Iowa
Old Press
Clayton County Herald
Garnavillo, Clayton co. Iowa
April 14, 1854
Take Warning!
We notice in our Iowa exchange, accounts of many robberies. In
Iowa City, one night last week, the stable of Mr. Geo. Lienknecht
was entered and two valuable horses were stolen. The robbers then
proceeded to Vanfleet's livery stable and took the necessary
amount of harness. They next appropriated a buggy belonging to
Mr. Dye, Engineer of the Davenport Railroad, and finally armed
themselves with two double barreled guns from the show of Mr.
Henn. Officers have gone in pursuit of the scoundrels, with some
hope of success, we understand.
Moral: Keep your doors and windows well fastened when this don't
answer, keep firearms, bowie knives and bull dogs. -Dubuque
Tribune
Notice.
Next Sunday, the 16th inst., at 4 o'clock, P.M, I will give a
lecture at the Court House in Garnavillo. M. Briant.
Clerical Notice.
I will lecture in Clayton on Sunday, April 23d, at 1 o'clock,
P.M. Subject will be the holding in question the divinity and
morality of the Old and New Testament; the discourse will be
directed especially to the believers in its divinity. J. Warner.
Married.
On the 5th inst, by E.G. Rolf, J.P., Mr. Elisha B. Downie and
Miss Mary E. Follett, both of this county.
On the same day, at the residence of Henry Bowman, by Philip
Fishel, J.P., Mr. James Burnathe and Miss Clarissa Wiltse, both
of this county.
On the 6th inst., in Garnavillo, by Rev. O. Littlefield, Mr. John
Partch and Miss Sylva A. Larusor, both of Elkader.
On the 8th just, by Rev. A. Bishop, Mr. Jack Chase and Miss
Elizabeth Richardson.
To All Whom it May Concern:
Whereas Polly Eastman has this day applied to the County Court
for the appointment of Referees to set off her dower in the
Estate of Peter Eastman, deceased, to wit: the E 1/2 of the NE
1/4 of Section 32, Township 95 NOrth, of Range 3, west of the 5th
p.m., Notice is here by given that said application will be heard
on the First Monday of May next, and if no sufficient objection
appear thereto Referees will be appointed for that purpose.
Elias H. Williams, Co. Judge, Clayton Co. April 10, '54
To John Loyed.
Sir: You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the
office of the Clerk of the District Court in Clayton county,
Iowa, a petition of Jane Loyed, claiming a divorce from you, and
that if you do not appear and answer thereto on or before the
morning of the second day of the next term of the District Court,
a decree will be rendered against you thereon. Jane Loyed. by
O.F. Stevens, Att'y.
Notice of Partition.
To Barton Sparks, Allen Sparks, Joseph Sparks, Jas. H. Sparks,
Henry Sparks, William Sparks, John Sparks, Elizabeth Sparks, Mary
Sparks, Rebecca More and your husband, Patsey Yates and your
husband, Harriet Dickson and your husband:
You are hereby notified that on or before the 20th day of April,
1854, there will be on file in the office of the Clerk of the
District Court of Clayton County, a petition of Cyrus Sparks,
asking for a partition of the following lands, to wit:
The NE 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of section 2; the W 1/2 of the NW 1/4 of
section 3, and the N 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of section 4, Town 95, R
4; and the SW 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of section 35, T 95, Range 4, of
which with him you are tenants in common, being heirs of James
Sparks, late of Clayton county, deceased, and unless you appear
and answer thereto on or before the first day of the next term of
the District Couurt of said county, to be holden at Garnavillo,
judgment will be rendered against you in the premises. Cyrus
Sparks, PPff. April 14, 1854.
To William Curry.
You are hereby notified that on or before the 20th day of April,
1854, there will be on file in the office of the Clerk of the
District Court in Clayton county, Iowa, a petition of Samuel A.
Clark, asking that the W 1/2 of the NE 1/4, and the E 1/2 of the
NW 1/4 of section 33, T 94, R 4, be sold to pay him the sum of
two hundred dollars, you and he sustaining, the relations thereto
of Mortgagor and Mortgagee, by an assignment by you of a bond for
a deed of said land from John Thompson, to secure the payment of
sixty-two dollars and thirty-six cents, executed on the 25th day
of October, 1853, and by you delivered to said Clark.
And you are hereby further notified to produce on the hearing of
said petition the bond made and delivered to you by said Clark,
on the day aforesaid, for a deed to you of said land.
And unles you appear and answer thereto on or before the 1st day
of the next term of the District Court of said county, judgment
will be rendered against you in the premises. Samuel A. Clark.
April 14, 1854.
Notice.
The co-partnership heretofore existing between the subscribers
expired by limitation on the 1st day of April, 1854. All persons
having claims of whatsoever nature against the Firm, or either of
them, are notified that they will be paid on presentation.
Persons indebted to us will find their accounts made out to the
1st of April, and will confer a favor by arranging them as early
as convenient. Freeman & Lawrence.
New Arrangements.
