Newspaper Articles from August, 1892

• OLD SETTLERS' PICNIC - Clinton County, Iowa - 1892

• THE WOES OF MANY - Court Cases in Clinton County, Iowa

BIRTHS REPORTED: Source: Clinton Daily Age Aug. 26, 1892

C. W. Reinhardt, fisherman, Lyons, June 14, boy.
John Olson, carpenter, Lyons, June 26, boy.
Richard Cowley, laborer, Lyons, July 9, boy.
Charles Anderson, laborer, Lyons, August 9, girl.
Jabe Connors, laborer, Lyons, August 13, boy.

WHEELS: Source: Clinton Daily Age Aug. 26, 1892

Charley Bitner goes on his vaction from the Olney & McDaid wholesale house next week, and will commence its pleasures by a ride to Chicago on his wheel.
Tobe Johnson and Charley Towle enter the bicycle races in the field sports at Sterling to-day.  Quite a number of teh Clinton wheelmen were going over but it is very doubtful if many can get away from business.
The subscription lists for the relay race to be held between here and Cedar Rapids is growing, yet there is not half enough money yet subscribed and only half enough riders pledged.

FACTORY SITE FOR SALE: Source: Clinton Daily Age Aug. 26, 1892

The old Clinton Box Factory and site is for sale -- size of building 80 x 50 feet and adjoining are engine, ??? and fuel houses and office.  The 25 horse power engine and 30 horse power boiler in place go with the factory.  Possession given October 1.  If purchased before September 1 the price will be very low. 
Also building lot on Camanche avenue 40 x 150 feet.
Call on or address F. SMITH & SONS, Clinton, Iowa

BREVITIES: Source: Clinton Daily Age Aug. 26, 1892

The merry go round left yesterday.
"Waifs of New York" at Davis Opera House to night.
Bill Nye, in next Sunday's AGE will pose as a detective, but he proves as unsuccessful as many pick pockets.
The assessment roll for the grading, curbing, guttering and paving of improvement district number eighteen appears on the third page of the AGE this morning.
The ladies of the I. B. F. society will be entertained by Mrs. John Walker, at her home on Seventh avenue, Friday afternoon, Aug. 27.  All are invited to bring work.
The talent for the closing week of the camp meeting will consist of lectures by the eloquent and radical Willard J. Hull, of Buffalo N. Y., and daily seances in the pavillion by the solid platform test medium Edgar W. Emerson, of Manchester, N. H.
Belleville Herald -- Work on the packing house in Clinton is steadily progressing.  The building will be completed as contracted and will be a much finer building than the contract calls for.  It will cost $90,000 and will be one of the finest packing houses in the country.