Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-25
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

lhere were some people ready to opei
up saloons Eere When the other fellow,
had paid the expense and done the worl
of getting up the petition. These ar.
some of the reasons given and the Who'll,
matter has been given up.
Sac City.
The Morrison Produce Company i.
now employing from twenty to twenty
five men who are engaged in picking
chickens and other poultry. These mer
earn from So to $3.50 per day. according
to their efficiency They are turning GU
for shipment about 5000 pounds OF
dressed poultry every day.
Waterloo.
Another big land deal was CLOSED
Wednesday, showing the growing value
of Blackhawk county soil. Ed Null
laney. who was formerly a member OF
the board of supervisors sold his farm
In Fox township to a Mr.. Hood. The
farm consists of $40 acres and the price
paid was s75 per acre or $4,000 for the
property.
Vinton.
The repeated efforts of various indi-
viduals and organizations for the es-
Establishment of library seems at length
to be meeting with at least moderate
success. and the promoters Of the insti-
tuition can see a tangible result not far
ahead Seven clubs in the federation
have devised certain plans for starting
a library fund.
Ogden.
MIR. Erickson, south of town last Sat
urday when his boy had q leg broken
discovered the value of telephone in
his home. A doctor was called and on
the way to the place of accident, before
Erickson could have got ready to come
to town, some six miles. Erickson
does not want to give up the phone.
says the Reporter
Maquoketa.
A Standard adding machine has been
purchased by the county and now the
officials at the court house will no more
be forced to rack their brains over long
columns of figures. They simply sit
down before the machine and press the
button and the mechanis does the rest.
If the figures are correctly put down
there can be no error in the total.
Winterset.
A. b. Shriver has purchased of DIR.
Bennington the twenty-acre tract in the
northwest part of town, paying $4,000
for the same. He will lay it out in lots.
The city has needed more ground for
residence buildings for some time. and
this tract will afford an excellent OPP
to get cheap homes within
convenient distance of the square.
Terril.
The central school system adopted in
Lloyd township is giving excellent sat-
isfaction, according to the Terril Tri-
bune. This plan gives the children of
the entire township the game school
Teams are provided to
bring the children to and from school
and the expense of maintaining schools
thru out the township is done away
with.
Davenport.
The big job or rebuilding the walls at
The local plant Of the glucose company
Is we'll under way. The west wall is
the east wall is nearly done.
and work on the south wall will begin
The main building OF the plant
will be practically new and 1t will en-
Joy the distinction of having been built
without hinoering the operations that
we're going on within.
Traer.
E. E. Taylor sold the II. A. Kolp
place Monday last. eighty-four acres, a
nile north of town, at $50 per acre. This
around Traer. -. A. F. Tilton is meet
ng with hard luck in drilling we'll on
he Peter Schmidt farm, two miles
southeast OF Traer. he was down near
y 500 feet when the drill encountered
he hardest rock he ever struck. 1t
seems more like steel. He has been able
% drill only an inch in a day for several
lays.
sully.
Three cents per bushel is the ruling
price for husking corn In Tama county.
Harry Grove finished husking his corn
,rop last Thursday and reports $500
bushels from eighty acres. Pretty good
or dry year. there having been mol
ain for upwards Of forty days during
he corn growing season. The ma
oity of farmers hereabouts this week
inished gathering corn. The crop, the
country over, will average about thirty
I've bushels Feeders are now paying
IS cents per bushel but there is little
being sold, even at that price Gays the
ledger.
Perry.
Some six months ago Messrs. Ed and
rom Flood purchased the Ganey es-
ate of 220 acres southwest of Perry.
they got 1t for s55 an acre, which was
said to be low figure considering the
Say Dallas county farms have been
selling this sea son. Last Friday the
Flood boys had buyer for the place,
md he wanted it badly enough to pay
hem 81, 600 more than they paid for 1t.
rhe buyers name was Herman Werner,
IN Illinois man, and he will take possess
ion next spring.
efferson.
The Christian church of this city has
extended unanimous call to Rev. Fred
Aldnger, of Cherokee, Ia, to come and
erve them as pastor and that gentle
nan last week indicated his acceptance
f the call. Rev. Aldinger is young
nan of % years, unmarried, and in his
election the Christian people have fol-
owed out the custom which has pre-
allied With them in recent years of |
hoosing young preachers. The Bee
avs the new pastor is man of large
ducation and culture, and a brilliant |
peaker.
1ontrose.
This place has a sensational case
out of the fact that DR.. j. r.
anderson went off to Chicago with
irs Frank Sawyer. They separated
here, the women. 1t is claimed, going
0 Oregon. DR.. Sanderson returned of