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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IAHENRY] !! Free Press; Henry Co, IA; July 10, 1879
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 18:41:03 -0600


The Free Press
Mount Pleasant, Henry, Iowa
July 10, 1879

Local Matters
- H.N. Crane and wife entertained a large party of friends on Tuesday evening.
-The narrow gauge railroad is finished from Ft. Madison to West Point, and is
slowly pushing its way Salemward.
-Henry Ambler will lecture at the Red Ribbon Hall next Sunday evening at 4
o'clock.
-Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have the addition of a daughter to their family, born
on the 5th inst.
-Hugh O'Hare contributes for this issue of the FREE PRESS the poetry on our
front page. "The Poor House Door."
-Nat Pope at Hillsboro has the tallest corn of any we have seen. We estimated it
from eight to ten feet high on Saturday the 5th.
-Piscatorial sports are now in order. T.N. Armstrong on Thursday last, caught
over thirty pound of fish with a hook and line at Oakland.
-The invitation cards are out to the marriage of Butler Buchanan and Miss Emma
Newbold, which important event is to take place this Thursday evening, July 10.
-B.W. Coiner, one of the late graduates of our I.W.U. commenced the study of law
in the office of Woolson & Babb on Monday.
-C. Stringer, near Oakland, found a set of false teeth, uppers, on the morning
of the 5th, which the owner can have by calling the FREE PRESS office and paying
for this notice.
-J.F.H. McKibben, one of our Mt. Pleasant boys, now in the employ of Pilger
Brothers at Burlington, gives such excellent satisfaction to his employers that
they have voluntarily raised his salary.
-A goodly number of those seniors who looked so fine three weeks ago and who
shook Union Hall with their eloquence, are in the harvest fields to day,
learning on what kind of trees bread grows.
-L.L. Beery returned on Tuesday morning from a visit to a son in Fairmount
Nebraska. He reports the corn crop there very promising, that the small grain
was hurt by the drouth and will be light.-rains there recently have been
abundant.
-John Gregg's figuring on the school house reminds one of the man asked to
figure on a job of painting. He replied: "An ought is an ought, a figure is a
figure, three oughts is thirty- I will do your job for fifty dollars."
-John Gregg in the Mt. Pleasant Daily Reporter calls the editor of this paper a
fool, and when we look over our subscription list and find where we have trusted
John with near three years subscription without pay and without security, we
feel that he may be more than half right after all.

The School at Rome
Our school closed yesterday with examinations and literary exercises which
were creditable to the students and interesting to all present. During the sixty
days of this term the following named students were neither absent nor tardy:
Nina Gentle, Clemma Russell, Rossie Mozier, Rosa Mozier and Fannie Jackson.
Those names below were not tardy and were not absent except when too sick to be
present: Rebecca Bell, Mary Pencil, Nellie Stetler, Lulu Stephens, Guy Gilson,
and Willie Russell.
ADA P. McCONNAUGHEY, E.M. PACKER, Teachers.

Cathy Joynt Labath
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com/


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