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Bowlin Sell HEDRICK is one of the most prosperous little cities in Iowa. Its business enterprise and tireless energy have become too well known to need extended mention. It is the trading center of a hinge area of thickly pop ulated territory, and is the junction of three important railways: the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul, Iowa Central and Burlington Western (branch of the C.B.Q.), giving unexcelled facilities for transportation. Ten regular passenger trains stop daily at the depots, running in every direction. Hedrick has a population of nearly 1206, and is rapidly and steadily growing. It has splendid pub lic schools; is the location of the Hedrick Normal School; three churches afford ample opportunities for those who wish to worship; branches of the more important secret so cieties are fully organized; a well-pat ronized opera house gives amusement privileges; the people never “go to sleep,” but keep up the hum of business every day in the year. The Hedrick Mile Kite Track Association is another enterprise of which the town is justly, proud,and its meetings furnish amusement to thousands of strangers every year. Hedrick is well fitted to make a home for all industrious and enterprising men and women seeking a location. All such are welcomed, and letters of inquiry are cheerfully and promptly ‘answered The Chicago Tribune say’ that good whisky can be bought in eastern Ten nessee for fifty cents a gallon. But its all moonshine. Of the officials in Helena (Montana) Church, the president, secretary and treasurer are saloon keepers—a_ spirit uas, rather than a spiritual body, sure ly. ‘During the all-eight session of the Senate recently, sixty gallons of coffee were consumed. The quantity of “cold tea” absorbed is withheld out of regard for Senatorial courtesy. Somebody proposes to extract $3 worth of gold from every ton of water in the Great Salt Lake. Somebody once proposed to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. It is believed that both schemes will be carried out at about the same time. A Topeka girl, after ten days of mar ital bliss, has gone into court to have the Gordian knot untied. It was one of those hasty affairs where both were deceived and both willing to separate rather than live and suffer together. Why don’t people get acquainted be fore they marry each other. It costs $775 to whip an editor in Noble county, Indiana. The price seems excessive. The average Indiana editor is a bad lot to tackle. He fights with feet, hands and teeth, regardless of all rules, and he never knows’ when he is licked. Common justice would seem to indicate that a citizen who overcomes such an opponent in single combat should rather receive public recognition of his prowes than be mulched in a large sum of money. Per haps, however, Noble county editors are not up to the recognized Indiana standard. Any man who goes up against a Brown county journalist will, he may be sure, get his full $775 worth before the conflict terminates. Teachers’ Wages. Cedar Rapids Gazette. Wages of teachers in Linn county have,on the average, slightly ad vanced. But just think of a young man teaching school for $31.33 per month, the average for country dis tricts, while the women receive $27.07 for the same labor. The young man could earn more sawing wood, while the young women are not so well paid as those of their number who work in private families. Such a rate of wages should be paid teachers as will enable them to make the occupation a profes sion instead of a makeshift. Justice to the children and the community at large demands such a course. No teacher is at his best the first few terms of his service, and at the present rate of pay it requires but a very few terms to drive young men and women to seek other employment. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. Representative: C. H. Mohland, of Sigourney. . Treasurer: T. B. McWilliams, of Sigourney. Sheriff: A. D. Long, of Sigourney. Superintendent:5. A. Potts, of Thornburg. Supervisor: Wm. Hursey, of Hed rick. Coroner: J. 8. Parker, of Sigourney. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET, Representative: Tyrus Horton, of Martinsburg. Treasurer: E. J. Ramsey, of Keota. Sheriff: J. H... Barlow, of Hayes ville. Superintendent: J. P. Holden, of Delta. ” Supervisor: J.C. Barrett, Coroner: ‘Jos. Merryfield, of Hed rick. POPULIST COUNTY TICKET. Representative: Richard Weller, of Hedrick,. Treasurer: Jared Irwin, of Adams township. Sheriff: M.D. Reed, of Warren township. Superintendent: O. L. Eastburn, of Washington township. Supervisor: Samuel Gladfelter, of Lancaster township. ‘ Coroner: George Timigon, of Van ‘Buren township. ’ Surveyor: Fr. H. Sherwood, of _Mar tinsburg. oe ‘
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Hedrick Journal
Hedrick, Iowa, US
Wed, Oct 25, 1893
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