Pocahontas County Sun (Newspaper) - October 26, 1905, Laurens, Iowa Vol. X X I OCTOBER 26. 1905. No. 20 TIME TABLES CHICAGO & AT n. e Mo. 85. 8: 38 A. M. 3. 2: 30 P. M. No. 27. Way Freight 10: 56 A. M. No. 29. Time Freight 7: 43 P. M Going No. 8. 15 P. M. No 16. 7: 43 P. M. No. 38. Way Freight 3: 15 P. M. No. 124. Time Freight 8: 10 A. M. No. 29 carries passengers between Eagle Grove and No. passengers between Hawarden and Going No. 204. Passenger 1: 36 P. M No. 278. Freight 11: 50 A. M Going No. 203. 4: 27 P. M No. 277. Freight 11: 50 A. M may be carried on last section of trains 878 and 277 BUSINESS P. E. D. V. S. B F. M. D. C Assistant Veterinary Surgeon and opposite Mather's Livery ' Phone No. 101. Laurens J. R. PRACTICAL Have had many years of experience and BUO and will cry Bales in any part of the o o u n t r y Terms P. C. AT Trial Settlement of - T. F. L YNCH J. M. B Lynch yj AT 1st door south of Herald office 4- 15- 03 POCAHONTAS ABSTRACT ORLO D. R. Abstracts of Heal Estate and J. H. M. D. PHYSICIAN Telephone No. 2. Office over the National J. M. PHYSICIAN AND promptly day or Office lOto 13 a. m. and 2 to 4 p m. WILLIAM J. H. ALLEN Allen LAWYERS General Special attention given to Real Law and Pocahontas - - F. E. SHOP Is the to et a shave or hair cut EAST SIDE THIRD STREET O P P O S I T E POST OFFICE Give me a Before You Purchase Any Other Write THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE COMPANY MASS. Many r Machines are made to sell regardless of but the K ew H u m e is made to Our guaranty never runs We make Sawine Machines to suit all conditions of the The N e w H o m e stands head of all family sewing machines Sold b y a i i t l i o r i x c d o u l y. FOR S A L E BY MORE Board Holds Special Hear Drainage Dearth of No Contracts ( Continued from last for the material and the work of constructing the e improvement as located and established in e Improvement District No. 20, subject to satisfactory security being furnished to secure the payment of damages On motion it is ordered that J. M. Berry be employed to appear for the several drainage improvement districts in which appeals are or may be taken from the findings of the board of supervisors and all other matters relative to the establishment and location of said On motion it is ordered that the same allowance be made for the maintenance of poor outside of the poorhouse farm as was made heretofore for the month of 1905, said allowance to continue until December 1st, 1905. The report of O. B. for the quarter ending September 30, 1905, is on motion Claims against the county taken up and On motion it is ordered that the taxes on lot 9, block 7, in the incorporated town of Rolfe be cancelled on the tax lists and the assessor's books for the years 1904 and 1905, said lot being the property of she not being able to contribute to the public In the matter of the petition of P E. Beckstrom and others for the opening up of the road on section line between sections 17 and 8, in Colfax is on motion referred to Jake H. R. Weber and Frank White for On motion the board adjourned until October 11, 1905, at 8 o'clock a. m. AUDITOR'S Oct. 11,' 05, 8 O'clock A. M. S Board met as per members B. C. Henry Jake Winegarden and O. F. Bills against the county taken up and The committee to investigate the road improvement petitioned for by S. T. Jordan and others report in favor of building and repairing same when properly In the matter of the petition of F. C. asking that the acreage of lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, in section 15, township 93, range 34, be corrected on the auditor's the same is on motion granted and the auditor is directed to enter the correction on said Moved by Olson and seconded by Weber that the date agreed upon on the 10th day of 1905, for the sale of be be changed from the 10th day of 1905. to the 7th day of 1905. The motion On motion the board adjourned until October 13th, 1905. G. W. county B. C. chairman AUDITOR'S Oct. 13,' 05, 9: 00 O'clock A. M. S Board met as per members B. C. Henry Frank Jake Winegarden and O. F. Mr. J. O. Wright of Washington D. C government engineer of the Department of being present and having investigated the drainage improvement petitioned for by Frank Reyburn and for improvement of the West Lizard submitted a report in writing which was read and the matter of drainage was generally On motion the board adjourned until one o'clock p. m. AUDITOR'S Oct. 13,' 05, 1: 00 O'clock P M. I Board met as per ' members all Bills against the county taken up and The time for letting the contracts for the construction of the drains and ditches and for furnishing the material and doing the in Drainage Improvement Districts No. 11, No. 12 and No. 15 having the following bids being on file were opened and considered by the board of supervisors as Drainage Improvement District No. 15, bid of Thompson & King tor entire $ 7874.75; bid of