Iowa Old Press
Birmingham Enterprise
Birmingham, Van Buren, Iowa
Saturday, September 10, 1870
Van Buren Grand Jury
Some person at Keosauqua has taken the pains to
compile the following very interesting table, and send it to us. It gives the
name, age, nativity and number of years in the State of each member of the Grand
Jury serving at the August term of our District Court:
Names...A...Nativity...Yrs in State
A.H. McCrary, F'n...56...Indiana...33
J.H. Bonney, Clerk...53...New York...32
Ira Phillips, Sec'y...40...Ohio...27
Jonathan Nelson...62...Virginia...32
John Liming...61...Virginia...17
Eli Dehart...57...Canada...27
Johnston Miller...45...Indiana...6
Isaiah Roberts...65...Ohio...11
William Bowles...55...England...33
W.H. Sturr...63...Maryland...11
J.R. Moore...61...Penn'a...31
Samuel Gould...65...New York...23
Joseph Gwin...59...Penn'a...15
Steph. B. Johnston...56...Penn'a...25
Ralph Peterson...61...Ohio...31
Total
...859.............364
Average ...57............... 23
Mr. Stokes, of Village township, was on the regular
jury until Monday, August 22, when he was taken sick, and Mr. Peterson was put
in his place. He would have reduced the average age, and perhaps the average
length of time in the State.
Our neighbor Samuel Gould and Isaiah Roberts are the
oldest members of the jury- they being 65 years old each. Hon. A.H. McCrary and
Wm. Bowles have been the longest in the State- 33 years. Ira Phillips is the
youngest member, he being only forty years old.
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Personal- All person knowing themselves indebted to us by note or accounts (if
due) will greatly oblige by calling and making settlement during the coming
week. We are going to the East for goods and want our money. Hoping that all our
friends will appreciate our notice and act accordingly, we are, very
Respectfully, yours,
W.B. TRAVIS & BRO.
--Miss Susan Shott has removed her millinery goods into the room immediately east of Randall's store.
---The reason why we stop at the Shane House when we go to Keosauqua, is because we are always well fed and handsomely treated, and we presume this is the reason why so many other folks stop there.
OBITUARY.
Died at the home of her daughter, Abigail Glauque, near
Birmingham, August 23d, apparently of old age, Ellen Anderson. Deceased was born
in Pennsylvania, July 1784; consequently was, at the time of her death, in her
eighty-seventh year. She was brought up in, and early inured to the privations
and hardships incident to the then new country. When about twenty years of age
she united in marriage with Stoddard M. Anderson, with whom she lived for over
fifty-years. She was the mother of nine children, five of whom, with her
husband, have preceded her to the better land. Soon after her marriage she gave
her heart to God, and her name to the Methodist church; and for over sixty
years has stood a faithful and acceptable member of the church of her
choice. Faithful to all its ordinances until the infirmities of age prevented,
she held fast the faith and, we have every assurance triumphed in it at death.
Hers has been a life of events, reaching from the time of the
Revolution down to the present. She has witnessed the growth and prosperity of
our great country, and, although her life has not been without its privations
and hardships, yet she evinced much of the pure christian character, and by her
many kindly offices, and her tender solicitude for all, she has endeared her
memory to all of her numerous posterity and to others. She has indeed been a
mother in Israel. Great as is our earthly loss, we feel it to be her eternal
gain and can not grieve that God has taken her to himself, there to enjoy the
rest so richly in store for her.
May we profit by her worthy example.
C.C. Risk, the popular Dry Goods man of Fairfield, is
again home, after an absence of several weeks in the east, where he has been
purchasing his fall and winter stock, and which we can assure our readers is the
handsomest and best selected in the city. His counters are completely stacked
with Dress Goods and Shawls of every conceivable style and quality, and at
prices that defy the strongest opposition. Making a specialty in these two
departments, he flatters himself that he cannot fail to suit the tastes of the
most fastidious. He keeps on hand, at all times, every number in the celebrated
Tiger Brand Black Alpacca, superior in finish, color and fabric to any imported.
Also, a full line of Black Silks and Irish Poplins, at bottom price.
His stack of Western Woolens is large and complete, and his
prices are low.
He has a good stock of Boots and Shoes as there is in town,
and his prices are guaranteed to be as low. His Custom made Boot is just the
thing for the farmer. It is sewed and pegged by hand, and warranted to be as
good as any shop made.
Buying exclusively for cash, dealing only with first-class
houses, and keeping the newest and best stock in town, with his motto, "AS
CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST," he cannot fail to draw a large trade. To look
through his stock is to buy, for he has the newest styles out.
Birmingham Enterprise
Birmingham, Van Buren, Iowa
Saturday, September 17, 1870
-Mrs. M.M. Bostwick has been appointed to a $900 clerkship in the money order
office of the General Post Office, vice Mrs. S. Pettigrew King, resigned.
- Frank Travis will start to Philadelphia next week and will return in a short
time with the largest stock of goods ever brought to Birmingham.
- Heck has just received a heavy invoice of Cook and Heating Stoves. "The
Fashion" is the latest and best Cook Stove in the market. Call and examine.
- Randall is receiving piles of new goods for the fall and winter trade in Boots
and Shoes, Hats, Caps, Furs and Dry Goods, all bought since the reduction on
gold, and will be sold at prices for greenbacks.
- N.M. Bright & Son, east side of the Park, Fairfield, are the only
exclusive dealers in hardware in the city. They have everything usually kept in
a first class hardware store. They sell at very small profits, and of course do
a large trade. Persons wanting anything in the hardware line should call on
Bright & Son before purchasing elsewhere.
MARRIED, At the residence of Mr. Buckmaster, four miles
south of Birmingham, on Wednesday, 14th inst., by Rev. J.T. Coleman, Mr. JOSEPH
MAXWELL and Miss SARAH STONG.
On the 11th inst., by Rev. T.T. Henderson, Mr. WILSON
THOMPSON, of Nodaway county, Mo., and Miss MAGGIE, daughter of Owen Lewis, of
Jefferson county, Iowa.
FOUND DEAD. - The body of Elijah Heflin was found on the morning of Sept. 9th, in the brush near the road leading to Read's Mill, about one mile from town. W.K. Alexander, J.P., acted as Coroner, and evidence before the jury showed that Mr. Heflin had gone the previous day to hunt the cows, but did not return. The next morning his horse was found hitched to a sapling near the road, and a short distance down the hollow his body was found. He had apparently endeavored to write, as his book was partly out of his pocket and in one hand was a stick. From the testimony given the jury believe the deceased died of heart disease. Mr. H. was well known to many of our citizens, having been extensively engaged in raising hedge plants. He was 37 years of age and leaves a wife and two children.--Fairfield Ledger.
By a letter from our late fellow-citizen Samuel Harden, to Mr. J.M. Sheppard, is communicated the sad intelligence of the death of Mrs. Harden, which occurred on Thursday, 8th inst., at Newberne, Marion county. By this afflictive dispensation, seven dear children are left motherless. In their affliction, Mr. Harden and family have the sympathies of this entire community.