Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-30

at present. Many farmers are forced
to buy. Unless rain comes soon late
potatoes will be a failure. The
Star-Clipper says: Much of the bar
ley has been threshed in Tama county.
The crop is very light in weight. but
the color is good. We have heard of
yields as low as ten bushels per acre.
The heaviest we have heard of was
thirty-five. Much of it Yields from fif-
teen to twenty The price will be from
80 to As cents for the present,
Alsona.
The city had to refuse to let water
go for street, sprinkling the other day.
With "a hours steady pumping they
could not keep the standpipe full. Or
dinarily at night 1t is easy to catch up.
but lately the drain at night has been
vesy great. A lot of people must be
quietly letting the water run on their
lawns. Meters are being put in as rap
idly as possible, and soon this great
waste of water will stop. !. Jos.
Zanke shipped 13 cars of fat cattle
from Hobart Sunday. II was "a hot day
to load but he had no casualties. He
got s5.55, which is a high price. Ar
mour bought them for export. The
Chicago papers compliment the cattle.
Ottumwa.
The oat meal project has simmered
down to the original status and the
Ottumwa Commercial Exchange is
wrestling with it just as it was the
first day the question WAS sprung in
ottumwa. AS it pretty generally
known, Calvin Manning and j. w. Cal
houn intended to put several thousands
of dollars into the enterprise. and there
We're but $1,000 to raise in order to
put the enterprise upon its feet. This
would have been easy to get, and the
officers of the Commercial Exchange
We're practically waiting for those in
terested to say the word However,, 1T
seems there was some misunderstood
ing in regard to the matter and recent
~ Messrs. Manning and Calhoun have
ing, Mr.. Manning also having leased
the Hansmann brewery. where it was
proposed to establish the oat meal mill,
to other parties.
Dubuque
j. T. Stoddard is the name OF meet,
locking individual who was arrested las.
week by Glenn Mcnamara. the special
officer at the shooting park in conneo
ton with pickpocket nov in Jail )
await the action of the grand jury
Stoddard was arraigned Saturday, but
begged for further time claiming that
he could furnish a number of wtEesse;
who would prove his entire Innocence,
Monday morning this sly crook was ar
raigned. but utterly failed to produce a
single witness. and again asked for fur
ther time and he.was given ten days
more. Stoddard bears all the ear mark,
OF a pickpocket and thief. and there is
sufficien, evidence to convict him of be-
ing pal Of the crook who was arrested
in the act of picking pockets to semi
him to the penitentiary where he ough.
To be. In police court he said che was a
resident of Clear Lake. where he had
many friends. including the mayor OF
the town bankers and others.
Mount Pleasant
A wonan's blood curdling screams
t'oated out on the midnight air one
night In the east part of town. as tho
in mortal terror, People generally out
that way had gone to bed but many of
them We're at once aroused, as the
screams We're repeated and louder than
before. Later developments showed
that as Misses Noraling and Buzza
two young ladies WHO are attendants
at the hospital. We're going home they
We're held up by Il stranger who at
tempted to rob Miss Nordling The
hold UP occurred at the asylum gate
They We're hurrying to the hospital.
when a bury stranger drove up and
seized Miss Nordling and attempted TO
take her pocketbook. She screamed
and resisted and Miss Buzza whacked
him with her umbrella. The villain be
came frightened at the racket and
drove hastily away. If the ladies had
massacred him with a hat pin the com
mnnity would have been pleased. says
the Journal This is the third time
Miss Nordling has been held up.