Thomas l i e per cubic yard i for open work Moved by Olson and seconded by den that the bids as submitted be Motion Drainage Improvement District No. 11, bid of Pocahontas Loan and Trust Co. for entire $ 4500. Moved by Winegarden and seconded by Olson that the bid as submitted be Motion Drainage Improvement District No. 12, no On motion it i s ordered that the auditor publish as provided by of the letting the contract for furnishing material and doing the work of constructing the drainage improvements as located and established in Drainage Improvement Districts No. 11 and No. 15.. On motion the board adjourned until the 7th day of 1905. B. C. G. W. Bailey's Britt Every once in a while we hear of some minister who gets overpowered by his religious zeal or something and in conjunction with some sweet sister succeeds in eliminating the cobwebs from high life for a season and giving everybody something to talk But the case of the Tennessee preacher who was recently suspended for kissing a pretty girl in response to a dare appeals to our When a young sister comes tiptoeing around with her lips puckered with a sticking we'd kiss church or no What in thunder was man made first for if it wasn't intended that he shouldn't take a k i s s of and then tell her mother to take a shingle to HAKES WILL BE The rough house condition down in Des says the Fonda ceases to be the murders are reported too If the Pocahontas representative were not a democrat we would be afraid to have him winter Democrats in Iowa are so nearly extinct that they are rather captured for museum purposes than murdered for SOME CLUBBING CONDENSED How Jacob A. Riis Was Introduced to an Audience. Once in a Massachusetts town J a cob A. Riis was asked by a funereal sort of chap lie should by way of introducing him to the replied Mr. Riis ill a of say anything We have clubbing rates with almost all papers published and can save you The rates quoted are for yearly subscriptions and the only condition is that must pay at least one year's subscription to the SUN. A few bargains will be mentioned now and others added as space and opportunity POCAHONTAS COUNTY SUN Chicago Daily Tribune POCAHONTAS COUNTY SUN Weekly State Register POCAHONTAS COUNTY SUN jc New York Tribune Farmer POCAHONTAS COUNTY SUN Chicago Daily Chronicle POCAHONTAS COUNTY SUN a- week Rep. POCAHONTAS COUNTY SUN The Commoner POCAHONTAS COUNTY SUN Chicago Daily Journal POCAHONTAS COUNTY SUN National Daily Review iTAS COUNTY SUN Review of Reviews Cosmopolitan Woman's Home Companion Make a list of winter's ' ing and let us show you how much 1 can be $ 3.00 I $ 1.35 $ 3.00 I $ 1.75 j $ 1.60 I $ 2.50 $ 1.50 $ 3.50 THB UK D ID NOT KNOW m i s you Say I am t h e most distinguished man in t h e generally Whereupon his serious minded friend upon the stage and calmly announced that lie did not know man whom he was to and had never heard of He tells lie went with never a lie is t h e most distinguished citizen in the You can judge for yourselves you have d Philadelphia A Perfectly Happy The late John Hay was fond of telling a story of a king who once upon a time fell into a state of deep Court physicians could do nothing for him and wore in despair when a certain very wise man of the well known cure of sleeping in the shirt of perfectly y man So courtiers were dispatched everywhere in search of the shirt of a perfectly happy num. One by one returned from their fruitless search the vast At last only one courtier remained and began to pair of finding tlie shirt of a perfectly happy It was just about twilight and lie was riding over a village green when ho was attracted by the careless of a disreputable rgar who s stretched full length upon the Are you a man demanded the reining in his Von said the ' A thousand crowns for the loan of your shirt 1 a i n ' t got replied the Pittsburg Jefferson Denied the The late Joseph told the following y on liim The incident rcd at Palm last winter not more than 500 yards away from the actor's pretty A unique figure at this resort is Alligator J o e a half breed trapper and v. dio is a and uncouth A newly had evidently heard of t he human landmark and was out looking for but the only fisherman on the pier that morning happened to be Mr. He was old enough for the and he looked extremely uncouth in his The newcomer Are you ' Alligator J o e Jefferson's merry eyes and as he glanced up quickly he I confess to t h e but I deny the Too If a man could borrow money as easily as he can borrow ed the observer of events and he'd have no trouble to borrow The POCAHONTAS COUNTY SUN and the Chicago Daily one for $ 3,00, n j s M r a M ( Successor to Wheeler Grain & Coal KINDS OF Of 6RAIIN AND COAL 1 Having the Wheeler elevator at this we want to get acquainted with the fanners of Pocahontas Come in and see in your grain and we will give you the highest market price for it. 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