Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-20
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

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MOUNT PLEAsANT-Ther are nine
divorce cases on the docket for the Sep
TENDER term of court
BURLINGTON-The Electric Rail-
way & Light Company has been fined
s25 for obstructing the street by piling
up coke and cinders thereon.
GLIDDEN-Rey. F. j. Tower, who
has been pastor of the Presbyterian
church in this city for the past three
years, has accepted a call to Carthage,
Ill.
DUNLAP-The Reporter states that
Dunlap bricklayers are demanding 81
per day for work on the new brick
buildings which are to be, commenced
this week.
OTTUN1WA--A. p. Peterson. who had
been in the grocery business here for
Twenty-Five years, died suddenly in Chs
lcago Sunday at the age of 56-supposed-
| ly of heart failure.
MUSCATINE-Ther are 2,215 pupils
| in our public schools at the present
| time. The number has never been over
1000 before. These do not include those
who attend the Catholic schools.
NEwTON-A large case of plate
glass intended for the front of the big
Department store, by the carelessness
of somebody was allowed to fan last
week, the crash causing a loss of be-
! tween $3.50 and $500.
MASON C1TY-H. C. Whitney, a
PRESIDENT of Lincoln township, has a
novel method of disposing of his farm,
at least novel in this section. although
practiced considerably in the east. It
lis to be sold by auction to the highest
! bidder.
! IOWA CITY-In the district court
1 Monday Rev. H. H. Abrams case
against the board of supervisors was
| dismissed. The preacher had claimed
that the boards action was illegal in
the matter of passing on the taxpayers
4 consent to liquor selling.
TRAER-While Frank Hines was
lchopping wood recently his ak struck a
limb of tree and landed in his right
foot. Three toes We're cut nearly off, the
bones being entirely severed. DR.. Pink
erton amputated the large toe and
sewed on two others and thinks they
will be saved.
Il KANAWHA-Rev meetings Will
be conducted in the large lumber shed
near the railroad each evening.
a Fires during threshing are numerous
this season. Wednesday, at John
Cooper's place. four miles southwest.
over two stacks of oats We're burned,
the origin of the fire being unknown.
i FORT MADIsON-An operation for
Il
Friday afternoon upon Col. Joseph
Moore. of Fort Madison, who had been
I very i'll at his home here, but he died
Saturday afternoon. He could not pos
slbly live without the operation and his
to recovery.
SPIRIT LAKE Fan unusual number
of women are helping in the fields thi:
fall The farmers have been fearfulll
rushed ever since the snow went las
spring. - The sale of county refund
ing bonds was consummated the othe
day The Dickinson County Bank takes
the $4,000 bearing per cent interest a
. a premium of S101.
HARTLEY-The Herald reports tina
. w. A. Compton has twenty bushels o
: nice plums this season. His little orch
ard has borne we'll for the past sever
years but this season is the best of all
, He mulches the trees we'll with manure
3 This keeps the frost from thawing gu
too early in the spring, and as a result
his trees do not commence budding s,
early and the frost does not harm hi
fruit.
KEOKUk-The game of golf seem:
q to be growing in grace with the women
Saturday with its fine weather brough
! tout great many and some of them pla,
i exceedingly we'll. In October the mem
!, bership of the Country Club will con
test for the tombstone cup. II will be {
handicap affair and from the score
made recently the handicap COMMITTEE
. decided that the players have all de
generated.
DIES MOINES-"Over 1000 pledge
i have been signed at the East De
: Moines temperance meetings." Sucl
was the report made by Mr. Murphy I
a the Ministerial Association at its regu
) lar weekly meeting held at the Y. Nj. {
r. A. building Monday forenoon. The as
: ISOLATION discussed the meetings, as
9 sured every possible help and APP
r pointed a committee to look after tn
) interest of the meetings.
y ALBIA-A colored gentleman fror
'6 Coalfield, Monroe county, was befor
l. the board of supervisors one day tn
: past week and he wanted that body
: appoint a peace officer to go to Coal
y field and see that the Inhabitants {
e that place kept the peace. The gentle
i man stated that there was shootin
n nearly every evening and that thing
ir We're in very bad shape. The boar
N informed him they could do nothing
j. the matter.
= IDA GROVE-Pioneer: DR.. L. {
1t Spaulding has sued the city of Id
o. Grove for $4,000 damages which h
Id claims he has sustained by reason of
grade that has been established in fror
4, of his residence. At this early stage
ID the game we are not permitted to max
y public the intentions of the city off
in Gals, whether they will buy his plat
70, for $4,000 and save $1,000 or fight it. Or
al thing can be depended upon and that
is that the usual street work as well {
in that of the standpipe will go on just Il
same.