Iowa
Old Press
Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson co. Iowa
March 10, 1898
Union Veteran Union
The Union Veteran Union, their wives and daughters, and the Sons
of Veterans, had a basket picnic in Priaulx Hall, Friday evening.
Those who attended report a good time. The following was
unanimously adopted:
“Maquoketa, Iowa, March 4, 1898.
To William McKinley
President of the United States
We, the members of the R. M. Anderson Camp No. 4, Union Veteran
Union, Department of Iowa, send hearty greetings, and in case of
war with Spain or any other power, freely offer our services to
uphold honor to Old Glory.
J. Y. Buchanan, Adjutant”
[Transcribed by K.W., May 2011]
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Jackson Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson co. Iowa
March 24, 1898
Brown’s Hotel Torn Down
The project of tearing down the old frame building known as
“Brown’s Hotel,” and which stood in the alley at
the rear of the residence of Mrs. Schaub, has been under
consideration for several weeks and was accomplished the latter
part of last week. The history of this building is so well known
and has been so much written of that a further recital here is
unnecessary. It was built by the notorious W. W. Brown in 1837
and was the main part of the old original Brown’s Hotel in
which the “Bellevue War” took place three years later.
It was constructed of solid brick masonry, with hewn oak studding
and butternut weatherboarding, and although having defied the
storms of over sixty years would have remained standing for many
more had it not been torn down. It was unquestionably the oldest
frame building in the state.
[Transcribed by K.W., November 2010]