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The Vinton Eagle; June 3, 1874
To the Public - Chas. I. Vail, at Blairstown, and J. E. Elson at Shellsburg are authorized agents of The Vinton Eagle.
The boy who was captured under the schoolhouse steps last week, has been sent to the Reform School.
Left over - We have two or three communications for this issue of the paper which are necessarily laid over.
The new Flouring Mill at Florence, now in process of construction, will be ready for the coming crop.
Off to Denver - Rev. D. L. Hughes and wife started yesterday for a trip to Denver, to be absent several weeks.
Mr. Samuel Jacobs has leased the Central House barns, which have been put in repair for the better accommodation of the public.
Married - In this city, by James Wood, Esq. on the 2nd inst., Mr. Harmon P. Lighty and Miss Jane Miller.
Mortality - Mr. Morton, city sexton, reports only two interments during the last month in the Vinton Cemetery, and none in the Maplewood. Both deaths occurred in Vinton.
Geology And the Bible - On Sabbath evening next, a lecture will be delivered at the M. E. Church, in Vinton, on the above subject by the Pastor, Rev. D. Shaffer. A general invitation is extended.
Messrs. Gale & Son have their new carriage shop on Concord Street, in full operation. They will put up all kinds of spring wagons and carriages; they will also do carriage painting and trimming.
Building - Mr. Henry Watson, of the firm of Watson & Ravenscroft, is building a dwelling house at the west end of Concord Street.
Mr. Thomas Ridge will soon erect a dwelling for himself, on an adjoining lot to Mr. Watson.
Fourth of July meeting - a meeting will be held at the Court House, on Thursday evening, June 4, 1874, to take the initiatory steps for celebrating the coming Anniversary of American Independence. Let there be a full attendance. Remember the time and place.
Five Dollars Reward is offered by an employee in The Eagle office for the apprehension, conviction, and punishment to the full extent of the law, of the scalawag boy or boys who stripped the bark from a tree in front of his premises, on Concord Street, in east part of town.
Large Sale - W. F. Williams, on Monday last, sold the large farm known as the King farm, southwest of Vinton, for the snug sum of $20,000. J. P. Chinn was the purchaser. It is one of the best improved farms in the county. Mr. Williams informs us that there is more demand for farms this year than there was last. Since the first of January, he has sold six farms, besides several pieces of unimproved land.
From Vermont - Mr. W. E. Ellis, who left Vinton some four years ago for Northfield, Vermont, returned on Saturday last, intending to locate here permanently. Mr. Ellis informs us that the "dull times" of which the people of the west talk so much do not at all compare with the "dull times" prevailing in the East. What Mr. E. says of business there is daily confirmed by newspaper reports.
College for the Blind - The closing exercises of the College for the Blind will occur June 8 and 9, 1874. Public examinations of classes, on Monday and Tuesday, commencing at 10 a.m. and closing at 4 p.m. each day. Monday evening lecture by Rev. Dr. Golden: Tuesday evening, annual concert by the pupils. All exercises will be at the college chapel. The public are respectfully and cordially invited to be present. S. A. Knapp, Principal
The Academy Banner is the name of a new monthly paper, soon to make its appearance in Vinton, in the interest of Tilford Academy. It is to be edited by the teachers and pupils of the school, and will have as one of its main objects, the perpetuation of an acquaintance among old students of the Academy. The price of subscription has been fixed at fifty cents per annum, in advance. Communications should be addressed, The Academy Banner, Vinton, Iowa.
