Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-05
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Hone.
IOWA NEWS ITEMS


week on account of scarlet fever Some
been thought best to take every pre-
cautionary measure possible.
Upton.
A Muscatine dealer offered Stewart
Sailer of Cedar Bluff $500 for one of the
pearls he found on the Cedar, but he de-
clined the offer. The pearl is round,
clear and white and weighs seventy
four grains
Rockford.
W. Wyatt, when up in North Dakota,
dug out Of the banks of the Jim river
one of the finest stone hammers of am
cient Indian make that we have ever
seen. 1t is OF granite, perfectly shaped.
and weighs ten pounds.
Webster City.
Articles of incorporation of the Neff
Handle Bar Company were flied with
the county recorder yesterday. The cap
Closz is president, c. F. Smisor secreta-
ry and Adolph Closz treasurer.
Humboldt.
w. j. Taft sold to G. NJ. Snyder $4,000
worth of Kansas land last week. This
is one of the heaviest deals ever con-
summated in Humboldt The land Lies
in southeastern Kansas, and Mr.. Taft
predicts that Mr. Snyder will double his
money in five years.
Sherman.
This new town is to be located in
Hardin county and is on the new Des
Moines, Iowa Falls & Western line The
site is six miles northeast of Radcliffe,
eight miles northwest of Hubbard, and
eighteen miles southwest of Iowa Falls.
An auction sale of lots will occur on the
sth.
Des Moines.
A new order was filed in the United
States circuit court by Judge Smith Nc
Pherson, which will be good news to To-
cal lawyers, as we'll as to those at Keo-
kuk. Council Bluffs and Creston. The
purport of the order is that local at
torney must be employed in every case
in the circuit court.
Auburn.
Isaac Williams. proprietor Of the Ev-
ergreen farm, one mile south of town,
has been offered SIS an acre for his
land, and he seems somewhat puzzled
as to what to do in the matter. 1t is
not question as to the price but as to
where he would go to better himself,
and many another seller is in the same
quandary.
Clinton.
Alkaline Hunt, thru her attorney, Jul
lug Pingle, has commenced proceedings
in the district court, for divorce from
her husband. B. E. Hunt. The petition
states they were married at Clinton,
Nov. 10. 1899, and lived together as hus-
band and wife until Oct. Is, 1901. Cruel
ty is the alleged ground for the suit.
Plaintiff AYERS that Defendant threat
ened to strike her with chair, and also
to stab her with dagger She asks for
$25 month temporary alimony and $50
per month permanent alimony.
Creston.
{ j. B. Harsh sold to DR.. r. H. Gregory
his fine stock farm near MEANWHILE on
Saturday. This makes near $4,000
worth Of real estate disposed of by Mr..
Harsh during the current year. This Is
done in the carrying out of a long cher
isaled plan of Mr.. Harsh to "clean up
and concentrate his business within
line more easily handled and not be-
cause he has lost faith in Iowa real es-
tate. On the contrary he believes it will
and should go much higher Glen
wood Farm has had an evniable his
tory as a producer OF fine horses
Nevada.
Ira Allen. while driving cow in the
Briggs pasture Tuesday night, stepped
in hole and fell and broke his left
u
alone he had q difficult time in notifying
any one of his precarious condition.
After continued calling Mr.. Lawman.
hearing some one, went In his direction
and found him upon the ground unable
to move. He was at once taken to his
home and the injured member properly
dressed. 1t was found that the ankle
was badly crushed and was the same
limb that was broken several years ago.
Burlington.
Councilman Sterling had the narrow
est escape of his forty odd years Friday.
While walking on Jefferson street, be-
tween Main and Third, he received a
violent blow upon the head. He saw all
manner of consultations that are not
tc be found upon the sidereal charts, the
his curiosity was aroused, he wanted to
know what had happened, and SO he
gathered himself together and proceeded
To investigate He found that lineman
a; work upon a pole al height of about
thirty feet had dropped u large pair Of
riiers just as the councilman was pass
ing. The heavy tool struck Mr.. Ster-
Ing squarely upon the top of the head,
crashed thru strong Derby hat and cut
q deep cash in his scalp. But for the
resistance of the hat Mr. Sterling might
have suffered fracture of the skull or
DEATH
Sioux City.
The local recruiting station of the
United States army in the Bolton block
has been doing a good line of business
the past week, and it is quite probable
that the station will be KEEP. here all
winter. Nine recruits are now waiting
to be sworn into the service. All but two
OF them gave their occupation as farmer
or stockman, and those two are labor
crs They are Frank r. Ferguson, OF
Egan, S. D.; Henry j. Boden, of Sioux
City; George Schloth. of Plpestone.
Mimi: Frank l.. Condtt, of Wyatt, S.
D.: Thomas G.. Cort. of Creston, Iowa;
Harry L. Lmbitk k, of Trent, S. D.; Stew
art e. Hall, of Hawarden, Iowa. Three
of these recruits have seen service, Mr.
Ferguson with the First South Dakota
in the Philippines. Mr.. Boden with the
Eleventh Volunteer Cavalry and Mr..
Hall with Company l, Fifty-second