Iowa
Old Press
The People's Telephone
Red Oak, Montgomery co. Iowa
Wednesday, January 19, 1881
TOWN and COUNTY AFFAIRS
Gen. Remick, of Nebraska, was in the city last week.
Mr. Issac Conner, an old greenback friend, of Washington
township, looked in upon us on Tuesday and gave us some of the
needful which makes the Telephone go.
Mr. E. St. John, General Ticket Agent of the C.R.I. & P.R.R.
will accept our thanks for a couple of magnificent calenders for
1881.
Our old friend, Dr. Irwin, received a fine, large, fat, dressed
hog, last week, as a present from Mr. May, in appreciation of the
valuable services rendered by the doctor's medicines in
preventing disease among his hogs.
I want to trade a good four year old mare for a span of good work
horses or mares, to weigh not less than 1,200 to 1,400 pounds
each. Will pay the difference in cash. G. Dennis.
Al. Iddings sold 15 hogs last Monday which brought nearly two
hundred dollars, and still he is a red hot greenbacker.
H.R. Watrous says he don't care whether school keeps or not. A
bouncing boy came to his house last Friday night, and his cup of
joy is overflowing.
Death entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. C.D. Richards on last
Friday night and took away their infant son, aged about four
months. Funeral services were held at the residence on Sabbath.
Mr. L.D. Hornady has returned from Ohio, where he went in company
with his wife, to convey their two deceased children for
interment. Mrs. Hornady remains in Ohio with friends for a few
weeks.
IOWA NEWS
A fire in D.W. Halstead's warehouse at Fort Dodge, consumed it
with the contents, together with B. Jones' meat market.
What is known as the "old Crocker barn," on Sixth
street, Council Bluffs, was dstroyed by fire a few nights ago and
three or four head of horses burned up therein.
Isaac Hetherington, an old resident of Harrison county, now a
hotel-keeper at Logan, lost his way while traveling one night
last week, and remained out all night. He was so badly frozen
that he will probably lose both feet, one hand and part of the
other.
Capt. Christopher I. Pearce, who in 1844 entered several hundred
acres of Government lands in Clinton township, including 100
acres on which the city now stands, died at the residence of his
daughter, Mrs. Maggie Atkinson, in Racine, Wis., aged 69 years.
Capt. Pearce was well knwn to the older residents of the river
towns along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, having, in 1837,
commanded his first boat - the Missouri Fulton - which
ran on the Upper Mississippi, with headquarters at Cincinnati.
The Leon Journal says that J.W. Kling, of Ringgold
county, has commenced suit against Miss Belle Tharp, of that
place for breach of promise of marriage, asking a judgment of
$2,031-$2,000 to repain his damaged affections, and $31 for money
which he had advanced to buy her wedding trousseau. He is 75, and
she is somewhere between 20 and 50. They were to be married this
month, and each has a large bundle of very loving letters from
the other.
The President has nominated Hon. Jacob Rich, of Dubuque, to be
Pension Agent at Des Moines.
General Cyrus Bussey, of New Orleans, formerly of Iowa and the
first colonel of the 3d Iowa cavalry, has been appointed to
represent the Methodist Episcopal Church in the ecumenical
council to be held in London next September.
HOUSEKEEPERS' HELPS
-Every closet and room in a house should be thoroughly
inspected once a week.
-Hams wrapped in thick brown paper and packed in a barrel of wood
ashes in the cellar will keep all summer.
-Bar soap when first bought should be cut in square peices and
put in a dry place. It lasts better after shrinking.
-Fish skin should be washed, dried thoroughly, cut in small bits
and put in a box or paper bag, to use in settling coffee.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2015]