Iowa Old Press
Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee, Iowa
November 12, 1887
Mrs. COYLE returned from her Wisconsin visit on the Wednesday
night train.
Carl HOLTER is at home in his new residence.
Rev. C.A. MARSHALL has accepted a call to preach at McGregor for
six months.
Mrs. A.E. STILES was down from Calmar, visiting relatives last
week.
We are pleased that S.S. POWERS, Esq. is improving rapidly and it
is expected that he will soon be out again.
Miss Mary HENDERSON has returned from Cherokee county where she
has been teaching music for the past six months.
We are under special obligations to R.N. DOUGLASS, manager of the
telephone here, for favors in connection with election returns.
W.J. CAMPBELL and E.H. DUNNING are entitled to thanks for cash on
subscription this week.
There will be a meeting in the City Hall of the I.O.O.F. on
Monday evening, Nov. 14th, 1887. By H.S. LUHMAN, sec.
J.W. PATTERSON will have an auction sale at his residence next
Wednesday.
A.R. PRESCOTT left us on Thursday for several weeks absence in
Missouri, where he will visit some of his old comrades in arms
and other acquaintances. He promises to write us some descriptive
letters of the country etc. He does not expect to return before
February, and may make arrangements for a permanent stay there.
Mr. and Mrs. W.J. CAMPBELL left us permanently on Tuesday evening
for their future home at Watkins, N.Y. Thus, one by one the old
settlers leave us.
NOTICE OF SUIT.
To Margaret J. SHERWOOD, Mary E. SWEITZER and Lucy C. ROLL and
Frank HAYWARD. You are hereby notified...[of] a petition of Joel
M. POST, Lydia A. REED and Willie NOBLE asking that [your]
interest in the following described real estate [legal
description followed] all in Lawler's add. to Postville, Iowa or
in the old original plat of Postville...unless you appear and
defend...default will be entered against you... by STILWELL &
STEWART, plaintiff's attorneys. [Note: bracketed words were added
by the transcriber, and this notice was extracted]
NOTICE OF FINAL REPORT.
To Willie NOBLE, Margaret J. SHERWOOD, Mary E. SWITZER and Lucy
C. ROLL and Frank HAYWARD. You are hereby notified ... the final
report of Joel M. POST and Lydia A. REED, formerly LayCOOK;
administrators of the estate of Zeruiah POST, deceased....by
STILWELL & STEWART, plaintiff's attorneys. [Note: this notice
was extracted]
MARRIAGE.
A neat wedding invitation informs us of the marriage, on Friday,
Oct. 28th, 1887, of Mr. Alva SMITH to Miss Hattie M. RATHMAN,
formerly of Postville. Their home will be in Winona.
BETHEL CORRESPONDENCE. Bethel, Nov. 8th, 1887, ERAB.
--N. McWILLIAMS and wife went to Clermont the 3rd to see their
daughter, Mrs. Ed. WICKHAM and family.
--The new bridge near J.M. HARRIS' is completed. It is one of
H.H. STILLWELL's make; it is a combination of iron cords. The
wood work of the frame is covered with tin or sheet iron which is
an improvement over shingles for that purpose.
[transcribed by S.F., August 2004]
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Allamakee Journal
Lansing, Allamakee County, Iowa
November 23, 1887
CITY CHIT-CHAT.
- Toboggan caps at Kemble’s.
- Butterick patterns at Kemble’s.
- Flannels and dress goods at Kemble’s.
- See the new line of corsets at Kemble’s.
- Oats, corn, bran and shorts, at Nielander &
Brockhausen’s.
- Evaporated black berries, apricots and Hungarian plums, at
Almquist’s.
- Gaunitz Bros. shipped 1,200 pounds of dressed poultry to St.
Paul by express yesterday.
- Melville fruit jars, single or by the dozen, the best in the
market, at Theo. Nachtwey’s.
- Dry goods, notions, cloaks, shawls, blankets, and all winter
supplies now open at Kemble’s.
- Brandies, whiskies, wines, select and export beer, for
medicinal purposes only, at Theo. Nachtwey’s.
- Kemble is showing a good assortment of dress goods in staple
and fancy colors, also trimmings to suit.
- A fine line of genuine oil paintings received and for sale at
surprisingly low figures, by Nopper & Saam.
- Last week A.H. Woodruff shipped his herd of Holstein and grade
cattle to the western part of the state to winter.
- Eddie, the eldest son of W.F. Schulze, has been making himself
generally useful in Zoll’s store for a week or more.
- Nopper & Saam have the finest in the music line ever
exhibited in this city. Drop in and they will show it to you.
- Reynold Bros. ladies’ fine shoes, in all sizes, at John
Tully’s. Also a complete stock of dry goods, groceries,
etc., all at hard times prices.
