has been on the sick list
for a few days.

Our stockmen, GREENLAND, OVERHOLTZER &
DAUGHTON were shipping hogs last
Saturday as usual.

CHARLES PETERSON got a job with the H. & S.
Bridgemen at forty-five
dollars per month.

Our home carpenters were the lucky men to get
the contract for the new
school house. Some of the parties making
their own specifications which
made a little difference. The following are
the bids:

SCOTT & TURNER, $2,868; DILLON & GOULD,
$3,l25; I.V. COCHRAN, $3,l90;
F.L. ANDREWS, $2,876.54; HOLT & SANGER,
$3,350; G.S. LEE, $2,700;
FLANANAGAN(sic) & WILSON, $4,l50; J.T.
MITCHELL, $2,560; J.D. METIER,
$3,l00; MCKEE & LEETHY, $3,633; GARDNER &
SCHENCK, $2,950; RECK, of
Allerton, $2,528. The house is to be 36 by
48, two stories with a
basement. W.B. HOWARD gets the painting.
This insures a good job as
HOWARD is an honest workman and tries to do
the best he can in a short
time.

Some of our young men did not get home until
Monday morning on account
of the rain. One said he hoped it would rain
next time as the old gent
did not say, it is ten o'clock.

Some rye is cut and wheat will be this week;
both are a good crop with
us, corn never was better, grass is going to
be good too. Surely
providence is favoring Iowa this year.

WOOD BINNING sold MR. MILLER a new binder
last week.

PAT GRIFFIN had some of the folks out riding
with him Sunday. The
little folks like to see him come.

JAMES BROTHERS is visiting at Osceola this
week.

H.P. BROTHERS is at Derby instructing the
band boys of that place. H.P.
is known and his service is appreciated all
over southern Iowa.
He will be at Decatur City the fourth as
manager of the band.

J.T. PENCE was in town Saturday shaking hands
with his many friends.

SWITZER, our singing teacher, has had his
family come from Nebraska.
They will live in the SMITHSON house for a
while. MR. SWITZER is a
brother of our esteemed lumberman, JACOB
SWITZER. We wish them welcome
and hope they will make this their permanent
home.

CHARLEY MCCROSKY comes in late Monday
mornings from Decatur City.

GRAND RIVER will not celebrate this year.

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