Iowa Old Press
Sutherland Courier
Sutherland, O'Brien co. Iowa
Friday, March 7, 1884
Pay the printer.
Bring on your job work.
Subscribe for the COURIER, $1.50 per year in advance.
March came in like a lion, but it remains to be seen how it will
end.
Chas. HAMMOND, one of the editors of the Pattersonville Index,
has skipped for parts unknown. His creditors mourn his
loss.
C.N. CASS’ buildings on his farm, northwest of town, show up
big from town. He has a fine piece of land and is making
extensive improvements on the same.
The Northwestern road now runs three coaches a mail and baggage
car on this line, and the train is heavily loaded nearly every
trip. This is becoming a very popular route for people
going to Dakota.
BROWN & COLLETT, contractors and builders, have a card in
this week’s COURIER. Read it, and when you get ready
to build give the gentlemen a call. They guarantee all work
to give satisfaction.
E.E. PETERSON’s feed mill is running on full time. The
farmers are beginning to find out that it pays to use ground
feed, and also that they can get their feed ground as well in
Sutherland as at any other place.
Paullina is to have a skating rink. One of her citizens
came down here Wednesday and purchased the roller skates of
Messrs. MURPHY & MERIDITH and will open a rink at that
place. He will look to the country for his crowd.
Jack O’BRIEN, the champion wrestler in this part of the
country, is matched for a wrestle next Saturday at Cherokee with
a man living in that county. It is thought by many that O’BRIEN
will find this man a hard one to handle, and that the boys in
Cherokee will bet their dust that he gets thrown.
We have not been fortunate enough to get fifty or sixty
subscribers every week for the past three months, but we will say
for the benefit of our advertisers that our list has increased
rapidly. We are not working for the
county printing and do not send the COURIER to every new man we
hear has settled in the country.
J.F. SHEPARD carries a broken rib, the result of wresting with O’BRIEN
last Saturday. Nearly all who witnessed the fall think O’BRIEN
purposely fell on Mr. SHEPARD. If such be the case, hanging
is to good for him. The understanding was before the
wrestle begun that O’BRIEN should throw him easy, as Mr.
SHEPARD had no hopes of winning the match. This makes three
ribs the fellow has broken inside of a week.
[transcribed by C.B., May 2005]