Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-27
IOWA NEWS items
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ILeMars.

| LEN1afSs
Sentinel: Louis Haerling enjoys the
Idistinction of being the first LeMars
man to wear a shirt waist. The Gre
lation Is a dandy and looks well il it is
late in the season.
4 centerville.
heroic effort to drum up crowd
for democratic campaign speaker on
Tuesday afternoon succeeded in draw
ing out only eleven men and a boy and
II was necessary to adjourn till night
Mason City.
AS has been predicted for several
days. the expected has happened. A
local dealer Tuesday morning said he
had advanced every ton of hard coal he
had to 1925 and was not soliciting orr
Iders even at that figure.
\ Charlton.
In the district court the Judge has
granted Sheriff Eli Manning the change
Of Venue asked for by him in the s25, 900
damage suit begun against him by
Charles Essex for false Imprisonment,
land the case was dismissed.
Eldora.
The Herald learns that Robert Smith
gets 500 per acre for the 100 acre farm
which adjoins the town plat on the
north and which he sold to Robert
iFredricks. The new NJ. E. parson-
age will be ready for occupancy soon
latter conference.
Clinton.
\ The farmers are about thru with their
threshtng and report a good crop Of
oats for Clinton county. The fall plow-
Ing Is now being done and the condi-
5Ition OF the soil was never better than
now There has been enough rain to
Thoroughly moisten the soil.
Sioux City.
Sioux City is bearing her share OF
.IGalveston's burden. The money already
sent from and collected in this city 70,
1.-THE storm sufferers amounts to nearly
$1,000. and will probably be increased
from time to time. The3amount actu-
ally subscribed at this time Is 1915.
Boone
A scheme is on foot to build rail-
road from Boone north to Frazer, a
distance of about five miles, where IL
would connect with the road running
northwest. Another meeting of the
Boone Business Mems Association will
iIbe held on the 2sth to consider it,
|Vinton.
]. ]. Swain, living in the northeast
part Of town. planted a strip OF ground
1.-TWO rods wide and Ave rods long to red
globe onions. He gathered sixty bush
Iels OF onions from the strip, which he
sold for rs cents per bushel Figure gu,
what an acre would have brought him
|says the Eagle.
Burlington.
The census OF Burlington for 1890, az
shown by the official United States cen
Isus bulletin, gives Burlington 22,565, an
increase OF nearly 5000 over 1880. The
Iowa census for 1895 gave Burlington
lover $4,000. but the Hawkeye elaine
IL hese figures are always larger than
those OF the United States government
|Denison.
Miss Susie Graf. has been employed
by the school board as an assistant in
the graded school to relieve the over
crowded condition. The enrolment OF
Jour schools Is now 6S5, more than l0t
greater than at the end of the frs,
month Of last year. This is partially
Idue to the closing of the parocflial
school but can also be attributed to
the growth OF our city.
Red Oak.
VIA Moore, who recently returned
from Wyoming. spent several months
I'm the state with party representing
1.-THE universities OF Nebraska and wy.
Joining, looking for fossils Of antedelu-
Ivian animals. They succseded In and
ling the femtir OF dinOsaur which