New Era, The (Newspaper) - September 1, 1887, Humeston, Iowa Postoffice at Humeston Iowa as Second-Class Mall Matter 91 HUMESTON WAYNE CO IOWA SEPTEMBER I 1887 PER YEAR Iowa y is located in the ue county near the i Clark and Decatur id by one of the best communities to be three railroads the S and its directions are un- it blue grass section 3 a specialty in this good churches good everything else that n Property is cheap is an easy matter to siness men do Good inducements industries hunters will do well ill and unless they that is well and a good opening HARVEST e state are boring fair be held will be held ty lias a ne w 0 be opened near lily holds a reun- oh lire h at Creston 4 holic at and where he was 1 g house which to a as struck at last week at a hariton starts in a his fifth trip jalers that the cns county this year lels uth county place to 100 bushels to wombly says the ol which bearing the State of Iowa at Nashville Lee Jennings and Sixth hold a reunion a 14 and 15 it there have been hay put up in the ot Iowa this sea Des Moines jei ot Presbyterian Chariton on at n took first ud and Milo s at 10 cents a canning woi ks in take them away idings which has in politics of being nre he i other tools A coat o iir Fair will be The association is making a in premiums n of Monroe for the pur lalt near i of coal has 11 be sunk at once y lias started np at works to 3 putting up id they think that will be equa church has been D pound bell a gift and Charley in this f will call the a R C- Kmg of Monroe township was in town Monday exhibiting some ples of wheat he raised on his farm this year The wheat is of the Early May Variety Mr King sowed 15 acres off of which he threshed 455 30 bushels to the acre Who says wheat can't be raised in southern Press Elijah who was arrested in Seymour on the charge of committing rape upon a five year old girl and alter a trial before Justice ley was committed to jail was released on Thursday under a writ of habeas cor- pus sued out by his attorneys Messrs Miles and tried before Judge Times A monster ear of corn from the Ginnis farm has been sent to the go board of trade by Judge James The ear is two and a halt feet long measures fourteen inches in circumference the being taken over the busk and the weight is three and a halt pounds That is a specimen of Iowa's burnt up Last Saturday's special Chariton to the Register Frank Martin caped irom jail prying the bars previously cut in front ot one of the windows He had been in about two months under the charge of stealing razors from a barbar shop at Lucas The jail had other inmates but fortunately they were in the cellar Martin has not been recaptured The management of the Iowa soldiers home at announce that the home will be completed in about sixty days and the commissioners will be ready to furnish blank applications for admission Soldiers who desire admis sion should write to J J Russell Secre tary Jefferson Iowa who will upon be ing notified furnish blanks with the nee essary instructions for making tions A to the Chariton Patriot says It is said by those who should that Lucas county has more timothy seed than other county in the States Already our dealers have bought over bushels which at per bushel gives us The season for timo thy has only just commenced It is by some that there will be bushels shipped out of this county this year An Omaha man has just been a lesson that may be of service to others He stepped on a rusty nail and hurt his foot and the couit has just awarded him which the contractor has to pay ibi his carelessness If there were more of such decisions the traveling world would The man who throws ba- nana peel upon the sidewalk or leaves nails to protrude in a manner unwary pedestrians may run them into their feet is to say the least thoughtless and should be made to think J II Sadler the British Consul at Chicago has written to Gov Larrabee asking for lurther information regarding the of James a mob at Leon The Governor replies tha the power of the State will be used to bring the murders to justice The dered man claimed to be a sub- ject and the at Chicago information Whether a subject or not the of ders who engaged in the lynching to be safely landed in the Gaiden Grove Express Last Wm Fairall one of the inmates of the poor house came to lowr a load of wood and suddenly leaving the team hitched and has not been seen since lie was 1 man of medium size about 35 years of ago wore yellow overalls blue shiit and straw hat It is supposed he went north from Leon a person supposed to him having been seen by W S Chandler and and Jos Johnson Any as to his whereabouts will be thankfully re- bv VV A Kecham the steward of the poor Journal While there is a great deal of good writing ir obituary notices they are seldom very original and they ly try to console with thoughts of a re- union after death Here is a little bit from a child's death notice in the Herald that seems brighter than common There a time when to think of child In all iu prattling In- children They never grow old md they tue always with us and come nearer to us as we grow older in life The manager of the ning factory This year we had 500 acies of corn 300 acres of tomatoes and between 150 and 200 acres of kinst year we propose to include peas beans and black raspberries and our acreage in everything will ed We want for next year to acres of corn 600 to 700 acres of tomatoes 500 to 600 acres ot peas 200 to 800 acres of beans 600 to 700 oi black raspberries and 500 of pumpkins or between and acres of Scott county soil is what we want to mike use of The Christian Church at New York Union township caught fire on morning between the hours of 4 and 5 o'clock and burned to the ground Hon D M Clark was the first one there and he kicked the door in and with the help that arrived after succeeded in getting out the organ and about all the furniture The origin of the fire a as there had been no fire of any kind in the church for some time It is supposed by some that theie weie matches in the church and they were ig- by mice or something of this kind don Times A Tennessee man finds there are 000 worthless dogs in that state which consume food enough if led to hogs to make pounds of pork which would be equal to feeding meat to 000 able-bodied men a whole year At ten cents a pound the bacon would be worth and ff in silver would load down ninety-four two horse wagons and make a wagon train over half a mile long It is said that these worthless curs prevent farmers from keeping sheep the mutton and wool from which would be worth Including the sheep annually killed the whole expense of keeping tne dogs to the state amounts to the enormous sum of We have all heard time and again thib summer that the oats crop would be a failure but how many know just to what extent it Just look W S Llewellyn had 280 acres ot oats this year and he threshed bushels off of bushels to the acie Jim Morrison had acres which failed to the extent oi bushels to the acre John Shannon had 58 acres and shels of bushels to the acre and we understand that Robert s oats were such a complete that he got hut 60 bushels to the acie off of his land We haven't heard fiom other farmers around here but suppose their oats have failed like those those we have Press The Carthago Illinois Republican says in regard to the Chatsworth It is stated that the T P VV railway will undertake to pay all ages and losses ot the Chatsworth wreck to the extent of money and what can be raised which is put at if a compromise can be effected but if not the load will go into the hands of a which will make payments un- and slow The estimated amount that could legally be claimed against the load is about The number of dead as given by the is SO and 120 wounded making a total liable to recover damages 200 Of course thib sum would be better than nothing and it is probable a mise will be effected One of the latest entertainments is a progressive The idea is to give each liuly and gentleman present a card on which a certain ber ot topics nre written each card being numbered The lady then finds her first victim by these numbers number one takes the head of the room number two next and so on down Each le is then supposed to start the sation taking first topic on the caul At the end oi five or ten minutes cording to the number present a bell is rung when each lady moves on to the next gentleman and begins on the next topic and around in this way until each lady has gone the length of the room and return to her first partner Then the gentlemen are allowed to vote by ballot for the one who is the most fluent the lady having the majority of winning the first prize the one Meond in of T T J D GEO HOME BANK BANK OF DISCOUNT AKD DEPOSIT y to ut ten per cent interest A banking exchange and business transacted Avith fidelity and promptness York IOWA Henderson Bro's CITY DRUG STORE HUMESTON IOWA IS THE PLACE TO BUY MEDICINES PAINTS OILS WINDOW GLASS SCHOOL BOOKS NOTION 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