Iowa Old Press

People's Telephone
Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa
April 11, 1883

D. B. Miller is again doing business in Red Oak and has lost all faith in the doctrine that young men should go west if they desire riches, and the real comforts of life. We gladly welcome him back.

Z. T. Fisher, Jr. is to be J. M. Bartholomew's business partner at Sioux Falls. Mr. Fisher is thoroughly posted in business matters, and will make a useful citizen wherever he locates. We wish him unlimited success.

Work Given Out. On receipt of your address we will make an offer by which you can earn $3 to $7 evenings, at your home. Men, women, boys or girls can do it. H. C. Wilkenson & Co., 195 and 197 Fulton street, New York.

No sooner has the milk war ended in the east than a telephone war looms up in the west. R. Wadsworth, Superintendent of the telephone exchange, is battling with our city dads. Both parties are appealing for succor to the same god of war.

Sperry made the injunction stick as against the Review and Call. -- Record.

Stand from under, Johnnie, the day of just retribution has begun to dawn. The figures on your yard stick may be considerably changed when honest counts can be obtained.

Obituary.
DIED.-- In this city, April 4, 1883,Prof. John F. Devereaux aged 50 years. Professor Devereaux came to this city some four years ago, and opened a school for the purpose of instructing young men in the art of book-keeping and the science of language. As a linguist he had but few superiors in the west, and had he lived to carry out his designs, his merits as a scientist would have been more generally appreciated at home and abroad. His worst enemy was himself, too often neglecting the necessary observance of the immutable laws of health. The professor made but few acquaintances in our city, consequently his value to many young men, anxious to acquire a knowledge of the classics is entirely unknown. A few lovers of literary pursuits in Red Oak feel his loss, but the average citizen does not realize that at a period of life when men become most useful, Professor Devereaux was stricken down.

The Express in speaking of our effort to prevent the county board from making illegal use of the people's money, says: "The object of the Doctor in bringing the injunction, was to determine whether that amount should be paid to each of two papers or to both together. It is supposed that if his paper had been so selected he would have had no doubts on the subject...

The Ludlow Shoe is handsome, good-wearing, and reliable. Sold only by ROBERTS & SON. A large stock of MEN'S FINE SHOES-now in stock-call and see them.
Roberts & Son.

SHERIFF'S SALE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That by virtue of a special execution, directed to me from the Clerk of the District Court of Montgomery County, on a judgment obtained in said Court, on the Third day of April, 1883, in favor of R. M. Roberts as defendant, for the sum of Thirteen hundred and Fifty-Six Dollars and Fifty cents, and costs taxed at $13.35 and accruing costs, I have levied on the following real estate taken as the property of the said defendant to satisfy said execution, to-wit: The northwest quarter of the southeast
quarter of section No. sixteen, (16), in township No. seventy-two, (72) north of range No. thirty-seven, (37), west 5th principal meridian. And will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, on the 3d day of May, A. D. 1883, in front of the Court House door, in Red Oak Junction, Montgomery county, Iowa, at the hour of one o'clock, p. m., of said day, when and where due attendance will be given by the undersigned.
H. H. PALMER
Sheriff of said County

[transcribed by C.D., December 2004]


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