Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-02
VIVA They ARE DOING
Affairs Of Iowa People Taking Place Id Iowa
Towns.

time. Maj. Brown went away last spring
for q visit with friends In the east.
while Lieut.. Craig comes direct from
service on revenue cutter on the lakes.
Hubbard.
Farmers in this vicinity are losing no
small number Of their hogs with the
cholera. Cattle are also afiiicted with
some thing like blackleg and occasional
~ one dies from the disease.
Upton.
Mr.. Henry Britcher has SOD his Fair
field township farm to A. korlinn. OF
New Liberty. The farm Is one OF the
best in Cedar county aud finely im-
proved. The purchase price was $4,000,
Or $50. SO an acre.
Creston.
County Superintendent Peters has
filed his report with County Auditor
Cherry OF the number Of school children
I'm Union county OF school age. The to-
tails for the females is 1929 and for the
males 3,22s. making q grand total OF
|6,457.
V;nton.
j. s. Pyne has arrived from Hay
Springs, Neb. which has been his home
for a number OF years, to take up his
work as bookkeeper at the College for
the Blind. Mrs. Payne has spent the
summer here and they 60 to housekeep-
ing Immediately.
Esthervil1e.
j. w. Lucas is home again from the
northwestern part OF the state, where
he has been for some time. He took Z
contract for working out the highway
taxes for different railroads, In that
part of the state, in all working out
about $1,000 worth OF taxes.
Toledo.
The opera house is now lighted by
ELECTRICITY. Thirty-eight globes have
been placed In position controlled by
half dozen switch boards. giving the
best OF stage and scenic effects - :
An architect OF Marshalltown Is get
ting UP the plans for Judge Caldwell's
new residence.
Monticello.
Tie grand jury failed to indict q
number of Monticello saloon keepers
who had been bound over charged with
having sold liquor to minors. Between
the time of the preliminary hearing
land the meeting OF the grand jury,
some OF these boys advanced two OF
three years in age.
Spirit Lake.
The board Of supervisors may decide
Ito heat the court house from the power
plant. Estimates would indicate that a
considerable saving can be made in cur
trent expenses. The demand for
houses to rent Is above the visible sup-
ply. Parties are searching every day
for what they do not find In this line.
Keokuk.
A number of people at the street fair
who imagined that they could beat the
gamblers at their own game lost what
lever money they had here. last week
Since they had to go considerably out
of the way to drop their money into the
icraw Of the cormorant, they are not re-
tceiving much pity. In several instances
the losers called on the police and COM
peeled the return Of their losses.
Harlan.
w. w. Wheeler has on exhibition at
ibis hardware store some twenty sam
iples Of corn brought from various sec
ltions OF the county. This corn has been
lcollected at random with a view Of get
ting fair average Of the product OF
leach particular locality and II indicates
that the corn crop OF Shelby county il
going to be fine in quality and above the
average in quantity. Shelby county II
strictly in it this year says the Repub-
llican.
Webster City.
Among recent real estate sales are be
following: The Larmar farm OF 32t
acres to 7. H. Kindig, OF Benson. Ill.
for $4,000; the Pfafenbaugh farm d
]eight-six acres to Jesse Bryan. for 81,
Isis: the Shffiett farm OF o40 acres tt
William Arnold, for $4,000: the Jess.
Bryan farm OF 100 acres to j. NJ. None.
/ my, for 5000: the j. NJ. Monemy farm
|of l60 acres to Frank Mann, Of Farmer
City. ILL.,. for IS. 200. The total figures O.
these sales are S4s,016.
Anamosa.
The Eureka reports that week agt
saturday man by the name OF Georg,
4 Davies borrowed horse Of w. NJ. Hill
8|ty, who lives mile east OF Martelle
for the purpose, as he said, Of making
a trip six miles south. Instead OF tina
Il he went TO Martelle and then west
a nothing having ,4been heard OF hin
\ SlIlGe. 1llS lutSAdS MlLA
ilcame 10 Annmosa and placed the mat
lterin Sheriff Arnold's hands and he ad
5|vertised him. but so far without results
Iowa City.
Isaac Eaton died at his home In low,
sICity at noon Saturday. after an Illness
lIof about a year. He was nearly 8
years old, and had lived here 40 years
He was born in Pennsylvania, and wa
a veteran Of the Mexican war. He wa
A O single man, Wilbur Shields. hi
nephew, being the only relative he hal
in the west. 8. The jury returned /
verdict OF guilty at o'clock in the cas-
|of State vs.. William Schaedler. who Il
lcharged with the commission of adult
|ery on the night OF May 2. 1900.
Dubuque.
For the death OF ten-year-old Arnolt
i Schneer, who was instantly killed b!
being precipltated from the sidewalk OF
|Rhomberg avenue Sept Sd, his father
sIGustavc Schneer wants $4,000 damage
from the city OF Dubuque, the fathe
layerins that the boy at that time wa
walking along in a lawful and careful
manner and that by reason Of the de
Elective sidewalk he was precipitated in
Ito the gutter and was instantly killed
The Dubuque Enameling Work
Ihave shut down, but III is thought tina
they will resume again inside OF ,
month.
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