Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-05
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Audubon.
VIII Rex liz rushing the work OF put
ing in the mains for the water works
system. A few more days OF good
Weather will find the job complete.
Keokuk.
The series of union meetings in which
several Of the city churches have Joined
or the past week, came to a close Sun
lay evening. The attendance was fair
Ind the interest good.
Nevada.
Mr., and Mrs NJ A. Tlllinghast and
daughter Bea left Monday for Guthrie
Center where Mr.. Tillinghast has pur-
chased the Pilgrim hotel business and
will take charge at once.
Rockwell.
The activity OF the grain market is
bringing the corn in at a lively pace,
and the congested pocketbooks Of the
producer makes him wear a pleasant
smile, says the Photograph
Northwood.
There is a case of smallpox ir the
Chinnow home in the north part OF
town. Strict quarantine measures will
be enforced and everything possible
done to keep the disease under control.
Fairfield.
The implement and vehicle business OF
Ward Lamson has been sold to D. F.
spratt and E. w. Haggard, of Farmer
City. Ill. This is the end Of one of Fair
ield's Oldest business houses. Mr.. Lam
son has been in business in this city
since 1s4s. and is now in his eighty sec
ond year.
Washington.
"Peeping Tom Is in evidence here
now. Several have seen ugly mugs
peel1ing in at windows o nights. A face
is never SO homely as when thus peek
ing. We may have to catch one and
send him to the Coventry. Well, shut
your blinds; at least pull the curtains
down. Don't look at the ugly cues, says
the Press.
Mason City.
w. e. Brice telegraphed his associates
here Tuesday that the fourth gusher
had come in on his Texas oil land and
1t is as big as any Of the rest and is es-
timated at 1000 barrels Other Ma
son City parties are interested with him
in this property and they are all strok-
ing their own dorsals with their own
palms. according to the Globe-Gazette.
Burlington.
Pedro Hulet. after suffering for over
month with frozen feet, passed away
at Mercy hospital Tuesday morning.
Before death the unfortunate man suf-
fered untold agony. He was employed
at the railroad construction camp near
Creston and on the night OF NovemiasS
2, both OF his feet were frozen. He was
45 years old and unmarried, his home
being Stronghurst, Ill.
Davenport.
N. K. Fluke, of this city, who is vice
president OF the Iowa State Horticul-
ture Society. will tell the society at its
annual meeting in Des Moines, Dec.
10, II, IL and 10, whether or not pecans
can be grown probably in Iowa. The
subject is In question form but will be
answered in the affirmative for Mr..
Flike has determined by the discovery
of pecan grove near Camanche that
they can be profltably grown here.
Clarinda.
About twenty prospective school
ma'ams took the teachers examination
before Superintendent Deater last week,
and every one passed. That Is the best
record made at any examination during
the six years that Mr.. Deater has held
the office of county superintendent, and
is quite contrast to the results of the
examinations during the last normal,
when one out Of every three who took
the examinations failed to Npass, as
stated by the Herald.
Upton.
+. H. Stoltenburg who was down to
Stockton last Saturday says that
party of surveyors We're engaged In run
ming a line thru that town for an cleo
trio railway which is to run from Dav-
export thru Durant, Wilton and Mos
COW to Upton with a branch line from
Moscow to Muscatine. AT any rate
such was the report given out by the
engineers doing the work. They
claimed that the road as outlined would