Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-23
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
--Your Old Home.

for period of fifty years unless sooner
dissolved; and it may be dissolved
whenever the membership is reduced t.
seven. The principal object of the asso.
citation is to give all the assistance pos
sible to members while sick and to bury
them when they die.
Titonka.
Last Tuesday was poultry day In
Titonka. There was at least a dozer
buyers on the streets offering all kinds
OF prices ranging from 6 to n cents
The turkey market was good and the
prices paid by our merchants We're az
high as any surrounding towns. Severa
hundred turkeys were purchased.
LeMars.
The figure of justice to be placed on
the dome CT the court house when 1t is
completed arrived Wednesday from Sa-
LIN, O. It is thirteen feet high and
weighs 500 pounds. 1t represents fe-
male holding in her hands the scales OF
justice. It will be placed on the peak OF
the dome, which is los feet from the base
of the building.
Bows.
Postmaster Smith las received in
structions from the the postoffice de-
partment to start the four rural delivery
routes from Bows on Feb. l, next. This
will be good news to the farmers who
have waited long and patiently. The fol-
lowing will be the carriers: Fred Smith.
Of Vernon; George Carter, Alfred Femme
and Clarence Smith.
Story City.
The Herald says: "a large number of
men arrived in Story City on Friday OF
last week to work on the Chicago &
Northwestern track at this place. Con-
siderable work is being done on the
track south Of town In the way of filling
in and raising the roadbed. No doubt
this branch line will be made just as
good as the main line eventually"
Council Bluffs.
The ice harvest is on, and by the first
of next week it Is expected that every
ice dealer and contractor in the city
will have a full force Of men at work.
The cutting and packing of the ice gives
employment to about 1000 mon In this
city for two months. Ice is a foot thick
on the river and lakes and the harvest
gives promise Of being the best for
years.
Spirit Lake.
A farmer passed out fifty dollar
bill in a Spirit Lake store the other
day to pay for some purchases. Pretty
soon he returned and declared a mis-
take had been made in change-that
he should have received change for a
ten dollar bill instead of fifty. The
times are right cheerful when a farmer
fails to miss fifty dollar bill, says
the Beacon.
Keokuk.
w. L. Walton has filed petition IN
the district court asking for divorce
from Ellen Walton, to whom, he waf
married on Feb. II, 1897. They lived to-
gether as husband and wife until about
Sept. Is, 1901. He claimed that he con-
Quoted himself as a true and loving hus-
band and charges that she was guilty OF
adultery and OF cruel and inhumar
treatment.
Clutter.
The Clutter Saloons were indicted
this week. and the three keepers were
each fined 5000 and costs. which they
paid. This is the first time
they have been molested since the town
started, and it is said one of them
caused this action. He was willing to
take a dose of the medicine himself
for the satisfaction Of seeing his two
competitors fined, as stated by the
Traer Star Clipper.
Laurens.
The two fellows who are doing the
duck picking act at Hakes' poultry
house are experts at the business. Last
week the two cashed a check Of $64.9t
for their weeks work. That firm Is do
ing great business this winter and are
furnishing work for large number OF
men at good wages during the winter
months. That poultry house is not only
a good thing for the managers, but for
the town also, says the Sun.
Conrad.
Editor Alexander OF the Record has
been visiting the Charleston exposition
and writing of the many interesting
sights. But better than all else that
Charleston has to offer us as visitors"
he said, was the splendid hospitality
of her people. They could not do
enough to make our stay pleasant, and
we left the beautiful southern city
carrying with us grateful hearts and
tender remembrance of our new found
southern friends
Ackley.
The World says: "A new practice of
disposing of properties seems to have
sprung into favor. Selling eighty-acre
farms and town residences at public
have confidence in the public's ability to
recognize valuation, and willingness
to pay the price, or else Willingness on
the part OF the owner to make the sacri-
flee. The Beving farm is to be sold this
way; the Breuning property was dis
posed of in like manner"
Traer.
The work of securing funds for the
proposed new Methodist church is pro-
crossing encouragingly. About $4,000
has been pledged, and many of the
members and friends of the church have
not yet been solicited. So Mrs. j. G.
Safely and family received a Christ
mas box containing sixty-five pounds
of almonds, English walnuts and figs,
all grown in the Santa. Clara valley,
near San Jose, Cal The valley is said
to be the most fertile in the world.
Newton.
Newell F. Walton, of Baxter, was in
town Tuesday and told that he had sold
his old home farm. and would start
within a few days, accompanied by Al
fred Davey. for northwestern Arkansas
to take up new home. He has lived in
Jasper county for about thirty years.
and the Record says it will be no easy
matter for him to break loose from his
old associations; but he feels that he
wants 10 live IN warmer climate and