Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-11
WHAT They ARE DOING
Affairs Of Iowa People Taking Place In Iowa
Towns.

seized at other places was found guilty
of being intoxicating and wac ordered
destroyed. The Smith and Coon liquor
was found not guilty and returned.
Ed Miller, OF Franklin township. was
adjudged insane last Saturday and ta-
ken to the hospital at Mt. Pleasant. Mr..
Miller has been sick for some months
and 1t has caused a temporary derange-
ment.
Clinton.
A new clam bed has been discovered
at the head OF the rapids, and dozen
or go men have been making all kinds
of money digging them for several days.
The bed is situated in midstream, but
the water there is not very deep and the
men stand on the bottom and lift the
shells out with fork. This is rapid
Way of gathering shells when conditions
gre favorable, and IL this should prove
to be a large one there will be plenty OF
money for the clammers.
Mason City.
The first Baptist church is assured of
DR.. a. b. Chaffee's services for another
year. He is anxious to educate his
flour children for college and the board
.ltold him that while they would be very
sorry to lose the family they would con-
sent to make the arrangements desired
i by the pastor. DIR. Ghaffee will thus
spend his Sabbaths and part of the week
\ here and the rest of his time with his
family in Des AIoines where they con-
template going that the promising
quartette may receive college educa
.Ition.
Davenport.
A . no h
looming in at the mile track is making
Isecrctary Charles Haskins and Assist
liant Secretary Jack Van Tuhl smile
A broader than they We're last week.
i Twenty racers came In bunch from
i Pekin, III. Sunday and eleven more ar
rived this morning from Elkhart, while
the Terre Haute crowd is still to come
land word from Marshalltown is that
lfour-fifths OF the big field OF horses
There is coming here. Prior to Sunday
there we're about sixty horses already
8 lat the track. SO that nearly 100 are
4 there now, and there promises to be q
delightful crowding of the stables by
next week. when the races start.
Dies Moines.
Monday afternoon Mayor Hartenbow-
! err filed his first veto. 1t was with re-
gard to the appropriation OF an extra
3 hundred dollars to DIR. Schlitz for the
Z care and attendance upon smallpox pa
Il tents at the city pest house The veto
measure was not a lengthy one. 1t sim
ply stated that the mayor could not see
], hls way clear under the law to allow
Il the appropriation. He construed the
s situation to be that DIR. Schlitz had
I. simply performed his duty in taking
3lfo,. ~,
lefty. !. 7. The state labor commissioner
lwlstes ii announced that returns to the
state bureau of labor Statistics do not
:. |require revenue stamps on them. He is
lreceiving large numbers OF these
stamped, and says 1t is useless waste
|of money to the firm in reporting.
Colo.
3 \ young man was found lying on
the ground near the stock yards one
, day the past week screaming with pair
I and when approached by some OF oul
citizens he was found to be very sick
and was taken at once to the city hall
where medical aid was administered
land at present he Is doing nicely He
Estates that he Is the son of cashie,
: of a bank and that his home is in iii.
e nols. that he started out for little
I tour in n box car ana was switched OF,
! here and suddenly became very sick
. (which evidently shows that he is MOI
constitutionally adapted to a life of thi:
kind and earnestly desires to get bach
i TO his home. The town is taking care o
] him here and in few days 1t is ex.
pected heswill be sent back home and i
: is likely that he will not plan trip d
I this kind again very soon, says the Ban
: ner.
Onumwa.
The 15-year-old son OF William Gate
n has disappeared with his fathers team
] and wagon and can not be found. It'll
& thought that the boy Is headed for Kan
! ssas City, but what his Intentions are i
not known. Saturday evening the DO.
4 told his father that he had n picnic par
ty TO take to Bakers grove and re
81 quested the loan OF the outfit. The faith
Ter acqulesced and the boy left. He di,
8 not come home Saturday night and
g search wae instituted for him Sunda
]. lmorning, but without success. : = Las
q week three men assaulted Conductor w
N IS. Moore OF the Eft. Madison at Hills
n boro because he demonstrated witt
them for drinking beer in the ladies
coach. The men were arrested at Hills
a iOcTO anu tte ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OK the rOa
: prosecuted them. One was fined $l5 an
Il another $40. while II third has asked an
4 been granted continuance.
u Webster City.
"a Charles McCloeaty, who ID not exactl
in training to compete with FralIck a
high diver. is nevertheless making 70
: himself a reputation In that line. say
: the Freeman Tribune. Charles occupie
!. a room upstairs in a private house /
:, - the eastern part OF town and retired q
!. the usual late hour Saturday night, al
4 ter finishing his labors at Mccullough
= barber shop. Along In the early hour
= Of the morning the family on the firs
floor heard noise not unlike a meteo
Isplltting thru the air. This was fol
A lowed by q dull, heavy .thud similar I
e that of meteor striking the grount
u Upon peering out OF the window to az
ts certain the cause OF the commotion tn
a head OF the family was surprised to &c
i, a man, clad only in his night robe
about in the yard. He wa
d none other than Charles. who explaine
,r his presence In that strange conditio
d by saying he had had nightmare an
that trying to subdue the critter sh
had thrown him thru the open window
N Luckily Charles escaped injury and wi