Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-30
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Is 20 years OlO ana is crlDplIlS lilly |!
bushels of corn q day.
WOODWARD-Potat are an ex-
cellent crop and of good quality and
are now selling for Is cents bushel,
says the Enterprise.
GENEVA-Bine Wilder. of Geneva,
had train of sixteen double decker
cars of sheep shipped in last week.
There We're about 1000 head. He in
tends to raise sheep the coming year,
turning his two large farms into sheep
ranches
| CLINTON-There was butter fam
inc in this city Friday and but little
was to be had at % cents a pound One
lady said she called at four stores and
could find none and gave it up. One
grocer reported that he turned away 125
lpeople in the forenoon.
STORY CITY-Ole wierson pur-
chased the 300 acres farm of Henderson
& Henderson last week at $45 per acre.
The farm is located three miles north
of town and one mile from Randall, and
the Herald says 1t is considered the
4 finest stock farm in Iowa.
BELLE PLAINE-The manner in
which the local independent telephone
EXCHANGE is outgrowing its original
plant is the best sign of the increasing
popularity of the telephone with out
citizens. The number of phones in
stalled and on the order book is 190
/ WATERFOWL. G. Egloff will be
succeeded as b., C. r. 6; n. agent in
| this city by w. S. Williams. now agent
at Iowa Falls. The change will take
place about November /. Williams is
about 40 years of age and has been
lagent at Iowa Falls for seven or eight
years.
WINTERSET This is not only
Year of big corn, but of big corn husk-
ing. Hayes Hamilton, OF Union town
ship, young man just approaching his
22d birthday, breaks the record so far.
He husks and cribs 100 bushels of corn
a day. Last week he cribbed $50 bush
els and laid off half day.
BELMOND-Herald Alvin. the lit
tie 2-year-old son of D. NJ. Hench.
strayed away from home Monday, bu.
was found after a diligent search lying
| with his face down in the corn field
where he had cried himself 10 sleep. He
had accompanied his father before
| while husking corn and the little fellow
/ became lost in trying to tind him.
AUDUBON-The new pipe organ of
The new Presbyterian church has ar
1 rived from the factory. The pipes will
stand thirteen and one-half feet high.
! 1t will have a seven feet front and will
4 be five feet deep. 1t is a 81, 800 instru-
i ment but was bought cheaper because
i of the death of the owner of the factory
i and the settling up of the estate. 1t is
4 a splendid instrument, says the Repub-
lican.
TEAER-F. L. White recently in
stalled a new boiler in his electric light
lworks that has capacity of $50 horse
mower Its smoke stack, rising seventy
feet in the air would indicate factory
of no small proportions. Mr.. White is
inow furnishing steam heat TO over
thirty store buildings and residences in
+ Traer The system is a success. In this
, enterprise Traer leads nine-tenths OF
1.-The cities OF Iowa. declares the Star
i Clipper.
SIOUX CITY,. II. Whittemore, the
coal dealer, has been offering some an
thraeile pea coal to steam users late
i, liv. and if III is used generally 1T will
solve the smoke problem. Anthracite
+ people say il viii produce three times
: the steam rer pound that Iowa coal
+ VIII. If this is true it is probable that
most OF the steam users in town the
, opera ton of whose plants constitute 2
e nuisance, Will continue to use anthra-
5 cite coal
G.OLO-Banner: In October, 1898. the
d public schools of the United State.
). were requested to contribute sums fo
G the Lafayette monument, which is L
u be erected at Paris, and in response Z
,,,lp schools (OnfrlDllt 81
# about So. ON Thursday. October Is
d 1899, the Colo schools received eertifi
i. cate from the Lafayette memorial
1t commission and a handsome souveni
e of the monument, which Will be frame
o land hung up In the high school room.
% DAVENPORT Good renting house
6. are scarce here, and the complaint o
(. their scarcity is increasing. People ar
l. coming in here for residence, and Their
ilIis not corresponding increase in tn
house room of the city. Old shacks
is without modern conveniences, are ho
lllesired. The call is for good. habitabl
lg homes. at not too high rental, and it
re these that are short. There is probabl
lie mot a good tlat in the city that is empt
IS and there is no good house room TO b
r, had for the asking.
OF board of control, inspected the lie
+ county poor house Thursday, comm
ne here from Burlington and going
~ Neosauqua next. Judge Kline inc
is that many Of the poor houses in tn
IN states are not kept as clean as the
i should be, but he found the sanitatio
ne at the one here better than IN mo.
re counties, especially the facilities Il
y caring for excreta. He is keeping
ne special eye on the care of the insan
ad He favors placing the insane in II
re- poor houses under the charge of II
or board of control, which he thinl
w, should have the right of taking ar
ri. lcounty's insane to state Institute
~ whenever the board thinks that wou
on be best in given case.
e- LADY AND TIGER" STORY.
ed tChicago Tribune.1
ca Are those the terms Of the Will
ss asked the free silver orator and calar
d. ity shrieker, aghast.
ed They are. replied the man who h;