Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-08

OF Keokuk's most prominent business
men, such AZ butchers, ltverymen, gro-
GERS. feed dealers ana ice men. This adj
vance agent would give big order for
goods and ask g rake which he IL
supposed to have secured, tho all the
supposed victims deny that they were
4bled. . The public schools gradu-
ated a class OF forty-five Tuesday even
ing--one Of the largest and brightest
in the history Of the school.
Ottumwa.
Today Friday) the graduation exer-
scises of the pupils in the eighth grade
OF the Ottumwa schools will be held at
the Grand Opera House. More than
100 students Will receive diplomas GER
tifying that they have completed the
required course OF study and passed a
satisfactory examination Next Sep
TENDER they will step into the high
school and their education ultimately
carried to that point where they will
be theoretically equipped for the ordi-
nary battles of life which every man
and woman must fight.
Grundy Center.
Miss Sturgeon, assistant principal OF
the high school, was called to her homo
in Extra last week by the death OF her
brother who was suffocated by air
damp assisting in cleaning an old we'll.
$50 Hon. Daniel Kerr is excavatiHg
and preparing to put UP a brick build
Ing on the south side of Main street.
80. Harry Wegstein is in the pos
session of more than 200 old coins.sSome
are very ancient, being over 400 years
L in 1ort N
!; is very clumsy counterfeit and
penitentiary.
Algona.
General preparations are going on for
/ the big campmeeting to be held on the
\ fair grounds the last of the month. 1t
is a big AFFAIR. = The showers of
1.-The past week have put crops in as fine
condition az Kossuth often sees them.
Hay may be little short. however
Nina e. Morford arrived in AL
goEa Saturday evening. She has beer
/ doing work the past two years as mat
ron Of an Indian school located at Ba-
4 cone, Indian Territory. Her physician
has advised a rest for her. She is al
4 present staying with her mother at tht
4 home OF H. H. Hudson.
Belle Plainc.
4 A bulletin has been posted calling fol
bids for Jobs on the new Northwestern
4 road. Itscalls for eleven engineers. thu
lsame number of tlremen, fourteen con
ductors and eight brakemen. 1t /:
supposed that assignments will b.
made within couple of weeks, as APP
3iplications must be in by the 18th
Homegrown strawberries hay,
made their appearance and the pros
poets are good for an average crop. TIL
y If the hot dry weather continues it ma,
cut the crop short. Fruit growers sa
!, that the cherry trees are shedding
!. much of their fruit and that the GRO
. lis liable to be small.
Nevada.
The teachers in the city schools ar
taking advantage of their vacation
Miss Heiber has returned to her HON
!, at Cedar Falls, Miss Muhs to hers a
I Camanche, and Miss Patton to hers i
Marshall county. John Larson will &
into the real estate business for job
Il H. Boyd. Professor and Mrs. Lamso
will start Thursday for Colorado t
! visit his mother. Other teachers vi
e get away later for excursions in othe
$ directions. The construction
Z the city library building has begun. tt
t concrete having been laid about II
Z cellar. and the foundation was starte
: Wednesday morning. Jay Du
n ton and family are quaranuned on Il