Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-13
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Mason City.
Indications warrant the belief that
Mason City will be the division point OF
the new Belle Plaine and Blue Earth
branch Of the c. & N. w.
.Onawa.
a census of Onawa, just taken by the
assessor, discloses a population of 2,0o5
persons, los dogs and 90 bicycles. Nine OF
the inhabitants are S0years OF age and
over.
sioux City.
Charles Wesley Mills, of Sioux Rap
ids, has flied a petition in voluntary
bankruptcy in the federal court here
He lists his assets at s14O and liabilities
at s3.0S9.15.
Iowa City.
I Louis e. Lyon and c. s. Ranck re-
turned from fine hunting trip in North
Dakota. While there they shot 15t
the hunt The most enjoyable in their en-
tire experience.
Manning.
j. j. Mcmahon has been reelected
principal of the schools at Manning al
a salary of 5000 for.the year. is un.
derstood that he will accept, so that he
will not be apt to take charge of the
Tama Democrat. of which he is the
owner.
Fort Dodge.
IS Hans Larson. 12-Sear-old lad living
with his parents on farm a few miles
north of Badger was brought to the city
Tuesday afternoon and taken to the
hospital of AIrs. Thompson and Miss
Wing. where he was operated on for APP
5pendicitis.
sCenterville.
Citizen, It'll: simultaneously With the
snow of today the first strawberries OF
the season We're placed on sale IN this
|city. The berries have fairly good APP
pearance. considering that they came
from far-away Texas. The boxes sell al
10 cents each.
Shenandoah.
q. H. Pitcher, living northwest Of the
city. Monday began Smelling 5000 bush
els Of corn and may shell %, 900 bushels
for delivery at the Anderson station.
for which he is to receive 80 cents per
bushel. That is corn enough to pay for
quite a respectable farm, gays the Sem
tlnel.
Cedar Falls.
A special election has been called al
Cedar Falls for April q to vote on the
question of bonding the district in the
sum of 100000 for the erection of tive
new school houses. The present build
5ings are all crowded to their utmost
capacity. and the Gazette says there is
not town in Iowa the size Of Cedar
Fails 50 poorly equipped with schoo
houses.
Belle PLANE.
+ TIE date for the formal opening of the
new Herring hotel has been set for Fri
day. May 4, and various committees are
now at work perfecting plans for the
grand event = That the Northwest.
ern Is not thru with Belle Plaine as a
railway center Is plainly shown by this
facts that its surveyors have been al
work for several days past laying OUT
additional yard room.
Clear Lake.
The beach along the front Of the
camp grounds is being decidedly i'm.
proved. The brush and scrubby trees
that grew On the ridge that divides the
beach proper from the road have beer
cut down and a force Of men are a,
work with teams and scrapers remov-
ing the ridge itself and grading up The
shore so that it will doubtless make one
of the most attractive beaches on the
lake.
Boone.
The quarantine was raised by the 10.
|cal authorities Wednesday afternoo,
from the home of Wesley Hardin in tn,
Fifth ward. All the members of tn,
family have fully recovered from tn.
smallpox and the health officer ordered
1.-THE quarantine removed. The house wa.
thoroughly disinfected few da.s agt
land such articles of wearing appare
clan deemed necessary.
Otumwa.
Ora Leavell. conductor for the OF.
tumwa Electric Railroad Company, me-
with horrible accident Wednesday af,
ternoon, as result of which his righ
leg will have to be nmputated below tn,
knee. Mr.. Leavell is conductor on cal
No. 80, and while on a regular trip stop.
ped at a grocery store on Finley avenue
When the car. returned Mr.. Leavell at.
tempted TO get on the front end and ii
doing so slipped and fell, the car passing
over his leg.
AlEona.
There is a well founded rumor tina,
Henry Rausch is figuring seriously OF
tearing down the Thorington hotel ant
removing 1t to another town, where h,
is offered $500 bonus. The Thoring:
ton Is an old landmark, and 1t would
look queer to see Its place left vacant
but there is no denying the fact thR
the building of the new hotel. with al
its modern conveniences. has made THU
picking for some OF those not 80 vel
equipped, Gays the Upper Des Molnes.
Nsv Sharon.
Star: johnson Lunt of Peoria proba
bly, takes the belt for the largest no,
ever mSrk eted u New Sharon. on Fri