The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-29
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS

DlCkeHS, Il6y county, wants DaHk.
There are said to be 5000 acres OF
public lands in Iowa.
Potatoes have been selling for Is cents
. bushels in Davenport.
Knights of Pythias at Montezuma have
finished and dedicated their building.
The experiment. Of heating street cars
by electricity will be tried at Burling.
ton.
The National Building and Savings
association has been organized vt Boone,
with capital of 81, 000, 900.
The annual convention of the Iowa
Butter, Cheese and Egg association will
be held at Waverly Nov. 10 to IL.
Thomas Mitchell was sentenced to the
Anamosa penitentiary from Clinton for
four years for larceny and forgery.
The Eldora Herald offers years sub
scription free to any one if Bots is elected.
II Wheeler is elected they are to pay Sc.
Three members Of the Henderson fam.
lily, colored. have been sent to the peni-
Tertiary from Des Moines during the
last few days.
Iowa Royal Arch Masons have de-
cided to establish an orphans home, as
their charity fund is ample to provide
for cases of necessity.
O. C. Callard, of Cass county, found
two stone axes on his farm recently,
such as were carried by the noble red
man long time ago.
The National Guard Association Of
Iowa urges upon the people of the state
that better provision be made for keep
ing the guard in existence.
The Catholic people of Cedar Rapids
have laid the corner stone of st. Pat.
rick's church. 1t is to be 57x95 feet In
size and imposing in appearance.
Five firms in Hamburg buy and ship
5000 barrels Of apples week for which
they pay so cents per bushel. Another
local firm has dried 5000 bushels.
Oskaloosa will erect a monument to
the memory Of Miss Lois Benson who
brayely met death in the flames that the
lives of two children might be saved.
J. H. Sanders. who has been elected
president of the state Alliance, is a resi-
dent of Hardin county and is well
known there. He is staunch Repub-
ican.
Harry Davenport. Of Atlantic, was
taken to Council Bluffs and fined $3.50 or
thirty days n Jail for selling liquor
without license. He chose the jail
sentence.
All kinds of game may be killed in
Iowa until Dec. /. Then prairie chick
ems come under the laws care and a
month later no quail. woodcock, turkeys
or snipe can be killed.
The Anamosa council has passed an or
dinance prohibiting boys under the age
of ID years from running at large in the
streets after 9p. M. The penalty is a
fine or imprisonment.
The Iowa evangelical conference next
year will be held at Dvsart, April IA,
Bishop Esher presiding, aud Bishop
Bowman will hold the Des Moines con-
ference at Creston April 7.
Rev. C. P. Stire. the Methodist minis
ter who had some trouble about secur-
ing satisfactory place to preach, be-
cause he owned fast horse, has pur-
chased a half interest in music store
at Cherokee.
A boy near Muscatine picked up q
railroad torpedo and hammered il open
to see what it looked like inside. He
didn't see, but he heard from it. The
doctor says he is lucky to escape with y
few decorations.
Charles Jones. colored, was arrested
at Council Bluffs for being 'smasher. y
He was caught in the act Of handing .
note to two young white girls Of tender
years. They had been corresponding
with Jones and he was trying to lure
them away.
State Auditor Lyons has submitted his
biennial report to the governor. The
taxes levied and due, but uncollected,
to 1890 are S747, 9A. An estimate of re-
ceipts for the next two years Is put al
$1,000, 240. The general revenue for the
past two years was 50, 540,064
Arthur Bray, Erastus McC,.nd and
Ed. Frazier, of Monroe, wi, do service
for the state at For. Madison for tn.
next four yeas. They were charged
with burg. .arizing restaurant at Albis
aDous the middle of July. Bray and Nc
Cloud pleaded guilty; Frazier pleaded
not guilty, and licked Bray for testify
ing against him, but they all got tn,
same punishment.
At the last meeting of the State Teach
ers association it was resolved to max,
an educational exhibition at the mex
meeting of the association in December
1891. preparatory to the Iowa exhibit a
the Columbian exposition. The obiec
OF this exhibit in December is not Il
gather material for the exposition. bu
to make trial of what the state can d.
and to gather experience for the greater
| effort in 1892.