Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-03
IOWA NEWS iTEMs
Fort Dodge,

1
ARRANGED for as soon as the weather
will permit, says the Messenger.
Mason City.
/ Two young men of Eldora were In the
lefty Wednesday looking over the ground
with q view to putting in first-class
/ tailoring establishment here. Their in
! tenton is to put in $4,000 stock and
i run their store on a large scale. thor
4 oughly equipped With all modern appli-
4 ances.
Greene.
Hiram Lyford sold his farm of 24o
iacres one and one-half miles east OF
;Ihere to Mr.. Sefert for sb3 an acre. Mr..
Lyford and Wife leave in May for Eng
LAND, where they will spend several
months visiting her sister and family
4 They win attend the Paris exposition
before they return
Ames.
4 Activity in Ames real estate may be
a gagged to some extent by that fact
that during the first two raonths Of
this Year deeds to the number of TWEEN
4 ty-seven representing a total consider
alton of s24.0s0 have been placed on
} record Only transfers within the city
cording 70 The lntelligencer.
Villisca.
An exodus of people from this part
of Iowa Montgomery county) will
take place next week, probably on the
10th 4Ahou: dozen families will go
!. together to the Detroit lake region Of
Minnesota and it is probable that all
the household goods. implements, etc.
will be shipped on the same train.
Nearly all have bought lands in the To-
cality named.
Webster City.
Hugo Carl. who was tried a few days
/ ago for forcing an entrance into the
home of c. Christensen, east of the
!. city, may yet be spared the humiliation
of going TO the reform school. 1t is UNI
z Iderstood that the father of the boy Will
appeal to Judge Whitaker in his sons
behalf. thinking that the expexiences of
the past week Will servesa AS lesson
and that he Will hereafter be a better
boy.
Madrid.
The REVEALS at the Church of Christ
are still in progress, The meetings
have been commented on very much. as
being Very successful and very enter
taining. a good crowd is in attendanc,
each evening. and the work IS resulting
lin very much good. Some additions te
a the church have been made. The evan
g eelist Ogburn, is said to deliver as
Q favored With.
; Ottumwa.
!. The work on THE Y. NJ c. A. batf
8 rooms is going along rapidly now. ane
s the workmen will soon have all tht
{ marble walls completed. They will hav,
9 one of the finest places in the entire
y state when the bath rooms are finished
J. The marble sides to the baths. the sill
% Yer trimmings. the fine tiled floor ant
n n II.everything make it place of beaut.
. down there where 1t used to be nothin,
: but pine walls fiicksring gas lights an,
a cement floors.
), j Waterloo.
d Real estate transfers for the month o
February amounted to 237300. of Hi
Il amount S6s.139 was paid for lots an,
: siss.ls1 for lands. There were II deed
for lots and Al for lands. The total 70
the same month in 1899 Was sl4Lssl. TIL
mortgages for the month amounted t
sl26.ss5. against slos2lO for the sam
. period last year. The total amount o
y transfers TO date is s5l4osl, agains
s275.30 for the same period last year, a
excess of almost 100 per cent.
Hampton.
It John Foushty says that the price
of stock are as good as ever. at sales /
the vicinity At Il. w Underwood
sale last week CONS sold well up to
wards $50 each AT A. Messelheiser
lie sale a 4-months-old calf. NOT thorough
" bred, but a grade. sold for s5i III
Recorder asks: Did anybody ever Sc
~ the time under a democratic admins
10 tration when live stock sold al thes
figures? The sheriff instead of tt
: anctioneer, did ths selling then"
!, lama.
- According 10 the Herald. Dan Youn,
* the genial Northwestern switchmai
"a was thirsty the other night and too
two big swallows Of water. Along abo,
the time his swallowing apparatus g,
It. under Roadway for the third time Daf
!. Iiei detected peculiar taste to the hey
erage he was SO unceremoniously pour
or ing into his interior. A hurried invest
nv cation carried on after he quit chol
), islng, DISCLOSED IHr iact lnal SOnletnlf
like a pint of kerosene oil was pulsuir
n. its devious way thru his physical b,
m inG. He was fearful of the results t,
~ an hour on so. but has found that h
stomach and liver We're uninjured /
- their strange bath and that a markt
g Improvement IS noticeable in his light
70 Jefferson.
The Bee says that church bells q
Is, not ring in Jefferson last sunday f
It's the first time III many a long year. /
:, order of the city council and the may
issued Friday night public meetings
all sorts we're forbidden, and confer
C. poraneous action OF the school boa
Is. closed the schools. The cause of til
emergency measure was the fact tn
Harry Shultz who attended scho
Thursday and vas about on u
- streets was pronounced on Friday
be the victim of smallpox. The doct
Who is attending The boy. howevt
says il is not a we'll marked case. al
he calls ii varioloid in a mild form l
had vaccinated the boy a few da
before he was taken sick. and as I
virus took effect he thinks it abort
the disease.
~ Keokuk.
William Stewart died. as it was e
peeted he would when he was shot
} Policeman Frank Fields. and the ottic