Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-18
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

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year. In the past their salary has beef
only $500 per year. This increase effects
c. Q. Woodmansee. deputy recorder. +
| L. Benty, deputy treasurer and Charlie.
/ Foote, deputy auditor.
Greene.
Will Yates, While out hunting Sun.
day with some other parties in the Ley
| dig wods south of town. shot a large
gray fox, which is considered remark
able for this part of the county, and Sc
near town, too.
Dubuque.
| The board of supervisors may take
some steps to reduce the noise that ex-
lists around the court house and causes
so much annoyances to judges, lawyers
and witnesses by paving the nearby
streets with asphalt.
Hampton.
| From now on Franklin county will
have virtually eleven rural delivery
routes. Five run from this city. one
from Geneva, and five run from towns
outside the county but the most of the
territory covered will be in this county.
Carroll.
The Herald reports that corn has been
generally gathered and storms may
come now without inf1icting much hard ;
ship on farmers in this section. Fall
pasture has been good and it is surpris-
ing what an amount of feed there is in
the country for stock the coming win
ter.
Spencer.
George Utley, so far as heard from
this season. is the champion corn husk-
err of this section of Iowa. Mr.. Utley
recently husked 500 bushels in five sue
cessive days. When the character of
this years corn crop is considered, Mr.
Utley's performance certainly is a re-
markable one, says the News
Shenandoah.
The Sentinel says: S. A. Thomas is
thinking of purchasing a farm in Ohio.
He has an offer of a fine level farm Just
one mile from the court house in the city
of Xenia (Which has nearly 5000 popu-
lation) with the trolley line going right
by the door for $50 per acre. The land
will produce good corn and tobacco.
Dubuque.
Another monster cargo of clam shells
was brought down on the 18th by the
steamer Monarch. There were three
large loads, of seventy tons each. -.
Miss Anna Mcmahon, of Colesburg. who
was operated on for appendicitis early
this week at Mercy hospital is recover
ing, fact which her many friends will
be glad to hear.
Rockford.
Corn husking is nearing finish. Just
about one half of good crop has been
secured. -" The Register says: The
new styles of corn shredders are dong
much better work than the old ones
They are not SO dangerous TO life and
limb, and have much greater capacity,
handling from ten to twelve acres OF
corn a day with ease.
lndianola.
Harry Anderson, now member of the
United States Infantry,
writes TO his father a. l.. Anderson, of
this city that his regiment Is now sta
toned on the island of Jolo, one of the
small ones of the Philippine group. He
says it is about the size of six blocks of
Indianola, and is surrounded by wall
Also that it is most delightful place to
live.
Dcs Moines.
BY o'clock Friday afternoon the
work of dismantling the old court house
had been practically completed and
with the exception of the sheriff's Of
ice the old building which has done
service for court house and county
for fifty years is practically |
Quilted. The county offices are tenn
oorarily quartered in the Harbach
building on West Third street.
Jefferson.
Poutryman McCue is now employing
twenty pickers at his establishment, |
and the season Is hardly begun yet He
expects to use twice as many later on
e the men can be had. $3.50 The delin-
luent tax list now running In the Bee
S the smallest in the history of Greene
and Treasurer Garland says |
they are paying up on it SO fast that
here bids fair to be nothing left for the |
lay of sale.
BOWS.
A firm in independence brought suit |
against Nels Golackson for the collec
ions of note of $1,000 given by Mr..
as forfeit on the sale Of his
arm some two years ago. Mr.. Gclack-
son resisted payment on the ground
hat the note was secured thru fraud
Ind Misrepresentation. The case was
ried in the district court at Hampton
his week and resulted in verdict in
avor of Mr.. Golackson.
;uliy.
Seventeen dozen chairs for the town
lall arrived last Friday direct from the
actory. They are very neat as we'll as
s The new town hall
viii be dedicated with dance on the
vening of November q. Invitations to
he number of 200 have been issued and
t is proposed to give ball the like of
Which Sully has not witnessed in recent
ears 1t is hoped to have the hall en-
irely remodled by that date
Iewton.
Chas. w. Ogg, one of Newton's eff
lent mail carriers, has beer appointed
lager in connection with the bureau
animal industry to ne located AZ
GU. Omaha $3.50 Mr.. Z. j. Talbot
the Journal two ears of yellow
ent corn. each twelve inches long. and
He'd to the very tip ends He SAYS his
ntire crop will average, at least, forty
ushels to the acre. This corn shows
he two crops of the year very plainly.
ioux City.
An interesting story is told by the list
{ additions printed in the last Sioux {
ity directory issued by r. l.. Polk &
o. There are nlnety-eight names
.hich were received too late for inser-
on in the body of directory during the
me it was being printed seventy seven
which gave some connection with the