Anamosa - A Reminiscence 1838 - 1988

One-horse cart about 1904.
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Lehmkuhl Hall until the Shaw Block was rented.
In 1867. the building on the comer of South Ford
and Main Street was finished. The bottom part
originally contained a hardware store owned by H.L.
Palmer and the top was built by contract for Booth’s
Anamosa Eureka office. Booth paid. 81.300 for the
second floor. The Eureka office with its large treadle job
press. weighing 5.600 pounds. was moved with the
help of a dozen men and a good team of horses and
wagon. That year. or the following year. the block east
of the Eureaka office was built. This building is now the
Stoltz Insurance Co.
_Effective August 10. 1867. a new ordinance
regarding animals running at large was published in
the local paper stating that horses. colts. mules. jacks
and jennets would not be permitted to run at large
within the town limits. Cows. calves and other cattle
were not permitted to run lose from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m.
The city marshal] was authorized to use any enclosure
in town for a temporary pound.
There was also a Dog Law that went into effect the
next week in which every dog was declared a nuisance.
There was a dog tax of $1 per male and $2 for his
companion. The dogs would be killed on a default of
payment. The marshal got 25 cents for each dog he
destroyed. This ordinance was necessary as up to three
hundred of the canines were roaming loose. The animal
ordinance regarding cows penned up at night did not
prevent the animals causing problems in the daytime.
Indeed the papers warned several times of this. In 1864
the local editor proclaimed. “We hear a good deal of
complaint from persons who come to town. on account
of the depredations committed by the cows of certain
persons on the hay in their wagons and sleds. Animals
will never trouble farmers’ wagons so long as they are
well-fed at home.“ And again several years later. “We
would rise to inquire if we have a city marshal. The
other day we saw three gentle bovines all trying to get
into one farmer's wagon at the same time.
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The Giltrap Bakery. West Main Street, located west
of the alley on the south side of Main Street. Pictured
are Robert Cleveland Giltrap. Robert Edwin Giltrap.
waitresses (names unknown). (Photo submitted by
Donald E. Giltrap)