Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-17
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| Centerville.
| Twenty-three students of the high
| school will graduate on the night Of May
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\ Washington.
| Prairie schooners going west again,
each with a WORTHLESS dog tied under the
hind Eek" and forty-leven children un-
der cover, remarks the Press.
Baxter,
The Great Western steel gang.
Numbering about forty men. is here.
Ilaying the new iron, and will probably
remain here a week or ten days.
Rockwell.
4 According to the Phonograph, Dan
| Catalan. the husky farmer. after plow-
ing 14O acres this spring, has finished
1 planting nearly l50 acres of corn. That's
the way to farm, boys"
Vinton.
Ninton's hero, Calvin Pearl Titus, who
was first 10 scale the walls OF Pekin,
will soon be here and Ninton and Vi
entity is making all possible prepara-
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Denison.
A couple of men who had been trying
TO Sell jewery around town We're taken
in charge by peace officers on Friday
lasu and after being examined were
given a limited time to get out of town.
Story City.
Messenger: A very painful and saf,
4 accident occurred yesterday when the
/ little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs II. f.
\ SEVERED fell from a little wagon upon
/ the cement walk and fractured her arm
4 at tn. elbow joint. The saddest par, o!
the accident is that she is apt to be
crippled for years and probably for life.
4 LeMars.
The graduating class from the LIE
Mars high school this year comprises
ten members The city schools viii
4 close on Friday. June Z, fer the long va
cation and Prof. a. II. Bigelow has an
4 nounced the date of the graduating ex-
ercoses in commencement for Thursday
:. June 6. In the class OF 1901 are eighi
girls and two boys.
Mason City.
i Plans have been received in the city
tor the new passenger station for the
/ Milwaukee road which is to replace the
old one. 1t Will be located northwest oi
the present station facing On Sheridan
street and viii be devoted to passpmgef
business only. 1t - 10 be 176xiO OF
pressed brick, with blue Bedford stone
trimmings, and the bids are to be open
ed May 18th
Newton.
The Journal states that twenty three
i years last Saturday, May II. four inches
of snow fell in Jasper county. Ii may bs
4 remembered that the season was a very
early one, and that all fruits were well
4 advanced. corn up, etc. Coincident with
this we have had frost here last SAT-
i urday. Sunday and Monday mornings.
/ The high winds drove all moisture OUT
4 of the vegetation. and 80 far as we can
learn the frost has done no damage.
4 Nevada.
The tax ferrets are still busily en-
gagged on the records al the court house,
They have up TO the present time UNI
4 carthed over $4,000 in back taxes which
has been paid into the county treasury.
| 1t is now estimated that by the time
| they have finished mat the total viii b..
/ In the neighborhood of $4,000. This is
much larger than was at first expected.
One wealthy person paid into the coun-
| ty treasury IN back taxes. one day last
Week, $l,4oo. as reported by the Journal.
Abba.
Ed Whited returned home from a
horse bsing expedition into northwest
crn Iowa on last Friday. While away
from home he was in number of inun-
4 cipalities where heating plants are es-
II t,Is II 4.
in an enterprise of the kind In Abba. OF
4 will become patron ii some other per-
sons will establish plant here. Ed
thinks that the projected electric lines
are all right, saysthe Union, but a heat
ing plant is equally as good for Abba
! property holders
Iowa City.
A tribe of genuine gypsies, keen-eyed
1 sharp-witted. dressed in the tattered
i greasy. picturesque toggery character
istic of their race, invaded Iowa City
4 Tuesday. They swarmed about the VAR
/ ious places of business and groups of
them could be seen drifting along the
i streets. laden with their spoils, chatter
ing together in the soft, liquid accents
of the Roumanian tongue. They are
|camped near by. and many a young
4 man and maiden, as Well as some older
4 people, will listen TO the wheedling re-
quest Just let me see your hand-I tell
i fortune.
Cedar Rapids.
Forty Krag -Jorgensen rifles will
shortly be shipped to this city for the
use of the members of the national
guard who will attend the school of In
struction which open here June TO- Adj
/ Gen. Byers is now at Rock Island in ar
i effort to secure an ordnance officer to
attend and instruct the boys in the u.s.
of the modern gun. The b.. C. r.
& n. officials had an interview with
i Mayor Redmond Tuesday afternoon In
regard to the persecution of the nes
1 men whom they have employed to take
the places of those who walked out ter
weeks or SO ago. They desired that ar.
4 engagements be made for the protection
of the men. They think that there
should be nothing approaching the ma
ture of mob allowed on the streets OF
Cedar Rapids. They aIso believe that
the new men they have employed ough,
to be permitted TO walk at will in ths
business part Of the city without per