LINCOLN TOWNSHIP.
A HISTORY OF LINCOLN TOWNSHIP FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO
MARCH, 1887.—CONTAINING, ALSO, A NOTICE OF
MANY OF ITS CITIZENS.
POPULATION 666.
Elsewhere will be found a history of the first settlement of Lincoln Township. It received its name in honor of A. Lincoln, the President of the United States. He was a noble man most surely. The township was organized in 1867, comprising all of township eighty-five north and range twenty-one west.
The brief items, with dates, were culled in part from our county papers.
ZEARING, Story County, Iowa, Jan. 21, 1882.
Names seem to be plenty for this place. The railroad company have.now named the station Ashhurst. I suppose they did it for the purpose of making it convenient for the citizens of the place. I do not see what is gained by naming the station a different name than the town has, viz., Zearing.
There have been several additions to the list of persons doing business lately.
Mr. Brooks, from Mitchell county. Iowa, has his building nearly completed and is opening up a good stock of dry goods, boots and shoes.
Messrs. PATTON & Johnson have a fine building and are opening up a large stock of hardware. They also have a first-class tin shop in connection with their hardware.
Messrs. Granger, of Colo, and N. R. Clift are each in the grain business, they are paying good prices for grain, and are shipping about two car loads of grain per day.
Mr. Hawley, of Colo, has shipped two or three cars of hogs from this place.
It is quite inconvenient for those doing business here on account of no post-office here, Colo and Illinois Grove are the nearest post-offices.
Dr. Squires, of Illinois Grove, the former postmaster there, has been commissioned postmaster for this place. I wish he could commence his duties at once.
Major Hix is station agent at this place. He has been in the