Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-28
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

for western points and hardly passes
without the sale of individual tickets To-
that region.
Des Moines.
Petitions of voluntary bankruptc.
have been filed with the federal cour
as follows: Charles NJ Propst, of De!
Moines, railway conductor; William
Trotter, of Earlham. real estate agent
Clear Lake.
The skating at Clear Lake is the f1nes
for years and Thanksgiving will see
many parties formed to enjoy the sport
The lake froze over without a ripple an6
the moonlight nights lend pleasure t.
the delight of skating.
Grand Junction.
Threshing is about completed in this
locality. j. C. Harker has 10000 bushels
of small grain and at the present prices
this will net him a handsome sum
Where is there farmer in Iowa that
can beat this? asks the Headlight.
Bows.
Irwin Norris brings the Advocate an
ear Of corn that caps anything for size
and quality its editor has seen this fall.
1t ia OF the white variety and measures
fifteen inches long. His father has thir-
ty acres that yielded fifty-five bushels
per acre.
Burlington.
While SEEMING out Crystal lake recent
~, the fishermen took out $500 pounds
OF carp and buffalo and other coarse
fish. The game fish were returned to
the lake, the others belonging to the
fishermen. The days work Melted over
1900 pounds.
Boone.
Mrs. Augusta Thoren was arraigned
before the insanity commissioners in the
clerks office at the court house Tuesday
morning and her sanity examined. She
was discharged but found suffering
from melancholia. 1t was suggested by
the board she take visit to relatives in
another part OF the country. thus COM
ing in for change in climate.
Red Oak.
The new Crowell physical apparatus
recently ordered by the board of educa-
ton was received and installed in the
high school this week. 1t is in the
shape of a cabinet, nearly square, and
contains In most compact form 800
parts It will be used principally for
work in physics, and undoubtedly prove
a great help to the students. The ap-
paratus cost $3.50. and will be presided
over by Professor Stafford.
Anamosa.
The Jones County Telephone Com
pany Is beginning operations here. One
of the marked improvements on Main
street Will be a substitution of poles
so and SIS feet high for those now in use,
the latter being about 80 feet in height
The company has already at the depot
a shipment Of Idaho cedar poles,
straight and smooth as a ramrod. The
work OF erecting the poles will begin
during the latter part OF the week.
Sioux City.
The Wardeld- Pratt Howell Company
has under consideration propositions for
a new warehouse and decision as to
which one will he accepted will be
reached at a conference Of officers of
the company soon. There is possibili-
ty, approaching probability, that the
new warehouse will be erected on Third
street and will be At mate for the two
structures now almost COM
pleted by TIE Knapp & Spencer Com
pany and and the Tolerton & stetson
Company. each costing 100000.
Mason City.
The stone cutting is all done for the
first building, the collegiate building of
the Memorial university, and the ouild-
ing will soon be under cover so that the
work on the inside may be pushed ahead
this winter. Contractor Mason said OH
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all been cut and that this force had been
laid off for the present. The building is
up to the top of the third story wind
ows and Will soon be ready for the
roofers The building presents already
a fine appearance and has attracted
much favorable comment.
Vinton.
Last Friday e. W. Griffith, secretary
of the Chicago, Dubuque & Pacific rail-
road, was in Vinton. He was accompa-
MED by the engineer of the company,
Mr.. Stevens. They started in at Cas-
cade and were driving over the lire as
covered by previous surveying parties,
going from here to Toledo. Their mis-
sion could not be fully learned. They
stayed in Vintcn but short time and
and only casually talked with
Them. They were exceedingly reticent
and would talk but little One or two
pointed questions were put at them.
but they gave evasive answers. Moth
ing as to future movements OF the COM
pany could be learned. The other towns
visited near here were Urbana and
Center Point. as reported by the Eagle.
Abba.
A thoughtful observer who drives
over the city of Abba will not the many
evidences Of improvement. There are
new houses in every part OF the city,
others not yet completed, some only be-
gun. Then in many instances there are
changes and additions. new porch, a
new roof. another room. new paint, new
walks new barns. until the old place is
taking on city airs. Now that
sixteen blocks of pavement have been
made and an ordinance has been passed
requiring permanent sidewalks we shall
see in the early spring an effort on
every hand to park out" to the paving
inc, plant permanent curb stones. tear
Town old rickety fences and make the
avn look 200 per cent better. 1t costs
,nly a little to do these things, and it
improves the appearance and the value
IF property very much, says the Union.
Muscatine.
Tuesday morning the 3-year-old son
If S. E. Brinkman. of Kalona who had
been bitten by rabid dog, was treated
lerel with maidstone. The attending
physicians had performed the custom
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