Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-30
Local Affairs in Hundreds Of Iowa Towns of
Interest to the General Reader.


pulled, the proprietor and players ar
rested and the paraphernalia contis-
Gated. Such was the order issued by
Mayor Marquardt and Chief Lem berger
says 1t will be strictly and impartially
reinforced.
Washington.
The cider seized at two places here
Was condemned by Squire Folger FRI
day, and ordered spilled. On the 9th
/ Squire White condemned a lot of the
seized beer and whisky and turned It'll
out. No one/defended.s The Press says:
4 The stuff filled an express, wagon. III
Vas spilled in the boss burying ground,
| a cOpious old libation to Bacchus, Gam
brinus and Bourbon. That ground will
\ be drunk for a week
Webster City.
Talmon Wiltsey died at his home on
South Superior street at 2 O'Clock Tues
/ day afternoon. after a brief Illness of
inflammation of the bowels. Had Mr..
4 Niltsey lived until Wednesday he would
have been II years of age, as he was
4 born in Otsego, N. Y, Aug. 49, 1928. He
i came to Webster City in 1854, and it is
4 said he Waa the oldest pioneer in Web
.sters City at the time of his death, hav-
ling built the second log house within
the present city limits.
Boone
News: Talking about sleuths,. a cer-3
|tain fireman over at the Northwestern
Ilound house can give the Pinkerton
3iagsncy cards and spades in the clever
Tart of detection. For about week he
i has been missing his lunch from the box
8I.in the cab. and becoming tired Of this
4 kind of deal used little Croton oil
4 With excellent results. 1t is said that
Ia couple of victims were laid UP with
spring fever, and one fellow who Fad a
I bite out of a piece of pie is tending
d strictly to business He is an engine
\ viper.
4 Clinton.
The first case of smallpox that has
. been reported for several months nov
Il exists at Grand Mound, this county,
Il Maui Menkler being the sufferer from
4 the malady. Theacase is a typical one,
but is not considered serious. a strict
I. quarantine has bean effected and 1t is,
Thought that the disease VIII be con-
Z fined to the one patient. DR.. Mattey of
i davenport. a member of the state
board of health, visited Mr.. MenBier and
& reported the case to the secretary at
-sEDes Moinea This is the first smallpox
case reported for several months.
Mason City.
II The Times Herald prints stringent
|, ordinance against gambling, and says.
i This has been a growing evil in this
!, community. Ii has. always existed in a
3 more or less extent but for the past few
u months. with the large influx of railroad
/ jlaborerS. and With the seeming increase
"A in the consumption of liquor. this evil
6; has sprung up to an alarming extent,
81 The city council and city authorities
and the better element of the cornmun-
iity are. not III any sympathy With the
n bushes, and are anxious to stamp i,
tout just as. effectively as they can"
& Council Bluffs.
! The city Council took steps Monday
$ might toward granting a franchise$to the
tsne@ Bluff City Electric Light & Gas
I Ecompany for twenty five years by call
e ling an. e,ectipn Oct 9 TO decide ii, and
-lthen awarded the CONTRACT for the city
4 lighting for five years to Thomas Bow
altman AMI, the Bluff City Electric Light
2 q Gas Company. This wasin accordance
q with the bids Which We're received by
y the council last December and the que.-
II ton is now up to the people to Say
y whether the company shall have It's
r franchisa and furnish 1.-THE city with its
$ street lighting at the rate of 5000 pr,
I. electric lamp.
I HLsMars.
u James Weaver, "a l6-year-oid boy. re:
siding With his, parents on farm ii
Waslhington township, WAS, arrested til.
) Iother night at the instance of Mrs. u
Z IL. LLOYD, who livea on Seventh street
4 He was charged With assaulting Eflt
! Marston. the l4-year-old girl of Mrs
Lloyd, With intent to commit felony. Fl,
itook the Marston girl ont buggy rdin.
II in company With little 4-Sear-olt
.Ioompanion, and it vas While out ridina
n that tho alleged assault Was, made. BE
fore Justice Steiner Weaver PLEADED
& guilty to q chargeaf simple assault ant
j. was fined 500 or thirty days ii, Jail. II,
/ VAS doubtful whether his relative!
would pay the fine.
Dubuque.
Prof j. S. Gochenauer Was chose,
e Monday night by the board ofeducatio,
g 10 succeed Mr.. Smart as principal Of TIL,
thigh school. There were ninety
applications, for the place Mr.. Gocisn
e auer is a graduate of the Aillersvilie
q Pa, state normal school and of Han.
i iNard University. and WAS highly rec
commended. He has had three years o
experience in the graded schools o
/. pennsylvania. for two years was
: teacher of Latin and English in tn
! Millersvlle normal school and for tM,
years VAS an instructorsof English a
the university Of Cincinnati. o. He /
now in the city.
"A Vinton.
= The canning factoriees have finishet
3 the third weeks run and We're pushe.
3 ALMOST Ia the limit last week. Thi
j week will be another full Week and thel
!. the rush VIII be over but will cortnu
the next week. The TWO factoriees com
bined SO far have put UP over 1000 90
leans and the total $combined output vii
u run over ao00,O0o. The corn is fine thi
" year---sa fine as has ever been pu, vi
s land the yield is, good, netting the farm
I, ers q good sum for rent and labor. TIL
J. IVinton factory will commence packin
a tomatoes this week and will put u
e about 10 acres This Is, experimental
but II successful will undoubtedly b
|enlarged upon next year.
le Waterloo.
y Excavations are now being made 70
: the new freight depot of the b.. G. i
:, & n. railway at the intersection 2