Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-21
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.


and their flavor is very deliciuos, two
qualities for which commission men are
ever on the lookout.
Boone.
The work of drilling the new city
we'll is progressing rapidly and as sat
isfactorily as could be wished for.
The hole has been drilled to depth of
ninety feet and begins to show little
damp in the bottom.
Sheldon.
ing and reports 30 bushels of wheat per
acre. As bushels of oats and about 30
bushels of barley. Northwestern Iowa
heard from later on.
Grundy Center.
The opera house has been wired for
electric lights, the seats in the dress
circle are in place and a few days more
work will put the hall in shape for the
grand opening, which will take place
probably during the first week in Sep
TENDER.
Primghar.
b. HI. Gardner has force of men at
work setting poles and getting things
ready for the installing of the local
telephone exchange. Mr.. Gardner is
putting in the best of evrything and
promises one of the slnost satisfactory
exchanges in the county.
|Sigourney.
Deputy Sheriff D. d. Moore went over
to Ollie Friday and arrested Joseph
Dagle on a charge of bigamy. The
prisoner was taken before Justice d.
c. Baker of Ollie, and bound over to
the grand jury under bonds OF $4,000.
Failing to give bonds he was placed in
the county Jail.
Davenport.
George Pilgrim, who has been con-
fined to st. Luke's hospital in Daven-
port since he was run over by a train
on the morning of the great fire, has
returned to his home in Muscatne.
He leaves his right arm buried in Dav-
EXPORT it having been buried as re-
suit of having fallen under the wheels
| of freight train that he attempted to
board on West Fifth street.
lLeMars.
| Alex Demaray who farms in section
LIS in Washington township, Plymouth
county. brought some fine ears of corn
to the Sentinel Office as specimens of
what he is raising on his land. The
ears are large, with big sound kernels
and are we'll matured. He will have a
crop of corn despite the drouth, unless
a very early frost should supervene
and it will be more than thirty bushels
to the acre.
Humboldt.
Frank Gotch wrote his Humboldt
friends that he was having good success
in the Klondike. He won his wrestle
with the $50 pound Swanson, and
1 threw the Niger He Is now wrest-
ling for theatre company at 500 per
might, six nights in the week. The
company offers $500 to any man who
Frank can not throw in Is minutes,
and $1,000 for any man who can get a
fall out of Frank. So far he has not
failed to throw his man in four min
futes.
Dubuque.
Twelve biologists from the Univer-
sity of Chicago are in the city for the
4 purpose of making Investigations of
the rock formations in this vicinity.
Those in the party are: Prof r. d.
George; the Misses Hampton, Teffre.
Marsh; Messrs. Wood, Jones, Webb,
Bowen, f. ID. A. Fogle, John d. Wright.
William Averill and e. N. Trausean.
All wear maroon caps with the letter
&C" on them. The women wear heavy
shoes and leggings and short walking
skirts that enable them to climb the
steepest incline.
Ottumwa.
Charles Peach, second lieutenant,
Company G, Fiftieth regiment, Iowa
/ National Guard. has rendered his
resignation to Adjutant General Mel
vim II. Byers This step is taken on
4 account of Lieutenant Peach leaving
the state. 1t being his intention to
enter Leland Stanford, Jr., university,
Il at Palo Alto, Cal, at the commence
ment of school The members of
Company G regret to lose Lieutenant
Peach. He is one of It's most capable
i officers. Saturday ended his five years
service in the National Guard.
Iowa City.
The frescoing of the Presbyterian
church has been completed and the
interior will soon be ready for use.
i The appearance of the chuch is decid-
eddy improved, but the most noticeable
II features will be the new stained glass
i windows. These windows were de-
signed by Charles Morris, the frescoer
and manufactured by c. =. Blercher,
of Chicago. Part of them arrived Mon
day morning and are being put In and
the remainder viii be here in few
days. This entire set of windows is the
munificent gift of one of our most high
i ly esteemed citizens, but one who does
not like to have the fact of his giving
waited abroad.
i Altoona.
Altoona is destined to again become
one of the mining centers of Polk
county. Years ago two or three hun
bred miners made that their home and
the mines there produced a splendid
quality of coal. Water came In and
drowned out the company and the min
Ing population all moved away, and the
mining days become only as memory.
The Gibson Coal and Mining Co.. of
Des Moines. have been drilling for coal
upon the Mason farm just west of AL
toona, and Indications now point to a
speedy operation OF mines just west OF
town. This will give the town new
impetus and will mean much addi-
tional trade for the merchants of that
place. The Rock Island has plans I'M
4 der way to put in a side track at that
point. and the mine win soon open up
Newell.
The streets Of our city have pre-
Isented a busy and animated appearance