Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-12
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

i entity, with four families now under
Quarantine. The cases are all very milo
and no serious results are anticipated
|Crcsco.
Corn and corn fodder in Howard coun.
lty is nearly all in the crib and stack
People are going to learn more about
the value Of corn this year than ever
before.
4 Creston.
Jake Cherry, deputy clerk of the fed
eral court, is receiving quite number
Of cases for filing at the next term OF
court, which will convene the fourth
Tuesday in March.
|Northwood.
The smallpox patient is doing nicely
He is pretty well covered with erup-
tons, but is feeling we'll and bids fail
4 to make complete recovery. No new
cases have been reported
Iowa City.
/ Republican: Hon. H. w. Lathror
leaves today for Sioux Falls. S. d. Iowa
ICity regretfully loses one of Its Oldest
and most dearly beloved citizens. and
with him go the best wishes Of myriads
of friends.
Rockwell.
| John NJ. Larson was over from Bur-
chinal Wednesday and made the Phono-
graph a social call. Said he had 1000
bushels Of corn from fifty-acre field
and thought that a pretty fair crop for
a year Of pessimistic failure.
LeMars.
The l2-year-old boy Of Thomas Keen,
residing twelve miles west of town, was
Cal r<joy fo,
gical treatment. While riding a pony he
was thrown into wire fence and both
his hands were badly lacreated, the
main artery on one Of them being sew
cred.
Fort Dodge.
The bridge department OF the Great
Western railway is preparing for the
erection OF a number OF bridges which
will mark the progress Of the work on
the new Omaha and Sioux City extern
sions, and also on the repairing OF the
line of the new Fort Dodge division to
Hayfield.
Shenandoah.
Ell! Oppenheimer has purchased the
home place of Elias Smith. 800 acres,
eight miles northwest OF Shenandoah,
paying therefor $40 per acre, the total
being s25.200. In the meantime he Is ne
gotiating for farm nearer town. He
still has over half section Of land In
Prairie township.
Marengo.
Samuel Nicholson, residing west OF
town, Tuesday received a message from
Leroy, Kas., stating that his son Sam
had mysteriously disappeared. Later
came another dispatch stating that he
had been found dead, but gave no par
itculars. The young man wae about 26
years of age, the Republican is told.
Carroll.
Nightwatch Buchhols. OF Arcadia.
who was shot shome time ago by the
bank burglars, was brought to the hos
pital here last week that his wounds
could be dressed more readily and he
could be looked after better. He is im-
proving steadily and If nothing unfor-
seen occurs he will soon be well again.
Council Bluffs.
Addison Brown, an implement sales
man at Carroll, on Monday filed petit
ton Of voluntary bankruptcy in the fed
eral court, his liabilities which consist
OF personal accounts endorsement OF
notes and Judgment on notes for imple-
ments which he has received amount in
ali to s25.s73. His assets amount to So
0S5.41.
Leon.
An artesian well has been bored at
Leon to q depth of 500 feet and an mex
haustible supply Of water struck in
bed of white sandstone. On the way
down three veins of coal were pierced,
the first being 20 inches thick, the Sec
ond feet and the third IA feet. The
depths at which the coal veins were en-
countered are 230 feet, 81 and 405 feet.
Clarinda.
S. S., Earnest and Walter Lingo, Of
Norwich, returned Friday morning from
Chicago. where they had been with thir-
teen car loads Of cattle which they had
beer feeding the past year. They were
in great luck in hitting the market just
right, getting in on Wednesday, which
was an unusually light day as far as
receipts went, and in consequence they
got top prices. The shipment brought
in between $4,000 and $4,000.
Emerson.
G.. w. Pierce got 1900 bushels Of corn
4 very good crop considering the unfa-
vorabie season. A number of farmers
around Emerson report yields of about
orty bushels per acre. The good price
more than makes Up for the shortage In
rop, and with forty bushels per acre
he crop amounts to over $50 per acre.
is not very often that corn crop
mounts to as much as that.
1ontezuma.
Arrangements have been perfected in
i7is city for the purpose OF manufac-
ring telephones switch boards and
tner Supplies in the telephone business.
ince d. G. Bell. the Central man OF this
ty has been here he has constructed
rye number of the phones now in use
n the Interior line, and they have given
neral satisfaction. He can construct
en- at much less cost than they can
purchased from the big factories, and
has interested a number Of our best
tizens in this new enterprise. For the
esent the company will occupy the
,,th half of the laundry building, but
it is expected that in the spring new
lex building will be erected on the A.
McGill lot.
tumWa.
tufus F. Dana gains two votes as a
suit of the recount Of the vote of
ans township, in the contest now
ing on between himself and D. r.
isman, the democratic contestant for
Office of county treasurer. The Off
II returns of the vote of Adams town
10 for treasurer gave Dana II and