Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-11

remainder of the money obtained from
the executive council will be used to
buy feed TO replace the loss of the fire.
Some erroneous statements have APP
peared in the press dispatches con-
corning the origion of the recent fire at
the college which destroyed the two
barns and some feeding sheds. There
was no feed cooker in or near the
barns and never had been. There is
no clue, whatever, as to the origion of
the fire, according to the intelligencer.
Sioux City.
There have been more houses built
in Leeds this year said Il. a. Wheeler,
a contractor and builder who lives in
that suburb, than in any year since
the financial crash in the early 90's.
In all / have counted fourteen new
residences erected in Leeds this year.
They range in cost from $500 to 81 500
and will average $1,000 each Rents
which have been very low in Leeds
are advancing again, and this is taken
as an indication that houses are scarce
and property is in demand
Odebot.
The Chronicle says: A car of groc-
cries was unloaded here the other day,
sold to farmers by a peddler. We ven
ture the assertion that the goods could
have been bought for less money from
any merchant in Odebolt. For illus
tration, canned corn of the best quality
is sold in odeboit for S1.2O per dozen,
and it is said that the peddler charged
S1.44 per dozen. 1t is also probable
that the peddler's goods are of inferior
Il
rate, has generally been the case.
Perry.
Robert Piatt and family removed
from Perry this week, to Lawton, Ok
iahoma. MIR. Piatt has bought prop
erty in the booming town of Lawton,
and upon his recent trip there begun
the erection of new house. He says
there is plenty to do in Lawton. =
j. J. Dunlap has disposed of his cleo
trio light plant at Buffalo Center to =.
G. Boone, of Arkansas. Claude Dun
lap. who has been in charge of the
plant for two years. returned to Perry
this week with his family and will
again make his home here.
Abba.
The Union says: There are 495 min
ers at Hooking busy every day. There
would be more employed. but there are
no houses for their families to occupy.
Hooking, like Abba, needs more resi-
eence properties and needs EN- badly.
The superintendent of mines is John
Ramsay, a gentleman who understands
lis business we'll. Arthur Davis man
ages the company store and is assisted
by round dozen of busy clerks. One
store for 1000 people makes business and
they have everything. They turn out
from 1000 to 1,100 tons of coal daily.
LeMars.
Pierce Bechte OF LeMars has been
engaged this week in shipping his sugar
beets to the factory at Norfolk, Neb..
and has the shipment nearly COM
pleted Beets raised this year tested
a little better than those raised the last
year ond they yield about the same.
Mr.. Bechte raised 80 acres of beets this
year, and the return from his labor
will be exceptionally good. He is an
expert in beet raising and secures the
best results There is good prospects
that he beet sugar plant will be put in
at Sioux City, and IL this Is done the
profit will be considerably Increased
and will no doubt cause several hun
bred acres of this most profitable pro-
duct to be raised in Plymouth county.
Spirit Lake.
Farmers who are thru husklng corn
report a yield of from twenty five to
forty bushels per acre. In few In
stances fifty bushels to the acre is
claimed. There has been great
duck shooting on the fiyways the past