Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-30
The NEWS FROM HOME
What Iowa People Are Doing in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.


comprises the counties OF Plymouth,
Sioux, Lyon and OBrien. The showings
of birds, some coming from a. consider
able distance, was very fine and one of
the strongest ever made in northwest
Iowa.
Mason City.
| Mr.. NJ " Wise issthe FIRST man to do
business over in the military division.
He has broken ground, started cellar
Land is getting in readiness to erect a
lresidence. There are number plan
lining to build In this addition this ssa-
son
Dubuque.
The jury in the case of Pfeiffer vs.. the
lefty, in Judge Matthew'S court, returned
q verdict for defendant Plaintiff, who
alleged that he slipped and fell on an
1 icy sidewalk, sued to recover $1,000 for
personal injuries, alleged to be pernla-
nent His attorney will attempt new
trial.
keckuk.
The keokuk Canning company has
filled articles Of incorporation renewing.
Amending and substituting for the old
Zones which expired by limitation in De
lscember The capital stock is $100U0O
and the life of the corporation is now
lstwenty years 1T was organized origin
| ally on December 81, 1880.
| Denison.
August Odefy who, in drunken
iifrenzy. recently drove his wife out of
| the house, after beating her and throw
ing IA pailful of cold water over her, was
FURNISHED by a fine of ten days on the
iicounty wood pile but refusing to work
was placed on diet of bread and water
for similar period. His punishment
is regarded as very mild.
Ottumwa.
| Two deeds one for $4,000 and the
other fer $4,000. were filed in the Office
| of County Recorder George III. Smith at
THE court house Monday. They repre-
scented the transfer of certain lands in
4ADpanoose. Lucas. Marion and Wapel-
10 counties from H. w. Bishop special
lsmaster comm ssioner to Lewis " F.
Randolph. Thomas Hitchcock and
George n. Prentiss.
Mapleton.
Two dealers in dead cholera hogs
from Woodbury. county named Allen
and Campbell suffered a fine of So and
costs in Justice SCOTS court on the sd
for violating the law in regard to haul
ling deceased hogs thru the country.
They came into town the previous eve
lining from the north With TWO oads,3 of
dead hogs and camped over night in the
lower end of town. Their arrest soon
followed. The dead hogs We're burned
by the town marshal.
Beaman.
Henry Eberhardt is taking advantage
of the mild weather and pushing the
work on the new hotel. to take the place
Isof the one burned. Masons are at work
| on the foundation, lumber is, being pileG
lupS around tre corner until the old hote
site has become the iveiest place Ii
ltown. The new structure will be quits
q help to the appearance of the business
district and Will be the only two story
lsbrick building in town.
Council Bluffs.
The contract for miscellaneous re-
pairs and painting TO the government
lspostofIicc building has been awarded TO
| Vincent Battin and the firm of Lemon
& Son. Vincent Battin gets the contract
FLOR the Wood Work al S4 $50, While
Lemon & Son get the contract for the
lpainting at s1.5l3 Arrangements
are being made for a series of union
Temperance meetings to be held in this
lefty the early part of March. The meet
lings Will be under the auspices Of the
ministerial association, and will be the
most sweeping. perhaps, ever held in
the city
Belle Plaine.
AT a meeting of the school board Sat
IL
the voters at the coming election which
occurs Monday. March III, to give the
board authority to issue bonds TO the
buying the sites for the erection OF two
school buildings in the Second ward.
one north and the other south of the
lings thereon. 1t is understood that each
of the buildings will be of brick. two
stories high. and of two rooms each,
rooms may be- added to each building
school ROOM
Mt. Pleasant.
Aman who has done we'll in the west.
in which this city and county are inter-
ested is F. u. Halloran, who now resides.
on "Piety Hill" in this city, and Who
Will soon move TO the fire Ely farm of
500 acres in anBuren county. for which
he just paid over $4,000 in clean cash
His wife was, formerly Miss Nina Spry,
a sister of Harlan Spry. and he met her
some fifteen or twenty years ago. when
she was with Charles Swan and wife
on ranch in Wyoming, where he was
employed as cattle man. They Were
married and he took up a small claim
and went into the cattle business, which
prospered to such an extent that he now
owns n half section of fine Iowa land.
Sac City.
Sac City may have a fine library
building erected this summer on the lot
owned by Asa Platt, at the corner of
Main and Seventh streets When the
offer of 5000 for school library was
made by a gentleman residing in north
west Iowa, Mr.. Plat concluded 10 an
nounce a plan he had been considering
for a long while. a meeting OF the Pro-
gress Club a literary organization. was
Iheld at +, ~ Bailey's residence last
Thursday evening. to consider the feas-
Utility of raising $500 to secure the. $500
for a school library. AT this meeting
the greater offer of Mr.. Plat 10 donate
the lot worth Sl.50o and to give $1,000 In
cash. II the rest of the citizens will
raise $1,000 in cash for free public IL
brary. was made public. d. 2. Hallett.
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