Williamsburg Journal Tribune (Newspaper) - April 23, 1897, Williamsburg, Iowa VOLUME IOWA APRIL 500 PIECES For Spring and Summer Pants and Over will be at EELLY These goods arc one arid onefourth yard cut from the which make fine samples to choose An expert cutter will be here from the well known tailoring house L And will take your The large samples and expert cutter will be here only one April Fit guaranteed and workmanship Bicycle Duck Linens and Crash Something cool for the hot summer LOW Prices on mat NORTH SIDE Meat Under New We will keep all times the very best FRESH and SALT Come in and see Real Loan and INSURANCE up an office and will Mail money OD good Plenty of money on Come in and get Office over Kleins Side s foft Real Insurance AND LOAN General Agents for the Port r Excursions run to all parts of the WATCHES and I carry a full line of Clocks and and sell watches from cata logue at Greatly Reduced REPAIRING A SIDE HEW PHOTOGRAPH Our Public The school board held their regular monthly meeting Thursday evening of last week at the of Pugh secretary of the and unanimous ly reelected the entire corps of teachers as follows salary per Assistant Clara sal ary per 2d Assistant Ella salary per Grammar Eva salary per June salary per 3rd Katie salary per 2nd Minnie salary per 1st Emily salary per salary per Troy township has noted for its good schools during the last quarter of a and the Williamsburg school has sent out more profess men than any other town of equal population in the state but of recent years the public school of this town has taken a still higher position on educational as town has grown and the school building has been increased in the course of study has been revised and a higher standard of scholarship required of all who com plete the and the thorough work now being done by the present corps of teachers under the supervision of Hukill has placed our schools in the front rank among the best schools in and made it very popular with not only the town but the entire com as the increase in tuition from nonresident pupils will Yerger was principal in 1892 and Hukill We are in the furniture business and will compare goods and prices with any similar within your KEIL A Good Picture Never Fails to Only first glass work done at ou A Gallery SOUTH BIDS Excursion to New York The Nickel Plate Road will sell ex cursion tickets from Chicago to New York and return for all trains leaving Chicago on April 23rd to inclus st a rate of for the round being less than via other will be valid for passage from New York to and including May For particulars call on or address Genl 111 Adams 344 and Tourists who desire to visit points in the South or West should take advantage of the low rate excursions which will be run every other week for the next six months by the On the fellow iiiR dates nil agents of this company will sell excursion tickets to a large number of the cities and towns in Western and Southern states at ratu of One Fare plus for the Round 5 and 19 2 and 6 March 2 and 16 April 6 and 20 May ind Tickets are good to return 31 from date of Call on or address the un for rull U lay Cedar JOHN We keep Uie best ef ani Salt Cash paid for and South Dakota in Springtime Is clothed with verdure green and spot the beautiful blue and white prairie tokens of luxuriant soil like that fail country to which Moses led the children of Israel in ancient And like unto that hind of South Dakota its sister states of the east in the products of its cultivated and harvested in less time and with greater ease than in any portion ofthe United And so we say unto you that now is the opportunity of a lifetime to Go West and buy a For descriptive list and address 1856 CHAPTER On the west banks of the historic stream called Old Mans Creek In 1850 was platted a small village called also named Williamsburg in hon or of its A school and a church was in due time a store or two estab some eight or ten houses and for twenty or thirty years there were few other improvements John Hughes was appointed post master under the administration of President and served for 17 In 1877 Fletcher was ap pointed postmaster and served for three and was succeeded by Evans April There are many noted events that transpired during the thirty from 1851 to that we will notice in future On Saturday June the railway track reached Wil from the Hundreds of people had gathered at the spot where the depot now stands to see the first and as the whistle screamed shal Lewis made the and as the town had no the man was haltered up in a stall in the livery barn and the marshal stood guard until he became During this year the streets around the square were the chain and many other improve ments We will continue the municipal his tory next commencing with the election of John Hughes as mayor in In closing this article we will give a few locals published in the first issue of the July In the clay pigeon shoot by the gun club Saturday Scofield and Pioneer tied on nine out of In the shoot off the former The stockholders of are soon to begin the erection of a bank building on the northeast of the David Jones moved into his handsome new residence on and Wilson gave an ice cream festival at the county farm last Wednesday that netted about the money to be used to pay the A DISCORD IN THE around the a sound they had been Waiting a quarter of a century to they were electrified and one glad shout of triumph went up from the happy They had prepared a bountiful we would call in these atter days a a reception for the officers and employes of the road the ladies of the little village and surrounding country furnishing and serving the At 12 oclock the booming of cannon and the glad strains from the band announced that dinner was John Hughes made the address of which was respond d to by now general manager of the after which an other outburst of assisted by the whistle of the woke the echoes for miles up and down the val ey and ushered in a new birth for the own of About this time the JOURNAL was established with Morehouse as editor and but was purchased the next July y the present Israel Lyons hotel was finished in the fall of Southern was the Lytle finished their new store n Harris built his store room on east side in the fair of Fletcher handed in the first advertisement for the first issue of the The Williamsburg Savings Bank was built late in the fall of Steven Hanson was the first cash in advance subscriber to the There were about forty built n the town in the fall of In the winter of 1884 steps were taken o incorporate the and on the 3rd day of the first municipal lection was held in the old school Roger Kelly and Anderson were the and Harris and Jones Patrick Crinigan oast the first and the entire poll only numbered Mie following officers were elected mayor Har rones and aldermen and as On January 6th the above of appeared