Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-13
SALE or MANY TOWN LOTS

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SALE OF MANY TOWN LOTS.
[Algona Upper Des Moines.]
The Call estate auction last Thurs
day was remarkable event. In seven
hours over 1923 900 of town lots. all of
them outside property, We're sold. The
actual sales in open bidding We're s22.-
Iso3. which private sales swell many
hundreds of dollars. Such sale shows
the confidence the people have in AL
gona's boom. In many Instances the
bidding ran above the sale prices
marked on the list. and in nearly every
case above the appraised valuations.
1t was predicted by many present
THAT this sale means forty new resi-
licences next spring The lots Were
bought by many who intend to build.
Even those who bought for speculation
Twill keep the property moving until II
gets into the hands of actual occupants.
The sale is big thing for Algona In
lthis respect.
Everything was sold of the estate but
the home, which George G. eau buys
land the eight-acre tract that was OF
lfered to the city as park IT IS posi-
lble that some time again the city may
Ihaye an opportunity to secure TINS tract
for a park, and the Upper Des MONIES
Ihopes that our municipal finances may
be in shape, if the opportunity offers, to
laccept.
POTATOES IN SOUTHERN low a
[Centerville Citizen.l
i ",This dry fall has been the cause of a
short vegetable market said our gro
i Ger this morning, as he noted with JOY
a few drops of rain that fell last night
Take potatoes for instance, ne con-
sltinued. EARLY in the season, when the
4 Early Ohios began coming in, they were
i fine. Big loads of big potatoes Were
bought and sold every day, but now
look at that He pointed disdainfullS
lat a basket of discouraged-lo
Itubers, and sighed. The dry, ho
weather literally cooked those things
land that Is all we have to give the PEG
pie for home grown potatoes, With ;
4 short crop at that. But those northern
ones are all, right. They include severa
good kinds and are not affected by tn
drought. They sell reasonably enough
too. The first northern potatoes we ge
ones. look good and command goos
price. Later on, there begin to come II
Late Rose, Burbanks. Rural New York
ers, Potentates and many others Tn
price ON potatoes now varies from As I
q so cents per bushe, and the raise,
any. will not be much. The foreign one
always go up first, because the cost Q
obtaining them is necessarily littl
\ y, nj Ia
ties"
AN OTTUNlWA HOSPITAL.
3 Mrs. Adaiine NJ. Payne in Nevad
Representative
They the royal hearted women are
Who nobly love the noblest, yet hay
grace
For needy lives in lowliest place.
George Eliot.
One of the institutions which owe
: its existence to the spirit and energy {
? the women of Ottumwa is the hospitt
! of that city. The institution had II
= inception in the heart of Mrs. Mar
{ Brooks Thrall. Methodist pastor
wife. who, impressed with the gres
lneed of place where patients could /
tproperly cared for in her dying hour re
). louested the members of her Bible elias
), to unite in efforts for supplying tn
: Ineed. True to their trust they in Is!
), secured the organization and incorpors
:, ticn of a hospital association. lease
. rooms and began the benevolent worl
. Incorporation has been hearty and vic
land the institution has expanded wit
q the passing years. A head nurse is no
employed, training school for nurse
with a two years course of study.
. carried on, the best medical and surg
cal talent OF the city serves the pi
!. tients; from four to five hundred p;
tients are treated annually and the pc
= lcentage of deaths among them is mut
. Hover than In the private practice
= physicians under favorable circun
+ stances. Women continue the so
!. managers Of the institution. The Gu
Ir trent expenses have grown to be $500 p
q month "Oftep we do not know whe
n the money is to come 'front.'" MI
! Hutchison says, but 1t always com
= and we never go in debt" One woman
e club after another fits up room, Il
a city and county make appropriation
2 there are Individual gifts. some incon
d liz received from patients. and occasion
ally there IL q general rally to the re
lcue. a. was the case few months q