Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-24
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doinps of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

80 and Saturday there were probably
200 registered. Taking into this consid-
Grafton those that are going to take spe-
oial work and those that have not yet
taken the examinations will make the
total enrolment something above l,oo0
easily. The president expressed himself
US satisfied that the enrolment would
reach sixteen hundred.
Council Bluffs.
Joe Regell, 12-year-old boy from Ok
lahoma City, was at the police station
Saturday awaiting a reply from his par
ents to telegram sent by the police no.
t,fying them of his whereabouts. He ID
bright boy, we'll dressed and says his
father is in the grocery business at Ok
lahama City. He says he ran away
from home and was anxious to retrace
his steps.
Eddyviile.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. and Charles L..
Phillips arrived from their late home in
Dawson on Tuesday. The two brothers
went to the Klondike four years ago.
While they entered gold claims. which
were fairly rich in the precious metal,
the short seasons made them unprofita-
lie to work, and they turned their atten-
ton to merchandising, in which they
have been successful.
Dows.
Landseekers from Illinois, who stop off
at this point, have an idea that good
Iowa farms can be bought at from $40
10 $45 per acre. They do not seem to
realize that land values have raised
from $40 to SIS per acre the past year.
Good farms in the vicinity of Dows
range from $50 to $50 per acre. Some
well-improved farms are priced az high
as $50. Land is going up.
stanhopc.
The Northwestern is enclosing the
water tank at the stock yards with q
wall consisting of five thicknesses of
boards and building paper. This, 1t is
hoped, will keep the tank free from ice
during the winter months. The COM
pany is spending great ,!eal OF money
on improvements in the yards and about
the station at this place and 1t getting
its property in fine condition.
,Primghar.
The Illinois Central is putting down a
deep well on the depot grounds in order
to get permanent supply of water for
Its engines. The water tank at Mill
creek south of town has not been salts
factory, as the water supply Is limited
and the location is at the bottom oftwo
heavy grades. The work here is being
done under contract with deep well
outfit and an eight-inch hole is being
drilled. The contractors expect to go 400
feet
lLeMars.
DIR. w. O. Prosser arrived home from
Calgary on Monday evening and states
that the Canadian Pacific Railway
Company extend him the courtesies of
the road indefinitely and gave him 500
in cash as a testament OF their appre-
citation of his services at the recent
wreck. They also settled with r. S.
Kimmel for $50 and p. Kunkel for $25 for
injuries received. Johnson PembertoE
demanded 81, 500 for his injuries ana the
company offered him SIS and new hat,
and they have not yet reached an amica-
BILE settlement.
Muscatine. &
The Journal says: "Muscatine Is to
Rave q rummage sale. This a long-felt
want and the Ladies' Auxiliary Of the
Young Mems Christian Association rec
cgnize this fact and have resolved to
supply it.. Rummage sales are new
thing. 1t is only in the last few years
that they have been recognized as valu-
able money-makers. But they are not
only useful in that particular, but they
help the housewife to rid herself OF the
accumulation of years. things OF no par
ticular value to herself. but which might
prove very useful article to some one
else
Waterloo.
On Saturday a local drug company
was awarded contract by the Waterloo
free public library for furnishing 1000
volumes OF new books for sections A and
z of the library. The books, which in
clude works on art, biography, essays.
economics. sociology, history, mechan-
les, religion and philosophy, travel and
adventure, descriptions. science, nature
end fiction, will cost in the neighborhood
of $500. The volumes have all been or
dered and will be here at the earliest
possible moment, as soon as the publish
ers In the east can box them and the
railroads ship them.
Dubuque.
The drowning Of vitus Fleischman
last Wednesday evening added the
eighth name to the roll of grown persons
who were drowned in Dubuque thus far
this season. Seven of these were men,
but one woman drowning during the
summer. go George T. Williams,
who was arrested few days ago for
stealing several bolts OF cloth from a
Great Western freight car, was ar
raigned before Justice Carney Saturday
afternoon for a preliminary examinas
ton. Williams waived the preliminary
hearing and was bound over in the sum
of $500 for his appearance before the
grand jury at the next session. He was
unable to furnish bonds and went to
jail.
A Night Of Terror.
awful anxiety was felt for the Wild
ow Of the brave G1n. Burnham. Of Ma
chais, Me-, when the doctors said she
would die from pneumonia before morn
ing writes Mrs. S. n. Lincoln. who at
tended her that fearful night. bur she
begged for DIR. Kings New Discovery.
which had more than once saved her
life and cured her OF consumption. AT
ter taking it she slept all night. Fur
Their use entirely cured her" This mar
yelous medicine in guaranteed to cure
all throat. chest and lung diseases. On
Nv so cents and ST. Trial bottles free at