Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-19
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

FIT. DODGE.-The street fair wac
brought to triumphant close Satur-
day. the biggest crowd Of the event at
tending the last day.
MASON CITY-There is a scarcity OF
in town and it has been
necessary for some of the contractors to
send to other places for workmen.
s OSKALOOSA.-The city council has
adopted resolution expressing thanks
to Lieut.. Commander Frank F. Fletcher
for presenting the Spanish mine relic
to the city.
COLFAx-The Clipper reports that
hog cholera is spreading in Hickory
Grove township, and several farmers
have lost numbers of valuable swine
through the epidemic.
sHENANDOAH-The Sentinel is pre-
pairing to publish city directory -. =
james Makoy sold 100 head of hogs at
Northboro Tuesday for 1920 per hun
dred. They averaged ZIG pounds and
brought him s1,5oe.s6.
BELLE PLAINE.-supt. Lawrence
reports a total enrolment for the first
week of 737 pupils, 112 of them in the
high school. The work of the year starts
out nicely and pupils and teachers &C
to work with energy, as reported by the
Union.
SIOUX CITY.-The Ralya Market
Company. Of Sioux City. has filed arti-
cles OF incorporation with the secretary
of state. The capital is $1,000 and the
company will engage in the retail meat
business. j. NJ. Ed and C. G. Ralya are
the incorporators.
BURLINGTON-The local commit
tees in charge of the thirty-seventh an
nual reunion of the Twenty-fifth Iowa,
to be held in this city on the 9th inst,
has about completed arrangements for
the entertainment of the veterans, and
will show them all good time.
WEBSTER CITY.-District court
opened Monday, with Judge Birdsall on
the bench. The docket shows that there
are one hundred and twenty old cases
still pending, eighty-two new cases.
twenty-five probate cases, and eight
cases registered upon the criminal call
endar.
OTTUMwA.-The total number of
hogs received at the packing house OF
John Morrell & Co. for the week ending
Friday night was 1900 which repre-
sents one of the busiest September
weeks in the history of the institution.
The hog market during the past week
has been firm, ranging from s4.25 to
s4.35.
TRAER-There are nine railroad
camps between Elberon and Traer. and
.iirst is going pretty fast this fine
weather. The Northwestern
Company is taking men from work on
other of its lines and sending them here
to push grading. 1t intends to have
TRAINS running on this line before the
liirst of the year
| CHARLES CITY-Phyllis, the 2-year-
lold daughter of DIR. G. r. Patterson, of
Sumner, has been suffering from some
sort of a disease that battles the physi-
clans. Last week the little one went
into a sleep from which it was impossi-
BILE to awaken her for 1O9 hours. and has
been sleeping, with short intervals OF
| semi-wakefulness since.
IOWA CITY-Republican: Though il
is not generally known, one of President
| Mckinley's kinswomen lives in lowe
/ City. She is Miss Minnie Soper, sister
IF Mrs. j. j. Wilsdon. of the new Gin
ton street bakery. Oddly enough Mis-:
soper enjoys other "refected radiance
in that she is also a relative of the au-
thor of the famous lines: Backward
turn backward, o time in thy flight
make me child again just for to-
night
4 VALLEY JUNCTION-The Counsel
nan elevator being erected here under
he supervision of j. S. Blasdel is near
ng completion. The main center par,
of the building in which the elevators
are located is of sufficient highth to
raise grain fifty feet above the floor o,
bottom of the sink, into which the grair
$ emptied from the cars as they are
lunloaded. The building is 420 feet long
and thirty feet wide and about thirt,
teet high, except the central twent,
Feet, which is over fifty feet hight, anC
4 is capacity will be from 100000 to 800,
4 100 bushels of grain
4 DUBUQUE - The city authorities
4 have come to the conclusion that tn,
ordinance requiring physicians to fiji
certificates of the death of patients witt
the city recorder must be rigidly en-
lforced. Two or three recent cases, ii
which no certificates of death wer
Sled until the matter was called to tn
attention of the attending physician
nave caused a great deal of common
md aroused considerable indignation
Il has been learned at the city record
ar's office that several doctors make n
effort to file death certificates, especial
II " in the case of poor people who di
and are buried a the county,S expense
tsut it has been decided to put sto
20 this by rigidly enforcing the ordi
nance requiring death certificates to b
fled.
4, COUNCIL BLUFFS-This city is t
have another street railway system
embracing lines to Manawa, East ON
aha and Omaha and an uptown LOOP
. The contract for the construction of tn
line has been let, the contractors hay
been on the ground for two weeks,
Part of the material is already here an
active operations on the construction c
the road We're commenced Saturday
The new line is to be built under tn
, franchise voted to the Council Bluffs
Lake Manawa & East Omaha Con
) struction Company in December 1888
This franchise, together with the LAX
Manawa railway and the Manawa re
+ sort, have passed to newly organize
concern to be known as the Omahs
, Council Bluffs & Suburban Railwa
, Company.
: CLINTON-The Herald rejoices ovt
i the announcement that fine new bus
e ness block is to be erected in the city,