Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-18

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!, brothers home. 1908 Lafayette street
j, The cause OF death was spinal menin-
gifts, and the duration OF the disease
was only twenty hours, although the
young man has been ailing for three or
four weeks. Deceased was about "a
. years of age.
WEBSTER CITY-Many Hamilton
county farmers are already picking and
cribbing corn. This seems to be pretty
early to insure the curing and keeping
J of corn, but the weather has been 40
dry that the farmers feel sure it ia safe
enough to go on with their cribbing.
sPOCAHONTAS- Record reports
, that never before in the history OF the
county has there been SO many cattle
fed as at present. Nearly every farmer
has secured cattle and will feed his
corn and hay and thereby make neat
profit on his crop over and above the
market price.
q MASON CITY-The rails on the new
lC. & N. w. extension are laid to Brice-
land and from now on the work will be
pushed with more vigor Briceland is
the name of the town because there is
Bruce in Iowa and the postal authors
lilies wanted the land annexed to
layofd mistakes.
JEFFERSON-Th Bee says: Our
Greenbrier correspondent-and he is a
truthful man-says some potato fields
|are yielding $50 bushels to the acre The
result is an over supply, and potatoes
, are a drug on the market. When pota-
/ toes are cheap they are always good. SO
there will be no famine In the land this
winter.
DAVENPORT-The sewing school OF
; the Peoples union mission is to be open
next Saturday. Mrs. w. c. Hayward
lis the managing instructor and Will
have a force of twenty-five assistants.
: 1t takes plenty of help to run this
school. When 1t closed for the vaca-
ltion there We're 210 girls, assorted sizes.
who were students in it, all eager to
4 work and learn, and all making good
: lprogress.
\ OTTUMwA-In district court at
$ Omaha Saturday. Dennis Griffin. of
( i this city, was refused the custody of his
1O-year- old daughter, Julia, whom he
AYERS is unlawfully held by her uncle
and aunt Mr.. and Mrs. John Sullivan.
The girls mother is dead, and she was
lplaced in ST. Mary's convent. A short
time ago Mr.. Sullivan came to OF
tumwa and got possession of the girl
and took her to her home in Omaha.
HARTLEY-Herald: Jed Shinkle
: again made a success of farming this
: season. He has an eighty-acre farm
: which is making him good money.
: Buyers have had faith enough in the
truth of this to offer him $50 per acre
for his farm. His eighteen acres of
barley at 80 cents alone made him $50.
, | His corn will go at least from fifty to
J sixty bushels per acre. His clover crop
. was wonder TO behold. From his or
} chard he sold $50 worth this season and
Ibid even better last year. All his crops
were good and our neghbor seems TO
have noscausc to cry hard times.
SIOUX. ClTY-M. NJ. Curtis, who has
been a turnkey at the Fort Madison
penitentiary, has resigned the position
. land returned to Sioux City. AT Bur
: llington, on his way home. he called
. upon Senator John II. Gear, and pre-
:. lsented to him a handsome cane mount
: ed with a gold head. The stick itself
J, lis handsomely hand carved. The work
( was done with a penknife, and Mr.
= Curtis used his best efforts to make the
: cane work of art About twenty-five
!, designs have been executed upon it
= which include patriotic emblems among
others. all highly polished. Senate
Gear expressed his thanks and his ap-
preciation. and assured the doner thai
G, The would treasure the stick highly
: Mr.. Curtis was formerly n member o.
the Sioux City police force and was 6
4 constable here at one time.
& IOWA CITY-The Omaha Bees illus
- trated edition Of Sunday presents {
pleasing story of MacLean's Inaugural
i, tion as president of the State Univer
t. sity with fine pictures of men anc
i Ievents conspicuous the afternoon o
"a that important occasion. The conclud
!. ing paragraph of the sketch thu!
! reads: The appropriations of TIL
- general assemblies for the purpose o
!. supporting the institutions have Away
N been very liberal, as Iowa takes grea
~ pride in her university. Surrounded a
!, he is by so many favorable circum
10 stances, Mr.. MacIlean, by exercisin'
"a the ability displayed while at the hea'
! of the Nebraska university. can meri
!. his we'll earned promotion by SO man
=, aging the University of Iowa as t
10 bring ii up in all Its departments TO
pace oStNpilI w nv ohAth 1AiSeitotADhi v
its kind in America"
BURLINGTON city's big roc.
cruslier arrived and was unloaded Mon
day 1t made good stiff pull for
er four-horse team. 1T looks like a grea
ry over grown sausage machine. and 1t
nd operated on very similar principles.
RS will take big curbing stones and che'
he them to bits or even to dust, says tn
be Hawkeye. $50 The special counc
or committee and city engineer appointe
MS to secure a quarry for the city, reporte
xt lat meeting of the committee of tn
an whole that they had bargained for tn
rs Larkin tract, of something over a
ey acre. for $400 and that they would er
ed deavor TO secure the adjoining Swa
tract, or something over two acres of !
dy for which the owner asks $3.50 an acr
he The city engineer estimates the rock
IT, the two tracts at 100000 cubic yard
re- sufficient for all the city's needs for tw
years. The action Of the committee wa
We approved
~, Seventeen thousand claims have bee