Iowa Old Press
Sutherland Courier
Sutherland, O’Brien co. Iowa
Friday, April 25, 1884
TOWN AND COUNTRY
A miss is as good as a mile,
A kiss is as good as a smile,
But four painted kings
Are the beautiful things
That are good for the other man’s pile.
Read the ordinances.
Council meeting to-night.
Calliope is to have a steam grist mill.
County convention to-morrow at Primghar.
New buildings are going up in every part of town.
Test your seed corn, and shoot the man who advocates Nebraska
seed.
Wise men have said at this time of the year, “now is a good
time to clean up back yards and alleys.”
J.N. SLICK has been as happy as a lark since last Saturday, all
on account of a bran new girl at his house.
John MEYERS has a novel way of making his collections, and he
tried it last Saturday afternoon with good success.
E.W. GUENTHER is going to build a ditching machine. Whether
it is one of his own inventions or not, we are unable to state.
The State Fair will commence August 20th and continue in session
until the 3rd of September. It will be held at Des Moines.
The school in the HIGBE school house, north of town commenced
Monday. A young man by the name of O’DONNELLY is the
teacher.
M. KAREKAL has painted several very fine signs for business men
during the past week or so. Mr. KAREKAL is a good workman
and finds no time to loaf.
Wm. KUGEL has painted and fixed up the inside of his barber shop
so as to make it look more metropolitan. He says he must
keep up with the times.
G.H. FULLER’S new restaurant, the “Delmonico,” is
becoming very popular. Good food and a pleasant place in which to
eat it, is what suits the people.
J.F. SHEPARD has the addition to his saloon well under say.
It will be a good-sized building when completed, and will make
all the room necessary for a good skating rink.
The ‘Kingsley Times’ comes to us this week
with both sides printed at home. KINGSLEY’S business men are
good advertisers, and appreciate Bro. Brandon’s efforts to
give them a good local paper.
O.A. SUTTON has lost to valuable colts during the past week by
distemper.
H.A. PECK is now a full-pledged insurance agent. He
represents the Capital Insurance Company, of Des Moines.
No town in the country can show up a larger or better assorted
stock of farm machinery than is carried by dealers in Sutherland.
G.H. FULLER has his new oven ready for use, and will soon
commence selling bread, pies, cakes, etc., at towns along this
line of the road.
M.E. HILL, our genial and good-looking station agent, is highly
(sic) elated at the large number of express packages he has
handled thus far this month.
H. BICKERTON, who lives on the C.W. INMAN farm, lost a three
year-old child Tuesday night. It was taken with croup and
died before relief could be obtained.
Foot-Ball playing is all the go in town now. Nearly every
afternoon the boys get the ball out and have lots of fun kicking
the ball and other people’s shins. It is good exercise
and all seem to enjoy it.
Ten new buildings are going up in town at present, and six or
eight more will be started in a few weeks. Most of these
are fine dwelling houses. There is not a vacant house -–business
or dwelling – in town. Houses to
rent are in great demand, and some man with the money could make
an independent fortune by building a few houses for renting
purposes.
The streets are drying out nicely and are now in good
shape. We think our Street Commissioner is wise when he
says he believes it better to fix up the roads leading to town
than to spend all the work and money grading the streets.
Second street can be fixed so as to be passable with but very
little grading. Main street will be harder to grade as it
is low and flat; but a few good men with teams could make it
passable in two or three days’ time. Nothing gives a
town away any worse than a mud hole in her business streets.
OBITUARY
Died at Sutherland, Iowa, on the 19th day of April, 1884, of
puerperal fever, Mrs. B. THOMPSON, aged 87 years, 10 months and 5
days.Deceased was born in Canada, June 14, 1847. At the age
of sixteen she was
united in marriage with B. THOMPSON, and soon after moved to the
southern part of Illinois. About nineteen years ago the
family moved to Iowa and have since lived in different parts of
the State, making their home at
Sutherland since November, 1882. (all following text
unreadable).
PERSONAL MENTION
J.A. JORDAN visited friends at Cherokee the first of the week.
D. HARKNESS’ little child, who has been dangerously ill, is
much better.
S. GRACEY has a very lame foot, the result of too much foot-ball
kicking.
A.M. CILLEY, John MYERS and James BRIGGS visited Cherokee
Tuesday.
Mrs. S. GRACEY is visiting with friends at Gowrie, her former
home.
Isaac SPRAGUE and wife, or Primghar, were shopping in town
Wednesday.
Mr. W. NELSON, of Sanborn, visited with his boys at this place
the first of the week.
I.L. RERICK, Esq., one of Paullina’s wide-a-wake land
agents, was in town yesterday.
Hon. Geo. W. SCHEE and J.L.E. PECK, Esq., transacted business in
town last Tuesday.
Miss Emma ALEXANDER, or Primghar, visited with friends in town
during the past week.
Frank PATCH, the Hartley banker, was in this city Tuesday
attending to business matters.
J.M. WRIGHT, and insurance agent from Sheldon, has been doing our
town during the past week.
Supt. ALGYER, of Primghar, was in town yesterday. He
reports everything very quiet at the county seat.
Steph. HOYT and wife left for Carroll county last Friday to visit
with friends and attend to business matters.
J.B. ARNOLD, who has been working in the harness shop for S.
GRACEY, left for his home in Tama county last evening.
L.G. HEALEY’S many friends will be pleased to learn that he
has so far recovered as to be able to walk around town.
Donnie BYAM, who has been visiting with his brothers north of
town, returned to his home in Tama county Tuesday morning.
C.J. CLARK and son, who have been roaming around Oregon and
Washington Territory of late, returned home Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Thomas CLIFTON, who has been very sick for the past five or
six weeks, under the skillful treatment of Dr. LOUTHAN is fast
regaining her health.
Mr. D.P. HAMILTON, of Reinbook, mother of the editor and an old
friend of the THOMPSON family, came up Monday to assist at the
burial of Mrs. THOMPSON.
Frank STEVENS was unable to attend to his duties in the tin shop
a few days this week, but we understand he is now on the mend and
at work at the bench.
F.E. FARNSWORTH has decided to return to his old home in Osceola
county, where he will either go to railroading or farming.
He has made many friends during his stay in town.
Messrs. SEELE (sic) and W. THOMPSON, of Waltham, the former the
father and the latter a brother of our esteemed citizen B.
THOMPSON, came up Monday evening to attend the funeral Tuesday.
James HUTCHINSON, of Shelton, Nebraska, a brother-in-law of B.
THOMPSON, arrived in town Wednesday morning. He came to
attend his sister’s funeral, but she was buried before his
arrival.
J.B. DUNN, Esq., went to Orange City Monday night with the
expectation of having a law-suit the next day. The case had
been postponed and so he came back on Monday night’s
express.
J.R. PINKHAM, a marble cutter from Sheldon, tarried in town
several days during the past week. He came with the
intention of doing some work in the marble shop for Mr. POYZER,
but failed to make arrangements.
[transcribed by C.B., May 2005]