Iowa
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The Centerville Times
Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa
Thursday, March 2, 1882
Moravia Items.
Moravia Iowa, Feb. 27th, 1882
Ed. Times:--Mrs. Henry Oerter and daughter, of
Bethlahem, Pa. are here visiting the family of E. Reich. Mrs.
Oerter, moved from this vicinity about twenty years ago. Her old
acquaintances are delighted to see her.
On Thursday and Friday nights, of last week, an entertainment was
given at the school house, by C.B., Ida and Miss Minnie Loudees,
which was lightly attended, on account of bad weather, but
merited a good audience, being of a literary dramatic and musical
character. Miss Minnie's recitations were sublime.
Chas. Hicks and Norah Baldridge, were married on the 19th inst.
at the residence of the bride's parents. Rev. Bennett,
officiating.
M. Lambert and Lena Reynolds, were married on the 14th inst. W.L.
Chambers Esq. officiating.
The cuckle burr case of E.A. White vs J. Saunders was adjudtoated
before W.L. Chambers Esq. Judgement for defendents.
C.A. Gatlin, has returned from Kahoka Mo., and is again at his
post, the Wabash depot.
John Patterson has opened up a new grocery store here.
Wm. Hemerick has moved his barber shop five doors East of his old
stand.
The public sale of J.M. Lacroix was not a financial success, the
weather was not favorable for a good attendance.
Isaac Sharp bought 110 head of sheep at the Lacroix sale; he also
bought the "Buffalo cow."
Thos. Gill, will remove to Memphis, Mo., in a few days.
Wilson Sharp is building a handsome addition to his dwelling
house.
Richard Peatman has purchased the mill property of Hamersly &
Arnold.
The organization of a coal company has been talked of by
merchants and farmers in this vicinity. We think the company can
easily be formed, if the coal privileges can be obatained at
reasonable figures.
Isaac Goodrich has turned drover, and is now buying up all the
fat hogs that are ready for market in this vicinity.
E.R. and J.M. Ellis of Vermillion township, paid our town a visit
last Friday.
E.R. Ellis is the father of a bouncing boy.
Miss May Cunningham of Centerville, has for several days been
visiting the Misses Mary and Emma Williams; she is happy, and no
wonder for she is in the hands of those who know just how to do
the nice thing for their visitors.
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-H.W. Blachley, resident dentist.
-Good flour at Beall's $2.00 per sack.
-New and second hand wagons at the Bankrupt Store.
-J.W. Houston recently sold 30,000 feet of Walnut lumber.
-Guiteau will now drop out of public print till June. Good.
-Unionville, Mo., by a vote of over two to one will issue bonds
for a $9,000 school house.
-A.R. Price will retire from the editorial chair of the Moulton
Ensign and return to Illinois in a short time.
-Henry Neil, of Wayne county, had a fine mare killed by lightning
last week.
-T.P. Shontz came in and spent Sunday at home. The company have
just finished up a line of road from Marshalltown to Hampton.
-The Legislature cannot be accused of gerrymandering the
Senatorial districts. Appanoose and Monroe make one district
which is by no means a sure one.
-Venner predicts unusual storms of wind, snow and rain for March.
We're glad of it, because Venner's predictions, like dreams, are
very apt to turn out opposite.
-From two to three thousand tons of potatoes are shipped to this
country a week from Europe at the present time, also large
quantities of other vegetables such as cabbage, turnips, carrots,
celery &c.
-Dr. Sturdevant is now a resident of Centerville, having moved
into his new house on South Main St. The Dr. has one of the
finest houses in the City, and will no doubt ornament his grounds
to correspond.
-The people of Corydon propose to have coal or know the reason
why. The people of that town have raised five hundred dollars,
and the town has appropriated an equal sum out of the town
treasury, to be expended in prospecting for the "black
diamonds."
-D.M. Hiatt started Monday for Southern Nebraska, or Northern
Kansas, where he intends staying the present year. His health has
not been very good for some time and a change of climate might be
beneficial.
-Lay in your Clover and Timothy seed now, at Merritt Bros.
-Butter has been so scarce for the last week that people have
forgot what good butter ought to taste like, consequently
anything that is solid in a roll goes rapidly. Bring on your
oleomargarine.
-John D. Stewart and family left last Monday night for Pratt
county, Kansas, where he intends to make his future home. Two of
the boys already reside there, Will, and George, who is Recorder
of Pratt county at the present time.
-Senter Payton and B.S. Spooner left Saturday night to join a
theatrical company at Greenfield, Adair County. We are not
informed as to just what company. Senter has worked up quite a
reputation as an actor, which seems to suit him better than
sticking type whether it is more profitable or not.
-New and used hand furniture for sale at the Bankrupt Store.
-The T.L. Walsh Combination gave a week's entertainment at
Russell's Hall last week to rather poor houses. The troupe is
composed of some very good actors, and they played a very good
selection of pieces, most of which had been played here before,
however. From some cause or other the company did not seem to
take very well, none of their plays being a decided hit. It is
doubtful if they made expenses here.
-Clover and Timothy seed for sale at Merritt Bros.
-The second quarterly meeting of the Jerome circuit will be held
at camden, March 4th and 5th, beginning Saturday at 2 p.m.
Quarterly conference at 3 p.m. Saturday. W.G. Wilson P.E. will be
present.- R.W. Thornbaugh, Pastor.
List of marriage license issued since Feb. 15th:
C.S. Smith and S.L. Silknitter,
Geo. A. Groh and Mary E. Ketchem,
Chas. A. Hicks and H.E. Baldridge,
Thomas Swearngin and Ida Potteroff,
Martin Lambert and Lena Reynolds,
Daniel Russell and Matilda Stewart,
A.E. Harriosn and Ida Parkinson,
Louis Hollenbeck and Matilda Davis,
Sylvester Davis and Emma Marshall.
