JONATHAN CREEK DRIFT WOOD NEWS JULY 6, 1893

QUAYLE, MITCHELL, JORDAN, JAQUIS, LUCE

Posted By: Stacey McDowell Dietiker (email)
Date: 3/11/2004 at 12:37:58

Garden Grove Express
July 6, 1893
Garden Grove, Iowa

Jonathan Creek Drift Wood.

Thos. QUAYLE, Sr. marketed hogs at Weldon Saturday. He raises the kind that bring top prices.

A party of young people gave Mr. and Mrs. O. M. JORDAN a pleasant surprise Saturday evening.

Contractor J. T. MITCHELL is pushing the work on the new school house. The carpenters board at J. E. JAQUIS', and that they are well provided for anyone will testify who has ever set down to the table presided over by Mrs. JAQUIS.

Wm. LUCE will drive a bran (sic) new Rock Island hay loader this season and it will be a sudden change in the weather that will wet his hay.

The settlers of our valley can congratulate themselves on having the largest corn and best all around crop prospect between here and Chicago. Our pastures are knee deep, while many about the way are close cropped, so says a returned excursionist.

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February 22, 2004