Iowa
Old Press
The Oelwein Register
Oelwein, Fayette Co., Iowa
March 3, 1892
Column One
OELWEIN, IOWA, Mar. 3, 1892
-Pitt has a change of ad.
-Fresh fruits at the Bon Ton.
-Ordinances 48 and 49 in this issue. Read them.
-J. Mealey is agent for Butterick patterns, the best in use.
-Mr. Benham's sale was well attended Tuesday and articles sold
well.
-A new line of J. L. Stifel & Sons extra weight dress prints
at Mealey's.
-N. B. Ross, of Waverly, a cousin of E. N. Ross, visited family
Tuesday.
-Gents call at Mealey's and see his natural all wool socks for 25
cents, worth 35 cents.
-Call and see my black dress goods before purchasing elsewhere.
J. Mealey.
-WANTED. -Houses, rooms and farms to rent. We receive
applications daily for them. Belt & Kint, Real Estate
headquarters.
-Those Gent's calf-skin mittens for 25 cents at Mealey's are
certainly an agreeable surprise for any one wanting a good mitten
for half price.
-C. A. Cramer and G. B. Listerbarger, who purchased the old
Simpson place of G. W. Jamison last Fall, have moved on the farm.
They hail from Story county.
-Dr. W. H. Banton, one of the leading young doctors of Blackhawk
county, was found dead in his bed at Cedar Falls Saturday
morning. No known cause of death.
-C. H. Hunt, a land agent of Superior, Iowa, was a caller Tuesday
afternoon, being in this section trying to interest people into
investing in lands in that part of the State.
-E. R. Bicknel, formerly mail agent on the Kansas City road
between Sumner and Hampton, died very suddenly at Madison City
last Saturday night. He had been affected with consumption and
his death was caused by hemorrhage.
-John Bailey and family started Monday for Superior, Dickinson
county, Iowa, where they will make their future home, be having
purchased a farm there. Their friends here trust they may be
prospered in their new home.
-Mrs. L. A. Hurd, of Independence, has been making her daughter
Mrs. E. Z. Cross, a visit. On her arrival here she found Mrs.
Cross quite sick, as the result of falling down stairs. She was
retiring for the night and in some way slipped and fell, injuring
herself quite severely. She is now around the house again.
Miss Emma Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Miller, of this
place was married last week Wednesday at Hazelton by Rev. S. C.
Platts, to Mr. D. M. Auten, of Winthrop. The young couple came
here and remained with the bride's parents until Tuesday when
they went to their home on a farm two miles south of Winthrop.
Miss Miller has made quite a number of friends during her short
stay among us and their best wishes accompany her to her new
home.
The Kansas City railway company should place a culvert underneath
their tracks near the water tank so that the water which
accumulates at the foot of Oscar street might run off. As it is
now there is a large pond of water accumulated there, and as the
company has obstructed the natural flow by their tracks and
grade, they should provide some means for drainage. This matter
should be looked after as a good share of the drainage from
Frederick street and the town in the vicinity of the Winslow
House drains, naturally toward the depression north of the round
house. An outlet should be made for it this spring.
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OELWEIN, IOWA
-Citizens caucus to-night.
-Nice lunches at the Bon Ton.
-Home made candy at the Bon Ton.
-Dispatcher Gallivan is in Chicago visiting his family.
-If your boots or shoes need repairing take them to the Oelwein
shoe store.
-Geo. D. Thompson has sold to G. A. Oelwein the B1/2 B W 22-9 for
$3,500.
-Ladies silk handkerchiefs, embroidered, for 25 cents, worth 40,
at Mealey's.
-H. R. Martin made a business trip to Eldorado and West Union the
first of the week.
-J. C. Knapp was confined to the house by illness two or three
days the first of the week.
-The Lenten season has commenced. Yesterday was Ash Wednesday,
the first day of Lent.
-Elder Thomas Blake will preach at the Bennett school house, next
Sunday at 11 o'clock.
-Subscriptions received for any periodical published in the U, S,
or Canada, at the Magnet.
-The recorded Oelwein real estate transfers last week were five
in number and aggregated $3,275.
-The parties who went to Des Moines to attend the conductors ball
say they had a very pleasant time.
-Ed Lawrence had several of his fingers badly cut in a buzz saw
last week, and is now carrying his arm in a sling.
-W. G. Hunter and Emmett Smith went to St. Paul this morning to
see John L. Sullivan, who is playing there this week.
-Do you want something nice in the dress goods line for out door
wear? If so call and see Fels, Corkey & Co.'s new stock.
-Mr. and Mrs. Stinson were entertained at cards at the home of
Agent Smith's last evening and had a very pleasant time.
-Abe Bentley and L. S. Hamlin have purchased a well drilling
machine outfit. Give them a call when wanting a well put down.
-A citizens caucus will be held in Phillips opera house to-night
to nominate candidates for the city offices to be filled next
Monday.
-Fayette County is entitled to thirteen delegates to the coming
republican convention to be held at Des Moines on March 17th.
-Charles Hepner, a wealthy farmer living five miles north of
Cedar Rapids, dropped dead Saturday night, not having been
previously ill at all.
-Dispatcher Tomlinson and family returned from Terre Haute, last
Monday, where he left his sick brother with little hopes of
recovery.
-Sunday was one of the busy days on the Kansas City road at this
place. Twenty-eight trains left here on that day, and 100
carloads of stock were handled.
-When you want shoes you want stylish as well as good ones,
therefore you should go to the Oelwein shoe store where M.
Fleming will fit you out in good shape.
The hearts of Mr. and Mrs. Fuller were saddened Monday. A Little
one was born to them in the morning but its span of life was very
brief, it dying in the afternoon.
An amendment to the tramp law is now before the state
legislature, that requires each city or incorporated town to care
for and impose labor on tramps arrested within their bailiwicks.
CARD OF THANKS-We desire to express our heartfelt thanks to our
friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us in the sickness,
death and burial of our beloved husband and father. Mrs. Melissa
Powers and Family.
Joseph Bancroft, of Cedar Falls, has issued a fine catalogue of
plants., vegetables, seeds, flowers, etc. of good things for all
places. He is one of the best known and most thoroughly posted
men in Iowa as a producer of flowers, plants, seeds, and
everything in his line. If in need of anything in his line send
for his catalogue.
[transcribed by C.D., January 2012]