Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-24

j delegate from Iowa to the National
Bar Association, which convenes In that
,ity the first Of next week. Mrs. Sher-
win will visit friends and relatives In
central New York.
KEOKUK-Amos II. Bosworth. OF
Mount Pleasant, Henry county, has [
He'd q petition In voluntary bankruptcy h
in the federal court. He gives his accu-
patton az druggists clerk and sched- j,
ules his indebtedness at $97S.61. He has
no assets.
BOONE--After Sept. 10 the banks Of
this city will reduce the rate Of interest
paid on deposits to 3 per cent. This is
done owing to the meager demand for
money on the part Of borrowers. About
a year ago the interest rate was low
cred to per cent. Previous to that time
S per cent had been paid.
vINTON-The button factory is now
making buttons from the Cedar river
shells and they are splendid article.
These are little harder to work than
the Mississippi shell, but the company
has had machinery made purposely FOR
them. Some twenty machines TO work
these shells will be put in.
IOWA CENTER-Last Friday Mrs.
Charley Dunahoo was watering a calf
that they had staked out, says corre-
spondent in the Liberator. After she
had set the bucket down the calf got
frightened and ran around her. She got
tangled in the rope and the animal
threw her down breaking her arm.
WESTINGHOUSE 1t would be
interesting to know how many wells
have been discontinued here; probably
scores and hundreds of private ones;
certainly the public ones at savings
bank corner, by old yellow brick. by the
court house, etc. II these should be used
again, we'd likely have typhoid epidem-
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| DAVENPORT - Wilhelmine Reins
transferred 2s0-acre farm in Cleona
township to Rudolph Reins for $4,000
Monday. She also sold another farm of
100 acres to Lena Mothdorf for $4,000.
John A. Dempster, the well-known
farmer and representative, has recently
bought q farm Of 800 acres near Grinnell
4 and will remove to that part OF the
state when his term as representative
expires. The price paid was $4,000. He
sold his farm in Hickory Grove town
ship several months ago.
IOWA CITY-George Einig has mys-
4 teriously disappeared from the home of
his grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Elm
Zig, ITO Iowa avenue. The Einigs had
not informed the police prior to few
days ago, but the lad has been missing
since Wednesday evening, Aug. 16, at
4 o'clock. George is the 9-year-old son of
: George Einig, ST.. Of Union township.
AS the little fellows mother Is dead,
4 he makes his home with grandpa"
y He had never left home before, and
therefore his grandparents are greatly
distressed and alarmed.
ALOOSA-Herald: County Au-
ditor Cruzen, Deputy Baer and Special
Clerk Will Baugh have finished check
ing over City Assessor Youngs books
: and have found S21O,S02 worth of prop
erty that was omitted. Reduced to Its
assessed valuation this makes $o2. 700
land the taxes on this amount to 50, l62
: In other words, the county by having
8 an energetic and painstaking officer !!
ahead enough on this one deal to pa!
e his salary for nearly three years. TIL
e people knew what they were dom,
e when they elected the republican ticket
: and they will take no backward ste
. this fall.
= OTTUMWA-Monday morning Ralp
: Fleener, of Hedrick. was before Unite
= States Commissioner Hunter charge
y with obstructing the mail. He Is tn
son of a liveryman at Hedrick, and Is Il
1.-THE habit Of meeting trains with car
2 riage. F. w. Hults. who carries tn
= mail in Hedrick, also takes carriag
= Ito the depot to get his mail. Discussio
arose between Fleener and Hults as :
= the position at the platform each Shout
:, occupy 1t Is alleged that the trouble
:. Increased until F'leener prevented Hut
% from performing his duties. Then
was that Hults swore out warraH
for the boys arrest and he was brough
to this city. Several friends of tn
principals in the case came to the tria
?, He was given severe reprimand an
I. warned not repeat the offense.
. COUNCIL BLUFFS-In the damae
- suit of NJ. w. George, the Chicago ira,
~ cling man, against the city for $500
- the city has filed motion asking tn;
= George be required to put up co..
- bond. George slipped on the sidewal
: at the junction OF the Woodbury. bloc
=. and the Grand hotel on Pearl street ar
IA suffered a fracture Of his right leg.
- The board Of education has been raisir
10 and lowering salaries. The list
amended at the meeting Monday nigl
~ shows that fifty-two teachers receive
N Increases, while fourteen, the MAORI
o. of whom are principals Of building
an suffered reductions. The total increa
m in the salaries amounts to 1927 p
a. month. while the decreases amount
~ $107 The change is not relished by Il
M teachers whose wages were cut.
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