The Davenport Gazette

A MARKET HOUSE.

There is no improvement so desirable or so necessary at this time for the convenience and prosperity of Davenport, as a market house. Strangers particularly feel and complain of this deficiency. Accustomed in the cities whence they came to have a regular place of obtaining their meat and vegetables, it is not only inconvenient but highly disagreeable to have to tramp over the entire city to purchase a few articles for "home consumption." Nor is it less unpleasant to the older citizens, though in general they have kitchen gardens and cultivate their own vegetables. If, however, we had a market house, very little space would be occupied in this manner. Perhaps the strongest argument in favor of this improvement is the unpleasantness of having to receive an inferior piece of meat from your butcher, when perhaps others in his line--if you would take the trouble to ascertain--have the choicest roasts and steaks pendant from their hooks, that even in a raw state, would make the mouth of an epicure to water.

These are a few of the reasons why our citizens need a market house. In a pecuniary point of view the farming community would be still more advantaged by such an improvement, as they are now deterred from bringing any of the produce of their farms here for city consumption, by the disagreeableness of having to peddle it through the streets. There is no town in Iowa of the size of Davenport which has not a market house of some kind erected, and it is time, if we ever intend to have one, that our citizens were beginning to agitate the subject.