Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-12
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Shenandoah.
Mentzer Bros. closed their seasonal
corn packing Saturday. They packed
like !, 240 900 cans Of corn this
year. which is by far the greatest
amount ever packed here in any one
year.
Muscatine. :.
With apologies to our many respect
able visitors 1t must nevertheless he
said that there is very tough popula-
ton putting up for the week in Musca
tine" reports the Journal in speaking
OF the street fair crowd.
Garwin.
a local firm purchased Of WILDER
Dobson eighteen head of cattle, paying
1925 per hundred Mr. Dobson four
years ago shipped his cattle to Chicago
and sold them for $40 per hundred.
which leads the Star to remark over
the difference in prices.
Boone
Foreman Dan FOrnan OF the steel
gang, with thirty men, arrived in Boone
from Des Molnes, and they will have
their headquarters here Cor laying
twenty or thirty miles Of steel. James
Campbell. the well-known Boone ex-
policeman, is among them.
Belle PLANE.
Preparatory to removing to Mason
City the dispatching force of the /. &
NJ. and the superintendent Office force
have all been vaccinated if they had
not undergone such treatment hereto
fore. There is still something Of small
pox scare in that city.
Webster City.
The Dawes canning factory closed
Saturday night after very successful
run OF three weeks. 1t has been the
most successful season in the history OF
the concern, nearly q million cans being
put up. The total enrolment
in the public schools has reached about
$50. which is an increase on the first
weeks attendance last year.
Marion.
Articles Of incorporation of the Man
chester Construction Company have
been filed with the county auditor and
as soon as they are officially accepted
Wy C.SCSASSdly VI lC tllc new 4COII1.
1pany will be prepared to commence
business The first contract to be
pushed to completion will be that Of
the Manchester g Oneida
railroad.
|Centerville.
( Dyer Lotridge, one Of this County s old.
est settlers. died Saturday evening after
q long sickness with diabetes, aged 9;
years. months and II days. Mr. Lo.
fridge lived on his farm, three miles
northwest of this city. on the land he
entered from the government fifty odd
years ago He leaves large family
and many friends by whom he was
loved and respected.
Alba.
Russell Mock. who resides on an acre
of ground in the Fourth ward, has
placed on the Unions game table a
fine lot Of peaches grown on his home
place, and they are as fine peaches as
are grown anywhere. He has abou,
thirty-tive trees and all of them are
loaded with luscious fruit. SIS. James
Abernethy. the brakeman who was
killed in this city last week had 81
900 life insurance policy and the money
|goes to his parents.
Wall Lake.
The Blade says the school board has
come in for Its share OF grief recently
A change in some of the school books
was ordered and, of course, the usua
kick was registered. BUT where the
main trouble came In, was when the
board told the parents where to buy
their echool books. "A number rebelled
land Monday there We're many unkind
things said of the board, or the pur.
lchasing committee of the board. as
there were several dealers who could
have been favored.
Davenport.
A young man named Frank Randall
was up before the commissioners OF
insanity Monday afternoon. and ad.
Judged insane. He has been whisky
drinker and cigaret flend. He is q
years old and came to this city last
"Wednesday from Burlington. He stated
that he worked In the wheel works a,
that place and when he came here hi
Iexpected to get work in the Bettendorl
wheel works. His father arrived day
|or two ago. The man was taken to Mt
Pleasant by the sheriff Monday after.
noon.
Dubuque.
The railroads diverging from Du.
buque are doing an enormous freight
business and the records OF years arr
being smashed. 1t requires all the
equipment the companies can get t
handle the traffic and there We're never
more freight trains In motion, ever
when the heavy movement Of grain wa!
on than at the present time. The ira.
ftic is very heavy. The condition ii
due entirely to normal causes and MOI
to the heavy crops for IT. is only within
the past week that cereals began t
move.
Council Bluffs.
In the face OF depts amounting t
about $500. left by the association
when it went out of business couple
Of years ago. an effort is being made
to reor9anize the Y. NJ. C.. A. Amonf
those pushing the movement are Harr,
Curtis, former secretary OF the assocla.
tion: Charles Oficer, H. "A. Bellingel
ard others. Lille Tague. aget
q years. for three years an inmate OF
the insane asylum OF st, Bernard's hos.
pital, died OF consumption at the insti.
tuition Sunday morning. Her home wa,
at Persia, Iowa; tho 1t Is not known
that she has any relatives who surviv.
her.
Carroll. 81 /.
a young woman, about 81 years OF