Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-04
IOWA NEWS ITEMS


NEvADA-The city is building new
tool house on its grounds at the corner
of Linn and First avenue south.
AMES The Agricultural College
opened on the LIST inst. with the largest
attendance in the history of the insttu-
tion.
PELLA-On farm four miles north
west of Pella they threshed 1900 bush
els of oats from twenty-five acres one
day last week an average of sixty
bushels to an acre.
MOUNT ASANT-Taxpayer of
Henry county are signing petition to
the board of supervisors which asks the
| levy of tax of mill on the property
lof the county for permanent road inn
lprovement, grading, bridging and
draining highways.
/ RFIELD-Saturday Du Bols &
Spencer sold sixteen February pigs to
y. n. Smith. Their average weight was
225 pounds. Tie price was top-notch,
being s4.25 per 100 pounds. 1t Is not
loften that 6-months-old pigs gain Sc
much in flesh and fat.
kEOKU k-Herman Hemny has one
Iof the greatest natural curiosities that
own patch which is exactly in the
shape of a closed hand. There are four
FINGERS and thumb, and even the
wrinkles on the knuckles are there.
BELLE PLAINE--Last Thursday
Ievening George. the 10-year-old son OF
Thomas Dixon. living southwest OF
5ltown, was Kicked by a young colt an6
.Inarrowly escaped being killed. The
slhorse's hoof struck him just above ths
eye and cut the flesh open clear to ths
tbone.
4 ACKLEY--The World says: "Ackle!
lis not down on the map as salool
ltown, yet the evidence at the depot:
bear out the assertion that grea
lamount of liquor is consumed none tn
Hess. There is a way of controlling tn
/ traffic il the public wills: legalize tn
saloon ard derive some revenu
from it,"
GRUMPY cENTER-The corn in thi
section was badly blown over by tn
wind storm Tuesday morning
1.-THE democratic county convention j
IcaIled for Aug. 4. Frank Beck
err is reganing his health in Colorado
). He expects to return home this month
IL. l. II. Hess new residence l
Melrose township is nearing compile
Etion. 1t is a modern farm house an
will cost about $1,000.
DUBUQUE--Of this city's seventy
seven police cases in July, fifty-tw
Iwere for intoxicaton. Fifteen door
lwere found open, and thirty ledger
Icared for. The veterans of tn
+ Twenty first Iowa held meeting Mon
! day evening and appointed committee
i to make arrangements for the eight
J reunion of the regiment in this cit,
> Mr.. Frank Coates has rendered the1
1.-THE use of the old opera house free {
charge, as headquarters.
i IOWA CITY-The basement story {
y the new collegiate building of the Stat
: University Is fully completed and til
z contractors for the superstructur
. Warren, Roberts & Co. are pushing o
: the work with vigor. The building WI
4 contain about 100 rooms In all, and
n INTENDED to be complete in all its az
4 pointments. While 1t will be occupie
: Iby the collegiate department. alone. tt
Ilaw department will get more ROO
d when Latin, German, political sciens
a and politics leave the old capitol buile
$ ing for their new quarters.
: ALGONA-Guy Taylor has put on
q pretty little boat on the mill pond.
3 lis a naptha launch and Guy purchase
lit at McGregor last week. 1t will carr
o about twenty people and goes at Il
o rate of ten miles an hour. The PAL
i company is also figuring on putting {
" la good sized boat capable of carryir
/ sixty or seventy people. Wilfrid Jone
lie Garry Garfield and Mr.. Slusser. of Il
l. foundry went down to Clear Lake We
e lterday to see about the purchase. II
l. fact of the matter Is that one or tv
h boats CAN not carry the crowds WI
r wish to go to the park Sunday afte
,e moons. Last Sunday there We're sever
,e hundred who waited all afternoon
IN the mill pond for chance to ride al
h came away disappointed.
BIRMINGHAM - Miss Cora Ellie
started last Sunday afternoon on h
wheel fer Keosauqua, where she W
attending the normal, Four miles sou
" of town she attempted to, ride dow
l. Lick creek hill, a place of such stee
ness that 1t has made the hair of mo
~ than one experienced wheelman sta
M on end. and as she was a novice