Fayette County Leader from Fayette, Iowa • Page 1

VOL. XII. IPAYBTTB, IOWA, 3DBO. 28, 1893. DEALERS IN Heavy and Shelf Hardware.

achinery, Bed blankets, Shawls, Cloaks, flannels, and all winter goods at greatly MY PRICES ARE Come and see me. W. C. exceptionally 1 Jewelry Offered By BAKER SON. limPAJCMlTO A SPllii Hats, Ladies'and Gents 5 LTTl 5 The largest dud 'best assortment in Call and see bi'foru you M.

J. HAllTMAN. Subscribe for the Postal Card and Only. 98,60 for -both. Considering the generally alleged dullness in business "under we have been kept quite busy so far.

May it continue while wo pretend to keep open house. We have indulged in silence so far as writing anything like an essay on Christmas or New Year. It is unnecessary to show off annually oil those topics. The High School entertainment last Friday night drew a full house and gave good satisfaction. All the performers did well and some did better.

Those entertainments always- draw like a capcine plaster. This office printed some bills Tuesday for a masquerade dance to be ifiven at the Maynard Opera House, Wednesday evening, Jan. 3, 1804, Payne, Cummiugs Smith, Managers. The Fayctte County Union has passed into the hands of a gentleman of the name of Smith, formerly of the Mai-ion Sentinel. Walt.

Butler will practice law. Success to both peoples. Waucoma has a dramatic company in the arena. It has but one drama in its repertoire, but that is to be a startler and well played. Bettor thus than a string of plays half performed.

Fayctte County heads the list in Iowa on creamery products, Delaware second and Clayton third. The was when Delaware led, but that time has passed over into eternity. Fayetto county has a perpetually reserved seat in the list of Iowa counties. The whistles to our mills and workshops are not heard so oi'teu thi winter us they were last. is a general dropping off in all kinds of mechanical and industrial business.

The old '-chime" at this office is the only one heard every day! and that is only because we heat by steam and curry the article in stock every day. Wo don't "recollect of ever remembering" such a "night before Christmas" as was that of last Sun- lay night. The thunder, lightning ind rain were more suggestive of first days (or nights) of April. never experienced such a Christ- nas but once, and that was in Ten- icssec', and yet there were no show- rs or mud there but a sunshiny day ike the best of September days in his latitude. What does it all mean? Are we.

after all the prophesying, to lave an open, sloppy, cold-catching, winter? Old settlers call to mind the old whim, adage or whatever it is, that "a green Christmas results in a full graveyard," which, being translated, we presume means that poor health will follow and the mortality list be greatly increased to what it would if colder weather prevailed. We take no stock hi whims. People die at every season of the year regardless of the moon's "phases" or the temperature of the, atmosphere. People grow old, or diseased and pass away when the seasons are all that could be desired. No 'man dies till his heart stops pulsating and sometimes not then if wo recall the trances in which people sometimes Beaver Creek Magnet: A country paper down in Iowa complains of the Village Council passing ordinances and posting them up about town for people to road instead of having them printed in the local paper.

That should not kick on so small an tern, but should live in this where important events that are to transpire are either chalked down on the sidewalk or posted up the post office instead of jivon to the printer. Instead of the getting that information brought to his home in the village lowspaper he must come to town leveral miles to the post office, and his chances of seeing it, to read )t it. Some people never know what a village.paper is i'or. An exchange says Senator Hoar is "oh rover's trail." He better not follow that trail too closely or rapidly lost ha get a kick in the stomach that will make him think a freighij train has run over him. It requires an unlimited amdunt of cheek for a man doing business on the main street to stand up and tell his creditors he is not paying but fifty cents on the dollar on old debts.

Yet we hear such is being said in this town, Lawrence Hanlon, ould Oirish gintleman," and the father of a dozen more Hanlons in this county, surrendered his breath at Oclwein last week and took up the Catholic track to heaven. He was given a grand start by the Oclwein papers. The Fail-bank View is offered for it can be done by Jan. 1st. Should it collapse all its flues and disappear from the face of the earth entirely, its funeral procession would not extend beyond the corporation.

Its editorial head has always been full of wheels, cranks and cogs, and the culminating crash need not have been unexpected. The Hitchcock outfit was educated to raise calves and cabbages, and sho'd never have abandoned its honorable vocation. NO. 584 Ft. Dodge Chronicle: An observing farmer has been talking about the shrinkage in grain says: "I notice that wheat will shrink two q'ts to the bushel in six months from ordinary threshing under the most favorable circumstances; hence it follows that G4 cents the first of August, when threshed, is the.

same as seventy-five cents six months later money worth 7 per cent. One bushel of corn as it comes from the huslvin November, will measure only SO seasoned; thus 30 cents in November is-fche satire 'is the same as 40 cents in March." On corn the law takes loss in weight into account and up to Jan. 1st, 75 pounds must be given for a bushel. Assistant Maxwell is knocking out all the cheap postmasters in Iowa as 'ast as he can look over the list and earn where they are located. Mr.

Bisscll. in the upper story, is envi- with the swell-head clement and Swivel Service Reform to such in extent that presidential appointees are not being disturbed. No one votikl mistrust, except from repub- ican newspapers, that a democratic idministraiion had this government jy the roots of the hair. We don't icliovc there are 1500 democrats in Israel" who will be sorry when Grover Cleveland is retired to the private law practice from which he icvei- ought to have been taken for .1 second term as president of this Republic. As we were preparing for press list week we noticed an account of the accidental shooting of Gen.

Datus E. Coon, at San Diego. by the premature or accidental discharge of his own rifle while climb- ng into a carriage. Later reports showed that he died of his wounds lext day. This item is of more than a mere passing or casual interest to us from the fact that we were personally acquainted with Gen.

Coon while he was enlisting a company in 1801 for tin 1 Second Iowa Cavalry, at Mason City. We saw him at the head of iiis company when he left Mason City the seat of war. Coon was promoted by degrees from a captaincy to that of a. brigadier general of volunteers, and after the war to the same position iu the regular army. Gen.

Coon was a brother-in-law of Horace G. Parker, of Mason City, at that time treasurer of Cerro County. Mr. Parker and Miss Coon were married but a few weeks prior to the General's departure for the South. Although more than 32 years have missed since that memorable summer all the events of the season are as fresh in our memory as 'though they occurred the last summer.

We carry a full stock in both branches, and our prices are lower than any one. PICTURE FRAMING a specialty. We can sell you a cheaper than any store in the County. Repairing of all kinds done. Call in.

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