Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Iowa
January 4, 1879

Western Patents

     The following western patents were issued from the United States patent office for the week ending November 19, 1878, as reported for THE HAWKEYE from the western patent office agency by W.B. Richards, Galesburg, Illinois:
     IOWA.
Corn planter- Michael Martichang, Denmark township, Lee county.
Double-acting force pumps- E.L. Spencer, Iowa City.
Heating dromes-W.F. Barker, Lemars.
Sad-iron heaters- George Fencil, Dubuque.
Carriage tops- John Kuntz, Dubuque.
Combined land roller and clod crusher-R.A. Rynerson, Bowen's Prairie.

The Mount Pleasant Seminary Reorganized.
     and fully equipped- offers advantages for the advanced culture of ladies (only), in solid and ornamental studies, unsurpassed to the west. The second term of twenty weeks, opens February 3, 1879, expenses eighty-five dollars. Correspondence solicited.
     Rev. L.B.W. Shryock, A.M. Supt.
    Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.