Iowa Old Press
Sheldon Mail
Sheldon, O'Brien co. Iowa
March 20, 1880
Dr. Peck - Homeopathic Physician, Sheldon, Iowa. Make a specialty
of the treatment of PILES and guarantees cures. No cure, no pay.
Residence is six (6) miles east of Sheldon.
O.P. Mabee -Resident Dentist, Sheldon, Iowa. Will perform all
work in dentistry in a good and workmanlike manner, and
guarantees satisfaction. Gold filling a specialty. Office in
Empire House.
J. W. Jones, the Englishman mentioned last week, has already
purchased a large number of cattle and hogs and is looking around
for several hundred head of sheep. He has rented J. A. Glenn's
farm.
Mr. Peter Gauthier's children are quite ill with sore throat, and
Mr. N. W. Place's family are nearly all down with diphtheria. Mr.
and Mrs. E. A. Ward's baby is dangerously ill with lung fever.
There arrived in this city this week another delegation from
"Jersey" in the persons of Ed E. and Scott Logan,
cousins of one M. F. Logan. They come here to seek their fortunes
in the stock-raising business, and have the
capitol and energy to make the venture a success. The acquisition
of such men bodes much substantial good for Sheldon. They and
their New Jersey colleagues are a class calculated to build up
and develop our broad and fertile country. Sheldon cannot rejoice
too heartily over the addition to her population the Jersey
delegation.
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Sheldon Mail
Sheldon, O'Brien co. Iowa
March 27, 1880
In a day or two John H. Iselin will receive an invoice of 25,000
choice cigars for wholesaling.
As we go to press we learn that a woman living with Benjamin
Hutchinson's family, Carroll township, committed suicide
yesterday morning by taking arsenic; cause unknown. Her name is
given as Green.
One Anderson, of Osceola county, got mad at his wife the other
day and cut open his abdomen letting out his intestines with a
butcher knife. He still lives, however, and Dr. Gurney says he'll
recover. Meantime his wife is
getting good and ready to "go for" him again.
Robert Linch, one of Sioux county's wide-awake citizens, has just
returned from a cattle purchasing trip bringing with him 150 head
of steers to feed on northwest Iowa grass. Mr. Linch is a sample
of what brains and energy can do in this western country.
A word of caution: "Believing that you will esteem it a
favor on my part, I inform you seriously that your sons are
running great risks in jumping on and off the cars at the depot.
I have to drive boys away from nearly every
train that passes, and you must know that railroad employees have
something to attend to besides watching boys. We would sadly hate
to see any of our children injured, but just as sure as the sun
rises and sets some of the boys of Sheldon will be killed or
maimed for life, if they do not keep away from the trains. W.H.
NOYES
Justice McCormack decided that Charles Pratsch did not shoot
Hutchinson's horse, as alleged, and Pratsch is happy.
At this writing harvest wages range all the way from $1.75 to
$2.50 per day with a good prospect that as high as $3 will be
paid before the harvest is over. The superintendents of the
railway farms, by whom the wages of the surrounding county are
gauged, are paying $1.75 and $2 per day. Hands seem to be plenty.
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