The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-03-08
IOWA STATE ITEMS.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Richard
Root United States Marshal for the Southern
district Of Iowa
O1TuMwA has IN Agassiz Association, its
object being to study the wonders about
them.
CouNcL BLUFFS Is ngitating the question
of changing its high school building into
hospital
AN Iowa City cherry tree Is in bloom 1t
is n furnace.
IT is understood that several large water
motor elevators will be put in in Des Moines
the coming season.
THE Iowa Falls Gazette says Eldora merch-
ants profit by the Reform School to the tune
Of So, 900 each year.
II. W. RoBrNsoN. of the Colfax Clipper, has
designs on the postoffice Of that place, and
he ought to have 1t, too.
THE Knoxville Chronicle proposes to make
war on hip-pockets and make any man
ashamed of himself who will carry pistol
MARsHAILTowN has inst voted $4,000 for
two new school buildings, and the sale of
the old building lots will give them $4,000
more.
DEs MONIES is to have a new opera-housc
which is to cost $3.50, 900, and which is to he
the finest play house between Chicago and
Denver
From present indications there will BIZ
more building done i'm Des Moines this year
than even the most sanguine admirer ever
dreamed of.
FRANK IrsHBArGH has been brought back
to Decatur county, from st 10, Mo. on
reqnisition from Gov Sherman. charged
with burglary.
THE Lewis Ina,pcnt,tM tells of several fell
lows who stood by the Chicago spectators
to the las; and now mourn sums all the way
from S. to s5a
WATERLOO has received three pieces of ar
t:llerv and four cannon balls for the purpose
OF decorating the soldiers lot in tie GENE
terry of that place.
AN Ottumwa man lost 500 out Of the
pocket Of his pants which lay at his bedside
the other night, A quiet thief got into the
kitchen window and now holds the cash.
THERE are thirty counties in the state
where coal is mined, embracing 40 mines
and employing 1900 men The most i'm
portant are located in Maha~ka, Polk,
Keokuk and Lucas counties
RESIDENTS Of East Des MONIES are uneasy
about the work of coal miners under their
homes They fear that when the mines are
abandoned the timbcr-work will rot out and
let the surface down somewhat
Boone Democrat: The Common Council,
has finished up the saloon ordinance, and
passed it Mt the last meeting The license
has been fixed at $500 and will close up at
lerst two thirds Of the saloons i'm town
la PORTE Progress: Adam Keller raised
So in this place for the sufferers on account
of the floods in the old country. Benning-
ton township contributed sl3o, and there was
about 500 raised in Black Hawk county.
4 DEBT of $500 on the Friends church at
Iowa Falls has just been paid OFT by the
efforts of one of the lady members She
took each church member. divided the debt
among them and then began can,a~sing.
THE Des Moines County Agricultural Soci-
!
this year. 1t has offered for premiums
good round sum The society has paid out
&l5o, 900 in premiums since first organized in
1858
A TRAMP in Malvern provoked arrest by
throwing brick through window of one
of the churches. expecting TO get boarded
by the town for few days free, but the
Ne, lof = 1xo
streets
THERE is no other subject. says the Des
Moines Leader, upon which the press of Iowa
expends SO many words as that Of her pub
lie schools; nothing costs our people SO much
money: they are good and they ought to he.
Iowans appreciate them aud well they
should.
THERE is cheering prospect that the
heretofore monotonous and unvaryin- arch
itecture of Des Moines, as to material, is
greatly to be improved hereafter The red
sandstone from Red Rock, which is now in
active demand, is going to give it life and
color. So says one of our Des Moines con-
temporarieS
1 A COUPLE Of boys coasting down one Of
the streets of Des Moines ran in under q
heavy lumber wagon from the rear. with no
time to turn or roll of The sled and its
load shot under the wagon and between the
horses under the tongue, like "A flash. The
horses reared and plunged wildly with
fright. hut the youngsters We're out from
under their feet before any harm was done
The Governor has appointed Nathaniel
French, City Attorney Of Davenport, To sue
ceed D. C. Rchman as Judge Of the Seventh
district He is graduate of Heideli,ury
University and Harvard Law School Judge
Hickman, in his letter Of resignation. says
he leaves the bench @solelv for pecunary
reasons This is just the reason few first
class lawyers take the office OF Judge OF
these courts
NEARLY all the saloon keepers III Dubuque
We're recently interviewed by newspaper
reporters for the purpose of getting their
opinion as to the feasibility Of raising the Ii
ccnse of their establishments from sleD 10
$40. $500 or 500 They We're nearly all
unanimous that the present license is high
enough, and are decidedly opposed u any
increase A small minority expressed them.
selves rs favorable to the proposed increase
A CONVENTION will he held at the State
capital on the llth inst of all persons in.
terested in sorghum culture and the manu-
facture of strip and sugar from cane The
object Is TO develop plans for cooperative
or neighborhood factories where the cane
can be worked up from surrounding terri
tory, a is done in the creamery business I
has been demonstrated that Iowa is adapted
t. the successful growing of cane hut tina
the attempt to manufacture ON farm in
small way is not successful 4 State asso
: citation will be formed. and il is believe,
successful results will follow
I THE Dairymcn's Association Of Iowa re
' Gently had most interesting three DAYS
! session at Marshalltown. The conyentio,
/ was formally opened by an address of wei
come by Mayer Frishec To this s.cretar