Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-05
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New Hartford.
Review: Miss Grace Bisdee reports
having had great success this year with
her chickens Her hens have Matched
over 500.
Humboldt.
The Republican Of last week states
that D. B. Hammersley offered to trade
an eighty acre field Of corn he had for
400 bushels of good corn, and the man
to whom he made the proposition de-
lined it.
Williams.
OF our pioneer mercantile house for
nearly twenty years, has sold his inter-
est in the business to hjs partner, John
y. Wilde. and left on Monday for his
home in Santa Rosa, Cal, where he has
resided for: several years past.
keosauqua.
The new pickle factory here Is not yet
complete, but cucumbers have COM
menced to come in. At least one load
came in the other day. 1t consisted OF
five pickles.. and our miller, Anton Neis,
thus earned the distinction of being the
first contributor to our new industry,
says the Republican.
ciarinda.
| The insanity commissioners have act
ed on two items of business during the
past week. One was the recommending
of John M. Wilkinson to the board OF
control for a three months parole from
the Clarinda hospital. The other matter
was the adjudging William A. Byers to
be a person of unsound mind. Mr.. By
ers has been a resident Of Blanchard.
Shenandoah.
Early Sunday morning Mrs. Schriver,
residing on Lincoln avenue, fell down
stairs and broke her left arm at the
l elbow. When the rain storm came up
she arose to close the windows and be-
coming confused in the dark stepped
off the head Of the stairs and fell head
long to the bottom, turning completely
over in the fall. Her arm struck one Of
the steps with such force as to break
off the projecting edge of the step. .
4 Monday evening Miss Helen Fliesbach,
daughter of Mr.. ana Mrs C.. q. Flies
bach, fell from maple tree In their
lyard and broke her right arm between
4 the wrist and elbow.
d Belle Plaine.
Superintendent S. NJ. Braden. Of the
j. & M. division, was in the city recent
lily on his way south on an inspection
trip. When asked about he prospects
for business along the Northwestern
lines in Minnesota and the Dakotas he
lreplied optimistically that the prospects
for business the coming fall and winter
We're excellent, and the road would get
two or three times the tonnage this
year that it had last season. His re-
ports from the northwest indicate good
|crops of all grains and plenty of cattle
being prepared for market. The show
ers of Saturday night and Sunday were
general throughout the entire length Of
his division.
Waterloo.
!. Two newly married couples whose
weddings took place Wednesday morn
ing will enjoy their honeymoon camp
ling out along the Cedar river. The
4 parties are Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Tur-
A ner and Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Gross,
1 both of the grooms being printers.
4 Their first experience of housekeeping
will be along the primitive lines OF
camp life, the days being spent in fish
! ing and pleasure seeking. After about
III two weeks of this sort OF romance
they will return to Waterloo and take
up the more prosaic routine of every
day life in the print shop and the home.
]: $3.50 Contractors who have been ex-
J, periencing considerable difficulty in
Igetting stone from the eastern quarries
which were nearly entirely shut down
by the hot weather, state they are able
to get all the material they desire and
|. their work will not be delayed as was
!. feared. In this city since the
tsmallpox siege began until it was re-
). ported that all cases were out of quar-
!. antine, there have been ninety two
cases and twenty eight homes were
;. Iquarantined. In nearly every case the
i attack was light.
;. Davenport.
Because Sam Miller. one of the dea-
Z cons and trustees of the Third Baptist
& church called him liar right out in
meeting Monday night about 9: 80
O'Clock, Rev. Milton J.. Burton, pastor
of that leading colored congregation
flew down from the pulpit and pro-
ceeded to land a heavy right handler on
Deacon Miller in a way that staggered
the latter and in a very short time
occasioned the closing Of the optic
which had come in contact with the
pastoral fist. The meeting was a gath
ering of the trustees Of the church and
Rev. Burton took occasion to remark
that the sanctuary had not been swept
more than couple OF times since the
State Baptist Sunday school conven-
ton. Now 1t CHANGED that Deacon Mil
Ter is a trustee and also officiates. as
janitor. II the church had not beer
! clean. he reflected. the fault was GER
tainly his, and he took the pastors
statement as q personal one. Getting
on his feet he protested he had always
endeayored to do his duty by the
church. Then he characterized Rev
J Burton's remarks as being an unquali-
! fled lie. Almost before he had the words
out of his mouth he felt the pastors
closed hand punching his eye and hi
4 would have been more severely injured
J, 1t is said, il the others present had not
interfered and caused the irate pastor
j to cease his attack. The matter did
!, not end here, however, as 1t probably
, should have done. Tuesday Mr.. Miller
secured a warrant for the pastor and
!, the latter was arrested and tried before
| Magistrate Finger Rev. Burton plead
ed guilty OF the charge Of assault and
i battery and made his excuse that be
.iwould not allow any man 10 call him q
liar. The court 0ned HIN - and costs