Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee Co. Iowa
August 23, 1879.
The following friends are entitled to credit on subscription:
Mrs. P.L. SMITH, Postville.
P. LLOYD, W.H. TRUMBULL and CLF. WEBSTER (new) of Cresco.
Mr. L. BELLOWS, who has been working in TAYLOR's Photograph Gallery this summer, is now clerking for F.W. ROBERTS.
Jacob BUCH, of Luana, is bound that the people in the vicinity shall not go away from home for what they want. He has a good stock of goods and clothing fine enough for city trade, which he is selling very cheap.
George COON and wife will go to Chapin next week instead of this.
Luther NICHOLS' girl has been found. She is only 13 years old. It seems her father punished her for breaking a saucer. She went to Guttenberg and hired out and told the family that she lived in Clinton and her father and mother were dead. Sheriff BENTON found her. She did not want to come home but the Sheriff told her to come and she should not be punished. He delivered the girl to her mother at Monona Tuesday and requested her to tell her husband what he had promised the girl about being punished. These are the facts as near as I can learn.
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Cast:
Miss Addie SANDERS, as Mother Gibey.
Miss Emma RATHMAN, as Bess Starbright.
Miss Ada LAUGHLIN, as Minnie Dade, Hunters niece.
Miss Hattie RATHMAN, as Biddy Bean, a farm girl.
J.N. LEITHOLD left for the east on Thursday and will undoubtedly return with a good fresh stock of goods.
Rev. J.W. DREW and lady were in town, on their way to Wisconsin, last Saturday. We are indebted for a brief visit.
Mr. R. MEYER and lady went to Chicago on Monday. Mr. MEYER will purchase the first full stock of goods for the popular house of WARD & MEYER while in the city.
Mr. WARD, father of our popular merchant, J.W. WARD, has been spending some days in town.
Mr. JOHNSTON, father of the JOHNSTON Bros., of the Commerical restaurant, is in town. His home is in Louisville, Ky.
Mrs. STONE, a lady long and well known in Postville and Waukon, started for Nebraska on Thursday morning.
F.M. CLARK made us a pleasant call on Thursday, on his way to Chicago to purchase goods for his Lime Springs store.
Mr. ABERNETHY has retired from the Commercial Hotel and JOHNSON Bros. resume control.
We are indebted to Mrs. Will HARRIS for a nice lot of delicious wild plums.
Winter wheat commands $1.00 per bushel for seed. This is a large advance from its shipping value but is not an extravagant price for [illegible]. M.N. CLERK has already sold large quantities, and J.W. PATTERSON has engaged considerable. We presume winter wheat seeding will be quite general and the sooner it is in now, the better.
It is confidently asserted by some of the best farmers in this section that crops as a whole are the best this year they ever have been since the settlement of the country. Spring wheat is not up to the average but everything else is an extraordinary crop, including winter wheat, barley, oats, corn, hay, potatoes, &c. If we had stock enough to eat the hay and hogs enough to eat the corn the prospect for good times would be magnificent. As it is there is no occasion for grumbling and we look for vastly improved times and a much better feeding all around.
I have white winter wheat for seed for sale at $1.00 per bushel. J.W. PATTERSON.
Dr. R.S. GEE will be in Postville, Aug, 29th. Those wishing to see him professionally can call at the Commercial Hotel.
F.W. ROBERTS went to Chicago on Thursday to lay in a large stock of fall goods.
I will furnish the Sears 16 inch sulky plow for $45 on time. No one can afford to do without a sulky plow. I can furnish a genuine force feed grain drill with 10,11,12,13 or 14 bars to put in that winter wheat. One bushel put in with the Drill is better than 1 1/4 broad cast, and drilling insures against hard winter and insures increased yield of 3 to 5 bushels to the acre. G.W. McKAY.
As I am expecting to leave for Colorado in a short time, those desiring to have work done will do well to call early, at Mrs. MOTT's Millinery Store. Rosetta REED.