Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-03
FROM ALL OVER low
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

The News reports that the mayor of
Boone, beginning on September i, will
raise fines for DRINKS and disorderlies,
because everything else Is going up in
price.
Ft. Dodge.
The board Of stockholders of the
cracker factory held meeting Satur-
day morning and definitely decided that
the capacity OF the factory should be
trebled Immediately.
Charlton.
George N. Mitchell, of Warren town
ship. is entitled to the prize for tim
othy seed this season, having harvested
SOB bushels of good seed for which he
received from G. j. Stewart & Co. the
snug sum of 1924.
Dubuque.
Reports from Finley hospital are to
the effect that John Miller, who was SO
terribly injured at Pawnee Bills show,
is recovering nicely and will not lose his
sight. He is now able to get up and be
around the hospital.
Red Oak.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Peterson and
John Shepard returned Tuesday norm
ing. They report most delightful time
thruout the period of their absence, but
come back more than ever convinced
THAT America is the best country OF
| them all. ~
keokul<.
Governor Shaw has paroled one OF the
Shuler store burglars, Frank Stewart
on the showing made that he is suffer
| ing with consumption and will die un-
| 1.xe no h hal
refrain from visiting saloons, and from
drinking intoxicants.
Ute.
/ The Stuart Lumber Co. has sold
| II corn harvesters to farmers in this
| vicinity this fall. II every machine cuts
| 100 acres that means 2200 tons Of ex-
ira rough feed for stock next winter
1t would seem that hay prices must
come down, says the Independent.
Linn Grove.
1 The Independent tells of on investi-
cation that has yielded similar results
elsewhere: ''Al Coats exhibited pc.
| tato vine to US this week which ne hac
pulled from his field. The vine was yer.
healthy looking, but Mr.. Goats informed
US that there was not single potato
large or small, in the hill from which
he pulled the vine"
clarinda.
Dr. Annie E. Burnett, who for severa
years has been one of the faithful assis
4 tant physicians at the state hospital a
this place, has resigned her position
She left last evening for Evanston
Ill.,. where she will visit for a few
weeks. From there che goes to Scot
. land for years study in her p,ofes
sion.
Sioux City.
Farmers and stockmen arriving II
Sioux City from South Dakota say tina
thousands and thousands of tons of ha,
are being stacked in that state RICH
now. Everywhere men are working il
the hay fields, and the amount of ha,
. which will be put up this year will yer.
greatly exceed the amount of any pre-
yious year.
Bows.
i Ben Pierce is making very EXTENSIVE
improvements on his fine farm north
east of town, and when they are com
pleted no tiller of the soil in FRANKLIN
county can boast of q better improved
farm. He is erecting a new stock ant
hay barn AKA feet; a new granar.
36x30; new mog house 60 feet long ant
IA feet wide, with floor of solid brick
i cresco.
There are some pieces of corn in How
ard county that will go fifty bushels
to the acre., but they are few and ia
4 between. The men who have them vii
be bloated bond holders before spring
according to the Times. B. P
Norton filled his silo last week will
i green corn stalks; corn is so dry is ma.
be safe to make ensilage of it thus earl!
in the season.
Rockwell City.
4 Work on the Touring mill is progress
ing nicely, and 1T will be ready to grint
wheat by September Is. TIL
falls Of the new school building are go
ing up, and it will probably be com
1 pleted by october i. Andrew
1 Wood & CO., will be ready to start thei
process plant in the new building b.
September /, and it will have a capacit.
of 5000 pounds Of butter per day.
Iowa City.
i Professor MacBride ana ro1i returned
last week from California. The pro
fessor has been in the northern part o
the state in the interest Of the stat
natural history society. This part of tn
state was assigned to him and ne ha
put in most OF his time during the sum
mer exploring this country. He returns
with several interesting subjects ant
specimens which he will study DURING
the year.
0skaloosa.
James Knott, resident of Ceda
/ township has a new method for hous
moving the proved successful as wei
as novel the other day Mr.. Knot
wanted to get his house from a poin
near the Neil Mccartney place to hi
property near Cedar. The distance wa
three and half miles and the tasl
seemed an imposslbility. Kott was equa
to the emergency, however. He harm
essed couple OF traction engines
hitched them to the house and had II y
| its new location after just TWO days
work.
lOttumwa.
4 H. j. Hults. thru his attorneys. hal
filed petition In the county clerk
office asking $1,000 damages from tn,
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail
road for injuries, alleged to have beer
received in wreck on that road. Mr.
Hults. in his petition states that he wa
passenger on defendants road July 80
1901, and that he was In wreck q
Kremlin, Okla. He alleges that he wal
thrown around the car and severely In
jured, and that he still suffers from tn,