Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-31
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

CONRAD.-Accordin to the Journal
some potato fields in the vicinity of
Conrad yielded 260 bushels per acre.
DUNLAP-The matter of a curfew or
dinance for Dunlap will come up at the
next regular meeting of the city council.
SPENCER-The Williams union
tabernacle and are arousing much in
terest.
ESTHERyILLE-Ti for the city
sewerage is being unloaded here and
work is expected to begin sometime
this week.
HUMBOLDT - Everybody is corn
husking, and the prevailing price is
2E to 3 cents per bushel, according to
the quality of the corn, says the Re-
publican.
BOONE.-The Salvation Army has
raised the money it needed to pay its
| little Indebtedness, the subscriptions
reaching $136.75. The work will go on
in Boone
CEDAR FALLS - Mayor Melendy,
who was threatened with a fever and
confined to his bed few days since, is
| Improving. The doctor thinks he has
the fever broken.
MASON CITY-Ten cars of lumber
already framed. arrived over the Mason
City g. Ft. Dodge railroad Friday even
ing to be used in the construction of the
Northwestern bridge across Lime
Creek
ROLFE-The Brown egg plant, in
Rolfe, has commenced unloading.
Three hundred thousand dozen eggs
have been picked during the season.
This means about twenty-five car
loads
GLADBROOK.-No If Glad
brook hasn't grown this year no town
in the state has, as over $4,000 worth
of improvements have been added to
this city this year. No town of her
size In the state can show such re-
markable growth in residence property.
IOWA CITY.--Work began on the
second story of the new collegiate
building Saturday. The brick and stone
work on the first is finished. and were
it not for the delay in the arrival of
the shipments of iron. the building
would be still further advanced in it's
skyward flight.
DOWS.-The advance sale OF the
Dows lecture course has been the larg
est in its history. about 800 seats being
selected the first hour, and enough sold
to pay within s65 of the entire course.
as against over 800 last year. +.
S. Ellsworth shipped 500 head of sheep
from Montana and has them on his
| farm near town.
| vlNTON.-The induction of new
telephone company Ca nome company
has given a very material reduction in
| telephone tolls. This will be met, and
| is being met by still further reduc-
ton by the old company, known as the
| Iowa Union or Bell Telephone Co. The
Eagle says it looks very much as
| though the "cut rate" by the old com
| pany is an effort to destroy the new
| company
OTTTMWA- The jury in the case OF
Martha Breeding VS.. kinsey Jordan, in
which the former sued the latter for
| liquor after the defendant had been
warned not to do so. returned verdict
| Friday evening for $3.50 in favor of the
plaintiff. Mrs. Breeding has also insti-
tuted similar suits against Michael
/ Schwartz and John Rosenauer, The
latter Is now deceased. but the admin
llstratfiX VIII pc substituted as the de-
PENDANT.
4 BuRLINGTON-Fo worthy public
institutions are to share in the estate
of nearly $1,000 left by the late William
4 Miller in trust to A. NJ. Antrobus, to be
4 distributed among such charities as the
| trustee deems fit. The adopted daugh-
ters OF the deceased had made claim
against the estate, but the executor is
inclined to believe that the last will will
stand as drawn up by Mr.. Miller. BY
the terms of the will the Burlington
Hospital Association and the St Fran.
/ els hospital will each get about sl,500
while to the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION and the public library half oil
this amount will be given.
/ SIOUX CITY-City Librarian ODER.
holtzer reports that the week JUS
passed has been an unusually busy ont
at the library, and says that the in
creased patronage marks the chang