Iowa Old Press

Dyersville Commercial
Dyersville, Dubuque, Iowa
Thursday, June 19, 1873

IOWA ITEMS
The Boone County Republican says J. Prescott ELDRIDGE is a humbug. My!

Colonel SANFORD will lecture in Fort Dodge on the 9th, 10th and 11th.

Isaac S. STRUBLE has been appointed County Attorney of Plymouth County.

Thomas Francis HEALY, County Superintendant of Schools for Allamakee County,
died recently at his home in Lansing.

The Des Moines Register is not prepared to believe that Mr. ALLEN is to
remove to Chicago. The news is too sad for Des Moines.

A little son of Fred HUCKA, aged 3 years of Calhoun County, was so severely
stung by bees that he died in twenty minutes.

A social event in Keokuk the marriage of Ed. ALEXANDER, of St. Louis, and
Miss Mollis BURKETT, of the former city.

Geo. WILD of Dubuque must be a big man. He says he is accused of seeking to
fill his pockets "out of the people" of that city.

A little daughter of James KEPHART was drowned at Farley last Thursday, by
falling into a kettle. The child was a little over a year old.

An article in the Dubuque Herald places Mrs. E.S. TUPPER and Mrs. Annie
SAVERY at the forefront of the column of Iowa female writers.

Le Mars Liberal: "Alexander JOHNSON, proprietor of the town site of
Calliope, will soon have the site surveyed and laid off in lots."

Mayor PEARSON of Fort Dodge has withdrawn its patronage from the Times, but
the Times isn't going to "swerve neither to the right nor the left."

Thomas WILSON, claiming to represent a Dubuque boot and shoe house, arrested
in Manchester and was lodged in jail at Delhi.

Captain J.H. CLARKE, of Jefferson, has been appointed Mail Agent on the Des
Moines Valley, between Des Moines and Fort Dodge, in place of M.W. Wells,
resigned.

Emile GUILLIEN hung himself to a tree in his brother's orchard in Dubuque
County. His dead body was discovered the following day. Whiskey the probable
cause.

A girl baby was picked up at the door of Col. Aaron BROWN, Commissioner of
the State Land Office, last Thursday. Prove property and take it away says
the Colonel.

Submitted by: C.J.L