The Iowa Liberal
LeMars, Plymouth County, Iowa
Wednesday, June 28, 1876
The Liberal is issued every Wednesday at LeMars, Plymouth Co., Iowa
C. F. Leidy, Editor
Office Corner of Main and Sixth Streets
TERMS--$2.00 per year; $1.00 for six months; 50cts for three months,
invariably in advance. No Paper or Advertisement discontinued until
arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publishers.
POST OFFICE REGULATIONS
Post Office open from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.-Sundays from 11 a.m. to 12 m.
Mail for the East closes at 2:25 p.m.
Mails for the West close at 10:30 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Mail for the North closes at 9:00 p.m.
Mails for Oshkosh, Royal Ridge and Doon, close at 7:00 a.m. on Thursday of
each week.
Mail arrives from the East at 11:12 a.m.
Mails arrive from the West at 2:52 and 11:30 p.m.
Mail arrives from the North at 3:00 a.m.
Mails arrive from Oshkosh, Royal Ridge and Doon, at 6 p.m. Wednesdays.
Alden A. Aldrich, Postmaster.
RELIGIOUS
CONGREGATIONAL---Services every Sabbath at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sabbath
School at the close of morning service. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday
evening at 7:30 o'clock. The first bell will be rung at 9:30, the second at
10:10 and tolling at 10:25. At all evening meetings there will be one bell
at 7:15, and tolled at 7:25. To each of the services all are cordially
invited. A. E. Arnold, Pastor.
METHODIST---Services at the M.E. Church every Sabbath morning at 10:30 and
7:00 in the evening. Sunday School immediately after morning service. Class
Meeting at 5 p.m. Prayer Meeting every Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. R.
C. Glass, Pastor.
GERMAN METHODIST---Services every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday
School at 9 a.m. Class Meeting at 2 p.m. Prayer Meeting every Thursday
evening at 7:30. Singing School Friday evenings at 7:30. John Hauck,
Pastor.
BAPTIST---The Baptist congregation of LeMars will hold their services at the
Court House every Sabbath morning at half-past ten o'clock, until further
notice. S. H. Stevens, Pastor.
EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION---Services every alternate Sabbath afternoon, at 3
o'clock, in the Court House, LeMars. G. Heinmiller, Pastor.
COUNTY OFFICERS
AUDITOR---GUSTAVE HAERLING, Office in Court House, LeMars.
TREASURER---JOHN HERRON, Office in Court House, LeMars.
CLERK OF COURTS---E. E. BLAKE, Office in Court House, LeMars.
SHERIFF---JAMES HOPKINS, Office with Clerk of Courts-Court House, LeMars.
DEPUTY SHERIFF---RICHARD HYNNES, Residence, LeMars.
RECORDER---M. HILBERT, Office in Court House, LeMars.
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS---F. B. SIBLEY, Residence, Stanton Township.
SURVEYOR---JOHN WYNN, Sioux Township.
CORONER---J. H. WIGGINS, Office in Van Sickel's Block, LeMars.
SUPERVISORS---WM. BARRETT, Chairman; F. M. Shaw, Leonard Koenig, A. W.
Parsons, and Andrew Wilson.
LOCAL MATTERS
An excellent ticket.
Good growing weather.
Our farmers are happy.
Strawberries will soon be done.
Now for a good time on Independence day.
Cherries have been plenty the past week.
Turn out to the Fourth of July celebration.
BURNES BROS. are rushing the work on their mill.
The latest is, Philadelphia via Washington D.C.
Lookout for lemonade and ginger bread at Gehlen's grove.
Will Plymouth county be represented in President Hayes' cabinet?
Rev. Mr. Glass is expected to fill the M. E. pulpit on Sunday next.
The county is all astir over the Saengerbund celebration on the 4th.
There will be service in the Catholic church next Sunday, at the usual hour.
Don't forget the sale of Berkshires on Thursday (tomorrow) by L. K. Bowman.
B. O. Foster has returned from his trip to the Centennial and friends in the
East.
Don't forget the special inducements offered to subscribers sending the
Liberal East.
Don't forget that the Saengerbund Society invite one and all to join the
parade on the 4th.
Ladies cotton hose at $1.50 per dozen, at A. M. Andrews, one door north of
Bennett's Hardware.
Our band is progressing finely and is destined to compare favorably with any
in the Northwest.
A few pairs of men's hand made shoes at $6.00, at A. M. Andrews, one door
north of Bennett's Hardware.
At the union Sunday School picnic everybody had a happy time and it was a
decided success throughout.
How cross some of the "Orr-gan" grinders do look. Why is it? Do they see
the handwriting on the wall?
Andrews is happy; his new store room next door to Bennett's, is a model of
neatness, and his stock the best in town.
