Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-18
VIVA I THE DOING
Affairs Of Iowa People Taking Place In Iowa
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blew the stair door open and the flour.
chest out OF its place, and then followed
the water conductor around to the cis-3
tern and proceeded to blow the top off
from this very necessary water ap-3
!pendage. Altho It seemed to be SO at
ltentive to things about the house. the:
occupants. the Misses Lane, escaped
without other injury than tirst-class
fright.
Alba
Typhoid fever prevails in Abba and
lsurrounding country. Among the cases
reported arc Mr.. Friedlander, Clare
Conner q daughter OF Hullum Scott
land a son OF II. w. Watson, north Of
the city. : r. o. Cramer's big sorrel
lhorse had an ailment in one of It's legs,
land doctor administered chloroform
to perform. On the leg. The horse did
not come out from under the influence
|of the chlorc form, and died The horse
was one OF the finest driving horses in
this county.
Jefferson.
The terrific electrical and wind storm
of Monday Right did a tast amount Of
damage in Greene county, buildings,
windmills, etc. suffering severely, but
The chief disaster being the nattening
lof "a. portion of the corn crop. 1t is inn
possible so early to tell how much of
the damaged corn Will be coaxed back
into perpendicular attitude, but many
fields are reported so badly down that
q recovery IS impossible. the roots be-
ling torn loose and partially exposed
Iabove ground. Much grain in the stack
lis reported Damaged.
Upton.
Work on the court house has been
suspended for week owing to a mis-
take in cutting the stone according to
1.-THE architects specifications. :
lStewar6 Sissell OF the county farm
Ishipped to the Chicago market this
week an extra fine load of fat yearling
]cattle averaging about l.l50 pounds.
Returns from the sale have not yet
lbeen received but good judges say they
fought to bring about $5.15 on the pres
lent market. AT that price they would
make a profit for the county of over
$500. Crops on the farm are fine and
1.-THE outlook is good for record break
ing yield OF corn.
Burlington.
The tearing down of an old business
structure known as the Carpenter store
brings out an interesting story OF build
ling S. years ago. Richard Howard, the
builder who put it up for Henry w.
4 Starr, is still living at the ripe age of 81.
An interesting feature of this transac-
Ition was that the builder did not receive
|any money for his contract, nor did he
lpay any money to the men he employed.
The reason for this was that there was
sIlittle or no money in Iowa territory in
those days. Mr.. Howard took his pay
4 in stove-pipe hats, suspenders cotton
batting. calicoes, ETC., and paid his men
with orders for the same kind of wares
Audubon.
The authorities here arrested ter
A town boys Tuesday ranging in age.
i from about twelve to fifteen years or
lcomplaint of the Rock Island employees
who charge them with climbing or
5Imoving trains. They seem to have beer
s|riding on the incoming and outgoing
passenger train as it, goes thru the
yards, and also riding in the cars while
s|they are being switched. AS they coule
2lnot be kept away any other Way. this
4lmethod was taken as the company die
mot want any accidents to happen. The
5lboys are bound over to the grand jury
Imost of them waving examination
slSeverat of them went to Jail until
bonds We're furnished.
Reinbeek.
Courier: This tale Of woe is TOLD
4 bout Two of Reinbeck's young 11er
{ who one evening recently called upor
1.-TWO young ladies at Grundy Center
4 Along about the small hours, when sub.
Y iects of conversation began to lapse
q and heavy eyelids and spaslnodic gapes
indicated seepinesa. one of the y. l.,s
4 arose and in regular ice-trust tones sug-
4 gested that one OF the said y. M. lea(
lin a word of prayer and that the othel
pronounce the benediction. The firs
d " m. passed the hint up without taking
lit. but the second caught on and il
about Is of a second thereafter twt
/. young men solemny strolled down the
|silent street, thoughtfully considering
4 the ways of life-and women. iva:
ever thusly.
VI Davenport.
Il Henry Helm, Davenport furniture
Idealer, has gone into voluntary bank.
a ruptcy, filing schedule of liabilitie.
amounting to ss,591.15, the list of credi.
tors numbering 60 or 40. These are off.
\ Get by a stock Of furniture valued al
. $500, book accounts Of $706.5O and some
Iother assets. There Is still plenty
lof pinkeye here. but the liveryman whose
horses have had Ii and got over it are
4 in position tocongratulate themselves
There are fewer stock cattle being
fed in this county at the present thar
4 there was a year ago. and less, prob.
Iiably, than has been known in years
4 Stock cattle sold az high as5cents las
q fall and farmers were unable to get an!
lat figures that would pay them to feed
A for the markets this fall The bes
q dressed beef is selling to the butcher.
& now at So cents, and while a few OF
4 them are killing, they are finding thai
the profits are so little that it hardly
lpays, says the Democrat.
story OF slave.
Il To be bound hand and foot for wear:
by the chains of disease is the wors
form Of slavery. George D. Williams. q
Il Manchester. Mich. says: My wife ha.
J. been so helpless for Ave years that sh,
could not turn over In bed alone. Aftel
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