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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IAHENRY] !! Free Press; Henry Co, IA; Aug 7, 1879
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:42:12 -0600


The Free Press
Mount Pleasant, Henry, Iowa
Thursday, Aug. 7, 1879

THURSDAY MORNING.
Just as we go to press we can give the news that three of the prisoners,
John Bailey, William O'Neal and P. Raymond, have been captured, and are returned
to their old quarters in the jail. Craig had been down by St. Paul and had left
full description. These men were seen on Wednesday and suspicioned, and on their
arrival at St. Paul, about 2 o'clock p.m. they were all arrested. They state
that one of their number while travelling a night stepped off a steep bank and
fell striking his knee on a stone at the bottom. This so disabled him that he
could only travel with difficulty, and had to be assisted by one of his
comrades. He told them to leave him but they stuck by him though with the
knowledge that in doing so they greatly increased the risk of their capture. At
last, not being able to get along across fields and through woods, they came out
on the open road and attempted to pass as ordinary tramps. Their whitened out
complexion rather gave them away at last, and first caused them to be
suspicioned. They say they were about four months getting the stone out of the
jail, that as soon as it was done these three with McKune crawled through before
the shelf was cut away. They got the saw to cut it away but were afraid to use
if for the noise. These four then left. They suppose one of the three got out
and sawed away the shelf, when the remaining two got out and departed.
Mr. O.A. Garretson and Mr. Cowgill of Jackson township, are entitled to the
credit of detecting and capturing them.

- How many of those who visited our jail on Tuesday morning felt that it was a
good enough place for seven men to be confined during the sweltering summer
weather? Should there not be some humanity shown even to these poor outcasts, at
least before they are found guilty? The room should be made much larger and very
much better ventilated, and as much more secure as it is possible to make it,
with airy cells, where each prisoner could be safely locked at night.

Escaped from Jail.
On Tuesday morning the Mt. Pleasant people were surprised to hear that
several prisoners had escaped the county jail. But they are still more surprised
to hear of the wonderful cures made by Dr. Van Cise's Neutralizing Cordial for
summer complaints for children and for all acute and chronic diseases of the
bowels, for sour stomach and sickness of the stomach in delicate females, it is
unsurpassed.

- Sheriff Davidson, during his administration, has done all in his power to make
the jail decent and inhabitable, yet no one can deny that our county jail is a
disgrace to Henry county, and somebody should see to it that a better and safer
place be provided for our prisoners. They should at least have enough pure air
to breathe.

Take Notice.
To all whom it may concern: All persons in this city are hereby notified and
required to cleanse the premises on which they reside or have control, of all
filth of every kind, including deposits in alleys, sewers, sinks, and all other
places calculated to create a stench and produce disease. And to use plenty of
lime or other disinfectant in all such places and especially in privy vaults.
And it is recommended that the contents of vaults be not removed until cooler
weather, but to use plenty of lime in them. Such cleansing to be done within ten
days from this date or all places complained of will be liable to be dealt with
as nuisances and be abated. To the end that a healthy condition of the city may
be realized.
By order of the Council,
W.S. Burton, Mayor.
August 4th, 1879.

- Our enterprising townsman, Wm. Shultz, who invented the Wheel Scraper, now so
extensively used in railroad grating, has just completed what may be termed a
wheel harrow, by which a man or boy or woman can sit on a spring seat and
thoroughly break and pulverize the soil, if needed, to the depth of five inches
or one inch or any depth less than five inches. He has just finished his first
model and is ready to put it to the test, and thus develop its perfections or
imperfections- If I were a boy again I should take a lively interest in the
success of such an invention. Even now I can remember the weary and monotonous
work of following through the long spring days the creeping old harrow and those
patient and unambitious old horses. TIMOTHY.

- J.W. Tracy, after about a year of faithful labor, has succeeded in securing
for himself a miniature lake of the clearest and purest water to be found
anywhere in the county. We doubt if even Minnesota, the land of lakes, can excel
it. The lake is fed from a clear, cold spring of water, and he has already
secured a depth of nine feet. He intends to make it one of the city's most
useful, attractive and health promoting surroundings. When the finishing touches
are all added it will furnish our citizens with the purest ice, the smoothest
and slipperiest skating, the choicest fish that can be reared from the choicest
varieties of limpid lakes and mountain streams. And in summer a convenient
bathing place and school for those aspiring to master the swimming art. We wish
him entire success, and we doubt not the public will not be backward in giving
aid and comfort to the enterprise.

A Card.
Editors Free Press:-
Permit me, through your valuable paper, to express my heartfelt thanks to
the many friends and neighbors for their kindness, attendance and assistance,
during the sickness and funeral of my deceased wife, and for their sympathy in
my late bereavement.
These lighten the load of sorrow, by the assurance that heart feels for
heart in its hour of trouble.
May all, if ever so afflicted, meet with like sympathy.
J.F. SARGENT.
Mt. Pleasant, Aug. 6, 1879.

DIED.
DODGE.- In Grantsville, Linn county, Mo., on Monday, July 21, 1879, Mrs.
Maria Smith Dodge, mother of Mrs. O.J. Gimble of this city, aged about 75 years.


Cathy Joynt Labath
Henry Co, IA USGenWeb Project
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Iowa Old Press
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