Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-25
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects as.
Reflected in the Iowa News.
papers
The News Of Iowa From Hundreds
Of Different Towns and Com
munities.

Toledo
Horace Rebok is engaged in the orr
ganixation Of company which will
y publish The World Review, an illus
trated weekly Journal, from Chicago
after January LIST.
Ackley.
According to the World farm help is
scarce; the demand greatly exceeds, the
i supply. Farmers are paying $1.50 day
Tor harvest hands, and ii, some eases
work is insured until the corn is out Of
the field.
Carroll.
Will Ranger will leave next week for
ST. Joseph, Mo-, where he goes to accept
position iii the printing department of
the Letts-Spencer grocery company.
Thtt isSa. 1ewsd departure for this concern.
Will Is familiar with this class of work
and will fill the position admira bly,.
Hubbard.
81 William Huffman, north Of town, has
FURNISHED employment for several
young boys of Hubbard this week. He
has about SO acres of land. pretty We'll
covered with the pestiferous cockel-
bur, and in order to weed the land he
has hired a number of lads at SO cents
and board per day to pull them.
Abba.
Petitions are in circulation and are
being numerously signed, asking the
board of supervisors to submit to the
voters at the next election the. PROPOSE
ton to build a new court house. = !.
The Union says an Abba merchant has
$1,000 to bet that Mckinley Will be
! elected, in sums of IS and up to suit.
Jefferson.
The most serious flood sufferers in this
city are the people living in Gray's adj
dition. lying infthe northeast part of the
city in the angle between the two
tracks The water stands there; from
two to four feet deep in places and
their gardens have nearly all been
ruined. Strong pressure is being brought
TO bear on the council tosfgures out some
means of relief from the surplus water.
Ames.
The new Northwestern depot is rapid s
~ nearing completion. There ia some
y kicking on it, says the Times but When
completed il Will be very fine pass'en-
Ger station. The superintendent of the
city electric light plant commenced
( Wednesday wiring the new depot for
!: electric lights. There are to be one
hundred and fifty incandescents and
eight arc lights to the building and
sheds.
Perry.
IA The four citizens interested in build
I Ing an opera house were in Des Moines
this week consulting architects and
looking into the question, They find
{ that the kind of building they expected
to build will cost more than they ex-a
pected. but they have about agreed to
4 build anyway, and put up a finer build
4 Ing than the Perry people had dreamed
of. 1t WIN seat at least 500. probably
4 more. have a large stage and be modern
and beautiful turnout.
Guthrie Center.
Richard Short, one of the wea1thiest
4 farmers of Beaver township. Was, in
town Thursday. Mr.. Short was born in
Devonshire, England, work ed there TN
til after he had reached manhood. He
said he was d good farm hand, but the
best wages he could get was four dol
4 lars month, with no prospect of bet
tering his condition IN the country of
hia birth he concluded to leave and
comesto America. By, industry and fru-
y gality he has been able to arnasss a COM
3 Portable fortune.
Webster City.
Miss Annette Maakeatad, Of Scott
township, was broughtto the citysthis
!. afternoon to appear before the insane
commissioners. Miss Nlakestad IS TWEEN
ty-six years of age. Her trouble seems
to have resulted from religious matters
as she talks freely on that subject and
Fsems, to fear injury. She is a daughter
Z 1T VIM. NJ. Aiaakestad. But d few weeks
ago her mother. died at the Indepen-
dence hospital, and the worry of this
4 no doubt helped to unhalance her mind.
She was taken to Independence.
Newton.
Grandma TRACER gave her friends d
pleasant surprise by appearing in her
pew at the NJ. l.. church last Sunday
= morning for the first time In over a
year. She IL now nearly 50 years OF age.
Last summer She caught whooping-
cough from her great -grandchild which
clung to her thru the winter. and for
months she lay at the point of death,
battling against almost all the Ills
which: humanity Is heir to. She beat
them all and gives promise of several
years yet to bless her friends says the
Record
Oelwein.
AT a special meeting of the city coun-
Gil held at the city hail this week the
contract was let 10 NJ. Tschrigi, Jr., to
81 put in about 5000 feet of 4, 6 and 8
inch water mains. =. There is a great
B need OF a sewer system in this city and
"a It confronts some of our citizens in a
tOrceful manner. Extensive improve
ments have been made the past few
years and several new business, blocks
4 have been erected and are being erected
this season. The Register makes an
h earnest plea for a sewer system 10 meet
" public demands and to do away with
cess-pools.
Burlington.
Sixteen thousand dollars was realized
L at public auction Thursday by the sale
of real estate belonging to the John
Patterson estate. The sale was con-
Quoted by George S. Tracy as auction
Z eer. from the court house steps, under
81 an order from the district court. There
\ had been some controversy in the courts
between the heirs over the division OF
z the property, and the gale was directed
81 that q SUFFICIENT sum might be realized
~. to pay the outstanding clatms pending
B the Element OF these differences. The
III real estate brought \ comparatively low