Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-13
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

snip W Ill illlIlOlS IIldIl IOT NV per acre, |
and Antho Van Sickle has sold 120 acres
for $S3 per acre.
KENSETT-The News reports that
through diligent work Prof. Ford has
sold enough course tickets to warrant
him in making complete arrangements
for the lecture course this season.
OSKALOOSA = Five families con-
nected with the Acme Manufacturing
Company have already removed to this
city from Bussey. This looks like real
business and promises much for the
town, says the Herald.
NEW SHARON-The Star publishes
resolutions denouncing what it calls the
Infamous Inferential SANDER" Of H. j.
Vail by the Oskaloosa Journal. the res
olutions being formulated and endorsed
by a large number of citizens.
WATERLOO-In Blackhawk county,
according to the superintendent re-
port, there are seventy-five school
houses in good condition, sixty-slx that
are fair and nine that are poor. Forty
four of the teachers hold state certfi-
Gates.
MOUNT PLEASANT-The September
tax collection at the Henry county
ltreasurer's office were $43.5O9.03. The
balance on hand Sept. 1 was s27,34250,
and that on Oct. l was s59,70S.39. A
pretty good showing with not a dollar
| of indebtedness.
| IOWA cITY-Paul Pidlick has pur-
| chased the William j. Mullin farm.
The property embraces 100 acres of as
4 fine land as johnson county boasts.
| The price was s65 an acre. This is a
| total of 10000, making one of the
Largest real estate deals in many a
day
/ NEyADA--A golden eagle was cap
Itured near the creek Wednesday after
moon by j. r. McCutchen. The eagle is
a splendid specimen, measuring seven
feet from tip to tip. 1t was taken alive
| after being shot with shotgun and
after putting UP lively fight. How
badly the bird was hurt is not yet clear.
i KEOKuK-The Gate City prints a
4 sketch of the Nineteenth Iowa infant
Try, which holds its reunion here on the
l.lSth 1t includes q battle scene at
/ Prairie Grove and pictures of promi-
4 nent officers of the regiment, including
iCol. Samuel Mcfarland Gather of S.
lC. McFarland) who was killed in bat
i tie.
Il NORTHWOOD-Anc Some time
learly last spring it was suggested 10 the
4 United States fish commissioner that
1.-The Shell Rock river needed fruition in
1.-THE way of the finny tribe. Congress
man Haugen was the suggestor, and
returns came Saturday night last an the
shane of several cars of black bass.
They were placed in the Shell Rock
waters.
/ Tyrr,fN ~ nr,ln IN, hn H.
borhood of j. L. Justices farm, south
OF Newton. had quite an exciting time
last Sunday afternoon. A fire started
! on the road east of Justices. after
wards leaped into meadow and was
going in the direction of French s Goa
bank. A lot of the neighbors turned II
and did some lively lighting and pu
! / the fire out before any special damage
; was done.
SIOUX CITY-A horse was electro.
on Fifth street between Jones ane
Jennings early Wednesday morning By
stepping on live trolley wire which
had been broken by the lightning dur
ing that mornings storm. Orvi Hart
La blacksmith, was driving the horse
: hitched. to cart and failed to notice
the fallen wire unit! his animal had re
s =.
Ecaped injury.
: MJISCATINE-This city will be WIS
= tied by an unusual assemblase on mex
: Saturday General Agent T.. Virgin
: Of The New York Juvenile Asylum Q
!, Chicago, will be at the commerce.
with about half a dozen unfortunat
: little orphans for whom ne Wlshes
!. find homes. The little ones will be pu
10 va
and can furnish the proofs and sig
), the agreement desired by Mr. Wrlsh.'
:, AJ.GONA - Messrs. Hamilton an
: Henry have bought the Thomas Hen
derson lot just east of j. y. Winkei
:. shop and will take the Shelley u fe'
:, tibone marble works lot. rms give
= them four fronts and they VIII TINS Ia
2 get the foundation in for one of tn
: largest lumber warehouses IN ia
state. 1t will be two stories high. afte
J the style of the Wigwam. ana VIII COY
- err the four lots entirely. The super
: structure will go up early IN IN
- spring.
= GRUNDY CENTER - During tn
month of September $40 acres OF ian
changed hands in Grundy county
an average price of 5000 an acre.
The total receipts lIoiti tiie ie.se
din county fair were s3,I9l.96, While u
la expenditures We're s2,s9o.36, leaving
balance on hand of $901.6O. or
day last week, while l.. r. Hess We
re burning weeds at his farm in Metro:
township, the fire got beyond contr
- and burned one of his teams quite pas
lly. reports the Republican.
IS MASON CITY-Quite number OF OF
Of lcitizens were attracted to the new tow
al of Hanlontown Tuesday by the sale
is lots that were then and there mad
~ some of the lots sold as high as 5000 al
IS about thirty of them went under u
at hammer. We understand that Mast
be city people alone invested in sll,o
e. worth of property. The new town
ss doubtless take after its namesake, al
is he big and still expanding. II
80 First National Bank of this city w
a. start a new bank at the new town.
ed pENISON-A prairie fire gained SUI
X Roadway Sunday as to result IN the
de str1ct;on of the Lutheran cemetery ~
tn fences are burned and many expense
wv monuments erected in memory OF q
es dead are blackened and destroyed. u
is loss in this line will amount to lar
IL SIM. Oakland cemetery was saved on
a by extreme effort. The beautiful gro
a lof oaks. which Mr.. Plimpton has pr