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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IAHENRY] !! Free Press; Henry Co, IA; Apr 24, 1879
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 14:20:40 -0600


The Free Press
Mount Pleasant, Henry, Iowa
April 24, 1879

-The aged mother of Ex-mayor Jericho passed her 83rd birthday on last Friday.
-Dr. Farris is absent in St. Louis working in the interests of his "new
discovery."
-Prepare for judgment. Judge Drayer's court opens next Monday.
-Joe Smith will speak on the subject of Temperance at Trenton on Saturday
evening April 26th, at 7 1/2 o'clock.
-Uncle Amos Jones passed the anniversary of his fiftieth wedding day on Tuesday
evening.
-The Chinamen are coming; about sixty men, women and children went through here
Tuesday night.
-A novelty for this climate and for this town is a fig tree. P. Jericho has one
at his residence and it has about twenty figs on it.
-Wm. Sweet has as card from his brother stating there was a big snow storm
through that region (central New York) on last Friday night. Snow about eighteen
inches deep.
-All who wish corsets should go to Robinson Bros. They have a good corset for
25cts, and corsets for 50 cts to 75 cts, equal to any 75 cts and $1.00 corsets
in this market.
- Not one in ten of our citizens probably are aware of the size, beauty, and
power of the pipe organ which has just been completed by Mr. S.R. Perry for the
Baptist church. Critics pronounce it equal to organs which cost two or three
hundred thousand dollars elsewhere.
-A barn belonging to Frank Matthews, living near Salem was burned on Tuesday,
April 22nd. Three horses, all his farming utensils, chickens, etc., were burned
with the barn. The loss is estimated at eight hundred dollars. No insurance.
- Baron H. Crane has lately purchased the building he occupies for his hardware
store and proceeds straightaway to make important improvements on the same.-
When finished he will have a store 150 feet deep, eighteen feet wide and two
stories high, with a glass front. In such a room he can make a fine display of
his goods.

PERSONAL
-Miss Lottie Jackman, after several weeks visit among friends in this county,
started on her return to Louisville, Neb., on Thursday evening.
-Mrs. Theda L. Powers of Atchinson Co., Mo., is stopping a few days in the city,
the guest of her brother-in-law Wm. Sweet, Esq.
- Dr. Laura Cole of Burlington spent a few days last week in town visiting her
parents, Mr.and Mrs. R.S. Cole.
-Ralph G. and Addie Cole, left for the west Tuesday. They go to take possession
of, and improve a farm in the north-western part of the state.
-Almeda Arrowsmith has gone to Burlington to spend a few weeks with her sister,
Mrs. Patterson.

MARRIED.
TAFT-McCLARAN. April 22nd, 1879 at the residence of J. McDowell, Mr. Edward
E. Taft and Miss Emma J. McClaran.


Cathy Joynt Labath
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com/
Related to Baron Crane mentioned in above!



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