Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-16
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MONTIC Elliott Is said that the
street improvements now under way
are costing the city of Monticello be-
tween SIS and 800 day.
ROCKWELL CITY-We are in
formed that two ladies only We're pres
ent at the meeting called to organize a
mothers club at the court house, says
the Photograph.
MUsCATINE - Preliminaries for
booths and some decorations for the
street fair this week are beginning to
appear generally about the business
portion of the city. 1t will open Tues
day.
SHEFFIELD--A set of boxing gloves
has been purchased by the pupils of the
| high school, while the grammar depart
ment has several pairs of Indian clubs
and will swing the same for the benefit
of health.
ESTHERNILLE-Ag general cleaning
up in the alleys and back yards of the
on lately as the result of an order from
Chairman Joe Hardie of the street and
alley committee.
AITAA great many potatoes have
been marketed here the past week, al
though the price has been but twelve
cents bushel They are nice and
bright and the yield is of an average
quality says the Advertiser.
GEAR LAX Eat the beet sugar
meeting here on the 18th Hon. James
Wilson, secretary of agriculture, Wash
iington d. G.. will deilver the principal
address of the occasion. Subject: The
Farm and Its Manufactured Products"
DtiBUQUE.-Tw friends of the Y.
Nj. c. A. who are interested in the sue
cess of the membership contest, have
offered a ten dollar ant five dollar cash
gold prize for the individuals securing
the largest number of points in the
! membership contest now going on.
HAMPTON.-Ther are several cases
of mumps in the city. This vicin-
1 ity has been enjoying nice rainfall
during the past couple of days. 1t was
/ needed badly, the ground for plowing
| was getting pretty haro. while the
1 roads We're getting too dusty for COM
/ fort. says the Chronicle.
! FIT. DODGE-Seven hundred feet of
aerial cable We're strung last week by
/ the Fort Dodge Mutual Telephone Com
pany The company is now preparing
| to lay 5000 feet of underground cable.
which will be done as soon as materials
can be bought. A great scarcity in
/ these supplies exists at the present
/ time.
SPENCER Page has purchased
township, paying therefore about SIS
per acre. - A potato raised by Ed
| Cole. of Sioux township, measures liz
inches the other and weighs two pounds
nine and one half ounces. Who can
| beat 1t? asks the News.
IOWA #CTTY-The Homeopathic de-
partment faculty will ask the legisla-
ture to give that branch of the univers-
.Iity a new building. The hospital is
Overlooking with patients now, every
one of the more than forty beds in the
wards being occupied AS the nurses
are thus crowded out the faculty will
ask that nurse cottages be erected.
/ SIOUX CITY David Harum" con.
i tinues to be the most popular book al
the city library The copies are some
/ times returned but few minutes be-
fore they are called for by some one
else. The next popular is perhaps the
prisoner of Zenda.'' Famous Streets
of the World is also book that Is
much sought by the reading public.
SPIRIT LAKE.-Al. Kinginan IS yer,
fond of shooting and endeavors to bag
his game with as little effort as pos
sible. 1t has been his custom this fal
to sit in rocking chair near his cot
tage on the Isthmus and open fire or
4 the ducks that pass his way. We dc
not know that he has killed bird, bu
he has taken solid comfort trying,
reports the Beacon.
OTTUMWA-At the meeting Of tn,
Iowa State Association OF Railway Sur
lgeons at this place last week there wer,
Il present the big three" who form
Icombinatiun which can lay claim t,
more avoirdupois, perhaps, than an,
| three men n ths association. Al