Duea & Son also shipped two cars Monday, one of hogs and one of cattle.
A. K. Banks and R. W. Ballard were here Monday of last week and made us pleasant calls. I have promised them the offices they are candidates for, and they must not be disappointed.—(July 22, 1885.)
The house of .James Fry in Nevada township, together with all its contents, was burned last Thursday night about midnight. Mr. Fry did not even save his pocket-book from the fire. The amount of the loss we have not ascertained, but the insurance was only $150.—(July 22, 1885.)
T. W. Kelly shipped two car-loads of hogs Monday to Chicago.—(Aug. 7, 1885.)
Half fare rates will be given over all roads to the state fair. —(Aug. 7, 1885.)Col. Scott shipped three head of blooded yearlings to J. P. Conkey, Huron, Dakota, on Monday. He has shipped a considerable number to points in this and other states.—(Aug. 7, 1885.)
The first issue of the Monitor, the new Ames paper, reached us last week. It is republican in politics and is edited by E. W. Clark. We extend the hand of fraternal greeting and wish the enterprise the full measure of success its merit may entitle it to. —(Aug. 26, 1885.)
The sum total of premiums offered by the Story County Agricultural society this year is nearly $2,000.—(Aug. 26, 1885.)
Ellsworth & Yantis, patent solicitors, Washington, D. C., report that, August 8th, a patent was issued to E. W. Lockwood, of Nevada, for a device for dressing millstones.—(Aug. 26, 1885.)
The verdict in the Lash-Robison slander case was for $1.00. —(Sept. 9, 1885.)
Dunklebarger & Son shipped seven car-loads of hogs Monday. Or. Duklebarger and Otis Briggs went in with them.—(September 9, 1885.)
Boardman Bros. shipped a thousand dozen of eggs to Portland, Oregon, Saturday.—Sept. 16, 1885.)
W. H. Porter has been appointed postmaster at Sheldahl, to succeed Col. S. W. Snider, offensive partisan.—( Sept. 16, 1885.)
On Friday last J. B. Grinnell was appointed postmaster at Gilbert, in this county.—(Sept. 11, 1885 )