Iowa
Old Press
The Republican Gazette
West Union, Fayette Co., Iowa
Friday, May 12, 1882
-- WEST UNION has fewer Priests than formerly.
-- Cour's circus is to be at Independence May 30.
-- JNO. SWEARENGEN was up from Oelwein Monday.
-- ED EASTON has cement and stucco to sell. See his adv.
-- Dr. HADSELL, expects to move his family from Maynard next
week.
-- E.T. KEIM, the telephone superintendent, was in this city
Wednesday
-- E.C. DICKINSON, of Co. C., 3d Iowa Inf., died at Des Moines a
few days ago.
-- J.H. LAKIN is in St Louis at the annual meeting of the Army of
the Tennessee.
-- It was our pleasure the other day to shake Frank Webb, of
Strawberry Point, here on a flying visit.
-- DAN BRUCKART, of Independence, who is to be the next Dist.
Atty. of tho district south of us, was in town Monday.
-- D.D. FINCH, Duane for short, arrived from Colorado Friday for
a visit among his hundreds of relatives aud friends.
-- THE past week was grand weather for corn planting, and was
greedily accepted by farmers all over Fayette County.
--SAM COWAN came down from Dakota last week, and is yet among us
preparing to move his family out to the new home.
--GEO BROCKWAY was down from Crane Creek Tuesday, as happy as
ever. He called here to see how a great paper is made.
--JOHN ANDRICK, the veteran editor of the McGregor Times, was in
our city Saturday, and of course found the way to this office.
--At MRS. J.W. COOK's new millinery store will be found choice
goods, good work and low prices. Wedding hats a specialty.
-- Monday our office was gladdened by a visit from J.R. McDonald
and O.G. Scriver, from Putnam. Mac makes a tour hither about once
a year, and always finds a warm welcome from his many friends in
West Union.
-- BLAKESLEY, the jeweler, had company last week; L.M. Blakesley,
a conductor on the Pittsburg & Ft. Wayne, J.W. Blakesley, and
E.M. Blakesley, train master of the Wabash, all brothers in law,
residents of Ft. Waune.
-- BLAKESLEY, the jeweler, has kept a record of every change made
in his regulator for the year last, from May 6, 1881 to May 6,
1882, and the variation amounts to only five seconds. He gets the
time about once a month from Cedar Rapids.
--Rumor says BRO. SCOBEY has been invited to deliver an oration
over the laying of the corner stone of the new jail. No fitter
choice could be made, and no one more deserves the compliment
implied than Mr. S., who has done so much for West Union.
-- FRANK THATCHER was ordered to the reform school by Judge
Granger, and taken there by Lee Desart, because of his bad habits
and viciousness. He has been leader of a gang of bad boys who
have committed petty acts of thieving during the winter, and has
begun the road that must lead to penitentiary unless he mends his
ways. His condition should be a warning to all such as need a
warning.
[transcribed by C.D., September 2017]