Arrangements have been made with Mr. Husennetter, the owner of
the Ferry at Millville, for all Mill Teams to cross free of
ferriage during the coming summer. Geo. W. Mills, Millville,
March 21, 1854.
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Clayton County Herald
Garnavillo, Clayton co. Iowa
April 21, 1854
Married.
At Elkader, on the 19th inst. by V.R. Miller, J.P., Mr. George
Bowhanan, of McGregor, and Miss Anna Garber, of Clayton county.
Poisoned! On the 11th inst. at Hardin, Allamakee
county, Miss Achsa Jane, daughter of Jeremiah and Mary Prescott,
formerly of Newport, Maine, was poisoned by eating wild parsnip
in mistake for wild artichoke. She lived about an hour after
eating the poison. Miss P. was 16 years of age.
[transcription note: Achsa Jane Prescott is listed in "Burial Grounds of Allamakee co." by D. Woodmansee; as being buried in Hardin cemetery. Woodmansee gives her birth date as June 11, 1835 but erroneously gives date of death as April 11, 1861. The error in the death date possibly being due to difficulty in reading the inscription on the stone.]
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Garnavillo Herald
Garnavillo, Clayton co. Iowa
April 28, 1854
Married.
At Farmersburg, on the 12th inst., by Isaac A. Stoddard, J.P.,
Mr. Allen M. Cortis and Miss Ann Smith, both of Farmersburg.
Notice to Mr. Jonathan Terrell.
Sir - YOu are hereby notified that there is now on file in the
Clerk's office of the District Court of Fayette county, Iowa, a
petition of William Montgomery, claiming of you one hundred
dollars and interest at ten per cent per annum since March 28,
1850, and that unless you appear and answer thereto on or before
the 12th day of June, 1854, judgment will be rendered against you
theron. William Montgomery, Plaintiff, West Union, April 28,
1854.
Notice.
To Ninerva Parker, William W. Mann, Rebecca F. Mann, Peter
Lagrange, Sarah Lagrange, Marvin Mann, John Mann, Edward Mann,
Eliza Longley, Amos C. Osburn and Harriet Osburn, heirs of Samuel
A. Matthews, deceased:
You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office
of the Clerk of the District Court in Clayton County, Iowa, a
petition of Isaac Mathews, averring tat the said Samuel A.
Mathews in his lifetime, to wit, on the 10th day of January,
1853, sold for a good consideration the s.w.1/4 of the n.w. 1/4
of section 33, town 95N, range 4W, to the petitioner; and that
the deed executed by the said Samuel A. Mathews in pursuance of
said sale to the petitioner, through the mistake of both the
parties to the same, does not describe said land, but instead
thereof describes and conveys the s.e.1/4 of the n.w.1/4 of said
section, township and range. The petition prays that the mistake
be rectified, and that you may be required to convey your
interest in the first described land to the petitioner. And
unless you appear and answer thereto on or before the morning of
the second day of the next Term of said Court, a decree will be
rendered against you thereon. Isaac Mathews, plaintiff. Noble for
pl'ff.
Valuable Town Property For Sale at Clayton, Iowa
The subscriber offers his Store and Lot, and Dwelling House and
Lot, situated in the thriving village of Clayton, for sale on
reasonable terms. The buildings are all new. The Dwelling House
was built last summer and the Store in 1851. Also - 240 acres of
valuable land, lying near the Town. For further particulars
enquire of H.S. Granger at Garnavillo, or of the subscriber on
the premises. John H. Dunkin, Clayton, April 14, 1854.
To Ellen Gould.
Madam: You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the
office of the Clerk of the District Court in Clayton county,
Iowa, a petition of Solomon Gould, claiming a divorce from you,
and that unless you appear and answer thereto on or before the
morning of the second day of the next term of said Court, a
decree will be rendered against you thereon. Solomon Gould, Pl'ff
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Miller & Bass, McGregor's Landing - Dealers in Stoves, Stove
Pipe, Tin and Copper Ware. We also manufacture all kinds of Tin,
Sheet Iron, and Copperware, and will attend to all calls which we
may have for tinning roofs, spires, and putting up eave troughts,
at as low rates as any one in this county or Dubuque.
E.G. Rolf, Elkader, having removed to his New Store, is now
receiving a very large stock of goods, consisting in part of the
following, which will be sold as Cheap, or Cheaper than any stock
in Northern Iowa:
Prints, ginghams, mous de laines, black silk, white goods, brown
& bleached sheetings, tics, striped shirting, denims, blue
drills, canton and wool flannels, shirtings, apron and furniture
checks, printed swiss, printed jaconets and lawns, alpacas,
hucknebuck and birdway diapers, linen table damask, broadclorhs,
fancy cassimeres, linen drills, needles, pins, combs, tapes,
braids, buttons, ribbons, elastics, hosiery - also, a good stock
of groceries, boots and shoes, hardware, crockery, &c
H.J. Goff & Co., Confectioners and Manufactureres of Candies
of all kinds, and Dealers in all kinds of Family Groceries, Green
and Dried Fruits, Wood and Willow Ware. H.J. Goff & B.F.
Stephenson, Dubuque, Iowa
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