Palo Alto Pilot, The (Newspaper) - December 31, 1874, Emmetsburg, Iowa VOL 1 PALO ALTO CO IOWA THURSDAY DEC- 31 1874 Weekly by Palo Allo J L Edit Year in Advance TIME cf our juvenile the following which he hands tin for publication We ask our lit erary to be lenient with it and remember the of their first Tlie diyi or are very near gone And ths old Winter comes trudging along The birds are all gone to a warmer climate I PICK up my pen a few moments to rhyme it And now Mutiny Frost who the try haj crossed Steps up to the door ot the rich and the poor Or he'll coin through your ceilings To eater your Or unless air proof He'll come through roof And it in he can gul He will hurt you can bet But should he come in Out some wood Irom J N Make a good lire Sitting close by your sire But the sweetest ot pleasures that can be bestowed Are enjoyed while Jack Frost makes wuh us his abode And twill add to the comfort vre find in our To catch at lie brings as lie roams And chief among these are the long evening hours Much sweeter to us than the perfume ot flowers To enjoy social glee on cold night Or read by the fire that is blazing so bright And the cheapest ot reading mong all that I know Is that Irom the PILOT Palo Alto It will only cost you two dullars a year And if you'll but try it you won't think it dear Lei us also have books the best that we can reader may wise man For I firmly believe both now and ever That the gaining of knowledge is worth cur endeavor I hope you'll remember dear readers and friends That our country's prosperity on it de pends And that culture ot mind snd a education the respect ot both friend and relation J W OF The Humble and ill Ills Home An accurate account of the dents connected with President Grant's n in Galena I believe has never been furnished the press and thinking that a brief letter in reference thereto would not prove uninteresting I respectfully submit the claiming for it tte merit if it p none other of plain unadulterated truth S Grant came to Galena from St Louis in September 1859 and immediately entered the service of J R Grant Ins lather leather dealer whose ss at that time ed by named Robinson to whom a monthly rental of ten ting shoemakers wax on the ers chair got three demerit marks Plot Kates lollars was paid The furniture em- j for di awing picture of her with braced a limited number of plain on the back of an atlas been j I lw j 3m era I i yr shaken for putting a bent pin in pieces together with a few reli s from St Louis home Mrs Giant another boys chair scolded coming as she did from the wealthy whistling out sentenced to slay and aristocratic Dunl family felt her I after school for drawing ink humbled nnd Us on his face and blacking the cared for but little society The few of another boy's nose nnd soundly BUSINESS GAUDS 111 I Column i 2 0.1 I 5 00 i Ml i in W j 1500 Column 7 00 10 00 1.1 W 5300 1 I 5 10 00 15 00 Ml I -13 00 Geo B ATTORNEYS nnd Alto county Iowa Si veil to collections II G i ATTORNEY AT LAW is per practice In the courts of Emmet and acquaintances she possessed wei e far below the and did not embrace tho ones who have toadied to into prominence The President during his sojourn in this city was as I have heretofore stated little known except by j We commend the following to the Ins who entertained consideration of our lady whipped for snapping 339 spit balls up against the ceiling and throwing one big one into a girl's ear Yi u can't j A believe half a boy says when he counties anil attend to and alt j ness appertaining to a Estate Office j T W j AT LAW AND HEAL ESTATE Agent Palo Alto Countr Iowa 4 i of abstracts ol Palo AHo enmity Abstracts of title at reas able rates Itf Sonic or Trials A L l II j i BE Knet Luke was in charge of Orville Grant the General's brother and junior by te years His salary was fixed at per J nm month and was not increased so long as he remained in the employ of his and during his stay in Galena he did not acquire either by ase or otherwise a single dollar's worth of in While thus employed Grant was principally engaged in buy on the street and when necessary acting as clerk but in latter ca he is acknowledge to have sad failure His dress ed of a gray military suit and ed hat which were the only features in his make up In he was no more than a man in ordinary walks of life and in his deportment quiet and mingled but little in society and possessed but few and the number were Captain Dick now dead Jack Booth formerly Station Agent of the Illinois Central Railroad at Galena C Calderwood keeper of a J B Smith then a and one or two others whose names I can not now call With these Grant would pass his evenings alter business in Room 198 De Solo House ing or indulging in social con- feelings of respect and It is Irom an article entitled the Captain as he was familiarly Independence in to the point Upon Cor an hour or an evening call upon while employed in the store