Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-26
EBRIEF IOWA NEWS NOTES.

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l6ediapolis
The Citizens bank OF Mediapolls
Tuesday Med an amendment to the
y articles Of Incorporation Increasing the
capital stock from $4,000 to $780, 900.
Dubuque.
Naptha launches are becoming quite
the rage. Two years ago not over three
were owned In Dubuque. Now there
Z are not less than twenty. There are
three new ones In the harbor.
MI. Pleasant.
The mumps seem to be having thsir
inning in the vicinity just now. Will
Goss. one OF our mail carriers is laid
up and a substitute Is doing the work.
Ralph Stafford, Of the I. w. U. is also
down with the disease.
! Shenandoah.
The receipts at the Shenandoah post
Office for the first three weeks this year
were equal to that of the whole mont
OF April last year. = The Armory
q cleared S58 on its theatrical venture
last week after all expenses were paid.
The total amount taken in at the door
Was within q few dollars OF four hun
dred.
Sioux City.
Two persons have been declared In
sane by the commissioners of insanity.
They are l.. w. Green, aged 81 years.
who two years ago suffered from a
sunstroke. The other Is Peter Peterson,
( who has been subject to fits for some
time. They will he confined in the
state hospital for the insane at clar-
linda.
Davenport.
Bert Alexander, the smallpox patient
at st. Roberts hospital, is barely Ill at
all, as far as that disease is concerned,
and at his worst has not been very
sick man. So vigilant are city off,
cials in watching for possible cases
that achild broken out with eczema
was runsintoS the house OF detention I'M
til Its case. was diagnosed by the ply
sicians.
WEBSTER City.
At recent meeting Of the school
board Professor L. n. Ford was re-
elected as superintendent OF the Web
ster City schools for another year.
The movement set on foot by
several business men to close the bust
ness houses Of the city at $50 O'clock
each evening, except Saturday, has met
with a generous response from every
firm in the city with two exceptions.
Two grocery firms have thus far re-
fused to sign the agreement, but it ia
thought they will yield.
Red oat.
AS q result of the union revival meet
ings the Baptist church has or will
soon receive about IS new members
the Christian church 40. the Evangel-
ical 10, the Methodist about 100, the
Presbyterian about IS. the South Side
Congregational 3. the United Presby-
terrain 8. and the Congregational about
20. There We're 80 received into the NJ
e. church last Sunday OF whom le
were by letter. The ordinance of bap.
tism was administered to 81 at the
Baptist church the 18th inst.
Centefville.
An agreeable surprise was sprung
upon the plaintiff in the case OF Swan.
son vs.. the K. & w. railway in the dis.
trict court Monday evening when the
jury brought in verdict for $4955t
damages The case had been on tria
for several days and Is an action by the
plaintiff. Swanson. for damages to d
hedge fence and meadow land by fire
get out by the defendants engines. The
plaintiff sued for $500. but 1t developed
in the trial that the damage was great.
er and the petition was amended Il
makeSit $500.
Cseston.
There is again a strong probabilit,
that Creston will soon havea first-clas.
mill. Representatives OF the firm Of
Nichoil Bros, Of Lineville. Iowa. were
in town Monday looking over the loca
situation. This Is the firm that wa.
looking over the ground last year. bu,
who for lack Of encouragement decided
n not to locate among US. They have
however, been considering the matter
farther and are here to see what ar
rangements can be made If they cree
a mill the old Bradford property will b,
utilized.
Rockwell.
Mrs. N. j. Grummon recently re
ceived box containing some rathe
ancient articles from her mother who
is So years old ana resident OF tn,
state of New York. Among them wa:
bed spread Of blue and white bearing
the date OF 1898. and the weaver's nam,
in one corner 1t Is we'll preserved ant
one would never think it was mad,
sixty-two years ago. Another curiosit.
received by Mrs. Grummon was knit,
and fork formerly owned and used OF
state occasions by her grandmothe
nearly $50 years ago.
waterloo.
AT the board Of health meeting, OF tn
city council question touched upol
and regarded OF considerable impor
lance by the health officer is the fail
ure to have milk inspection in thi
3 city. The doctor said that most case
OF cholera infantum are the results o
feeding impure milk. He suggeste
that . fund be created to employ mil
inspector by licensing all milk men. 1
most cities milk men pay licenses 10
the privilege OF making house to nous
visits with their milk. for their use q
streets and alleys and other considera
tons.
Clinton.
The seeding is about finished for thi