We are thankful to those of our friends who are sending us new subscribers,
such men are an honor to any community.
We will take butter, eggs, potatoes and farm produce generally on
subscriptions for the Liberal, at market prices.
Hon. Josiah T. Young, Secretary of State, has our thanks for a neatly and
substantial bound volume of the Laws of Iowa for 1876.
John Sidenstrycker, one of our happy draymen, is carrying his arm in a sling
from the effect of falling from a frightened horse.
Mr. Sherman, (firm of Parrott, Girten & Sherman) and lady of Waterloo, have
been in town several days, guest of our county clerk, E. E. Blake and
family.
Mr. Sutton will remain in town until he has filled present orders for ice
boxes, and will then go to Sioux City. They are a real treasure. No house
should be without one.
Any one having books belonging to the M. E. Sunday School, will please leave
them at Allison's drug store any time before Saturday night. By order of
the Superintendent.
We have yet to learn of a single township in Plymouth county, instructing
its delegates for Mr. Orr. While the friend of the farmer, Mr. Oliver, is
recognized as the choice of all.
The County Commissioners consummated contracts on Monday last for making one
bridge at $259 and one at $190; for making three culverts $190, and for
grading 4,200 yards at five cents per yard or $210.
The sneak that purloined the dressing comb from the Railroad hotel office,
must certainly have something more than hay seed in his head, and a finer
toothed article would, no doubt, answer his purpose better.
We have many Republicans who were disappointed that Blaine was defeated, but
they will rally around the standardbearers, and Iowa will give a rousing
majority for Hayes and Wheeler next November.
Rural orators are getting ready for the Fourth. More than one hundred years
ago the representatives of the American people assembled in Philadelphia and
declared the Colonies free and independent.
LeMars has decided not to shoot a Centennial gun this time.---Sheldon Mail .
Quite the contrary indeed Brother Mail, LeMars intends, under the auspices
of the Saengerbund Society, to eclipse anything in the Northwest.
LOCAL MATTERS:
The new book case for the M. E. Sunday school library is finished and in
place and every one pronounces it not only just the thing, but very
ornamental as well as useful. It is made on the post office principal and
has a capacity for holding 300 volumes. Mr. Fairfax displayed his usual
skill in putting on the finishing touches.
We have received a full report of the Iowa Sunday School Convention at
Council Bluffs, from Rev. H. T. Curl, but owing to a very limited amount of
space are compelled to offer this excuse and pass it by until another time.
He says: "Everything is encouraging, and God is working with his people for
the furtherance of the Sunday School cause."
George Reeves, of Seney, has traded his store at that place and stock of
goods to L. and V. March (brothers of our townsman, Henry March) for their
farm in Fredonia township, bought of Mr. Sweetzer last winter. They took
possession yesterday and will continue the business under the name and style
of the March Bros.
Walter O'Neil, brother of Gus O'Neil, a tinner recently from Texas, has
shown an amount of ingenuity that is a masterpiece in itself. It is simply
a hanging basket of tin made from one piece which is to be found over the
counter of Jenkin's Restaurant, filled with oranges.---SIBLEY GAZETTE And a
brother to "Max" of our town, who by the way is as handy with the
paraphernalia of the craft as you'll find in any week's travel.
TO TEACHERS.
Public examination will be held on the last Saturday of each month at the
Court House. F. B. Sibley, County Superintendent
THANKS---Mrs. W. F. Knowles has our many thanks for a handsome pyramid
bouquet of choice flowers. The design is beautiful, and Mrs. K. deserves
much praise for her exquisite arrangement of these prairie beauties. A
taste that should be cultivated by every lady in the land. We thought our
treasure too nice for the office, and handed it over to our "better half"
who declares it the loveliest seen in Iowa.
Ho! There.---Whereas it has been determined by the good people of LeMars to
properly celebrate and observe the coming Fourth of July, this is to give
notice to all Grangers, Odd Fellows, Masons, and all other civic societies,
by whatever name known, that they are hereby cordially and explicitly
invited to take part in the exercises that day. Preparations will be made
for all. The Saengerbund say come; the committee say come; and whoever will
let him come and have a good time on the hundredth anniversary of American
Independence!
FUN AHEAD.---On the 4th, near the St. Paul depot, several hundred pigeons
will be uncooped to the mercies of the "crack" marksmen of this vicinity.
Messrs. Alline, Greer, Long, Click, O'Neil, Dent, Kline, Dr. Porter, Bowman,
and Coe, are enrolled for the contest. Mr. Jos. Long has the matter in
hand, and with his usual activity, will make ample arrangements for fun for
everybody.
