Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-27
Affairs of Iowa People Taking Place In Iowa
Towns.
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Nevada.
Miss Vivian Durham has resigned
her position as teacher in room No. 4
of the high school on account Of i'll
health
Belmond.
Contractor Clark has the wood work
Of the new mill completed and is now
Waiting for the steel sheeting. The
machinery is arriving and will be in
place in a few weeks.
Bristow.
AT a meeting of the school board re-
Gently Quincy Yost was employed to.
teach the grammar room and Miss Ida
West, of Shell Rock. to teach the pri-
mary room the coming year.
Ocheyedan.,
ocheycdan's two banking Institutions
are now protected against loss by
burglary. having taken out insurance
policies in company which inaemni-
ties them for loss from this source.
Cresco.
Reports from all parts of Howard
county say We will have a crop of corn
matured in time to escape an early
frost and that it will be one OF the
largest the county has ever known.
Forest City.
An operation was performed the past
week for appendicitis upon the S-year-
old son of Gus Peterson, who lives
about eight miles northeast of town.
The boy Is out of danger and will re-
cover.
A.k!ey.
a grocer here bought a car of water
melons Tuesday, 100 In all. and in less
than two days had disposed of the lus-
lcous fruit TO the neighboring mer-
chants hereanouts, besides supplying
the local trade.
OGDEN.
Z The Ogden Telephone company is
ard better poles and more of them are
replacing the old ones. They are also
contemplating extending their lines
into the country and may yet this fall
Ida Grove.
II. NJ. Millinery and family took their
departure recently, after many years
residence here, for Des Moines, where
they Will make their home in future,
Mr.. Winery having accepted the man
| agenient of two banking houses located
lin Waukee and Dallas Center, Dallas
county
Anannosa.
MIR. j. r. Stevenson has bought at {
! hazard Fred Cunningham stolen bug:
sy and paid him a dollar for it. II the
buggy should happen to turn up in 4
week on 50 Fred would be apt to think
The had sold out pretty cheap. On tbs
other hand Mr.. Stevenson dollar is
probably gone forever.
Williams.
/ Dennis Murphy. one Of William.
Townships most prominent and pro:
gressiae farmers. exhibited four ears Of
corn at the Wasp Office las, weel
that measured ten and quar-.
ter inches TO the ear This corn. wa.
planted May 10 and picked August q
Handis beyond the reach of frost.
Reinbeck.
A petition was circulated latei,
4 among the patrons of the local fele
L phone exchange asking that the ex
change office be allowed TO remain
closed on Sundays from 10 a. m. 10 y
4 M. and it was signed by nearly il no
4 all patrons of the system. the aim be
ing 10 give the telephone workers
rest
3iClea, Lake.
DR. A. NJ. Lafferty, city health ply
lsf@ian. was up TO the camp ground
/ Tuesday to investigate the ssini,ar.
conditions. about which considerably
| complaint has been made. He found /.
tnans cases a just cause for complain
land gave the OFFENDING parties twenty
-four hours 10 place their premises il
good condition.
4 sioux City.
4 Capt. I. G. Prescott, president of tn
board Of education. has received iron
Mrs. F;lae Il. Hartman her resignation
i eits#on account of her recent marriage
Il Mrs. Hartman formerly was Miss Mgr
4 tie Richardson. and has been a teache
Tin the Sioux City schools for severa
Years. She Was d competent instructo
and tha board Viii accept her resigna
4!z;iea NTH rsgrst
4 Alden
I According 10 the Times, Rev. C. n
Lyman. who has been in Iowa for tn
i last thirty eight Years and know
4 whereof he spes1sss. says he never sa,
Il the state looking SO we'll as at presen,
i He recently returned from the wester
part of the state and says every inc
4 between here and Missouri, With tn
j exception of a few localities that shot
4 marks of hail storms. has the appear
,,,.., q, all ~ AZ,
Clinton.
Mrs. Ida a. Journey filed suit in TIL
4 circuit court on Friday asking for
4 divorce from her husband, Albert Jour
a ney, charging him With desertion. non
support, etc. She also asks for the Gus
tody of her two chtldren-a girl. Jessi,
LACED IA, and Joseph, boy of II year.
s The couple We're married in Morrison
4 ILL.,, Aug. %, 1855. Journey deserted hi
lbwife NOV. 49, 1892 and has been abseT
ever since. leaving his Wife to suppo,
herself and children by hard labor.
|Sririt Lake.
Al Butcher will har.set about q
a bushes OF apples from his Spirit LAX
a township farm. He has taken care {
a the trees planted on that place by Le'
EIoieomb twenty years ago and has
pies TO keep and sell--lots of then
Some of the varieties are particular
good. While this Is not much of
fishing month. some pretty fair bus
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