Iowa
Old Press
North Iowa Times
McGregor, Clayton co. Iowa
August 10, 1864
NOTICE! Is hereby given that my wife, Marilla
Wisemiller, left my bed and board on the 8th inst., without cause
or provocating, and I hereby warn all parties against trusting or
harboring her on my account, for I will not be held responsible
for any debts of her contracting.
Joseph Wisemiller.
PUBLIC NOTICE. Whereas, my wife, C. Agusta F.
Newcomb, has left my bed and board without any provaction, now I
do hereby notify all persons whomsoever from harboring or
trusting her on my account from and after this date, as I will
not pay any debts of her contracting.
M.S.J. Newcomb.
FOUND! On Main Street, a lot of Jewelry, which
the owner can have by calling at this office, proving property
and paying for this advertisement.
LIST OF LETTERS remaining unclaimed in the Post
Office at McGregor, State of Iowa, 9th day of August, 1864. To
obtain any of these tetters, the applicant must call for
'advertised letters,' giving the day of this list and pay one
cent for advertising. If not called for within one month, they
will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. Free Delivery of letters
by carriers, at the residence of owner, in cities and large
towns, may be secured by observing the following rules:
1. Direct the letters plainly t the street and No., as well as
the post office and state.
2. Head letters with the writer's Post Office and State, street
and number, sign them plainly with full name, and request that
answers be directed accordingly.
3. Letters to strangers or transient visitors in town or city,
whose special address may be unknown, should be marked in the
lower left hand corner, with the word "Transient".
4. Place the postage stamp on the upper right-hand corner, and
leave space between the stamp and direction for post-marking
without interfering with the writting.
N.R. -- A request for the return of a letter to the writer, if
unclaimed within 30 days or less, written or printed with the
writter's name, post office, and state, across the left-hand end
of the envelope, on the [illegible] side, will be complied with
at the usual repaid rate of postage, payable when the letter is
delivered to the writer. -- Sec. 28, Law of 1803.
W.A. Benton, P.M.
Alson, Miss Julia
Buffington, G.A. (2)
Barnes, Jas Monroe
Barnhart, Miss Rachel
Bradley, Henry
Breslin, Miss Minnie
Brooks, Miss Ann
Breslaue, Mautice
Burge, George
Brown, J.A.
Chas, C.A.
Conbill, Jno
Conner, Joana
Crosby, S.C.
Caldwell, Jno M.
Connery, Catharine
Dean, Miss Alice
Davis, Alferd
Detle & Meyer
Greene, Stephen
Gravis, H.D.
Hazell [or Hazett], Mr. H.M.
Hutton, J. F.
Herron, [illegible initials]
Harvey, Renshaw
Hanny, Burnett
Jewell, Miss Fanny T.
May, Miss N.
Martin, A.M.
Meyer, Bertha
Mills, H.S.
Nolt, Miss Elizabeth
Neff, Mrs. C.A. [or O.A.]
Norriss, B.F.
Osborn, Mrs. Sarah
Peterson, Miss Jenny
Pratt, A.B.
Rounds, J.C.
Strasburg, Deitrick
Stone, W.W.
St. Jno, Mrs. Esther C.
St. John, J.R.
St. John, Caroline
Sarden, Geo. R.
Trasset, Ingebourg
Tewis [or Tewiz]
Williams, Wm. A. (2)
Williams
[transcribers note: the above list was very difficult to read
from the microfilm so the reader should expect errors]
DIED.
-On the 2d Inst, in this city, Katie M., only daughter of Col. S.
and Elizabeth Merrill, of Cholera Infantum, aged 9 months and 4
days.
-In this city, on the 7th, of consumption, Wm. H., infant son of
Chas. and Dorcas McDowell, aged 2 months.
-In this city, Friday the 5th, of general debility, Uvendale
Forsha, formerly of New York City, aged 48 years and 22 days. The
deceased has been a resident of this city for several years, and
by his quiet manner and industrious habits, won the esteem of all
who knew him. He leaves an estimable wife and two children who
have the sympathy of the entire community.
--
A local column of the Nonpariel, Council Bluffs, has an
article signed "Many Ladies" and we guess there exists
a sort of feller feeling betwixt some one or more of the many and
said local -- which, after thanking the authorities for sundry
improvements made on the thoroughfares of that city, in a manner
very neatly done, says:
"We have serious cause of complaint against our authorities
for suffering so large a crop of burs and noxious weeds to grow
up all along our streets and vacant lots. In the fall and winter,
after these burs have shed their seed, we are seriously annoyed
by them whenever we go out. It is mortifying and vexatipus, after
returning from a promenade or from church, to find our skirts
caught up in fanciful festoons, and drawn into varous
unfashionable and unsightly forms. And then the time consumed in
picking them out -- and the pricking of fingers in the operation!
-- altogether we feel it a serious grievance that should be
abated. Women pay taxes for improvements, and in no way could the
money be better applied to promote their comfort and pleasure
than in employing a few men with good scythes to lay these
enemies to our peace low on the ground, now in their blossoming
time. Is it too much for us to ask that this be done?"
And this is your fast town, the lion of the western border of
Iowa, is it? There may be a good chance for "burs and
noxious weeds" to vegitate in the streets of McGregor, but
we can't see it. If said truant local will visit the home of his
youth we will show him a city wherein the streets are free from
all, except a busy, commerce which ceases only when the darkness
ties it up until aurora begins to light the eastern skies again.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]