-District Court convenes Monday, Judge Burton presiding.
-Louis Niveth, the jeweler has been on the sick list for the past
week.
-A. Fowler, a former resident of Centerville, now of Albany Mo.,
was in town this week.
-A child of S.L. Harvey, aged about one year, is very sick at the
present time with congestion of the lungs.
-Seth B. Stanton has returned from a visit to the Eldorado
Springs, Mo., where he has been some time for his health. He
comes back looking as though he had found the fabled "Waters
of Youth."
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Died, at his home in Douglas township,
Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, Noah Jackson aged 34, from the effects of
vaccination. Mr. Jackson it seems had been vaccinated in three
places at the same time all of which ran together swelling his
arm and one side of his body to such an extent as to produce
death. Several other persons in the neighborhood are seriously
sick from the same cause, also two children of M. Jackson,
brother of the deceased.
Deceased came to this county about twenty-five years ago, a small
boy, and has been a resident of the county ever since. He was
unmarried, living with his mother and step-father who depended on
him to a great extent for support. He was an industrious and
saving young man, having by hard work and economy succeeded in
placing himself in comfortable circumstances. He was a young man
of good moral character and highly respected, without an enemy in
the world.
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Late one night last week the attention of one of our citizens was
arrested by a noise in his wood-pile, and, hastily drawing on a
pair of trousers, he lost no time in endeavoring to prevent the
escape of the fiend who was illegally appropriating his
stove-wood. Notwithstanding the night was dark, an object
resembling a man lying as close to the ground as possible, was
visible. Our citizen thought, no doubt, that he would make an
example of this thief, who, he supposed, had been frequenting his
wood-house on other occasions, and accordingly quarantined his
wood-pile with members of the family and demanded his shot gun,
which was brought-and-and-have any of our citizens heard of the
occurrence? That citizen fired and missed-what? the thief? No; it
was one of his finest porkers! At the earnest solicitation of the
party, we withhold the name.-Unionville Republican.
Cincinnati Items.
Cincinnati, Iowa, March 1, 1882.
Ed. Times:-The short month of February has flown and
left to us the month of March and the rest of the year. Although
spring, gentle Anne, did seem so near a week or so ago, it doth
now seem that she is not.
P.J. Stevenson has purchased the lot of the late J.A. Chambers
and is having the same made ready for a residence.
Dr. C.W. Banning has removed with his family to St. John Mo., and
expects to engage in practice there, and as Dr. Sturdivant has
removed to your place it only leaves our town with two
physicians.
Mrs. Mary Dodsill, wife of James Dodsill, of Mendota, Mo., and
daughter of Mrs. Martha Underwood, of this place, departed this
life and was buried here a few days ago.
A. Root was in Keokuk and Madison on business last week.
The committee for raising funds for the new church report slow
progress, having at present only secured one half of the amount
needed.
W.S. McDonald, of Green City, Mo., formerly of this place, is to
be married to-day to Miss Louie M. daughter of Col. O.P.
Phillips, of Green City, Mo.
From Polo.
Polo, Iowa, Feb. 28th, 1882
Ed. Times:-The good citizens of our town was all out in
full force yesterday making side walk and will follow it up until
all our main streets will have good substantial walks.
O.B. Bear, Seth Baker and George Andrew, are each building a fine
residence.
J.S. Wakefield, our Justice of the peace, has purchased a lot,
and we expect to soon have a court of our own.
The M.E. quarterly meeting will be held at Camden Chapel,
Saturday and Sunday.
B.B. Baker has returned from St. Louis.
Mr. Samuel Haught is quite sick.
Our School, under the able management of Mrs. A.J. Stone is
giving entire satisfaction, and the scholars are progressing
finely.
The muddy roads make trade slack and even news items scarce.
Butter is high, and all kinds of vegetables are scarce, except
hominy.
Professors W.C. Milligan and J.H. Inskeep will teach a class in
vocal music at the Camden Chapel.
D.H. Bussy is moving to his new home in Wayne County.
The bulleton boards for the last ten days, don't show any change
in the name of our much named town. The city fathers have taken
the matter under consideration, and propose to give us a good
strong name that will not need changing again.-SIZZ.
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The Centerville Times
Centerville, Appanoose co Iowa
Thursday, March 9, 1882
OBITUARY
EDWARDS--At his residence in Moulton, Iowa on Friday, March 3,
1882 Capt. Nelson W. Edwards, of congestive chills. He was born
Sept. 22nd. 1839 in Macomb county, Mich. moved to Iowa near
Council Bluffs in 1858 and enlisted in the 15th Iowa volunteer
Inf't from that place in the fall of 1861 and served in that
noble regiment to the end of the war, rising to the rank of
Captain, and after his return home he was engaged in railroad
building in north Mo. At Lineus. In 1870 he married Mrs.
Pendleton, whose first husband was shot down on the streets of
Lineus, during the war, by the Confederates. He moved to Moulton
about the year 1871
and engaged in the business of carpenter and builders, and
afterwards was editor of the Moulton Record and did good
service for the republican party, making it one of the best
papers ever published in the county. His pen was a sharp lance in
the local politics of the county, making the paper popular with
all classes in the county. In the year 1876 he was admitted to
the bar as a practicing attorney in this county and enjoyed a
fair local practice. His wife and five children survive him, the
oldest being ten years of age and the baby nine months old, his
family has the sympathy of the whole community.
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