Eldora Herald (Newspaper) - October 29, 1897, Eldora, Iowa M si OCTOBER A v H 1 f i matter In the mulled regularly to Its until a definite order to ne till arrears are paid I f l The price of Tho Herald Is ear if paid In advance per paid In of t and society when In ie cards of resolution and similar will be at the rate 0 cents fcr line for WHITE OF THE insurance Will and acknowledge deeds Collections attended over Jewelry 3d door to i Republican State For of Denl Crawford For Lieutenant MILIM of Harrison of Scott Tor Railroad DAVID of Sioux For Superintendent of RICHARD Of Mitchell For WALLACE of For of Iowa Hard In COUNTY For of For W of For of For of For of PROVEN A How Uncle Sam Matters In the Free Delivery of Mall in Providence OUR DAVE SHOULD QET CREDIT General Dow laid up a fortune of while he was busy working for Secretary of Agriculture Wilson i AT LAW General practice In that ten years thia country state and Offices in WIs fcr Opera i A Practices In all Collections a office In Porter a loirs ALBROOK collections promptly attendee L Office over Bardln County I AT BL Practices mall the Office Irst door north of 10MEOPATHIC Diseases of the Skin pnd Stomach a OFFICE AT ELVIN Practices In all Collections receive prompt per Probate law ana settlement ional pf estates receive Careful attention State In OF LOAN Honey to loan on real estate at reasonable late of Over GETHMAN PHYSICIAN and 1 Office over State o rBadley All or will be answered Surgeon Cen tral Iowa Office and residence Bide public will be exporting It is a bold as foreign sugar costs us a The deficit of the second month of the Dingley law was over but the deficit of the second month of the Wilson law was over Does anybody want to trade back The Democrats do not hope to win in Iowa this All they expect to do is to reduce majority and in this they will not be disap pointed unless the Republicans show more interest in Everything except mortgages and Populists increased in Kansas during the The population increased more than the marriages in creased the births increased the bank deposits were nearly It will be a good plan to fill up your vegetable bins while potatoes and other vegetables are plenty and There is no doubt that the price of vegetables will be et least 100 per cent higher next winter and spring than they are at the present The farmers of the country will prob ably be interested in the fact that the importations of wool under the new protective tariff were but a than half those of HA Jv free trade over B Speers dry goods Residence east ot AND Montague Regular meetings in Fraternity hall Wednesday evening on or tbe full Evergreen Regular on Tuesday evening on or after the full moon n Fraternity Ezra Eldora Regular meeting every In Fraternity OF Evergreen No Regular meeting very Friday evening except first In eaou in Fraternity ot Eldora Regular meetings in Ellsworths hull second and Wednesday evenings w J 894 Regular meeting last evening of month In Ellsworths WOODMEN OF THE I Eldora Camp meets second Monday ot each month In Porter Regular meet Is ID Fraternity hall Wednesday evening after fee full Lucinda ta r Regular meetings 1st Friday evening of month In Eda pe then in and that the impor tation of manufactures of wool in were less than those of in Evidence of business prosperity con to be found in the reduction ofthe number of Bradstreets Trade Review reports the number of failures last week only compared with 237 in the preceding 279 in the corresponding week of last 289 in the corresponding week of 1895 and 340 in the correspond ing week of The October statement of the treasury department shows that the money m circulation today in round in excess of one year more than onehalf of this increase is in The following issued by the treasury depart ment on October shows money in circulation October com pared with October who feared that Ameri can manufactures would languish be cause of the fact that the supply of raw material was to be cut off by the protective tariff law recently will perhaps be interested to know that raw material for use in the ures imported in the month of under the Dingly tariff law was 30 per greater than in the corre month of last year under the Details of the In It Came of the I Only two places in Iowa have the privilege of free rural mail delivery One is New Providence in Hardin county and the other a small place in the southeastern part of the The system was inaugurated at New Provi dence so that now the experi ment has been tried virtually a month and a and the unanimous verdict is that the service is giving the highest The matter of free delivery for the patrons of New Providence postoffice originated with Kersey and others who live about seven or eight miles from They had read of the experiments by the postoffice depart ment with rural delivery and wrote Colonel requesting that he endeavor to secure the service for Any one who has any thing to our brave congress man knows with what promptness he followed up the He re plied that the matter would have prompt attention and in a few days advice was received from the depart ment that the trial would be A special inspector from Paul was He soon appeared and after investigation the routes were laid out and all details Three routes were One south and another south and east and the third west and north of Bids were received and con tracts let to Hall route 1 Oscar Green 2 and 3 at the rate of 8300 per year A HERALD representative was in New and through courtesy of Postmaster Kersey he was permitted to an insight into OF Regular meetings In ilty hall first and third Saturday eve teaon o Regular Army hall first and third evening ot banders King iry treasurer l BIBLE In public Bibles ments are for sale at O Des Moines Elections will be held in ten states and Virginia will vote for what are termed full state and all of these states will elect Nebraska New York and Pennsylvania will vote for one or more minor state Colorado has settled down to a square struggle be tween honest and dishonest money and therefore will have only two tickets in the Kentucky will have three tickets New York and have four tickets Virginia will have five tickets Ohio will have six The great contests and the contests that will have worldwide influence will be in Massa and All those states elect governors and full and in ail of them the leading parties have drawn the lines