Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-18
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

flame of fire and is a very pretty scene.
1t is estimated that there are over 1000
rosebuds, some of them being double
deck roses. The bushes are of the Grim
son rambler variety.
Sheldon.
Small grain is doing wonderfully we'll
and promises an unusual harvest unless
continued wet weather causes it to grow
too much to straw. Corn Is backward.
but such weather as we are now having
will bring it along splendidly.
Maquoketa.
Ira Current stole march on bis
friends last week and went to FIT Sheri-
dan, to enlist in the regulars. He will
be in the same regiment with Hunt and
Peterson of this city, who have now
earned the chevrons of sergeant and
corporal respectively.
Eagle Grove.
The farmers west of town are organ
ling a rural telephone company. They
will erect their own line IND connect
with the telephone company in Eagle
Grove. The expense for 100 phones will
be light and it looks as tho things you'd
surely go thru.
Council Bluffs.
Sheriff l.. b. Cousins took John Short
TO Clarlnda Saturday and placed him in
the state asylum there, 10 which place
the county board of insanity conmis-
sioners committed Short Friday. Short
accompanied the sheriff peaceably, but
declares that he will appeal his case to
the state board of c,eltrol.
'Swaleda1e.
The Record reports that considerable
real estate has changed owners within
- few days. The purchasers were Ilii-
rois men. G.. r. Wilhelm sold his 2i0-
acre farm for s55 an acre. Dale Harris
sold his 200 acres at $50. Mr.. Welker sold
j is 100 acres at $50, and the Whittle
farm south of town sold for $50.
Ananosa.
John Johnson about 10 years old and
son of the late James johnson, caught a
carp below the dam last Tuesday eve
ming Weighing seventeen pounds. This
Eureka understands that he and an
other boy We're SEEMING for minnows and
cornered the big fish with their little
net. 1t is the largest carp ever taken
here.
Clinton.
A fine stern wheel packet for tbs
Chester and st. Louis trade has passed
down the river on its way to St. Louis
where it will be equipped. 1t is only a
shell of a boat. having no machinery, OF
or wheel equipment. The name is to be
L. Il. Kennedy and the tug pushing ii
down is the little Helena. 1t was built
near Clinton.
Upton.
Mr.. John Lozier. who is here from Ok
lahoma. is civil engineer and has beer
assisting in the survey of the new terri
tory to be thrown open to settlers thi.
fall He says that while part of the
lands are worthless much of 1t is good
About ten ms n for every quarter section
are already on the ground expecting t
locate claims.
Sac City.
The Sun speaks of the work of the
Chicago Great Western In locatin q
preliminary line, and says. IF this pre-.
liminary line should prove to be an ac-
ceptable one, it will enable the Great
Western to locate their depot at about
the same distance from the business
part of town on the south as the c., NJ
q. 81 y den,,, is4tocataa, on tho norths,.
Sioux City.
Ihis year toeai Naiuatloh OF personal
properly IN sioux eits ior 'he purposes
OF ta3atioh Is tower 'hah it mas peen az
any other 'lille Tor more IMAM ten years
past. According to the assessment rolls
lust turned over to the county auditor
by City Assessor c. G. Wales the taxa
BILE valuation Of personally of all kinds
is s9s9.39l. as against sl.l1s56O in 1900
and sl,065.o42 in 1895, which was pre-
viously the lowest valuation for ten
years. The highest valuation was in 1882
when the amount was sa,s72,72l
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greater assurance that the people OF
Iowa City will do anything in the way
f Of financial aid than they had five years
before the project was contemplated.