degrees below zero. Since Friday, weather has been spring like; the sleighing is getting demoralized, and wagons are again run on the streets.—(February 10, 1886.)
J. C. Lee has already delivered, at this place 7,000 bushels of corn.—(February 10, 1886.)
Charles Fish is shipping four car loads of hogs a week.—(February 3, 1886.)
Charles Mead shipped six car lads of stock this week.—February, 1886.)
ROLAND.
Thursday morning of last week, the mercury dropped to thirtythree degrees below zero here, but Friday was warm and pleasant, the first pleasant Friday for about six weeks. Trains were about on time, which was quite a novelty.
E. J. Evenson went to Morris, Illinois, and brought back a wife. She is not very large, but I suppose he thinks of two Evelis choose the least. We congratulate him and wish him any quantity of joy.—(February 10,1886.)
Miss Mary A. Scott has been appointed clerk of the Senate committee on horticulture and public buildings.—(February 10, 1886.)
The twelve saloon keepers who were occupying the Marshalltown jail yesterday, are beginning to discover, that perhaps, prohibition does prohibit after all.—(February 10, 1886.)
Judge Henderson levied $3,500 in fines against Webster County saloon keepers at his recent term of court in Fort Dodge. Prohibition is doing very well up there.—(February 17, 1886.)
Wm. Clark shipped a car of horses to Minneapolis Monday, which makes the third car load of equines he has purchased and shipped since the first of the present month.—(March 18, 1886.)
We have shipped fifteen cars of live stock from our station so far this month and still they come.—(March 18, 1886.)
Whispering in church during the delivery of a sermon is a pastime our young people are liable to indulge in very much to the annoyance of those around them, and frequently to the disgust of the entire congregation. But whispering during prayer time or while the benediction is being pronounced is unmistakable evidence of ill breeding.—(March, 1886.)
E. F. Farrington has the ill fortune to lose the greater portion of his hogs by some disease that nearly makes a clean sweep.—(March 19, 1886.)