The Waterloo Times
Thursday, August 23, 1894

Mitchie.

Cool nights.

Items scarce this week.

Everybody is far ahead with stubble breaking.  

Mrs. T. M. Crowe and children are down from Prairie du Long visiting relatives.

The base ball fever is breaking out again and you can look for lots of games from now on.

Mrs. W. Demint and daughter Corinne spent a couple of days here last week visiting friends.  
They promised to come back again in the fall and stay longer.

The Bald Eagle makes only three trips a week since wheat has go thinned out so much.  
She now comes on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.

The government works will start up about the first of September now that the river 
appropriation has been passed by congress.  They will probably start with a pretty 
big force.

The Monroe City base ball club done up our second nine last Sunday to the tune of 
27 to 12.  Monroe City is now champion of the eastern part of the bottom, until our 
boys can get another whirl at them.

The recent showers make corn look a little fresher, but it still needs more of them.  
A good, heavy, soaking rain would help late corn much and cause the whole crop 
to fill out much heavier.

Amson Baer, Belleville’s hustling mule trader, was down Tuesday on a flying business 
trip.  He traded horses with Henry Ripplemeyer and fixed Henry up with one of the 
finest mares in this section of the county.

Our friend, Henry Althoff, passed his 42d mile-stone in his journey thro’ life last Wednesday, 
and quite number of his friends called in the evening to congratulate him on the event and wish 
him many more birthdays.  Before company broke up for the evening we were treated to a 
surprise in the way of a couple from Missouri who called to engage ‘Squire Kohnz’s services 
to help them enter upon the sea of matrimony.  So we were treated a birthday party and 
wedding at one and the same time.
									
Jenkins
			
Submitted by Jean Jung