Postville Review
Postville, Allamakee Co., Iowa
May 4, 1895

F.L. WILLIAMS, voluntary weather observer, gives us the following summery for April:
Maximum temperature, 88, 30th
Minimum temperature, 30, 3rd
Total precipitation, .78 of an inch
Light frost, 12th
Hail, 12th
The dryest month of April ever known in this place.

At last, after many days (and months) we have been granted a little rain.

John PARKER comes to the front with a new daughter of standard weight and fineness.

S.F. CLINTON is in the lumber business in Cedar Rapids and everyone wishes him success.

Thanks to "Jim" GREGG for furnishing this office witha bountiful supply of juvenile whales.

Judge GRANGER passed through Postville last week on his way from Des Moines to Waukon.

John HARNACK, Mrs. A. SPOO, Wilbur C. DRESSER and L.A. HOWE all ordered monuments of Ed PRIOR last week. Peter STAUER, of McGregor, ordered a $1000 monument from Ed PRIOR. This is the largest order ever given in Clayton Co. for this purpose. Mr. STAUER's monument will be of red Scotch granite, 22 feet high and all polished. Ed beat Madison, LaCrosse and several other competitors for the order and is to be congratulated. Mr. STAUER may depend upon getting as good a monument as experience can produce or money can buy.

Having secured the services of a first class wagon maker, I am now prepared to do any work in that line better than ever. Jacob MEYER.

Rev. LaRoy S. HAND will speak in Myron next Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. BRANDT have gone to Waseca, Minn., for a week's visit. He leaves a good man in the blacksmith's shop in his absence.

Mr. and Mrs. A.R. PRESCOTT returned from Minneapolis on Wednesday evening with their daughter Belle, who has been very sick but has sufficiently recovered to enable her to be brought home.

Clerk BOCK has licensed the following persons the past month to live up to "divine command" and "multiply and replenish the earth":
Henry BOENSHER & Emma SCHULZE
Henry HAGEN & Mrs. Lizzie MEYER
John J. GILCHRIST & Ella C. NESMITH
Chas. ENTWISTLE & Cora FLACK
Ben SCHWARTZHOFF & Katie McCORMACK
Fritz EMELUT & Martha BALTH George MANDERSCHIED & Sophia SANDERMAN
E.M. BUSNESS & Mathilda M. ANDERSON
George GRAMLICH & Roe Minnie BIGHLE
T. FITZGERALD & Katie LLOYD
Joseph BECHTEL & Emma WIRTH
Wm. WEBER & Mary WENSING
Ed. McCORMACK & Katie MOLITOR
P.H. TILMONEY & Louisa T. NEARLING
Frank STRUB & Catharine FERRING
E.O. LERAN & Heida JOHNSON
John MURPHY & Mary S. THORNTON

John, George and James BARNES came down from Cresco with Mrs. C.H. BARNES, last Friday, where they attended the funeral of their brother, A.B. BARNES. they made but a short stay here before returning to their homes at Boone and Minnesota. The funeral of Mr. BARNES was largely attended, he being an old and highly respected citizen, and for years an acquaintance and friend of the writer. He was about 65 years old.

Mr. and Mrs. SPAULDING completed their visit here and drove over to Decorah last Sunday. They will take in Waukon, Lansing and McGregor before their return home.

Elison ORR and W.F. DRESSER have received a peck each of "Maggie Murphy" potatoes from James VICK at an expense of $1.00 per peck. It is safe to say they were not ordered for table use.

MARRIED. In Postville, on Wednesday evening, May 1st, 1895, by Wm. SHEPHERD, Esq., Mr. A. STOCKMAN and Mrs. Amanda DOWNS, all of Postville. We acknowledge the receipt of cigars and hereby extend congratulations.

DEATHS.
--Dr. F. ANDROS, the first practicing physician in Iowa, and for a long time a resident of McGregor, died in Minneapolis last Sunday, aged 92 years.

--Word has been received here to the effect that Mrs. Obb SMITH, nee Jennie OWEN, a daughter of Orville OWEN, was accidentally shot at her home down in Mississippi recently, from the effect of which she died. She, with her parents, formerly resided just west of Postville. She married a relative of the HART'S. A loaded gun set in the corner, was knocked down and discharged, the contents entering her hip, which had to be amputated and she did not rally from the shock.