Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-13


about 600 acres Of land. which he says
he could not have sold for above So per
acre when he came to the county seven
teen years ago. Mr.. Jenaon, the pur-
chaser OF the 200 acre tract. has Just
sold 100 acres for 80 per acre.
Oelwein.
4 The graduating class of the Oelwein
high school this spring consists of six
girls and three boys. H. w. HILL
man, was In the city Monday and met a
number Of our citizens relative to put
ting in a large planning mill here. The
probability Is that the mill will be pu.
in.
Hampton.
The Iowa Central has a force of men
at work grading and making park
south of the passenger depot The lawn
will be nicely finished off. with sub
stantial fence surrounding IT, and when
the work is completed it Will make an
Isaltogether different look in the appear
ance of things around the depot.
EstherviIle.
4 F. a. schaefer left Monday night for
/ Marshall county to get six shorthorn
COWS that he recently purchased. The
six cost him over $1,000 one bringing as
A high as $780, These viii be added 10
4 his herd of sixty shorthorns near
Raleigh, making it without any question
the best in this part of the state.
Jefferson.
The coming ten days viii see the bulk
of Greene county's corn crop under
4 cover of the soil. The season is not so
backward as was predicted after all.
- Rev. Merrill Eells has accepted a
4 call to go to Turtle Creek, Iennsyl-
wanna, as pastor of the Presbyterian
church there at a salary OF S1,400 per
annunl.
Sully.
4 w. N. Talbot has lost several head of
spring calves recently With a diseas'.
A that as yet has to be named The ani-
mails that have died all vert crazy, and
4 one in particular caused a great deal Of
trouble by running on an outside door
leading to the cellar under Mr.. Tablets
residence, breaking thru and falling into
the cellar.
Red Oak.
A large land deal is reported, where
4 by James and George G. Boileau dispoa.
OF $50 acres of land four and one-half
miles northwest of Elliott to II. n.
4 Moore for consideration CT S20sao, or
i S65 per acre. The Messrs Boileau take
as part payment the bank building on
the northwest correr OF the square at
$1,000. receiving the balance in cash.
4 Hubbard.
AS the Monitor writer was riding in
the country last Saturday he noticed a
rumber of large barns in course of con-
! etruction. Our farmers have been Very
prosperous for the past three or -four
FEARS and they are making every effeit
Ito have more convenience orstheir farms
4 for their stock and crops New farm
4 structures are . TO / more in evidence
than town structures.
Des Moines.
\. The following smallpox cases We're re-
4 ported to th- health department. en- tile
9Th: Mrs II. McI4aurin. ~ Schoc,
street; j. w. and Walter Mcpherson.
Edward and Tom Tooley. East Twenty
/ fourth and Court avenue; Ora and Flor
4 ence Hurlson. 515s Fifteenth street
. Clarence Warmer, 1889 Pennsylvania av-
enue; Paul and Blanche Traverse, Sew
enth and Raccoon streets.
Waterloo.
f. D. McIlravy, who has been assist
school during the past year has been
a elected superintendent of the schools at
/ Milo, Iowa. and has accepted the place.
4 The Reporter says MIR. McIirayy has
i been valued member of the corps of
4 instructors in the schools Al Waterloo
4 and there will be Very general regret
i that he s 70 leave this city.
4 'Tama.
4 The city council is wisely consider
ing the question of the installation of
Ia hoss cart and 500 feet Of hose in Il
Ihuilding to be erected in close ploxirn-
Inty to the public school building. That
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churches and homes in the residential
portion of the city mas long beer con-
4 coded, says the Herald.
Burt.
4 Word from Minnesota says that
4 Charles Miller had bad luck in MOVING
10 the northern part of that state. HIS
/ furniture and horses We're put into the
i same car, and strong partition was
y built between. The cars were joEted 50
i much. however, that the PARTITION brok
4 a great deal of the furniture destroyed
and the ribs of the horses We're broken
Las reported by the Monitor.
Mason City.
4 1t is quite likely that the Brooks case
4 Will come up for trial at this tertn.of the
district court, Mrs. ID. A. Brooks. OF
Goodell. was in this city we think in
1899, to attend the Buffalo Biil Wild
West show. In going TO the grounds in
4 the west part of tnecity she fell. caused
as is alleged in tbs petition, from dc-
fective sidewalk She was quite badly
hurt and she sles the city for damages
to the extent, We think, of 81 200.
Newton.
Several car Loads Of poles and gang
of twenty-five workinen arrived this
+ week. and under the direction of Con-
tractor Otto Wettstain, of LaPorte, IND,
The work of the Jasper County Tele-
phone COMPANY is being pushed rapia..ss;
forward. They have about 200 sabsclib-
4 ors in Newton and expect soon TO have
a toll line reaching % every town in the
4 county, giving correction also to tie
/ farmers all over jasper.
/ Council Bluffs.
The contract for the Council Bluffs
1 Rowing Associations new club house
I has been lei and the ground is already
broken The workinen are now em-
ployed in laying the foundation and the
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