Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-22
IOWA is ! ] Z lr1 I!

gOyyVs~y!o
Newton.
The total receipts d the recent Jas.
per county fair were es,2l1.bl.
Manly.
p. A. Mitchell our rustlins stockmarl
was over to Clear Lake this week ana
purchased about g 900 worth OF cattle.
Upton.
Extensive repairs are being made on
the N. II, parsonage this week. An adj
dition is being built and the interior re-
modelled.
Hubbard.
r. p. Carter and Charles Whitney
suffered the loss of three nice cows last
week from The effects OF overlooking or
wet clover.
Museatine.
Quite number Of Muscatine pc spIe
are planning to go south In cabin boats
this fall, Judging from the number be-
ing built, says the Journal.
IOcheyedan.
The Ocheyedan House will again be
opened to the public on Oct, i. Mr..
Julius Hansen has leased the building
and purchased the furniture and will
run the house.
Brooklyn.
Thomas Edwards has purchased a
forty acre tract of land within the cor
lporate limits Of Des Moines, to which
place he will move his family about
Dec. list to make their future home.
Webster City.
Mrs. d. n. Miller. who resided with
her family on the J. E. Snyder farm,
Ave and q half miles north OF town,
died Wednesday mbrning OF Typhoid
fever. The deceased was In the sixty
first year Of her age. Al
Carroll.
S. B. Alspach has received a card
from the beet sugar factory stating
| that his beets tested SO per cent sugar
land 74ls per cent purity. This Is a
good test and assures Mr.. Alspacf of
| a profitable crop Of beets. says the
tsentinel.
| Toledo.
| Over 200 students have enrolled in the
various departments of Western college
and numbers are entering daily. This
lis the largest opening the college has
foot for one or more rural mail routes
from Toledo.
Fairbank.
Mrs. w F.. Treadwell was agreeably
surprised Friday when her oldest broth
er, A. L. Moore, of Cleveland, o., ar
rived on the ! O'clock train, and another
brother. j. e. Moore, and his wife came
on Saturday from Mason City. They re-
manned until the Sunday morning train
Ottumwa.
Mrs. Loretta King. wife OF William
King, who shot al her one Sunday even
| ing few weeks ago and for whom
Constable Slaughter has warrant, has
written to his wife threatening her life
Mrs. King brought the letter to Squire
Campbell. who found that King is III
Est. Joe, Mo.
Estherville.
Rev. William Evans, pastor of the
! presbyterian church. has handed In his
iresignatio to accept call from Cedar
Rapids. His resignation will be ac-
cepted with regrets. He has been pas.
| tor Of the Pres byterian church OF thi.
Lefty for six years ard has given good
satisfaction.
Abba.
On Tuesday the teams, camp equipag 81
and grading outtitsof the Walsh Con.
struct.on Company arrived in Abba
and on Wednesday morning. notwith-
tstanding the rainy weather of Tuesday
and Tuesday night, they started this
teams to work grading the streets FOL
the paving around the public square.
| Oelwein.
"A certain shoemaker last week gave
up four good silver dollars for a worth.
Hess counterfeit five dollar william.
stranger took an old shoe in to be re.
paired and insisted on paying in ad-
Vance. In this way, he showed the
jsqueer. 1t is a good scheme to scar
money carefully especially, when hand
led out by a stranger.
Alden
1 The Snider well drilling crew struck
anothef} good flow Monday afternoon al
the depth of forty feet. this one being
located on the Newton Lawton farm
north Of town. Each onerof these flow:
Ting wells is of almost ines TINA Bile value
Ito the farm it is situated on. saving fol
lall the time to come the expense Of
maintaing a pump and windmill.
Mason City.
The wind blew away the canvass en-.
closure for Pawnee Bili's Wild ives,
show at Hampton and new canvass
lordered for this place arrived at moor
Thursday. There were 5000 pounds II
1.-The canvass and the express bill was
$3.50. At Hampton the rain was 81
great that the show was postponed en-.
tireiy. because it is not given under
cover.
Fort Dodge.
| The diphtheria cases are all getting
ialong nicely and no new cases are re.
lported. The physicians are Of the opin-
ion that all those who are exposed b,
the first case have either shown sym.
ltoms Of the malady or else have es.
Icaped So far there are only three
houses under quarantine and there vii
be hardly any more fatalities unless re.
llapses set in.
Rockwell City.
"A cherry tree in the Advocates bacl
yard raised the usual crop this year ane
|about month ago shed all OF tn,
lleaves on the south half Of the tree. A
couple OF weeks later these bare branch
es budded again, and brought forth
5lfew leaves and some well developed
blossbms, which seem determined I,
n produce second crop Of cherries Ii
4 81 g.