Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-20
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

the picnic for 1902. and has effected a
strong organization over the district IN
this INTEREST. Among the features of en-
ltertainment provided are addresses by
William ]. Bryan and Senator Dolliver.
Eldora.
A. b. Smith, the rural free delivery
agent who has the work of laying the
county out into mail routes, will be at
work in the southwestern part of the
county most of the present week. He
now has the county about two-thirds
completed.
Mason City.
John Cassidy has received word that
has brother, Ed Cassidy, had committed
suicide at his home in Lacrosse. Ed
formerly resided in this city and was
engaged in the wholesale bicycle and
sundry business. He was popular
| Young man when in this city.
Onawa.
Capt. C. G.. Perkins, who has handled
| the Journal in Onawa since big John"
turned the crank on the first issue,
started for Park City, Utah, recently,
| where he will spend a month with his
daughter, Mrs. Ed Hersheiser. His sis
ter-in-law, Mrs. NJ. a. Samson, accom-
panied him.
Humboldt.
| The Humboldt county crops are in a
| backward condition, due To the late
opening of spring and the small amount
| of rain. Small grain is doing nicely.
4 Corn has been needing rain very badly,
| but good one and half inch fall came
lately. The hay crop will he diminished
owing to lack of moisture.
Sloan.
Marvin Barton, the 16-year- son Of
| Photographer NJ. ID. Bartin, shot a hole
| standing around at the stock yards and
CALDER rife on his foot, when the gun
was accidentally discharged, the bali
passing thru the foot just back of the
second toe.
Akron.
4 The grain elevators of the MeCaull-
| Webster Elevator Company and Bur-
right & CO.. at westfall. Iowa, burned
to the ground Tuesday evening together
| with their contents. The fire originated
/ in the power house of the McCaull-
Webster elevator, and consumed a team
4 stationed therein. The cause of the fire
is unknown.
Montezuma.
The surveying force OF the Des Moines,
Iowa City & Eastern railway is stalking
out the right of way between here and
Iowa City. The work is being vogor-
| cusly pushed and it is thought the grad
1 ing of the road bed Will commence early
this fall. The building of this road will
4 open up a very profitable line for traffic
| with eastern connections unsurpassed in
the state.
Washington.
4 The Press says: "Orders came satur-
day from the Milwaukee railroad off
Gers to take no deeds. Prices for right
of-way in Muscatfne and here may send
\ the line away from US after all. Keo-
kuk lost the Santa F'e by a tuppenny
difference of $4,000. and there are symp-
1 toms that the Milwaukee Will not con-
sent to be held up here. 1t is no dead
sure thing"
Burlington.
John Anderson VS.. the Harris Eleya-
tor Company is the title of new suit
filed yesterday in the county clerk $
office. The plaintiff was an employee of
the company and lost his arm while dis
charging his duties. coupling cars. on
Feb. =, 1900 In his petition he asks for
| $1,000. Some time ago Anderson sued the
4 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road to
4 recover damages for the injury, and the
| matter Is pending.
Cedar Falls.
The telephone is useful in many direc-
tions. Two men on Sunday drove to
Roadman's livery stable With a span of
horses and buggy. They offered to sell
the outfit for seventy dollars, which
aroused MIR. Elderkin's suspicious. and
4 after they left he telephoned 10 Sheriff
| Law at Waterloo. and they We're ar
| rested. The team was returned to its
\ owners in Parkershurg. and the men
| kept in custody awaiting trial They
| Fired the team to drive six miles into
the country.
1 Waterloo.
young married man on Lafayette
| street has been resting on the assump-
ton that the world owend him a liv-
| Ing. Others might dig and dslve. but
\ his inclinations We're averse to all forms
Of fatigue and physical discomfort His
views have undergone a cruel and rude
| shaking up. The other day he was the
recipient of notice bearing the regu-
lation skull and cross bones and signed
"Whitecaps. informing him that if he
didn't get to work and support his fam
lily he would be urged to activity by the
application of horsewhip. He is now
| rondertng whether it is better to suffer
the stings" or join the Industrial throng.