Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-28
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
--Your Old Home.

in the town at present. The improve
ments made this year have been prin-
cipally in the residence district, and
the dozen or more fine modern struc-
lures make splendid showing. Few
towns of 1000 population make $4,000
worth of improvements in one season.
Eagle Grove.
The work on the new high school
building is being rapidly finished and
when completed will be one of the fin
est high school buildings in this part OF
the state. - John and William
Curtis own farm of $50 acres in Day
ton township. This year they raised
10 acres of corn which Will run about
forty bushels 20 the acre. They also had
seventy acres of oats, yielding from,
forty to forty-five bushels to the acre
and two acres of potatoes which yielded
some 800 bushels.
Lake Park.
From the standpoint of getting a
turnout by the farmers. the gravel bee
was a genuine success as so teams re-
ported for duty. Nearly 400 hundred
loads of gravel We're placed on Market
street, and fully twice that number
could easily have been placed had the
facilities for loading been adequate.
Driver and supper for the crowd and
for all others who chose to partake
were served by the NJ. e. ladies to the
entire satisfaction of the most fastid-
ious, the net proceeds from the same
being about $50.
Sioux City.
L. Schoonoper, president OF the First
National Bank, of Anamosa. was in
Sioux City Thursday and wrote his
check for $4,000 in favor of the Sioux
City Stock Yards Company in final pay
ment for farm of 466 acres lying south
OF Thompson's grove along the Missouri
river. Mr.. Schoonover in the last few
years has bought farm land all around
Sioux City, and he is In the market for
more OF it. His belief is that Sioux City
is sure to become the metropolis of the
northwest and that the values of farm
land close to the city will continue to in
crease as long as the city grows, as stat
ed by the Journal.
Traer.
Goats are not popular animals in
north Tama. at the Spencer sale this
week twenty or thirty were sold and
they brought but $1.05 each. - George
Stoakes has lost nearly all his young
hogs of cholera, about 30 head.
Kahl Bros, near Mooreyille. are losing
their hogs of cholera. Ab5ur 100 have
died. $3.50 The Star-Clipper says: The
sale of Shorthorn cattle held by Mr..
Converse, in Humboldt county, soil of p.
s. Converse. east OF Traer. was a great
success. One animal brought s525. The
sale aggregated s11.245, an average Of
$71 per animal. Tama county boys know
how to raise good meat.
Sioux City.
Capt. w. S. Scott, of the United
States army. arrived yesterday from
Des Moines and swore into the military
service ten recruits who had been pro-
cured at the local station by Private
Tryon. Most of the recruits are young
men, some Of them having to secure
the consent of their parents Among
the recruits are Archie A. McNary. a
carpenter 81 years old, of Primghar;
Joseph j. Schubert, Of Dubuque, and
Samuel r. Lemasters, a section fore
man OF this city. Four of the recruits
will enter the coast artillery, going to
Fort Candy, Wash, and the remainder
will go to the Philippines.
Council Bluffs.
According to advices just received
from United States Senator Willard of
Omaha, who is at present in the east,
he has been approached by represent
SO ,,.,i 1rro n
who desire to purchase the old Union
Driving park in Council Bluffs. The
property. which comprises seventy
six acres and which lies between Fiji
teenth and Eighteenth streets and Az
enue G and the river levee, is wanted as
suitable grounds for the roundhouse.
machine shops, coach yards and coal
chutes, indispensable parts of the ter
minal OF the Council Bluffs extension
of the Great Western, which will. of
course, be III this city.
Anamosa.
The case of Andrew Thompson VS..
Niles & Waters has been reversed in
the supreme court. Thompson, who
and had $500 deposited in the bank.
w. y. IllUFaltI, flie PRISON Cleih,
drew the money without the endorse
ment of Thompson and stole 1t when
he skipped out. The case involved the
right of prison officials to collect
negotiable paper as to whether 1T
could be paid without the endorsement
of the prisoner. The lower court held
that they could. Under the ruling of
the supreme court. apparently. Niles
& Waters will be compelled to pay
the amount twice, with interest from
April. 1893.
DEMOCRACY AND PROHIBITION.
[Council Bluffs Nonpareil.l
The recent interview of Candidate
Phillips in the Sioux City Tribune is
very suggestive as showing the rela-
lions of prohibitionists to the democ-