of his ask favors try her sadly father he was visited by an old depart to again Mexican soldier and to He Capital Law RELIGIOUS SERVICES REV at M Church every Sabbath evening the afternoon at o'clock on at Strangers arc to attend AT LAW Fort Iowa Win attend to legal business in loiva in the United nnd in the District and Supreme tho E II M D PHYSICIAN Office second floor of Billiards new building north tide Dei St between fifth snd Sixth Iowa by them While UlL Journal for bne of his former companions last I evening I informed that tfi i nf REV R COLEMAN Services I me inai 10 a woman 01 sabbath was regarded as the eucher ambition and er in the city and that he played j s demand made up every one cf his curds for what it wasl OM lime by of the day Women she may have met That he said but little and that accidentally and been thrown with the duties that were required of him sat down and for hours talked ivor the scenes and incidents of the battles of Palo Allo Vore Cruz and wilh his old companion in arms The first time Grant was publicly recognized in this was a a war meeting held at thu Court house o- ver which he called to preside on motion of Hon E- li Washburn CATHOLIC tEV JOHN 1 SMITH Pastor The Holy of the Mass is celebrated on ilay uu and Holy from 2 to -1 o'clock p m DAVIS k Dealers In Stationery Confectionery Tooai and Alto Musical V A I LEV F II ROPER Iowa Located iu central part of fare and reasonable Good Livery attached AND OP MAILS EMMET HOUSE 3.1 from via i Proprietor Towa Lo and Dakota Mondays Wednesdays in the business part of town Good ami at K p m Leave south at 0 a in Tuesdays and from Spirit Lake anil at 12 M returning at 30 fit of her diligence and effort JMen who in business dealings have 1 ed to know her to settle some trifling point and then come again j because it is agreeable to them io do so never to consider that they aie a lax and a bore and never so necessary to her ence that they need an hour to a matter that is to any one but themselves CIVIC SOCIETY Lodge I O 0 F race's at hall on Saturday evening of each week at i y o'clock 11 m Traveling brothers are to 31 L N G T C X ETT Sec WILLIAMSONS FARMERS HARDWARE STORE had not yet been fired upon A woman of this stamp should I MAIN ST EAST Or BANit and a few of the mure learn to avoid favors they loo Democrats among the number A boquet of flowers an Brand then Mayor of Galena ing at the or any other am to pass pacific resolutions looking often is paid for by while on the other hours of liard service at Jl 1 U il IJ il i III W Jti fci there were those present whose hearts or else by attentions that are t TIX werD burning wilh patriotic fire ami ed or undesirable to a woman whose lives would freely be grow in strength must grow fare good accommodation for teams erate NEW Having opened a AND DHESS M AKING we satisfaction LOW Shop at James MISSES MIL FORD OLD Continues to nive of linn to FLOUR and FEED STOVES TIX tor sali at lowest rales i Irom a will experience no de- i lay in grinding their MILL CO Dickinson Co In D D CALL AH AN a sacrifice the altar ol versation The impression prevails a- country should m demand it I and to must not be by so-called friends Learn t TQ of ale cause were strive to live alone above not known being present was loudly j society and aspire to that called for His refusal to respond am win h it was exultantly regarded bv some nsi i Last week we mentioned the hnng ing ot Howard by a mob in Des This disgraceful affair furnish text ior who vor capital punishment was by our Legislature but will probably be restore 1 as our tion is prepared to part with it yet The prisoner Howard laughed in the face of the judge as he ed the sentence of Penitentiary for life upon him and afterward d that he would yet escape to of the witnesses against But though the provocation was and the trial and its circumstances had much excited tl e people of DCS Moines some measure ol pity should be mingled with indignation against a poor demented wretch from whose heart evil had driven the sugel of peace and the ot whose natural passions a ked world had succeeded in luring him to ruin Even though the court had nol ready condemned there was no reasonable excuse for citizens calling themselves respectable thur to jaw while they hung another for ing same thing and every good citizen will a blush of to know that Mitch n could tranx at our Slate When the s WOT to Gon Baker men many that Grant while a whose idt as relative to the value of personal J I 1 dent of this city and during his mill lary service indulged in the uso ol intoxicating liquors This I am pre and can substantiate the assertion by the evidence of both Ills friends and political ies who knew him while here as well as that of his only surviving stafl W H Rowley of Galena a man whoso integrity can not be questioned The story therefore of his debauchery during these periods demanded forget W A WILLIAMSON A E S