Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-01

his herd from one field to another and
drove them thru a clover patch, and the
popularity of the case is that the anil
mails one after another dropped dead in
their tracks, without a struggle, as they
were all considered to be in healthy
condition up to the time the change in
pasture was made.
Upton.
The Advertiser states that man from
the northern part of the county was in
town Monday who was inclined to take
a very pessmistic view of things be-
cause he was compelled to dig up 1926
for taxes on property he had forgotten
to list with the assessor. He loudly pro-
claimed that all the newspapers in the
state had been bribed to support the
business of tax ferreting and that
everything and everybody was corrupt
Anamosa.
According to the Eureka, the biggest
pickerel taken here in many years was
captured on q hook Wednesday by
George and Walter Stroud and George
Smith, about quarter of mile above
the lower iron bridge. He weighed fully
thirty pounds and was eight inches
longer than a flour barrel. A farmer
bought it for $3.50. the boys bringing
home the monster head as evidence of
their trophy. They caught eighteen cat
fish besides, weighing from three to
seven pounds each.
Indianola.
Mrs. j. j. Todhunter has a plan for
steming gooseberries, which will make
that particular fruit more popular when
the idea is known. To take the stems
off by hand is Il very slow and tedious
job and many housekeepers would
rather saw wood than to tackle basket
full of gooseberres. Mrs. Todhunter
can stem a bushel in about fifteen min
utes. She takes a common wire screen,
pours 1t full of gooseberries and gently
chases them back and forth with her
hands a few minutes and the stems are
gone.
Jefferson.
Bert Harrington harvested five hun
dred boxes of strawberries from his
patch" last Thursday, a pickup of
something over forty dollars from less
than an acre of ground. Cold weather
reduces the yield. After two terms
of Greene county circuit court almost
devoid of criminal procedure, the county
attorney is already confronted with an
array of seven cases for the August
term, all of which If indicted and con-
victed will be liable to penitentiary
sentence. And there are two months
more in which the list may be swollen,
says the Bee.
Mt. Pleasant.
w. P. Young, of Marion township, has
commenced suit in Ottumwa against
SHERMAN Bros, of Chicago, for some
$1,000, which he claims to be due him
for wool bought for the above-named
firm when he was acting as their agent
here last year. He bought thousands
of pounds of wool on which the Arm adj
vanced 90 cents per pound, the price he
paid the wool growers being something
like 90 cents. AT the time of the ship
ment wool had decreased in price and
| 1t is now stored in the big warehouses of
| the firm at Chicago and the firm refuses
| to pay the other cents. a lot of prop
erty of the firm was attached in Ottum-
wa by the sheriff. and the Silbermans
| at once put up an indemnifying bond
| and the property was released. The Sill
| Germans have branch house at Ottum-
wa and will fight the case.
Takes one back to where pleasures OF
| happy childhood are blooming. kindles
anew the pleasures of life. That's what
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