The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-03-15
IOWA STATE NEWS.
ETC, ETC, ETC.

IOWA STATE NEWS.
A SOCIETY to be known as the Avoca Fair
Association was organized at Avoca recently
A FIRE at Barnum, Calhoun county, dc
stroyed the store Of Charley Warren with
It's contents Loss 5000.
THE Masonic temple to be built In Des
Moines, to replace the one burned abouttwo
months ago, is to cost $4,000
The citizens Of Boomer township, Potta-
wattamie county, held meeting and re-
solved to indulge in wolf hunt
Mcdowell, the Council Bluffs small pox
patient, Is dead Twelve children compose
the family, and two are down with the dis
ease
COUNCIL BLUFFS has sixty-three saloons,
thirteen regular places of ill-fame and four
gambling houses. This is shown by list In
the City Clerks Office.
r. EDWARD EARIL, Of the United States
Fish Commission, of Washington, p. G., was
married to Louise A., only daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs H. IT. Harding. well known resi-
dents of Clinton.
YOUNG lady Of Clinton recently walked
three miles, transacted considerable bust
ness for her father, skated ten miles, and
walked three miles home again, without the
slightest fatigue.
The Sibley Gazette says the line OF the
Spirit Lake and Western railroad between
Milford and sbley is practically located,
except the few places where there are yet
some corrections to be made.
THE Des Moines Packing Company shipped
one day this week thirty five cars of lard
by the Rock Island road. which would aggre-
gate net about $4,000 pounds, and will re-
aize between 81, 800 and $so,ooo.
AN Ida county farmer recently sold drove
of loa head Of hogs, which, after being driven
nine miles, averaged 325 pounds per head,
and he received So per hundred and for the
whole lot the snug little sum Of 81, ,osa. ~.
THE famous Walled lake in the State Of
Iowa, 10 miles west Of Dubuque, has re-
Gently attracted much attention It is in
the midst of prairie land, and is two or three
feet above the earth's surface. ltisinclosed
| by wall of stones in some places ten feet
high. fifteen feet wide at the bottom, and
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in weight from three tons to 100 pounds
There are no stones on the surface OF the
ground within ten miles Of the lake. A few
wears ago the ice on the lake broke the wall
in several places. and the farmers were
obliged to repair it to prevent inundation.-
Chicago Tribune
/, THE first annual State Road and Improve
ment Association was held at Iowa City,
with majority of the counties in the State
represented Permanent organization was
effected rs follows: President, Col John
Scott, Story county, and one Vice President
to each county; Secretary and Treasurer, H.
s Fairall, Iowa City; Board of Directors, G.
+. Clarkson, Des Moines; W. H Sewers Ma
haska county; C. T. Whiting, Monona; s D.
pryce, Iowa City; w. T. Smith, Oskaloosa
The organization is to continue one year. A
two-days' session was held, at which discus
sions upon the whole subject of roads were
had, the outcome of which being the adop-
ton of the following resolutions as the sense
of this truly representative meeting: Re
solred That it is the sense OF this conven-
tion that all road tax except poll
tax be paid in money; Resoired, That
the district supervisor system be
abolished Resol,ed, That there shall be
elected in each township one Commissioner
to supervise the working of roads; Resolred,
That the road work shall be let by contract
to the highest bidder: Resolred, That the
general work on the public roads should not
be done later than the lst of August of each
year; Resolped, That this convention re-
cnactfnllv recommend that our Legislature
provide in some way for an intelligent di-
rective supervision Of road building and re-
pairing in harmony with the recommends
tions made in the foregoing
THE following table shows the number OF
youth in Iowa of school age, according to
the returns made by district secretaries, and
consolidated by Superintendent Akers, to-
gether with the gain or loss to each county
as compared with previous annual report:
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