before a notary and took the oath of They only had until the annual election in March to but during this short time they had a num ber of meetings and adopted quite a number of ordinances for the govern nent of the At the spring election in vans was reelected and Long and Beck and Evans The council appointed Lewis On the day of Mayor Evans issued the first war ant for the arrest of a man charged vith being drunk and Mar Star scholars of the Williamsburg school for the month June 1884 Freddie Spellman Anna Simmons Johnnie Pierce Lily Long John Kelly Bert Kelly Frank Simmons Katie Perkins Alley Kelly Edith Taylor Chauncey Evans Willie Perkins Beva Long Jennie Jones Paul Morrin Lucy Foster Leola King John Driscoll Susie Jones John Jones Mabel Seymour Leonard Morrin Jennie Perkins Amelia Jones Weather Crop For week ending April There was a continuance of cold weather dur ing the larger part of the past but the rainfall was generally and there was more sunshine and drying The daily mean temperature was from 5 to 7 degrees below The heaviest rainfall was reported in the northeast and east central Since the 15th instant the conditions have been generally more favorable for farming and substantial progress in seeding has been made in all parts of the In the three northern districts a good beginning has been made in sowing oats and and the work is being rapidly In the central belt seeding is over half done on the the work being hindered only on the wet and undrained In the southern belt the work is further except where the land is naturally very retentive of On the whole farming prospects are materially though the season is fully two weeks late in respect to seeding and Grass has made a good the wet and cool weather giving a substantial foundation for a large Grant Monument Ceremonial at Yv Take the 28 hour tram on the Nickel Plate Solid trains between Chi cago and New Meals served in dining Coaches lighted with Gas and in charge of colored A trip this line will con vince you of its superior accommoda Rates lower than by other Genl 111 Adams will take pleasure in furnishing all necessary informa 544 English Shire stallions WENONA DIGNITY won first premium at the Indiana state fair and first at the state fair in 1894 as a yearling also first premium at the Iowa state fair in 1896 as a three year WENONA DIGNITY will be kept at my farm 4 miles south of Homestead Mondays and Tuesdays qf each Fridays and Saturdays at my barn 1 mile east of to insure a colt nine days IMPORTED LANCASHIRE HERO 7527 will be kept all the time at ray farm four miles south of to insure a colt nine days Arbor Today is Arbor Day for The origin of the day dates back a quarter of a century The legislature ol the great rainless region called in 1872 made Arbor Day alegal holi day and recommended the planting of trees as the only way to increase the annual Now forty four states and territories have set apart one day in April and millions of trees are set out every There if no doubt but that forests affect the plenty of trees will even turn si desert like Kansas and Nebraska into i climate where some of the more hardy vegetable will The following beautiful story is taken from Sabins Arbor Day Leaflet When Alice and Phebe the two who have written beautifu poetry that everybody were little school they a They were coming home from school one day when they found a small tree that a farmer had thrown down beside the road to One of them picked it up and said to the Let us plant Then they took some they had nothing else to dig dug out the earth and planted this little for saken tree with their tiny hands and pressed the earth around it with their little Every day they hurried to it to and from school to see if it was going to How they clapped their hands with delight when they saw the buds start and leaves begin to form When these girls grew up to be they never returned to their old home in Ohio without hunting up thi tree they had and which they loved very It grew up to be large and beautiful Farmer Fred White is spoken of as a popular candidate for the democratic nomination for Senator Morrill of has just celebrated his He uses no glasses or cane and has a fine head of black He is chairman of the Finance and able both mentally and physically to hold his own in debate on the floor of the Unit ed States Less than four years ago Scott Jack who was hanged in Kentucky a few weeks ago for the murder of Pearl was under arrest in Jersey charged with embezzling from a railway freight office in which he was Jackson turned states evi dence and implicated a fellow employe named who was sent to the peni while Jackson himself was re At the trial the attorney repre Letts paid his respects to the informer in terms which seem singular ly prophetic in the light of recent Said he Today the arm of the prose cutor may be sufficient to protect you against the punishment you so well de but while you are enjoying im munity from the laws of our you must remember that there is a higher law than the statute of New There is a stronger power than the arm of the There is a law of Sooner or some where and at some that law of merciless and will overtake you and you will then re the just punishment which you now YOUNG 1654 This fine imported German Coach Young 1054 will make the season of 1897 in Iowa and Johnson commencing about the first of It is not sary to say much about this horse as you all know that he is the most won breeder and the highest knee actor in the show He has won more first sweepstakes and diplomas than any other horse in the He will stand in Williamsburg and Iowa and in Benton for the small sum of cash for a single or for a living Please call and see this horse before Now is the DAVID 1 EVERGREEN NURSERY NOTICE PRICES OF Good Assortment of Varieties for I QUOTE Apple Trees at tOc Plum and Cherry at Pear and Grape Vines at UW PRICES ON Gladiolus ft Frank YORK STOVERS REAL ESTATE LEADS In furnishing new locations where men of small means can secure a home and cease to be tenents of In furnishing good paying investments for In furnishing good first class land in exchange for land merchandise or well secured In furnishing you guaranteed abstracts of title to your In furnishing money on long time at a very low rate of interest In furnishing excursion rates to land seekers to all parts of the Next Excursion APRIL Our gentlemanly traveling each Land and Emigrant Agent for the Iowa Central THE LARGEST AND BEST LINE OF Furniture in Iowa A HEARSE Personal and Prompt attention given to KEIL Savings OFFICERS DIRECTORS Jacob Transacts a General Banking Interest Paid on Time Taxes FARMERS SAVINGS OF PAID UP Assistant OF DIRECTORS Transacts a General Banking Loans made on favorable terms on Chattel or Real Estate Sec Interest paid on Time Foreign Exchange bought and Taxes Collections a Hl IOWA m T r Also Combination Lath lipit
