Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-15
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

4 will be about 40 of them on the ground.
4 1t is the semi meeting of the
organization and from present pros
poets will be one of the most successful
\ that has been held.
Burlington.
Strawberries are coming into the To-
cal market In quantities now. 1t will
lstill require a number of warm days
4 to ripen the native crop. The local crop
4 of cherries promises to be quite large
Old-fashioned May weather will soon
clothe the green fruit in ripest red.
Dubuque.
While hunting for birds and carelessly
handling gun, George Felenzer, the
12-year-od son of George Felenzer. ac-
cidentally shot himself while handling a
4 22-caliber rifle. The bullet entered the
4 youths foot. An up town surgeon was
called and probed for the bullet and To-
4 Gated 1t.
Cskaloosa.
Glass OF of the Oskaloosa high school
has made good and enduring record
for itself. 1t purchased collection of
4 high class pictures with the money that
was earned at the entertainment given
by the class earlier in the season. The
4 class had 1854 to spend and 1t was de-
4 cided to invest the amount in pictures
for the assembly room and the class
4 rooms
Mt. Pleasant.
DIR. John j. Plummer, former Hills
boro boy. but now state treasurer of
! Idaho, residing at Boise City has lately
Won the interstate shoot between the
4 states of Idaho and Utah. There was
a spirited rivalry FOR the prize. but Dr.
Plummer Won the coveted honor. He
4 is a brother of Pitt Plummer. of Hills.
boro. Henry county, and was born and
reared there until almost of age, when
he went wes: about twenty years ago
Council Bluffs.
i Walter r. Vaughn, formerly mayor
lIof Council Bluffs. has attained some
/ more newspaper notoriety, this time
4 sp.inginS up in the national capital. He
has filed a suit in the supreme court of
4 the District of Columbia against Ring
4 ling Bros. proprietors of the circus, 10
| recover $4,000 alleged damages. In his
Il declaration the plaintiff sets forth that
4 while on his way from the ticket wagon
II 10 the main entrance of the circus he
was set upon assaulted and grabbed by
an emploSe of the Defendants and forc-
j bly, elected from the grounds. Accord
4 ing to the Defendants, circulars were
III distributed among the crowds al. the
lcircus grounds urging the members of
II a certain religious faith not to patron
4 ize the exhibition. MIR. Otto Ringing.
Il one of the proprietors, attributed the
4 circulation of the circulars to Mr..
i Vaughan. and hence the election and
suit.
4 Dies Moines.
From the day that Greenwood park
y came into the possession Of the city tbs
board of park commissioners have pur
& sued a policy of adding improvements L
the property rather than changing any
of the natural attractions of the place
/ Believing thoroughly in the proposition
( that nature is the best gardener. but
that art can assist nature in beautify-
4 ing the parks. the commissioners have
1 from time to time made some improve
ments. While the place will be beauti-
fled very few changes will be made
Aside from the changing Of the location
I of the main entrance about $50 fee. fur
. Their east and the clearing out of severa
! acres of trees running from the mair
Eentrance south toward the lake every
thing will be left just as Ii Was. Thu
!, walks, the drives, the dam and the lake
We're all put in by r. E. Brown, the for.
mer owner of the eighty-one acres
y which comprises Greenwood park.
Sioux CITY.
! Julius Pappe, president of the school
board. regarding the sale of tickets by
Ischool children, against which COM
plant has been made, said: Personally
4 don't believe 1t is right for the chill
dren to so out selling tickets for any
thing. | may introduce resolution al
the next meeting of the school board
to have such things done away with
did not know that man was 10 give
stereopticon views in town until called
up Superintendent krantz. The pupils
have been in the habit of giving enter
tainments each year to earn money IL
get books and pictures with for their
lrooms, and this is not very objectiona
BILE, altho | am not In favor OF having
the children out on the streets selling
4 tickets. If they would be content tc
SSH them at home to the parents and
patrons Of the schools it would be diff
. ferent, but this thing of having then,
down town in the business district by
4 the dozens is certainly nuisance
Fort Dodge.
The Minneapolis & ST. Louis railroad
expects to inaugurate extensive inn
provements to its roadbed, beginninc
June !. The gravel pits Ut fiiot Niounc
are to be opened, and a large force OF
men Will be put to work filling the road
bed from Corwith to Fort Dodge. The
| work Will probably last some time, anG
i the Improvement will be great one
n The road is already graveled down a.
!. far as Corwith. and this will be another
long step toward putting it in COCO
1 shape. Roadmaster Sullivan will be i,
. charge of the work, and three or fou,
extra gravel trains Will be put on
The police took a turn at house clean.
ing on Saturday night. and as result
! of a rigid investigation made among tn,
!, Central freight cars. thirteen specimens
!, of the great unwashed We're quarterer
in the city jail when the Sabbath morn.
ing broke. Marshal Larson was unwill-
ing to keep such an aggregation in tn.
jail on the Sabbath day, and SO pro
ceeded to march them out of town They
went west.
Old Soldiers Experl cnce.
NJ. NJ. Austin. civil war veteran, OF
Winchester Ind, writes: My wife was
sick long time in spite of good doc
Il tors treatment but was wholly cured