Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-28
The NEWS FROM HOME
What Iowa People Are Doing in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.


case are not of the kind that give up or
lie down., but with rare tenacity they
are clinging to their work. Detectives
Swift, Clark and Buchanan We're in the
city Tuesday, again over the old famil-
lar ground, with eyes wide open II
they discovered anything, with firmly
set jaws they imprisoned the knowledge
of their find
Shenandoah.
u. s. PRIEST has bought the Mount
property on Main street and will erect
on it the Taylor property, which he re-
Gently bought, large double building.
Mr. Priest paid $4,000 for the Mount
property. The First National Bank
and Albert Sullivan will also erect a
building adjoining that of Priest s. This
will fill the gap left by the recent fires.
Washington.
j. "A. Beck and our ex- cashier Henry
S. Clark Will buy Rest Island in Lake
'Pepin, los acres, two hours from st.
Paul, and a mile from Lake City. 1t
has been a. summer resort for years and
has many nice cottages on it, but the
hotel was burned some time ago. They
Will erect fine modern hotel on 1t and
make 1t one of the best summer resorts
In southern Minnesota.
Council Bluffs.
Henry La Pedi's little boy was badly
bitten by a dog Tuesday afternoon
while on Broadway near the coraer of
Sixth street The dog snapped at the
little girl of Frank Sellers also but he
did her no injury. The dog belonged to
VIII Martin, a hack driver The brute
sunk his teeth in the little boy: side
and inflicted a dangerous wound He
was taken to his home after the dog
had been beaten off.
Sibley.
A large audience filed Emmert,s OPP
era house Tuesday evening to hear
President II. IA. Seerley of the Iowa
State Normal school. on the Spirit Of
True Education. The Osoeola county
Teachers Institute, numbering 125, at
tended. Music by members 81 the in
stitute and citizens preceded the lect ure
Prof. Storm, Mrs. Mitchell, Prof. John
sun, Mrs I.ongley and Superintendent
Redmond are making the institute sue
cessful
Oelwein.
AT recert meeting Of the school
board Miss Florence UmbargeH Of Ode
bolt a student in the state normal
school. was elected to fill the vacancy
caused by the death Of Mrs Mckinley
in the primary room OF the central
building. - Mrs A. G.. Lord, a the r.
q h. restaurant, has leased the MiIders
three story brick building on South
Frederick street and will open a hoteI
there the first of the month. The frs;
floor, now used for an opera house, will
be parttioneG off into kitchen, cafe and
dining room. The house has about
thirty rooms. and will make good hotsl
accommodations
Audubon.
The closing Out sale of the Aberdeen.
Angus herd of cattle belonging to Cflas
Fischer & Sen, of Botna. this county.
held at Dexter park, Chicago. recently
VAS q record breaker says the Rspuh-
lean. They had IT, head in the sale
but they disposed Of only 143 The ami
mails disposed of sold for s6e, 0oo. am av.
Eerage of s4sl per head This average
The papers say, isss The greatest average
ever attained at a public sale in A.nsr'i.
ca. Individuals have sold at higher
prices than We're reached by the Fischer
cattle, but no sale has reached such
uniformly high figures The cattle mus,
have been a very even lot Of best Gual
sity.
Sock City.
Four new cases of the smallpox Were
discovered Tuesday afternoon by DR.. A
C. Phillips, he city health officer. and
as a result the whole Oemig row. ii. Pa
svonia street, has been placed ande,
quarantine. Eight families are shut vi
in their homes and are not permitted IL
leave under the penalties prescribed By
the law. Even DR. q. j. Ross is con-
WINGED that one Of the cases is genuine
smallpox. the first one that he has dis
covered In this city. Dir. Phillips states
that all the cases are quite pronounced
and he proposes to follow the most Sc
we're measures of quarantine and isoa
ton hereafter to prevent further spread
of the disease.
Dubuque.
Arguments on the application of tho
receiver for the old Iowa Iron Works
Matthews at the Monday forenoon see
sion of his court. The bank wants a re-
se!.'e.: appointed to receive the money
recently paid to the Iowa Iron Works
Company and which was held back as d
penalty fer rot completing the Torpedo
boat Ericsson on time. The company
yves the bank and the latter wants l.
get the money paid by the government
The old plant was sold under a mort
gage held by the bank, for $4,000 which
was not enough by s12 900 TO satisfy the
mortgage. Decision has not yet beer
rendered.
Fl. Madison.
Fort Madison has been at last invaded
by smallpox. altho there is at present
only one case of it, However, there have
been large number of exposures and
many people of the west end of tbs. city
are fearing an outbreak. Reuben Iutes
the janitor of the Union avenue build
ing, was taken down With sickness
about TWO weeks ago. and local ply
Stefan treated the case as chickenpox
But neighbors thought it was smallpox
and at their instigation a member of the
state board of health was sent for, DR.
Scrogsa of Keokuk coming up to pro-
nounce Ii that dreaded disease The
place i, on Des Mcines street AMI has
been quarantined, but the school chill
ldren may possibly have been exposed,
However all We're vaccinated recently
Sac City.
Sac City may get the much-needed
first class new hotel this summer. a