THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER - April, 1876

PARKHURST, JAY, LOCKWOOD, SWAN, PALMER, FORD, SIMPSON, BAUM, BEST, CAMPBELL, EDWARDS, CORBUS, SHAW, SMITH, MCCORMICK, STUART, WALKER, MISKIMMONS, STANTON, EIKENBERRY, HARDEN

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 1/15/2007 at 17:10:12

The Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa
April, 1876

THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER ~~~

The B. & M. has 69 locomotives in active use.

CLINT PARKHURST is assistant news editor of the Chicago Evening Journal.

Subscriptions for PATRIOT and orders for job work received at all hours of
day or night.

Decoration day is approaching - May 30th.

EVAN JAY, formerly of Chariton, now farming in Nebraska, lost twenty head of
cattle by the late terrible snow storm.

GEO. LOCKWOOD will soon enlarge or elongate his jewelry store.

OSCAR SWAN, O.L. PALMER's Swede clerk, lately returned to Sweden to get
whom he loved best."

The reason why BRIDGE has been unusually good natured the past few days can
be explained by stating that it's a girl.

JACKSON FORD will start for California sometime in May.

On the first page will be found accounts of the great snow and wind storm in
Nebraska and Kansas.

The telegraph office was moved into the new depot on Sunday.

W.H. SIMPSON expects to start for California in two or three weeks.

DAN BAUM is in Colorado with a view of taking his family there.

Friend BEST of the Leader is down with the mumps.

"Etheral mildness" has gone into a decline, and the cold, chilly winds of
April are taking another turn at the weather business.

Read MOSES F. CAMPBELL's letter from California printed in another column.

E.E. EDWARDS is in Louisville looking after his grandfather's estate, in
which he expects to realize a nice thing.

The CORBUS-SHAW grocery has been removed to Lucas Station.

CHANNING SMITH lives at Hamburg, Erie county, Pa.

P.M. MCCORMICK has ordered 10,060 Postal cards -- expects them soon after
the 1st of May.

The State Convention will meet at Des Moines June 25th.

Announcements for county offices are in order.

The cluck of the old hen and croquet mallet is heard in the land.

Mayor STUART has closed the saloons at Osceola.

Major WALKER has loaned some $25,000 or $30,000 in this county the last few
weeks.

Heavy frost on the morning of April 24th. Much fruit reported killed.

The Leader reports the death of MISS LIZZIE MISKIMMONS at the house of her
father, in Tama county, Iowa, on April 10th, of consumption.

Some changes in the local market -- oats and live stock higher.

The new Code of Iowa says eight hours is a legal day's work.

DR. STANTON and DANIEL EIKENBERRY are improving their property on Harrison
Street.

It's a girl down at JAKE HARDEN's.

Read the locals and advertisements.

President Grant will probably pass through Chariton on Wednesday or Thursday
of this week, going east.
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