Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-09
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Charles City.
The last hunt for Wild game Bert
Aurand and George McCabe took, they
dragged ten prairie chickens and a
plover. 81
cresco.
Conrad Meyers says he never had a
better corn crop than this year; 1t was
planted late and the late rains perfected
1t in good shape.
| Fremont.
Mrs. James Gourley living on Cedar
Creek south of this place was forcibly
detained at her home Tuesday evening
while thieves relieved her chicken house
of Its entire contents. She had fine
lot Of fowls and the thieves made good
their escape. ssi
i;Trear.
"A. Dangler sold a common grade draft
colt this week for s172.50 to buyer
from the east. This beats all records
for several years, says the star-Clip-
per- sss Some of our farmers predict
that potatoes Will be sold for twenty
five cents per bushel in Trear before
Marengo.
James Baugh's high stepping horse
got loose from him Sunday and spying
some soft dirt, thrown from the open
waterworks ditch, decided to have a
roll. He only took one however, when
The went over into the ditch with his
| feet up. 1t took several men sometime
| to dig him out.
Huntington.
During the past week potato prices
4 fa1 NH
dropping from Sl.20. which is the price
retailed to the consumer, to 20 and Sc
cents. wholesalers are quoting them
at between So and 60, which is about
as low as they will ever get this season,
and which is still Is and 80 cents higher
than the amount Of potatoes retailed
for last year.
Alta.
Thomas Biglin, OF Alta, thinks his son
John Biglln. aged 10 years. who ran
away from home last Tuesday, is sonic
where in the vicinity Of Sioux City. The
father says he knows OF no reason why
the lad should foresake his home Be-
fore he left he was heard to remark
that he was going out to earn his own
living. His father went to Sioux City
to look for him.
Glenwood.
The Mills county apple harvest is
now In progress. Jonathans, Grimes'
Golden and Snow apples are now being
picked, all being of fine quality the Jon-'
athans being the most plentiful. The
Ben Davis will be the last to be han
died. Two car loads of apples day
is now being shipped from Glenwood
and the shipments will in crease as the
season advances.
Parkersburg.
Farmers in this locality have sold a
great deal of old corn the past two
weeks. the crop of new corn now being
practically assured. This years crop
will run from fairfto good. The early
plauted5 corn will, In the majority of
fields. be a poor yield, while that late
planted promises full average yield.
Enough will be raised for home con-
sumption and some to spare, according
to the Eclipse.
Oakland.
Oakland claims to be the banner
town for fat folk. The new Methodist
preacher, Rev. Rambo, weighs BIO
pounds, Mr.. Van Meter, however, tips
the scales at 800 pounds. w. H. Free
man, the next representative, led the
crowd for twenty years with $50 pounds.
His brother Levi finally passed this
mark and Bert Fuller easily weighs
2S5 pounds. There are at least ten 9th
err business and professional men here
who have passed the go pound mark
ottumwa.
The Courier of Saturday says: The
price of hogs took a big tumble in this
city this week, in fact the decline was
general all over the country. One week
ago, 1915 was the top price in this city,
while today the highest is $6.4o. With
& big drop in price the receipts have
Continued large, John Morrell and Com
pany having packed $500 against $500
the week previous. The quality has
continued good, and unless the price
goes away off 1t is probable that the
movement will continue to hold up.
January l.
Peach culture is becoming success IN
Tama county. We enjoyed a basket OF
such fruit raised by James O'Neill, Of
Carroll. who harvested six bushels this
fall. We were also permitted to sample