Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-17
I. reds Of Iowa Towns Of
leea A11alrs n Hue General Reader.
Interest to

an up-to-date hosiery may require.
Conrad.
Work is Nm progress on the telephone
line and people will soon be talking
over the wires. - Murphy & Ralston
have been selected as architects for the
new M. e. church. Plans are to be
completed by July 90. 1t is expected the
Iedifice complete will cost $4,000.
Webster City.
The escape OF three prisoners from
the county Jail Friday evening is still
the talk of the town They took up a
piece OF floor and dug their way out.
Their names are George Barkley, Rob-
sert Carlson and Arthur Cummings, the
latter two being accused OF horsesteal-
ing.
Kanawha.
Mrs. William McGruder has sued for
"a divorce from her husband on the
grounds of drunkenness and cruelty!
The hearing is set for the September
term of court. Personal service was
had upon the defendant in this city, the
sheriff also attaching the household.
goods.
Council Bluffs.
Seven prospective BARRIERS was what
Detective Weir found in bunch OF
seventeen men whom he came across in
the Northwestern yards Friday after
noon. They had new outfits and said
the had started out from Chicago look
ing for work and that they We're head.
ing for South Omaha.
Dubuque.
Operations have commenced in the
button factory in East Dubuque. Many
young people residents are given em-
iployment, about twenty being now en-
gagged. 4 "A young man named New
man. employed in clam fishing, found a
pearl for which he refused SIG, the Of
fer being made by a local jeweler.
Williams.
yYashington: r. j. Hurd. our big
suburban farmer, snelled and marketed
\ !, 900 bushels of corn this week-secur-
4 ing 80 cents per bushel for same. When
/ Bryan was running for president four
years ago that corn would have
4 brought about $500. This time (when
! the people have no fear Of his election)
1T brought 81, 400.
\ Harlan.
The trustees OF the NJ. F. church have
determined not to accept the gasoline
lamps recently put in the church unless
1.-the company which put them in will
lcomply With the state law. And in
their failure tod SO at an early date
!some other method OF lighting will be
Iput in. Meantime there viii be no
IevshlNg services at the churcl
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All the painters are extremely busy
this time OF year. There is not neces-
sary idle man in Humbold t today, says
1.-The Republican. So The mill race
Twas drained and the grass and water
weeds removed Monday. and incident-
Tally the fish in the race furnished food
for many families. Those taken We're
mostly buffalo, suckers and red horse.
\ But few game fish were secured.
| Eddyville.
Joseph Asbury, a young man who had
recently arrived here toF5w work IN the
Northwestern grade. suffered a sum
stroke en- the s.!.. II was as.er@::. x! 9
drought to town and taken to the john
lson House and doctor summoned. and
ialtho everything was done to help him.
The gradually grew worse and died dur
ling the night. His home is at Quincy,
ILL.,. where his parents reside.
Denison.
The Review is Informed that Miss
Do!lie Gilbreath is quite i'll with ~
phoid fever. She is a classmate in the
thigh school of Fred Soehl. John Shaw
Van and Miss Carrie Warbasse, the lat
tiers death being announced from this
II 1T %, ;t.i ,1c n
with typhoid. 1T seems strange that
at the same time. says the Review.
Waterloo.
4 A syndicate Of Waterloo capitalists
4 has bought tract of elghty-seyen
acres lying north OF the b., C. r. & N,
railroad track, just above town on the
west side OF the Cedar river. Fifty
I:seven acres were bought of Peter Dor
4 Ian and thirty acres from the Charles
d Mullan estate. The entire tract lies
within the corporation, and the portion
4 bought OF the Mullan estate is at the
north end OF Commercial street, only
Ieight blocks from the business center
A of West Waterloo.
/ Charles City.
~ - lac ISSuIl III TIE stdAslSTIel62 MOTk IL
becoming manifest. The returns com.
lmenced in earnest Saturday yher
4 Treasurer Walster received $500 in Eie-
.llinquent taxes and $3.50 were paid ps
one man in Marble Rock whose taxes
We're delinquent for five years. Mr.
Walster estimates that the ferrets viii
bring in between twenty and thirt,
thousand dollars in the next sixty days
as he thinks that between four and
five hundred dollars will be paid in each
1 day for the next two months.
|Chariton.
u The Patriot prints hve-columr
!. historical sketch Of the Methodist
4 church. and describes new edifict
A erected by the society. Of which 1t pre-.
sents an attractive view. The new
building cost s2s,137. The Patriot says
tsThis Is the finest church editice in thu
lefty and has membership Of 500. DIR
A Ives who has dedicated hundreds OF
churches for different denominations
carefully examined the structure anc
said 1t was well built and was equal II
beauty and quality to many $t0.OOt
Ichurches, and eulogized the building
committee on the good Judgment dis.
slplayed bv them in the erection OF the
church.