Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-10
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings Of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

ness. A sample light plant is now in
fine running order in the McCready
building. 1t is very fine light and very
cheap. Mr.. Watts will soon be laying
pipes, a majority of the business men
on the east of Main street agreeing to
take the light.
Clinton
Walter Matthiesen. aged about 10
years, who threw q stick of lighted punk
INTO a can of powder on the Fourth at
his home on Eighth avenue, is now able
TO get around, atho his head and face
are still we'll wrapped in bandages.
Toledo
Work on the brick hotel is now NOV
ing along rapidly. The stone founda-
ton is almost finished and work on the
brick portion will commence in few
days Now that the foundation is in
some idea of the immensely of the hand
some structure can be- CLEANED, says the
Review.
Cedar Falls
Frank Holmes had the misfortune 10
lose his fine roadster, it dying on the
20 from lockjaw. He had been offered
$3.50 for ii but few days previous to
its death. which he refused. This is
quite loss not only for its money
value, but Mr.. Holmes had become very
much attached to the ANIMAL it being
of kind disposition and quite pet
Sioux City
The relocation of the line of the Chi
oago & Northwestern Railway Com
pany's Neville extension was practically
completed Saturday and stakes Will be
set and construction begun This week
The length of the line will be between
nineteen and twenty miles. 1t will run
from Neville to Sergeant Bluffs to con-
meet there with the line of the Sioux
City & Pacific. Seven miles of the work
Will be heavy and costly
Newton
Lyman Crouch met with very Sc
we're and painful accident one evening
recently. about O'Clock. The little fell
law WAS lying in a hammock on the
porch almost asleep and was so near
the edge that he rolled out. Altho he
dislocated his right arm at the elbow
and broke the radius about two inches
below the elbow, he is very brave over
It. altho he did not think he had much
Ct Fourth of July with one hand.
Des Moines
Work on the construction of the new
Warfied- Howell Pratt grocery building
at the corner of First and Court avenue,
is TO begin at once. Benson & Marker. of
Des Moines, have been awarded the
contract at 100000. Four Other bids
were higher. The building will be Ssx
LIZ feet, with high basement and SIX
stories. and built of brick and stone
With shelving, elevators furniture and
equipment the building Will cost about
100000.
Rcinbeck
The Courier says F. r. Bennett writes
from Osborne. kas., under date of June
q. saying: We arrived all O. X Crops
are considered by some to be better than
last year. There are miles and miles of
fields with shocks thicker than I ever
saw oats in Iowa. Corn looks very we'll
We We're offered 50 day 10 go into the
field The grain is nearly all cut Saw
one threshing outfit running since we
came. Mr. Bennett adds that it is ter
rbly hot and dry there. June &c 1t reg
istered 100 to ITO in the shade.
Shenandoah
The busiest place in Shenandoah ls the
poultry packing house. where everybody
seems to be IN a hurry to get the build
ing completed in time for the August
first opening. Just now the chicken
sheds, big double-decked things. are be-
ing finished and they make an imposing
appearance themselves The Interior
structural work on the main building is
afytr iaI nfp 1.
the brick work and al the same time.
the cooling room Is being finished from
the bottom. ore can gather some idea
ofthe immense weight that Will at times
b stored in the cooling room by looking
ut the huge cross tirlbers twelve by six
teen inches In size With perpendicular
supports equally heavy every six or
eight feet. resting on big brick and ce-
ment plers.
Boone
Saturday night about els o'clock
smoke was seen coming from the roof
Of the fine new barn belonging to DR.
T. b Hullenbeck on South Story street,
and ere the flames could be stayed the
entire structure had been destroyed.
along With all of the grain and hay.
Two neighboring barns had been in
hames, but the prompt work of the fire
company soon had them extingulshed.
After the smoke was seen issuing from
the windows and the roof the Fire Hail
was notified and the company was soon
there and had three streams of water
playing on the burning barn The car
riages. horses. blankets and harness
were all saved, but the feed--oa,s, hay.
etc.-was destroyed.
Sunday morning serious accident
befell Mrs. S. Bush in front of her home
on Benton street. 1t was about 1880
and her carriage had been brought for
her and She was stepping into it when
the horse backed up and threw her to
the ground. In the fall her left leg
above the knee was broken. She was
carried to her home and doctor sum
moned and today is resting easier
Muscatine
Bert Huston, resident of South Mus