Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-31
IOWA NEWS Items

nearing completion and is expected to
De ready for service about the first =,
September.
DAVENPORT-Liber township has
sent to- Auditor Jarchow the sum Of
S4I20 for the Porto Rican relief fund.
This has been forwarded by the latter
70 State Treasurer Herriott.
WEBSTER CITY.-The five-year-old
son OF VIM. keigan. residing three
miles south OF town. was overcome by
the neat Monday forenoon and was in
an unconscious condition till the next
morning.
CEDAR FALLS.-John Croak has the
Gazette's thanks for the largest ca bbage
raised in Black Hawk county this wear.
1t measured four feet four inches in
circumference. and weighed 30 pounds,
as solid head as any Of its smaller
brethren.
MASON CITY.-The married men of
the First National Bank Tuesday morn
ing each received pair of wooden baby
shoes from Percy Smith sent from
Manila before he started home They
are crude specimens of the Philippe
noes skill as manufacturer.
IOWA CITY.-Iowa City's new
growth is evidenced still further by an
|other important industrial enterprise
projected. The Pioneer Knitting works
will erect a factory, which, when equip.
ped properly, may cost in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. The factory is over
flowing with orders.
LEMARs.-Clayton d. Gilbert, a
former LeMars boy, writes friends in
this city that he has been appointed
head of the department Of oratory and
dramatic art at the Johnson School of
Music and Dramatic art at Minneapolis
He is nephew of N. W. Gilbert of This
city, and was born and raised in Lee
Mars.
| KEOKUK.-This is hard summer
on city shade trees, owing to the large
lcrop of insects which kill the trees in
| gaining their own sustenance. Two
| trees near Fourth and Concert streets
seem to be perfectly dead, and others
| In other parts of town are dying a limb
at a time or else getting droopy all over
at once likes chicken with the gapes
says the Gate City.
FORT DODGE-The mooted question
| of the restrictive milk ordinance which
I has been UP for some time was finally
lsettled at the council meeting Monday
evening. The matter came up for a
vote and was finally defeated. This or
dinance grew out of the recent exami-
nation of cattle here. The matter was
we'll canvassed and the result-a defeat
for the advocates of the compulsory tu-
berculin test and the appointment of a
mink inspector-was decisive.
SIOUX CITY.-The street commits
sioner's department has laid away it's
scythe for the summer, the weed cut
| ting that has busted it since the middle
| of July having been finished. Il guess
| the anti-weed ordinance can be called
| a success" said Street Commissioner
Lynch yesterday. AT any rate we've
got the streets pretty well cieansed of
weeds through the central parts of the
lefty. It's success, too, from the prop
erty owners standpoint, because we
can cut the weeds cheaper with cur
gangs of men than an inaivlaual can
hire it done"
BURLINGTON-One of the etrangest
freaks Of nature ever heard of in these
parts was born at the home of Mr.. ia
cob Weber. on TwAlfth and Locust
streets, on Sunday morning, in tbs
weighed but nineteen pounds An ordi-
narily developed calf will weigh about
| fifty or sixty pounds at birth, so that
this freak is less than half the size of
the ordinary calf. The little creature is
not much larger than small dog, but
seems to be healthy in every respect
and plays and runs about the stall as
an ordinary calf would do, and gives
every evidence of living and growing.
COUNCIL BLTIFFS-R. w. Bantey
of Crowley, La. is in the city. Mr.
Bantey was resident of this county a
good many years ago. but went to the
rice fields of the south ten years ago.
and by applying northern energy to
southern resources has made a fortune.
He now has about 500 acres of rice
ground, which yields on an average
forty bushels to the acre. In speaking
I of the comparative cost of raising corn
in Iowa and rice in the south he said:
1T is hard to compare the rice crop
with the corn crop. but when you talk
about wheat in the north you have a
chance to compare the two crops. They
are handled in almost exactly the same
manner They are planted and har-
vested much the same. When they are
ready for the market the rice is worth
So per bushel and the wheat IS cents"
Iowa Headquarters Train, G. A. Il.
| A special train will be run by the
Chicago Great Western railway on Sep
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