Ormsby A L an admission of his delight in being BURNHAM ORMSBY iho South His more or a woman to be really j however were inspired with hopi ent must lie lofty of and rnd justly his reticence the masses in every moral attribute the fact that Ins wife was at that ti yourself of women who hamper Uie at ui n nu dangerously ill at her as you The exigencies time would a pestilence women of vulgar 1 B BS O D DEALER IN few electric from possessed no in and him and the scale seemed to be de is a direct libil upon a man whom in favor of those clamoring late had distilled to be great and star of glory history shall em- blazon among the renowned deeds cf men with brilliancy and ordinary attainments Poor society is worse than solitude to even less earnest women nr or peace At last the young self to you who have pursuit crat succumbed to this earnest and are pursuing it it is simply a tation of his warmest J You may offend the DEALERS Spar who had lull the stage and i ol to yon is moro than The sucess which masked the elbowed his way through the uf small natures career of the President since he took command of the Twenty-first ment of Volunteers as Col is regarded by many as ry and unaccountable from the fact that while a resident of city he seemed to be utterly wanting in those characteristics develop into greatness On the other hand there are a few who were not the least at the events which have his history claiming them as he fulfillment of prophecies indulged At Clear Lake he WHS much agitated declared had he been at ho the Governor's ihv streets ol with iron hail or prevent a where Rawlins was regarding the c ne as a spectator Together they pressed their way forward nnd amid thunders of the hero Diet This is what ought on ev BONDS CO WARRANTS ETC Money to Loan on from one to ten time on Improved Real Estate CHOICE FARMING For Sale Cheap and on reasonable Physicians Prescriptions and all orders correctly answered Goods selected with great care and warranted as represented 20 0 D KIDER BARKMAN SMITH ed the rostrum and placing in an attitude of ery account to e firs it be accustomed to is vastly more for j Towa their present health nnd comfort fl g of his country which hunt i j j little nice tl mys with ts aic so often apt to vitiate their petites and it will savo them a great to the above his head and in language which has never been equaled and JAMES FITZGERALD DEALER IH with eloquence sublime placed c 1 deal f mortification in after life self the side of the Union and ma expressed his to die needs be in its defense akt j l j 0 in at the outset Among the latter This speech which elicited cheer number is the lion E B the old flag electrified Grant present Minister to France and General John E Smith now in command of Fort Laramin who it is asserted urged the ol liis friend to the Colonelcy of tlie at the hand ol Governor Yates The Connor class insists that Gram owes his many victories while com- manding the army of the West and his subsequent sucess on the mac to the cool intrepid and whose plan and gestions Were followed out to tlie let by his superior Grant's homn was a ble one consisting of a plain two- brick house then as now ihen a i Democrat nnd in- within his bosom an noil for Rawlins which won for him his subsequent appointment as chief of the General's staff and Secretary of War GROCERIES ol everything to pamper tl em i will rich cakes sweetmeats and gar plums if you allow them to with a scowl I like this I can't eat and then away and make them a little toast j or kill a chicken for their dainty it you are Shoes Hats Caps g a not only on the in found I mile Southeast ol CO IOWA Is now running and prepared to do j MERCHANT CUSTOM MILLING Goun constantly on hand and i fur sale at the very lowest price mff CABINET SHOP FURNITURE STORE score ot a muscle aild cheek but of form ng one of the in a retail I will sell at Boy We once listened to scholars ing how J love my dear was one boy with i voice like a tornado who was so ih thai he emphasized even Word nnd roared Oh how I love my teacher dear wilh a that left no possible doubt of his if Ten minutes alter had been stood on the floor for most in habits mat they p vr T p D T p can carry along with them in XI J Vy J JA i life When they come leave you j they will not time fmd thing they can wilf prepare them to go and I life the in come when C5 slaws in world Mothers listen and HENRY WIGHT Has made ample arrangements for spring a line of Furniture and prepared My stock is carefully ant with everything io line ol business will also to erect School anil private residences Collins made in the bw of sivle and on short notice Repairing I ot the best in I GIVE ME A CALL time for the lime you will your sons and make homes by complaint and raising their j hj-in K elsewhere children up in the same Yorker 1 June 20 And my slock before made a speciality and guaranteed A DAT GUARANTEED WELL AUCER AND or DAKOTA