- J.G. Ratcliffe, of Waukon, has the contract for driving the
piles for the new iron bridge across Clear Creek, and with his
crew began operations yesterday.
- Gasoline, the best and safest in the market, in 5-gal. lots, at
15c per gallon, sold to all parties, no matter where their oil
stove is bought, at Theo. Natchwey’s.
- Have not advanced the price on canned fruits, currants, raisins
and dried fruits, all are higher in the market. NIELANDER &
BROCKHAUSEN.
- A. Markwardt and Geo. Luth will give a grand turkey raffle at
the residence of M. Verdon, in Columbus, this evening. Everybody
invited and a good time assured all who attend.
- A “progressive euchre” at the Reynolds residence on
Front Street last Wednesday evening was much enjoyed by ten
couples of young folks. Delicious refreshments were served.
- Wood, potatoes, butter, eggs, etc., will gladly be received on
subscription at either the JOURNAL offices, from delinquents or
new subscribers who prefer to pay in those commodities.
- Mrs. Haas hereby desires to inform the parties who removed ten
or a dozen empty kegs and the pitch kettle from her premises,
around Hallow E’en, that they are known and unless the
property is speedily returned they will be prosecuted.
- John Murphy, President of the Lafayette Center school board
finds that it pays to advertise in this paper. He inserted a
small notice in these columns week before last, for a teacher,
and since has been flooded with applications.
- Messrs. G.E. Kehr and G.H. Markley plant holiday advertisements
in today’s paper and we hope they may reap an abundant
harvest therefrom. Both gentlemen have the finest and most
complete stocks ever displayed in their lines.
- Profs. Shippey and Colgrove, Sup’ts of the Lansing and
Waukon Schools, respectively, are down on the programme of the
Teacher’s Meeting at De Soto, Dec. 3, for papers as follows:
The former on “The Art of Questioning” and the latter
“The Teacher’s Qualification.”
- Grand fall display of millinery at Misses Hartbauer’s. The
very latest fall and winter styles in pattern hats, bonnets,
ostrich feathers, plumes, tips, pompons and fancy feathers, also
plushes, velvetines, fancy notions, corsets, etc. Ladies please
call and examine. Prices cheaper than ever.
- Mr. Louis M. Gruber, son of M. Gruber, of this township, was
married Saturday, Nov. 19th, at 2 p.m., to Miss Sarah Ista, of
Welch, Goodhue county, Minn. The bride is a sister of Mrs. J.J.
Rettinger. The above will be good news to the groom’s many
friends hereabouts.
- Richard Cassidy and Chas. Froelich advertise a Thanksgiving hop
at Brennan’s Hall, Village Creek, to-morrow evening. Floor
managers, R. Kean and J. Guider. Tickets, including supper, 60 c
a couple. Good music, everybody cordially invited and guaranteed
a good time.
- We see by the De Soto Chronicle that Geo. W. Angell, a
former Lansing boy, is to be one of the principals at a double
wedding at Red Mound, Wis., Thanksgiving evening. The son and
daughter of Mr. Wm. Haverly are both booked for marriage, the
latter, Miss Francis, becoming an Angell by the ceremony.
- Among the Iowa pensions granted lately appears the name of J.A.
Melvin, of this place.. Mr. M. is known as a radical republican
but it makes no difference with the department as administered
now. The deserving soldier is impartially rewarded and his
politics cuts no figure in the case. How different from the
old-time order of things, when disability was not infrequently a
secondary consideration if the applicant was not on the right
side of the fence politically.
- Capt. J.M. Turner, as usual in winter, is spending considerable
time and money in prospecting for mineral hereabouts. He is still
following his lead find near Sewell’s, in this township, and
claims the lead to be quite as favorable as any he has ever
struck, and indicating a rich vein of ore if it can only be
reached. Dubuque, he says, would go wild over such a discovery.
He also has his eye on a number of other localities in this
vicinity at present and we trust that his efforts at developing
the deposits of mineral which he believes abounds in this region
may yet be successful.
- NEW GENERAL STORE. Joseph B. Zoll has opened out in the Schach
store room, one door west of the City Meat Market, a complete
stock of dry goods, notions, groceries, boots, shoes, queensware,
flour, etc., and respectfully solicits a share of the patronage
of all old friends and such new ones as may choose to call. All
kinds of farmers’ produce taken in exchange for goods.
Purchases delivered to any part of the city. Prices as cheap as
the cheapest.
- Order your Thanksgiving turkeys of Gaunitz Bros. Nothing stale.
Dressed to order.
- I shall make an effort to furnish goods for the hard times at
prices to suit everyone. J.A. KEMBLE.
- Sheetings, shirting and cheviots, full line at Nielander &
Brockhausen’s.
- 1776-6771 has nothing to do with buying school books, cheap, at
Markley’s.
[transcribed by Errin Wilker, Nov 2018]