The Columbus Journal

Calves and lambs are beginning to come, demanding care and attention.
Mr. Ellis Jones has bought a little farm for $10 an acre—cheap enough at present rates.
The snow is nearly all gone, only a few piles left for neet eggs. It has behaved well enough to passing off so gradually that no high water or flood ensued.
The state of health is generally good for the people, and—bad for the doctors and druggists. Beef, pork, bread, potatoes, beans, johnny-cake and the like are the best drugs anyway, and all have, thank God, enough of them.
The Postville literary is prosperous, many profitable questions being discussed. Some other evening of the week would bring out more people, late Saturday nights being disliked by many. However, this is a free country.
The school at Postville is being conducted well. Miss Erma Cotton the teacher is an industrious painstaking young lady and gives general satisfaction with parents and scholars. They are also well pleased with their school and the teacher, Miss Parry, at Bledorn's school house.
Mr. M. Bledorn lost one of his fine horses. It was tied rather long one night, got a leg over the rope and was then it seems overthrown by its mate crowding against it and thus breaking its neck. Quite a loss for the old gentleman, but there is that much comfort in it—for a poor man it would have been far worse.
Domestic animals are in pretty good condition, considering the severe weather we have had. No more losses of cattle. Mr. Moriarti being the heaviest loser. Above that gentleman further up Shell Creek only small losses have occurred, and those only early in the season, none at all of late. Hogs are mostly all marketed and the money pocketed, or rather paid over to some other fellow that had been waiting for it. Grain is being hauled to market. Corn sells about as high as last year when we had a small crop of light weight. This year we have a heavy crop of solid corn overweighing the standard. Farmers are making plans and preparations for next season. The pasture of the winter seems to augur a good season, which, with the prospect of more moderate wages for labor encourages farmers, all arranging for more stock.
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