Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee, Iowa
May 15, 1886


W.S. LUTHER removed to Ossian this week. Sorry to lose so good a man.

L. GOODRICH, of Myron, lost a horse by lightning on Sunday, but it fortunately was insured.

Geo. REDHEAD lost a very valuable horse by sickness on Wednesday. He had been offered $200.00 repeatedly.

Dr. BROWN returned from St. Louis on Tuesday afternoon.

Friend Geo. N. COMERON sends two copies of the Review to eastern friends this week.

Fred BEEDY has been siding up his house, fencing and otherwise improving his property. He will make a very cozy home of it.

C.E. WARREN is the lone individual who has shown us the color of money on subscription this week.

Mrs. Kate KOEVENIG desires us to state that no center table was received as a present from A. KOEVENIG at the marriage of her daughter. We make the correction requested.

Auction stock sale. The undersigned will sell at the Fair Grounds at Waukon, on Saturday, May 22, commencing at one o'clock, p.m. the following lot of cattle and horses. [a lengthly listing of stock followed]. JACKSON & TOWNSEND. Auctioneer: J.B. MINERT.

Notice of expiration.
To the unknown owner: You are hereby notified that the following real estate, situated in Allamakee county, Iowa, to wit: The north 1/2 of the south 1/2 of north east of the southeast 1/4 of Sec. 1, Twp. 96, Range 6, W., containing 10 acres; was sold for taxes for the years 1877, 1878 and 1879, to H.O. DAYTON, that the certificate of sale thereof has been assigned [remainder cut off]

DIED. At Hardin, on Wednesday morning, May 5th, of typhoid intermittent malarial fever, Frank MARSH, son of R. MARSH, aged 15 years and 11 days.

OBITUARY.
Died, at the residence of Geo. W. HALSTED, near Cresco, Iowa, on Saturday, May 8th, 1886, of paralysis and a complication of other diseases, Martin V. BURDICK, aged 60 years, two months and four days. We could wish that some other pen than ours might be given the task of writing these last words of our departed brother. The task has been ours so often in the past few years to write an obituary notice of a beloved relative and dear one who has been suddenly snatched away from us and hidden forever beneath the cold clods of the valley, that we are almost heart sick and our brain is hardly equal to the task of forming words fitting for the occasion. But there is none other who will be expected to say publicly these last words of good bye, and hence we assume the sad duty, trusting that when , in the now not distant future, we shall go down into the valley of shadows, some friend who still lingers by the wayside, may say a word of final farewell for us. Martin V. BURDICK, was born in Pennsylvania, March 4th, 1826. In 1839, with his parents, he removed to Kane county, Ills., where he spent a few years at work on the farm, but his health never being good, he decided to study law and did so in the office of Edmund GIFFORD, of Elgin, Ill. After being admitted to the bar he removed to Iowa. In 1851, settling in Fayette county, afterward in West Union, where he resided a few years, removing thence to Howard county in 1854, practicing law and giving some attention to real estate and farming. [remainder was cut off]