Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-30

of that company's stock yards. Grad
ing for the new structure will be COM
menced at once and work will be started
on it this fall if the weather permits.
Cedar Falls.
w. A. Bennett writes from Lawton
Okla, that the city is 100 days old and
larger than Cedar Falls. 1t has twenty
ore lumber yards and eighty-two sa-
looms.
Alden.
C. c. Whipple, who has taken the ut
most precautions to put his cattle on
cornstalks gradually, has already lost
several head from the dreaded corn
stalg disease
MAXWELL.
The Tribune says: 1.-THE new rural
telephone line, southeast from town, ie
now In operation and. the people are
busy talking with their negihbors, and
about those who have no phone
lndianola.
There Is at the present time considera-
Bile over $1,000,000 on deposit in the
banks Of this city. 1t seems that the
people Of Warren county are in most
prosperous condition. The deposits are
larger at this time they they ever were
before.
CIarinda.
Several new cases of smallpox have
developed in the city and now all tod
there are ten or twelve cases known to
the authorities. But every case is r.
ing closely quarantined and 1t is hoped
that 1t will not spread to any great ex-
tent. The disease is visiting Clarinda in
very light form.
Grundy Center.
Messrs Langdon & Benz. tax ferrets,
have all they can do to attend to the
people that are calling on them to settle
up omitted taxes or presenting proof to
them So far little or no ill-feeling has
been engendered by the work of the
ferrets.
Clear Lake.
James Watts was in Illinois last week
and purchased forty-seven head OF fine
Polled Angus cattle, which will be the
nucleus of one of the finest herds in Ger
ro Gordo county. Mr.. Watts has been
very successful in the stock business,
and considers that stock of a high grade
is the most profitable.
Council Bluffs.
No new cases Of smallpox have been
reported. but the police have a number
of families under surveillance in the
northwestern part Of the city, where the
disease is now prevalent. 1t is stated
that members Of these families were ex-
posed by associating with the families
where the disease was discovered Mon
day.
J. ID. Ross, of Scott township, was in
the Madisonian office last Saturday and
vouches for the biggest husking story
that has yet come to its notice. b. A.
Goodrich husked 161 bushels and nine
teen pounds in one day of about eleven
hours. Mr.. Ross himself weighed the
corn and the above is the exact meas
urement by weight. The corn was not
unloaded and was husked in ground av-8
eraging about forty-five bushels per
acre
Lake City.
Tuesday the new city we'll was 222
feet deep and when flooded by streams
from two lawn hose 1t was filled In four
teen minutes, and, tho the we'll is four
feet deeper than the one now furnish
irg water for the city, it is evident that
a productive vein has not been reached.
At a meeting of the council Tuesday
afternoon 1t was decided to proceed with
the drilling of an additional thirty or
forty feet, 1t being probable that water
will be reached. The drill IL now in clay
and sand.
Hampton.
The amount of omitted taxes collected
to date is as follows: The total amount
collected Is $11. .144.41. of which amount
County Attorney ]. Y. Luke received
s640.10; w. p. Moore received 4.252. 16,
and Franklin county s6.252.15. This does
not include the Latimer & Inglas set
tlement as to w. p. Moore, and 1t is
supposed he received the same from
them as did the county, and If so the
total he has received for his work here
would amount to $6,25215. Out Of this
amount he has had to pay his attorneys.