Iowa
Old Press
Boone County Republican
Boone, Boone co., Iowa
July 15, 1885
L.A. Rice, a tin peddler from Boone county, was fined $60 by
Justice Thayer of Ames Monday for selling whiskey and in default
of payment was committed to jail - Ames Intelligencer
The Marshall Times-Republican'says that recently Mr.
James McComb's spotted pony ran away with him and his daughter
Sallie, but that as good luck would have it, neither were
seriously injured. They are the father and sister of our Mr. Will
McCombs.
Mr. N.H. Capron, the artistic painter, has a new advertisement in
this issue. Mr. C. has made painting a study and was in Chicago
the past winter taking lessons in the artistic branches of the
work. He also does wood engraving.
Last week, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wells moved into their new home, the
elegant new Wells House that stands forth now in all its
metropolitan beauty. It is a most magnificent hotel building and
is a structure that every citizen of Boone will feel pride in.
Invitations are out for the opening on July 22nd.
After the afternoon performance at Jefferson, the entire company
of Sells Brother's Circus, formed and headed by a brass band,
marched to the rave of the famous showman, Yankee Robinson, who
died and was buried at Jefferson last winter. An oration was
delivered by one of the showman, and $85 given to the Mayor for
purchasing a monument.
Sheriff Webb returned from a trip to the Joliet, Ills., prison on
Saturday bringing with him George Adair to answer to an
indictment for horse stealing. The offense for which Adair is
indicted was committed four years ago, the horse stolen being the
property of Mr. King, then a Northwestern railroad engineer at
Moingona, and now a resident of Carroll. Adair escaped capture
but his felonious ways afterwards led him into the Joliet
penitentiary under a two year sentence for burglary. His
anticipations of liberty at the close of his term there were
suddenly blighted when he found, much to his surprise, a Boone
Sheriff in waiting to become his escort in consequence of his
former, and, as he supposed, forgotten crime.
Railway Notes
-Engine 271, which Tom Savage thinks is the boss, is in
the shop for general repairs.
-Johnny Granson has just taken the 442 out of the shop, where she
has been for a few weeks past for repairs.
-Conductor McFarland, who has been employed on the C. & N.W.
for two years past has resigned. He went West last Saturday.
-Fred Cheney, an old conductor of the C. & N.W. R'y, but now
of the Kansas Southern R'y, is in Boone visiting old friends.
-Conductor Chas. Hamling is running the short run passenger
between Missouri Valley and Council Bluffs, while conductor
Shropshire is taking a vacation.
Minor Mention
-Miss Jessie Havens is visiting with friends in Nevada.
-Drs. Theo. and D.N. DeTarr, both support new road carts.
-Mr. C.S. Mason and family are in New Hampshire.
-H.H. Otis has made his visit to Ohio and is back home again.
-Miss Mattie Davenport of Watertown, New York is visiting Mrs.
L.J. Farrow of this city.
-S.M. Child, a brother of Mrs. S.S. Webb has been appointed
postmaster at Atlantic, Iowa.
-Charles Baker, who has been in Kansas for several months, making
a farm, has returned again to Boone.
-Mrs. W.M. Smith, of Milford, Iowa, near Spirit Lake, with her
child is here visiting her mother, Mrs. J.L. Jaynes.
-A young lad named Sweeney, living near John Ivis' in Harrison
township got a broken arm on Sunday and Dr. Rowe set it.
-J.O. Barnes is now taking a god deal of pains in training his
fine colt, which is a half brother of the wonderful J.I.C.
-Asa Coppoe, so well known in tonsorial circles has sold and
closed out his business to the new men at the Wells House barber
shop.
-The law and private library of the late Judge I.J. Mitchel will
be sold at private sale. Parties desiring to purchase any of
these books will please call on W.B. Means.
-E.E. Chandler and family have returned from a visit to his old
mountain home in New Hampshire, and reports a pleasant time
fishing for the game trout in the mountain brooks and visiting
the scenes of his boyhood.
-John Howell, one of the saloonists recently raided, was arrested
this week and his trial on Monday. The verdict was "not
guilty."
-Miss Gertrude Hogan, who accompanied her mothers' remains to
this place, has been visiting friends for a few days. She has
become very proficient in musical culture, and has accepted a
situation as assistant principal in the Chicago musical Academy,
at a good salary.
Obituary
On Sunday morning at two o'clock, there arrived on the
train from the east, the remains of Mrs. Harriett M. Hogan,
accompanied by her two daughters, Mrs. J.B. Murdough and Gertrude
Hogan, and the son-in-law Mr. Murdough. A telegram to the above
effect has been received by their friend Jacob Stevens Esq. and
to whose house they were all taken. The funeral was held at the
Universalist church, Sunday afternoon, Rev. Brunning officiating,
a large congregation being present.
Mrs. Hogan was formerly a resident of Boone. At her death she was
at south Englewood, Illinois. She had been quite unwell since the
first of May, last, but on Monday July 6th, was attacked with
acute peretonitis and died Friday, July 10th, aged fifty-five
years and eleven months.
Death
Mr. Keilier, the father of Pat Keilier, living near
Midway, died on Saturday of cancer, and was buried from the
Catholic church on Sunday.
Notice
July 17th, 1885, ordered by the Board of Health of
Jackson township, Boone County, Iowa, that the bodies of all
persons who have died from small-pox, scarlet fever or
diphtheria, must, before removal from the sick roon, be wrapped
in a cloth saturated with solution of corrosive sublimate, sixty
grains to one gallon of water, then tightly sealed in a coffin
and buried immediately. No public funeral shall be held of any
person who has died from small-pox, scarlet fever or diptheria.
David Mullinix
Township Clerk
Attention! Company"D"
The Third Annual Re-Union of Company D, 32d Regiment of
Iowa Infantry will be held in the Court House Square, in
Boonsboro, Iowa, on Saturday, August 8th, 1885. It is to be hoped
that ever surviving member will be in attendance with is family.
Two of our members have been taken away by death since our annual
meeting, viz: Sargeant S.B. Jewett and Isaac W. Hughes.
We will have a basket pic-nic, so report with one days' rations
in your "haversack."
W.D Templin, Pres.
J.B. Hurlbert, Sec'y
Card of Thanks
I wish to express my thanks to all, who so generously
contributed towards getting me an Invalid Reclining Chair, also
to the friends and neighbors, who have so kindly remembered me in
many ways during the past two years.
Mrs. L.A. Nims
[transcribed by S.F., August 2015]