Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-15
Ioxvn Ncxys Notes.

tried
near Steamboat Rock.
Bernard Murphy of the Vinton Eagle is a
candidate for state printer.
The people of Allerton gave a reception
to the members of the Fifty-firSt Iowa who
reside in that town.
OF the, immigrants who came to this
country during the last fiscal year 1852
were headed for Iowa.
said to be the Oldest resident of Calhoun
county. He was born in 1908 and still en-
joys good health
A Calhoun farmer, while, digging a well,
at depth of eighty:-nine feet struck lot
of wood resembling pine or cedar. The wood
was we'll preserved.
Spirit Lake eloped and were married. The
girls parents objected to the match but
the young couple were not to be denied.
Benjamin Wech, a supposed wel-to-do
farmer OF Greene county, has disappeared.
Before going he sold a large number of cat
tie on which there was mortgage of $1,000.
=, John s. Woolson, Judge of the United
trict of Iowa, is seriously i'll and may not
be able to resume his duties for several
months
ports to The Bee that during last week 1t
sold more than 1000 acres of farm property
IN Greene county. Prices ranged from $S7
to $50 per acre.
The John, Morrell packing plant of OF
tumwa Will put electric power into the
plant providing motor to run each ma
ing and shafting now in use.
William Herbt, a leading confectioner of
RRavenP9Ir,t, iI,t is reported to have eloped with
three children. He drew $4,000 from the
bank before he disappeared Saturday night.
John Floyd, living near Eagle Grove,
eighty acres of ground this year and sold
1t for slo0 per ton. Broom corn at this fig
ure is estimated to be equivalent to corn at
10 cents Il bushel.
The Democrat says that not within the
memory of any member of the Davenport
police force has the tramp been as scarce
town as he Is at present.
A Moline Qll.) man has erected plant in
Davenport for the manufacture of artificial
the hard variety by subjecting 1t to great
heat and pressure. He has invested about
$500 In his plant. and declares that his
process Is an entirely successful one.
Congressman Hull of the reventh district.
pressed by committee of Des Mones citi-
zens representing "A mass meeting to state
his views regarding the Mormon congress-
was, opposed to seating Mr.. Roberts and
would go as far as the law would permit
to prevent 1t.
In looking over the files of a Manson
newspaper the editor of the Manson Demo
crat came across an advertisement pub
lished on January 6. 1881, in which "A 16O-acre
tract in Pocahontas county was offered for
sale at 81 per acre, part cash and balance
at per, cent interest; The Democrat says
now. and money Is worth per cent.
The husking and ,crbbing of $500 acres
Of corn Is the problem of the moment at
the Adams farm in Sac county. From fifty
to seventy men are employed and more than
5000 bushels of corn are cribbed daily
Great. attention has been devoted to the
first time. A building for the storage of
the seed, which was carefully selected in
the field as soon as the corn had matured,
winter, In order that the corn may not be
1000 bushels Of corn are required to plant
owner of this great G,OoO-acre farm, to- to-
gether with his wife. Is at present absent
on trip to Europe in search of health
and recreation.
The Spirit Lake Beacon ned Its thir-
t!eth volume with its issue of last week
Looking t,t fin @ back over It's twenty-nne years,
has been made in Iowa. particularly in
northwest Iowa, since IL was established
This was in August, 1870. At that time 1t
was the only paper published within the
limits OF the Eleventh congressional dis
trict north of the Illinois Central railway.
In the thirteen counties in the district pa
pers had been established only in Wood
bury, Cherokee and Monona. The towns Of
and Orange City We're Just bornin'.
The counties of Osceola and Lyon were
unorganized. No town now In OBrien
county had a place on the map The Sioux
CITY d Pacihc railroad had been In Sioux
city two years and the Illinois Central
came in that year. These were the only
railways In the district The congress-
man then representing this territory lived
at Boone. Our state senator nominated
that year lived In Calhoun county. No
state officer had ever been chosen, we be-
lieve. from any of these thirteen counties.
Within these twenty-nine years the map
and no other like period has witnessed
progress so marvellous"