Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-01
WHAT they ARE DOING
Affairs Of Iowa People Taking Place In Iowa
Towns.

Davenport.
The Boer ENJOYS who will come this
month will spend Saturday, June 9, in
Davenport. Such was the purport of q
telegram received Tuesday Afternoon
by ex-Mayor George T., Baker, chair
man OF the general Boer committee.
Iowa Falls.
John Weaver lost a valuable young
horse one day last week in peculiar
manner. He was driving the animal
near the Burlington round house when
it became SO badly frightened at a To-
connective that 1t fell dead in the har-
ness.
Hampton.
We have another case OF smallpox in
Hampton, the same kind we had before
E. NJ. Gillett being the victim. The dis
ease is in so light a form that 1t does
not scare anybody. Mr. Gillett's prem
Uses have been quarantineda and there
/ is no cause for alarm.
Bloomfield.
4 Bloomfield has new artesian we'll
1,S17 feet in depth and penetratest
list. Croix stone hundred feet. It is
not a flowing well, however, the water
risng to within hundred feet of the
surface only. 1t is thought 1t will
furnish an inexhaustible supply for all
lefty purposes.
Greene.
a couple Of fellows from the country
who got to feeling little bit swift
4 Saturday afternoon, started span of.
sbronchos on the run under the whip
across the bridge and out of town,
: tn, nal, RI
hight. Mayor Buchholz sent after the
\ fellows and they were fined $40 each.
4 Aekley.
7. S. Wallace. OF Belmond, was here
lin consultation with Roosevelt brothers
4 with reference to the flour mill to be
i Ierected by the three at that point
IPlans and specifications are complete
I. and the machinery has been contracted
4 for: the mill is to be three stories and
basement; and is to be operated by
.lsteam.
} Newton
8 The Journal reports that cut worms
q seem to be excessively plenty this sea-
lson. On sod ground the young corn is
q so much cut off that great deal of re-
Il planting will have to be done, while
= tomato. cabbage and other plants are
y similarly suffering u. Ten boys and
3 six girls were graduated from the
:. schools Tuesday. 8
4 Fairfield.
E The graduating exercises Of the high
8 school class We're held ut the opera
4 house this week. The class is the larg-
], lest III the history of the school and con-
n Esists OF thirty-four members. eighteen
of whom have taken the classica
course and fourteen the scientific. Il
: lis said to&excel in scholarship and ex.
cellence as 1T does in numbers.
Maxwell.
big Tom" swearengen barely es.
y lcaped being buried alive last Thursday
: He was working under the arch of a
= cave which he had under constructor
= for Robert Mullen. and had the cave
almost completed when the roof fell il
on him. bruising him up considerably
\ and he is forced to hobble about on 1
crutch by reason Of injuries received.
4 Ottumwa.
i Tacitus Hussey, Ralph Orwg AMI
: Henry d. Keyser. of the Des Nome!
: lCanoe club. returned home on the Rocl
. Island at noon Wednesday, after a yer.
! pleasant but rather brief sojourn in tn
a city. They came down the Des Moline
river In canoes, leaving Des Moline
. sunday afternoon and arriving here a
4 4 o'clock Tuesday evening, having ex
Z perienced a most delightful trip.
Ii Carroll.
8 One day last week a sick man wa
d taken off the train here and sent :
e Wright's hospital for treatment H
IS was on his way from Maine to Cali
It fornia, and it was reported that he ha
l. been sick all the way. The train me
n were afraid that he could survive TIL
d Tourney On examination 1t was foun
d that he had subsisted on poor whisk
most OF the trip. After he hscarie sohe
d. he was removed from the hospital an
Ar sent on his way rejoicing.
.. Grundy Center.
District court will convene in Grund
- Center next Monday, with Judge Plat
g on the bench. The docket contain
Twenty five probate. eighteen crmina
Ithirty-threeg equity and thirty-two la
D cases. 80 In game of base ball q
* 1.-THE fair grounds one afternoon Of las
Z week between the married and sing
9 men of Grundy Center the latter wo
= by a score OF II to s. The young fe
lows are signing for more worlds ,
rs conquer.
in Charlton.
ne The sheriff of Lucas county arreste
at Clarion Thursday morning, ma
giving the name of George Barkle,
h and claiming to come from Des Moine
re- on the suspicion that he is horsethie
= He had in his possession. and offered
sell for $3.50 top buggy and fou
year-old mare The mare Is black. st:
in forehead and stripe on face, sma
scar on nose. Barley is a sand
~ complication. blue eyes, and weighs Q
- pounds. There have been several thief
n OF horses at different places and II
rs especial attention Of sheriffs and 9th,
peace officers is directed to this case.
Sioux City.
/" William Devine was found guilty
y Baltimore of shipping dead body OF
. of the state of Maryland without con
au plying with the health laws and SCI
'I .encc was withheld pending the rull1
upon molten for new trial This
1.-THE case of the shipment Of the body
liz Patrick Callahan. who was struck
h IN electric car In Baltimore and died
en- the hospital and his body shipped
a Sioux City to ~. s. Bradford" al
ny marked Books" While the consign
was looking eagerly for the box