145 years ago

april 9, 1880

W.G. Bates is modest, and he calls his establishment the Peanut Stand, from which he handled about $9,000 worth of goods during the year ending April 1. Not bad, we think. May you double your business this year, friend Will.

Work is progressing on a sugar and sorghum factory. A large, two-story building is to be erected and supplied with a 25- horsepower engine and necessary machinery for manufacture of sugar and molasses.

We neglected to call attention to J.H. Costello’s changed advertisement last week. “Jack,” as his friends call him, is one of the old pioneers and “holds the fort” with characteristic tenacity. He carries a large stock and drives a good trade.

H. von Langen is accumulating material for his new German paper. He cannot say definitely when he will issue it, but it will be soon.

Woodpeckers are attacking and damaging the new cupola on the Presbyterian Church to such an extent that Mr. Case is offering 10 cents apiece for red-headed predators killed there. Gunsmen must be careful, however, not to do the building more harm than the birds.