Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-08
Local Affairs in Hundreds Of Iowa Towns Of
Interest to the General Reader

MT a cost of s71OO. This liz 14-room
mouse steam heated and commodious
With the acre lot around 1t we'll shaded
and slightly just east of the school
house and will make a splendid loca-
ton for the library.
Coon Rapids.
in Coon Rapids soon. a new band
has been organized with sixteen mem
bers. the majority OF them being ex-
perienced musicians. Several of rhe
new instruments ordered have arrived.
Auburn.
The cattle sale at the stock yards
Hast Saturday afternoon was disap-
lpointment to the pToprietors. There was
IL good attendance but no one seemed
TO be in readiness to buy and the efforts
of the auctioneers to elicit a bid failed.
Dies Moines.
Almost half Of the 100000 bonds for
the new court house are disposed of
among the local banks. The general inn
l3pression is that the whole issue can be
placed among the banks of the city.
!, The Dies Moines Savings Bank has Of
fered to take $1,000 of the bonds and
other banks Will also purchase iber-
Tally.
Muscatine.
st. Mary's Catholic church on West
Hill is to have II tower clock. 1t seems
that in the first place Frank Baum Of
fereG to buy a clock for the tower with
the assistance in every way possible by
the congregation and the neighbors. a
l8social is to be given by the ladies and
doubtless other things will be projected
later TO help raise the money.
| Nevada.
A sheriff's jury has been summoned
4 for the condemning of the Illingworth
property, south of Cambridge for right
of way for the ID. q: n. o. railway COM
pany. Ten days notice is required be-
! fore the appraisennent can be made.
| This piece of land is the only one that
lit will be necessary to condemn in
STORY county south of Cambridge.
4 Ocheyedan.
/ Miss Mae Shuttleworth, who taught
the grammar Departmental the Ochey-
edan public schools last year. has been
employed to teach in the same depart
ment of the Story City schools for the
ensuing year. Miss Shuttleworth is a
i
sesses the ability to advance rapidly in
Iher chosen profession, says the Press.
Belle Plainc.
i S. r. Van Dixie has received a COM
omission from Governor Shaw appoint
ling him an associate delegate TO the
| Farmers National Congress which con-
yenes the 30th at Colorado Springs, Col.
Mr.. Van Dixie highly appreciates the
honor conferred upon, but thinks the
sEperss of business ait the latter end Of
!, the monlh, will interfere with his ac-
Ecepting the position.
Boone. Hl s 3
The G. NJ st. p people have "a gang
tof men in this city who are improving
Irerairing and strengthening the big
]trestle over the G. q n. w. in the
southwest part of the city. They have
salso completely raised the old depot
building ar such part as the recent fire
Ibid not destro;- and s.re making the site
Iready for the rev building The brick
flor the foundation is or the grounds
Carroll.
i The Electric Light & Power com
lpany has commenced work on the new
d5hot water heating plant and large sup
1plies of pipe, etc, are being unloaGed at
4 1.-The works. The bonds issued by the
Icompany were taken up by the First
4 National bank, an indications that we
Iare approaching the time when there
| will be plenty of local capital to float
enterprises of public nature, says the
jSentinel.
Cedar Falls.
Record, 6th: The canning factory
opens day after tomorrow but corn will
4 be taken in tomorrow. A force OF
|about loo viii be employed. Two new
lfactories are starting up in this vlcin-
Iity this year; one at Waterloo and one
lat LaPorte. Just how these will affect
Jour factory il conceded to be problem
latical. About one sixth of our product
has been sold to Waterloo jobbers and
.ithis represents the total sales n Iowa.
Clear Lake.
Il. L. Jones has long boon happy in
the possession Of the year $ record for
the largest pickerel or as the boys call
4 it snake EARLY in the spring he
caught one weighing II pounds. He
)now possesses the honor of having cap
tured the largest water snake. The
8Iother evening he went cruising in his
Ilaunch and brought in a black water
snake which measured Just four feet,
six inches IN length. This is the lare-
lest of its kind ever caught in the lake
within the memory of the oldest set
/ liter.
4 Council Bluffs.
Thomas O'Hearn. an employee at the
lcafe i ManaWa, met With severe ac-
IciGeEt Sunday afternoon. He worked
i in the kitchen and was In the act Of re-
4 lighting one of the burners on a gaso-
Slline stove While another burner was
lstill going. The fire was communicated
.lfrom the burning jet to the gasoline on
1.-THE dead one ard the blaze flashed UP
and burned ofHearn'ss hands and arms
.lup to the elbows. His s,:54ring was
most intense until he reached the city
on car and secured relief from ply
Isician.
Bristow.
Enterprise: Not much small grain of
this years yield has yet been marketed,
althoif we get no more rain another
week will see a great many bushels
handled BY cur elevators. The oats that
4 has been threshed has yielded about 45
4 bushels to the acre but the grade has
4 been very poor. One our grain men
told us this week that what he bought
Ifor white oats was as black as his hat.