Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee Co. Iowa
May 1, 1880.
DIED. At the Aplington, Butler county, Iowa, April 24th, 1880, of sudden congestion of the lungs, Jeremiah PRESCOTT of Hardin, Iowa, aged 82 years 3 months and 9 days.
Mr. PRESCOTT was born in Brentwood, N.H. on January 15, 1798. A stepmother making home disagreeable to him, he left it at the age of fifteen, taking up his residence at the home of a sister in North Newport, Maine, where he worked until his marriage to Mary MILES on December 16, 1823, and settled on a farm, which he sold in 1836, moving into Newport village.
From a visit to the west in 1841 & 2 he learned much of the states of Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, which resulted in selling his property in Newport and moving Aug. 31, 1845, his family to a new farm near Roscoe, Ill., from whence he moved to Iowa, settling upon a large farm near Hardin, Clayton county, in November 1852. This farm being mostly divided among his family, he sold the remainder in 1867 and invested the proceeds in land in Jackson county, Minn., Cresco, Iowa and finally a residence in Hardin, near his old home. Then with his wife he went to Oregon and California, visiting his children, where they spent three years in good health and the enjoyment of all the wonderful scenery of that land.
Returning to Iowa, and while spending the night at Council Bluffs, he took a severe cold, which so enfeebled him as to make it difficult for him to reach the residence of his youngest daughter at Aplington, Iowa.
Postmaster PRESCOTT, of this place, being apprized of his father's condition, arrived at Aplington on Saturday, A.M. about three hours before his father's death, which occurred at the termination of a violent period of coughing, at half-past 6 P.M.
He experienced religion in Oct. 1831 and was always known as a humble, ernest and devoted christian, dying in the full hope of mortality.
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Card of thanks. I desire to express my sincere thanks to my friends and neighbors for their uniform kindness and generous assistance in the burial of my father on the 27th last. A.R. PRESCOTT.
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LOCAL ITEMS.
Andrew THOMPSON spent the first part of the week in Lansing. He reports business there as being decidedly dull.
J.H. WILSON and L. MYERS kindly helped us out at the case a little this week, thus enabling us to get out nearly on time.
Ab. GORHAM will return to Colorado next Monday to resume his position on the Atkinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway.
A. GORHAM, J.H. LAUGHLIN and John DARNO have placed us under obligation for cash on subscription this week. Also Mrs. LATSSEY.
Rev. ROBBINS and wife left on Friday for Chicago, where they will remain two or three months. Mr. ROBBINS will undergo medical treatment.
The ROBERTS Bros. have been engaged on their referee case at McGregor for two weeks. We look upon law as linked bitterness long drawn out.
W.W. PERRY moved his family to Milwaukee on Monday. We are sorry to lose them so soon, but expect that people will consult their own interests.
Rev. H.H. ROBBINS father, a pastor in charge at Muscatine, filled the Congregational pulpit last Sunday morning and evening, preaching two able and interesting sermons.
George M. ROS languishes in the Decorah jail unless he has been bailed out, all for fooling around a West Union damsel. George shouldn't have "Roe-d" on such a dangerous stream.
Prof. ROW has been somewhat, though not seriously, under the weather of late. A great many of others are complaining and it is hard to see how anybody can feel well such horrible weather.
To farmers. I intend to put up a sugar cane mill this summer in Hardin. I have come-early amber sugar cane seed for sale, Minnesota grown. W. BROCK.
I offer my house and three acres of ground, situated adjoining Postville on the South at a great bargain. The premises include a frame house, barn, well, cistern &c. Inquire on the premises of Fred SCHUELKA.
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Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee Co. Iowa
May 15, 1880.
MARRIED.
-At the residence of William SLORAH, in Postville May 13th, 1880 by Rev. G.W. PRATT; Mr. H.A. FLOYD of Cedar Rapids and Miss Florence STAFFORD of Franklin.
-Mr. James JOHNSON to Miss Nellie E. DAVIS in Postville on May 10th, 1880 at the residence of and by Rev. R. LAUGHLIN. Both parties are of Myron, Iowa.
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ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION.
Clipped from the Dubuque Herald:
The crystal wedding of Mr. and Mrs. John H. WILSON was celebrated at their home in Postville last Thursday and was a grand affair and participated in by 80 persons.
[a lengthly description of the party followed]