Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-11
Affairs Of Iowa People Taking Place In Iowa
Towns.
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects as
Reflected in the Iowa News.
papers.
The News Of Iowa From Hundreds
Of Different Towns and Com.
munities.

Eagle Grove.
Nineteen young people recently grad
suated. The class motto was, BE Your
Ain Sell"
Creston.
Sheriff Joe Miller brought a load of
wool to town Thursday from his farm,
which he sold for s5o0.2o.
Oeheyedan.
Press: The epidemic in the Fix FAM
lily northwest of town has been dag
nosed as chicken pox by the sibley ply
sicians.
Roland.
The Ladies' Cemetery Society has pur-
chased new iron fence for the Roland
cemetery. 1t is very handsome one,
says the Record.
Cresco. 8
Building operations in Cresco still
continue to fiOurish--more than twenty
new buildings are now in process of
construction, with more to follow.
Oelwein.
It seems that the long-talked OF B.. G.
r. & N. passenger depot is to be built
this summer. 1t is planned to place the
freight depot south of Jefferson street.
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Teril.
Some OF the carpenters are here watt
4 ing for the lumber for the K. c. elevat-
or that is to be erected at this place.
This makes the third elevator, and the
fourth is talked of.
Greenfield
A young son of Mr.. Barnes who
Hives short distance from Greenfield,
was bitten by rattlesnake last Fri
day. A doctor was called and the child
4 is getting along nicely.
Odebolt.
! Peter l.. Larson has purchased the
| Tom Smith farm of sixty acres adjoin-
1 ing town on the southeast: considera-
ton, SO per acre. Mr.. Smith paid s5t
per acre for the land two years ago.
i Ottumwa.
Thirty-one young women and twelve
young men We're presented with certifi-
4 Gates of graduation from the Ottumwa
thigh school at the twenty-sixth annua
commencement exercises at the Grand
,|8Opera House Thursday evening.
Clear Lake.
Il The bis $4,000 light dynamo has beer
4 set up in the electric light station ant
A the engine is being put in as fast al
y poasible, and the new plant will be II
operation by July LIST, nothing happen
Il ling out of the ordinary to prevent.
Bows.
The Dows Advocate says that durin
the past five years four men who live
on the H. "A. Williams farm, north Q
that place. have been sent, in turn. I
the penitentiary. If Charles kuske
y who is now in Jail on serious charge
S is also sent he will be the fifth.
! Carroll.
John r. Leighty has received wor
7 that he has been promoted from road
master with headquarters at Carroll I
!, the civil engineering department. at Chi
! Icago. This is cheering news to Mr.. an
n Mrs. Leighty, tho they will regret t
!. give up their residence in Carroll.
], Sac City.
) Adj. Gen. NJ. II. Byers. Of De
Moines, arrived Wednesday evenin
from Cedar Rapids and at the coul
i. house mustered forty-nine men into tn
Iservice OF the Iowa National Guard 8
E Company NJ Flfty-second regimen
$ Over dozen applicants We're di.
j. and few who passed declined to be mus
e tered in.
! Spirit Lake.
Beacon: Fred Gilbert has been u goo
. deal under the weather since he can
home two weeks ago. He was sick twit
while away, and in this condition
make the great shooting record he d
Twas the wonder of all sporting exper
lence Fred is now unquestionably II
best all-around shot in this countr
His great record-his steady, stron
! works largely due to abstemious hal
= Its and regular hours and steae
nerve.
Alden
!. Times. The Congregational churc
: when moved out over the excavatic
!. 4 into which it Is to be lowered, and SUI
. 4 ported on cribs Of secondhand railro;
: ties was one Of the spookiest lookir
:. sights Imaginable. The workmen Iii
!, derstaad their business all right ar
can be depended on, but a large churc
: steeple and all. standing on a few cri
\ twelve feet high built after the fashi,
=, of a boys cob house hae a most unce
tain appearance.
Jefferson.
:. At meeting Of the city coun,
Tuesday evening an ordinance vi
passed for the purpose Of controllil
} drunk and disorderly persons in o
municipality. Up to this time there h
been no ordinance, hence. when thr
drunks were run in last Friday they hi
to be taken before a justice of I
peace. and the fine Of IS each went
he the state. IF there are any penalties
OF this line let the municipality have I
be benefit. II takes money to gravel o
= streets" says the Souvenir.
Belle Plaine.
A gentleman from the southern pa
of the state was in the city the first
= the week looking up location for
y fish farm. He Is an extensive raiser
4 gold fish and HE business having OF
grown his present farm he Is looki
for u new field. The business requires
peculiar arrangement Of the land a
an effort Will be made to find SON
q. thing suitable for him. He wants
~ build a series of artificial ponds vi
p dams and other arrangemncts for ra
N ing the fish and wants about eigt
N acres Of land for his use.
y Colfax.
A Colfax lady. who resides ],
southeast OF the city limits, was 8,
prired the other morning to observe
commotion among the birds IN sha
tree near her home, and upon investil
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