squarely for or against free and unlimited silver of farmer readers are interested in the he is pleased to tell them of its At Addison Trueblood the trusted mail carrier from the rail arrived with the pouches ane Postmaster Kersey quickly distributed the He separated it into four That belonging to the patrons within was put into delivery boxes and the other assorted in piles for the respective At Carrier Hall arrived at Carrier Oscar Green came and somewhat later Carrier Green put in an They began at once to sort the mail matter for con venient Every piece and parcel is counted and a record made of the number of postal papers and advertising circulars deliv ered each day and at the end of the month a report is made to the postoffice giving the total number of pieces of each kind of mail deliv Counted and conveniently ar ranged the mail is placed m large leather such as are used by city Oscar Green was the first to leave the with his pouch at Carrier Hall at and a few minutes later Carrier Away they hustled carrying the intelli gence of the all of mes sages to 150 for there are about that number of houses at which they The routes average about twentythree Greens is of the patrons as a matter of lience have adopted the practice a white cloth from the that there is mail to collect Otherwise he need Addition to the mail the carriers deliver goods ordered from merchants for which service they receive such extra com as is agreed Post master Kersey stated that the cancel of stamps under the new service is The farmers seem to think that when Uncle Sam sends right to their doors for their mail they ought to write more letters and the record they but the greatest increase is in second class mat that is When the service began the average was about eighty papers a while now the showing is from 120 to 130 a excepting Uncle Sam places in the hands of these farm ers the latest markets of the as well as every other feature that the man in town The expressions of satisfaction are as the voice of one There is no assurance that the service will contine longer than the end of the fiscal year June no ap propriation having been made for a longer but if the recent recom by the department is carried into it may be expected that rural free mail delivery will become an established Who deserves it more than the farmers They pay the bu Ik of the taxes of the nation and are entitled to just as good service as any other class of As an indication of how the service is one man said that if the discontinued the service would be willing to pay a year o have his mail delivered at his Others are talking of starting a sub scription to continue the 3ur Providence township friends are Thanks to themselves or asking Hurrah for brave Dave Henderson for his successful in in their There was only provision for one free rural delivery in each but Colonel Henderson asked for and one man authority said Whatever Colonel lenderson asks for he always monetary McKEEN Vice ELLIS COUNTY Capital Surplus DIRECTORS C E Greel CITY BY Vice STATE CAPITAL SURPLUS Cosh BANK 8 DAY Seth Thomas other make for less EZRA perhaps twentyfour The carrier does not deliver mail unless there are some kind of These are placed on the gate fence or some convenient These receptacles are as varied as the At one place we saw a small fruit basket for amail The car rier gathers mail for forwarding as well as Thus far they have found no trouble in making the reaching the postoffice with mail for the east bound afternoon When heavy muddy roads and deep snow they cannot be ex to make such good The rules governing the carriers are They are not permitted to carry a note from one neighbor to another without postage has been paid and duly written matter within the carrier limits must have 2 cents They cannot carry a written order to the town goods without the postage V g As a of accomodation they receive money and furnish cial situation with a tant better at the present time than it has been since the panic of It is true that for the moment there is not the boom in stocks and other securities that obtained a few weeks but after such an large rise in so short a time it was inevitable that their should bo a This has come and stocks have recovered a good portion of their loss and are now ably in better hands than ever For the last week the assaults of the aided as they were by disquiet ing rumors concerning our relations with have had but little and that of a temporary character The English commercial and financial situation is such that money is coming in one form or from that this in large Of course the very strong position of our wheat crop in relation to the worlds demands for that cereal has lad much to do in producing this desirable and present prospects are that until another good crop is assured here and there can no material recession in while many things can occur to cause a de aided enhancement of The admittedly decreased acreage of winter wheat is one of and possible lamage to whatever crop is in the ground is Wheat has been unusually active at a much higher range for the last three and while present prices may look high to All lovers of fine China and decorated table ware are invited to call and examine my stock and see what low prices you can obtain this class of mu fine fine of aff kinds of some there is a contingent of the shrewdest traders who confidently ex wheat to sell well above a dollar before Corn is in a relatively stronger position than it was a week The while it forced the price was still a tonic for this and present prices seem low to As to it can only be said that when yellow fever germs are killed by the frosts there must be a much better market in the with advancing March 24 The Si company of rural comedians played to fair business at the Lansing last Si Plunkard is a The people held their sides They were the Dutch is indeed an artist in his off in a series of explosions over the scenes showing the trains and realistic threshing Shortest Line to KANSAS CITY For the CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN For r Des rates or any detailed information apply to your home or write to The rustic band attracted it appeared in and the ELDORA PLANING MILL Only planing mill in Hardin Examine Our Give us a chance to make you Manufacturers and dealers in 55 Glazed 2 i Wood finish of all descriptions in pine f or hard Office and store fixtures a
