Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-02-22
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

LETON-Charles S. Butter of
Mapleton. has filed a voluntary bank
ruptcy petition. with se5 assets and
Sl,1l0.53 liabilities.
FAIRFIELD-A petition has been
filed in the office of the clerk OF the dis
trict court by Annie NJ. W'idner asking
for decree of divorce from her hus-
band. n A. Widner.
BURLINGTON George ellison is
critically III with typhoid fever and the
greatest anxiety is felt for him. since
he has had henorrhages. His father
! Dustin Gibson, has neariy recovered
| from the same disease.
| FORT DODGEA Tuerke purchased
the Davidson Bros. store in the Craw
| ford building and assumes control at
1 once Messrs l.. Sharon and A. Holm
| will remain with him in Fort Dodge.
The store has been christened the Bos-
4 ton.
| CRESTON-The city council has vot-
led to submit a proposition to the pee
ple. granting a fifteen year franchise to
the Creston Mutual Telephone Com
ipany. IS j. W. Crissinger. VINO re-
sides near Nevinvlle, has purchased
| the j. w. Paschal farm. a mile east of
town. The consideration was $500 for
| 160 acres.
IOWA CITY-A r. OH returned
Tuesday from Chicago where he deliv-
Tered the largest single consignment of
Hive stock ever sent out of Iowa City
i Mr. OH sent eight carloads of cattle in
the stock special train on the b. Q. r.
& y. sunday He received for the
| shipment slo.29s.26 The total weight
of the cattle was $4,000 pounds.
/ MASON cITY-one of the best sales
leve, held in cerro Gordo county was at
al Chapman's farm. eight miles west of
Rockford. Monday. The prices were OK
ceedingly lucrative. Two year old
L heifers sold at $s5; good mich COWS
4 brought $40 To S4S a two year old colt
was sold for s125 and a five Year old
gelding for sl05. Mr.. Lombardo of the
: frui, store bought a four year old pac-
ling mare. paying SIPS.
Il Observation-Disclosures Samuel
4 Anderson brings To the recorders mu-
scum d section of a burr oak plank that
the United States government cut and
II sawed III the summer OF 1898 and put in
the Goose creek bridge on the military
road in Highland. 1t served there tnir-
Il ty-four yeals. when John Stone ;ore il
out. That was in 1872. Mr. Anderson
a TOOK some OF the planks For walks ans
lthey have been under foot for twenty
eight years The wood is sound Yet
tho it has wrinkles like an Old mans
, face, says the Press.
u NiNTON The Eagle reports the fol-
lowing: The high school girls glee
] Iclnb gave an entertainment last Friday
) and impersonated the boys glee club
The builesuue was true to nature ant
: was rich, raey and rare. Each bo.
!, lcould be told by the girl representing
lbim The boys are UP in arms. 1t is
said that when the school was dis
; missed the boys went into secret SEES
sion and resolved never to go skating
= with those girls. nor bob riding, no,
, coasting, nor taffy pulling, nor nuthin'
, land as a final punishment, never Il
I marry one of Them.
I DANENPORT-It took the jury bu
: three-auarters of an hour to arrive a
LA verdict in the case of Andrew Keibe
r VS.. Dr. c. +. kemmerer. of Eldridge
e / Monday, in favor of the latter VIII,
r was accused OF negligence in his prac
h tice to the injury OF plaintiff. 1t ha,
e taken a week and a half to try the cas-
i. and the general opinion was that i
d would take the jury a good deal longe
y than it did to make up its mind. TIL
e fact that it returned verdict s.
e promptly, and in favor of the defend
n ant. makes it plain that il was prett.
nearly a unanimous vindication of DI
o Kemmerer on the first ballot
!, SIOUX CITY,. T. Barnard o
]. Rochester. N. Y, has been in the cit
i. for the past few days looking over tn
d prospects for tannery. which he ex
ii poets to establish somewhere in this vi
entity within the next few months
: Mr.. Barnard is connected at presen
It with such an institution at Rochester
y but proposes to engage in business o
his own account. He expresses tn
r lopinion that no other town in this sec