Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-22
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WEBSTER CITY-The Dawes Can
ming Company, which began active OPP
erations Monday, has just received a
shipment of 100000 cans.
MANNING-Station Agent w. H.
Hart. of the Milwaukee, informs the
Monitor that on Tuesday his ticket
sales amounted to $780, Pretty good
days business for town Of 1900 In
habitants.
hogs received at the packing house of
John Morrel1 & Co. for the week end
ing last night was 11,000. The market
during this period has been firm, ruling
steady at from 1920 to $3.50.
BUFFALO CENTER-The trustees
of the Congregational church have Sc
cured Rev. Mcneil as pastor of their
church. and he Will be located here by
the first Of the coming month. Rev.
Mcneil halls from Mitchell, Mitchell
county.
BELLE PLAINE-The new telephone
exchange will be in operation the first
of the week. The work Of connecting
the houses is now in progress and the
rest of the wires can be strung in a
short time. The number of instruments
will be around $50 for a starter.
MASON CITY-The city has had an
ordinance taxing foreign merchants and
Friday night an ordinance was passed
providing for a license fee. The tax is
S25 and the license fee is from 81 to s25
which means that foreign merchants
coming to the city to sell goods may be
charged $50 per day for the privilege.
DUBUQUE-The architect engaged
by the board of supervisors to prepare
plans and specifications for the i'm
provement of the court house has COM
lpleted his task and telegraphed that the
lplans have been shipped by express.
The plans provide for the lowering of
1.-THE ceiling in the north court room and
for an elevator.
JEWELL-The Danish Church Soci-
ETY., the Record is informed, have now
subscribed over $500 for the erection of
a new church for their use in Jewell,
the building Of which is now an assured
fact. Carpenters are at work
raising the frame of the new Catholic
church, which when completed will be
quite an imposing structure.
WATERLOO-Friend of Will Bar
rett are more than pleased with the
progress OF the skin gratis made on his
/ body several weeks ago. The islands of
4 tissue taken from his frienas have
grown and united until there is now
/ only n small space not fully covered.
/ His physician says he will pass through
his terrible ordeal without suffering
any permanent trouble or disfigure-
lment.
4 CENTERVILLE-Co w. H
/ Crow made another of his big hauls of
Iliquor Friday when he seized from
Sicily" Henley something over ninety
bottles of beer, or about four full cases
Some of the liquor was found In Skel.
q ly's place, but the greater part was
taken from the residence of Louis Lar
son in the extreme south end of Swede
a town, where '.Skelly'' had placed it for
safe keeping.
q SIOUX CITY DIR. A. G. Kellogg
has returned from California, and
4 he confirms the reports heretofore
! printed about his rich gold find in
q American canyon, near Towles. He and
4 w. d. Lovelace, his brother-in-law
have arranged for development of the
4 property, the ore from which assays
over $50 per ton. 1t is twenty miles
: from Grass Valley, one of the richest
districts in the state.
KEOKuK-A petition in involuntary
bankruptcy was filed in the federal
court several days ago by several Keo-
kuk and Burlington firms agains,
j. Frank Vincent, of Lebanon, Var
Buren, county, who Is made defendan,
in the matter and the petition asks thai
he be adjudged bankrupt according tc
the provisions of the bankruptcy law. i
alleges that the defendant has beer
guilty of acts of bankruptcy in convey.
ling. transferring and concealing his
property on July % and 81 and that h.
transferred while insolvent portions ot
his property with the intention to prefer
certain creditors.
; BURLINGTON - The militia boy.
: have had hot spell of weather FOL
) their encampment, which ends Wednes
i day. The reviews have been witnessed
) by thousands of spectators.
t Health officer Steinle Is prepared I,
5 explode a fifteen-inch shell under the
unsuspecting dairymen who sell the
> milk of their COWS in Burlington. He
/, has discovered that they have been en-.
gagged in wholesale violation of the law!
I of the state by the mixture of a drus
/ with the milk to prevent its turning
> sour-a drug declared by the stat,
i board of health to be a rank poison.
/ COUNCIL BLUFFS-Claude Howard
: a 16-year-old Council Bluffs youth, ha.
been temporarily stranded at Honolulu
!. Hawaiian islands. but has not abated
: whit his determination to join tn.
/ American troops in the Philippines ant
t assist in subjugating the insurgents
0 Claude is only small boy, but he ha
! a full-grown determination to be sol
] dier, and for the purpose of realizint
/. his ambition cast aside parental re
Y straint month or more ago, and il
: company with George Daley son o
: the late Col. d. b. Daley, ran ava.
: from home Immediately after the clos
t of the cadet encampment at the Create
e America Exposition in July. Boil
: young men We're high school cadets
e and became soldier crazy after thei
pleasant experiences in the camp acros
the river. Claude boarded vessel a
/. San Francisco and as a stowaway es
capped notice
, knights of Pyth1as Picnic.
e For this picnic, to be held at Water
e loo, August %, 1899. the Chicago Grea
: Western railway maple Leaf Route
s will sell excursion tickets good to re