Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-16
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Belle PLANE.
A party Of sixty left here Friday
for Deep River to attend the Orange
mems picnic on the anniversary of thej
battle of the Boyne.
Maqucketa.
Frank McNear, a local contractor was
awarded the sewer contract. Monday
his bid, S5t9sl5o being the lowest re-
ccivsG Work vas commenced al. once
Waterloo.
Tne sheriff writes from sigourney, Ia
that team composed Of bay and gray
hcrses has beer lost ard is supposed to
haze been used near Waterloo IN road
OF bridge work.
Rcd Oak.
| Z. &. Peterson sold over $50 worth of
hay cut from three and fourths
acres Of land located inside Of the city
limits besides having enough tosfeed MS
l5twe cows this winter.
Mason City.
The National Military College ascot
| atien boaed met Friday ard made the
4 frs, payment on the raw building of
I s5.075.5o. They also let contract for
plumbing with Daggett < schwie for
1 sl:4oo
i Nevada.
Considerable grain has been piaeed.in
Il shock and in Il few days more the
vaeat oa;s and rye viii be rsatiy for
he tn esher. The grain promises vel
7 and is Of a good quality and full the
4 average number u bushels per acre.
iowa City.
Hanry White Of solon. was found
4 dead on the roadside about ,we mlles
4 rerth of selon Friday, before roun. He
is ran ahut 80 years II age and we'll
known in the county being Familiarity
called sturdy White. His deaeh was
undoubtedly due to sunstroke.
centervule.
sieriff G. f. Clinic returned Friday
,Eafternoen from a trip to Kansas bring
.lrg with him William Clemens who
hired a rig from Liveryman c; w.
Funkhouser, at E-dell a week or two
l3ago ard never returned it. In fact. he
dove into Missouri, sold the outfit for
$50 ard went to Kansas whittier Sheriff
4 Clinic Followed him last week.
Ottumwa.
j Wapello county has ol5 regularly ems
4 pleyeet teachers in its public schools.
\ This information is contained In list
4 County Superintendent Dimmitt has
prepared preparatory TO the opening OF
the Wapello county institute, ana in
4 which he has the address u each teach
er OF this number 100 are employed in
Ottumwa or their address is given as
Il Ottuinwa.
Mapleton.
on Saturday afternoon about O'Clock
west of town in Grant township. Was
destroyed by fire together With the en-
tire contents The family was absen
i from home at the time with the excep-
ton of two boys, aged IA and s years
who We're lying asleep on the floor in tn,
. front room, and who were awakened
. fell in. The origin of the fire Is un
known.
8 Cedar napids.
j The new city ambulance has come t
be acknowledged as worth .,s weight ii
! gold If 1t could not be replaced. Hardl.
a day goes by that 1t is not called fol
to take some person to the hospital 0
home from one of those institutions, an
! often TWO and three calls are mads in
4 day. The record show that the ambu
A lance makes oh an average of more tina
: two miles every time it goes out, an
a as IT has responded to a total OF III call
n since December 10, 1900, when is put int
!. use
e Spirit Lake.
i The ladies' of the Civic improvement
l. Association are fitting up rooms N tn
/ building just south of Marcus Snyder
it on Hill street. for free Rest and Te
r. Ell Rooms for ladies, and extern. a core
J. ial invitation to thefarmers wives. tour
. lists and our own ladies', to visit them {
i any time. A matron Will be in attent
" ance and 1t is the intention to have
Is nice clean and comfortable place. whel
ID anyone. after their shopping is done, Cd
y go and rest There will be plenty {
i; books and magazines to read. and f,
- small fee parcels will be checked.
a Shenandoah.
f. Mrs. Olive Eskew writes to her siste
Sc Mrs. w. l., Boylan, from Nevada We
s. non county, Missouri and says: ..Tl
is dry weather is becoming almost unbea
able. You may think you have 1t hal
lg but If you lived In an old place whel
le the hot winds cooked you and the the
T. mometer ranges from 100 to ITO ever
n afternoon, why then you might con
pc plain. Crop are an entire failur
y Gardens all dead, corn turning yello