Mr. John Eberhardt, of Sioux county, on Saturday last was leading a
two-year-old bull that became unmanageable, throwing him down and breaking
his shoulder, arm joint and collar bone, besides doing other injuries of
serious nature. Dr. W. B. Porter was called upon and set the broken bones,
patched up the wounds and left his patient doing well and in good hopes of a
rapid recovery.
We wish to call the special attention of farmers and stock raisers to Mr. L.
K. Bowman's sale of pure Berkshire hogs, which takes place at his yards in
LeMars, Thursday, June 29, 1876. Probably no man in the west has taken the
interest in raising this most popular breed, that Mr. Bowman has. He has
spared no expense or pains to procure the best brood stock to be found in
the East, and now has the satisfaction of knowing that he has the finest
herd to be found in the West.
PERSONAL.
Messrs. A. Aldrich, O.W. Bennett, and N. F. Revell, have gone to
Philadelphia, and will see the big show no doubt.
Among the late arrivals of note, on the LeMars hotel register, are Judge
Zuver, J. H. Wilson, of Cedar Rapids; Col. R. H. Eddy, Kansas; J. D. Joy,
Madelia, Minn.; W. B. Dean, and Judge Pendleton, Sioux City.
Mr. and Mrs. Wild are now in New York, they will visit the Centennial before
returning home.
Mrs. H. C. Curtis left for her old home, Independence, on Saturday last.
Dr. J. H. Wiggins has gone to New York to remain several weeks. Dr. F. A.
Xanten will attend to his medicinal duties while away. Office in Flint &
Son's brick block.
Dr. Van Ulrich and Marion Tayler, delegates to the St. Louis convention,
passed through town en route to that place on Saturday. Also Judge Allison
and Dr. Palmer.
CENTENNIAL FOURTH OF JULY PICNIC
The One Hundredth Anniversary of American Independence, will be celebrated
in Perry Township, under the management of the citizens of Perry Township,
at Smith's Grove, on Perry Creek.
A grand national salute of one hundred guns will be fired at sunrise.
The following order of exercises of the day, will be observed:
1st Song.---The Star Spangled Banner, by Glee Club
2nd Prayer---By the Chaplain
3d Song---Prayer for our Country, by Glee Club
4th Reading of the Declaration of Independence
5th Song---The Red, White and Blue, by Club
6th Oration---By J. C. Buchanan.
7th Dinner
After dinner, songs, toasts and responses.
An extensive pavilion will be erected on the grounds with a good roof, where
those who love to "trip the light fantastic toe" can do so to their hearts
content from 3 o'clock p.m. till the "wee sma' hours." Sufficient to say
that this part of the amusement, is in the hands of those who know how to
make it a success, and no pains will be spared.
A general invitation is extended to all to participate in the celebration.
By order of the Committee, H. J. Callaghan, Sec'y.
G. W. Argo, Esq., of LeMars, will deliver an oration at the Grand Centennial
Celebration at this town on July 4th. Mr. Argo is a fluent and accomplished
speaker, and will we doubt not, maintain a well earned reputation as an able
and pleasing orator.---O'Brien Pioneer.
The One Hundredth Anniversary of
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE!
Will be celebrated in LeMars in a style appropriate to the Grand Occasion,
under the management of the
LE MARS SAENGERBUND.
The following programme will be observed: The day will be ushered in with
the National Salute by Thirteen Guns at several places in town at sunrise,
and a National Hymn played by the Brass Band.
The procession will be formed under the direction of the Marshal at 10
o'clock a.m. on the corner of Sixth and Main Streets, in front of Flint and
Kaiser's Block, in the following order:
1st LeMars Brass Band on foot
2d. Orators and Reader in carriage
3d Tableau of Thirteen States
4th LeMars Saengerbund Society,
5th Citizens of LeMars and adjoining towns and country.
The line of march will be as follows: Down Main Street to Seventh; thence
west on Seventh to Clark Street; thence to Sixth Street, and along Sixth
Street to Gehlen's Grove, east of LeMars, where the exercises of the day
will be held as follows:
1st Music by the Band
2d Singing by the Saengerbund Society.
(Recess of one hour)
3d At 1 o'clock p.m., music by the Band
4th Reading of the Declaration of Independence
5th Singing by the Saengerbund Society
6th Oration in the English language
7th Historical Sketches by A. C. Sheetz
8th Singing by the Choir.
9th Music by the Band
10th Oration in the German language
11th Music, songs, and amusement in general, until evening, when fire works
will be displayed in honor to the 100th Anniversary.
3 GRAND BALLOON ASCENSIONS WILL BE MADE DURING THE AFTERNOON
Refreshments of all Kinds On Hand At the Grove
GRAND BALL
At Van Sickel's Hall All Night --- Admission to Hall. $1.00
An invitation is extended to all to join the procession.