Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-12
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

| flying brick and mortar and coupe of
the cellar windows We're broken. MIR.
| Worthington's barn also shows evidence
| OF having beer bombarded by flying
/ brick. The chimney will have to he re-
built from the ground up and 1T will
! probably cost a couple of hundred dol
lars to repair the damage. The loss is
covered by insurance.
Abba.
/ "A. a. Mason. the fruit man south of
town, lad about 10000 boxes of fruit for
sale last year, and he anticipates as
large a yield this year. His cherry
trees are loaded and they present a
beautiful sight as the fruit is ripening.
Failure TO have rain at proper time
may affect his blackberry and rasp-
berry patches, and reduce the quantity
of fruit. He finds ready sale for all the
fruit in Abba and the surrounding min
ing towns.
Cedar Falls.
a large rattlesnake was killed in the
4 backyard of Lewis Block, Main and
Fourth streets, Cedar Falls the other
| day. His snakcship was cooled up near
q rosebush in the yard. Mrs. Shane and
a friend had been examining the bush
when the snake was discovered ready
| Tor war. a man passing at the time
came to the rescue as the Indies scream-
co and the dispatched the intruder The
rat,esnake will probably be sent to the
State Normal museum.
4 Correctionville.
William Conklin says he has been i'm
posed on long enough Last year.
said he, Il had two coyeys OF nice quail
on my place which ! thought a great
deal Of and they We're valuable Some
hunters came along and killed every one
and besides that killed a car worth sl5.
\ They left the calf in a creek and never
found the mlscreanis. i have some
1 gooseberries which have Deen preserv-
ing. Already before they are half
4 grown some persons have come in and
stripped the bushes. am tired of it,
Sibley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clement c. Cole. Of this
4 city. are looked upon as the champion
| Old married couple of this section If the
country, both being strong am, healthy.
| Both We're born in Vermont, Mr.. Cole
1 i'll 1913 and his wife in 1921. They were
| married January 1. 1910. and next New
| Years day Will celebrate the siXty-sec
| ond anniversary of their wedding.
1 These pioneers came westin lS45. They
| landed in Chicago from the old Empire
\ State steamer on July of that year.
and settled at St Charles. in Kane
1 county. where they remained until 1854.
| Som after that year they removed TO
| Iowa, living for a time in Fayetttc and
\ McCiregor. and for the past thirty years
| in this city.
Davenport.
Jos. r. Lane and w. L. Roach, of
| Muscatine. have returned from the
Texas oil fields. They are members OF
the Davenport Muscatine-Clinton syn
1 dictate that owns an oil property in the
| vicinity OF Corsicana. and Went down
| to look at their property. They found
1.-The prospect excellent for long con-
| tinuesl pumping of oil from their we'll.
l The price of oil is not what ii was, but
| there is money in sight, and enough of
1 it 10 satisfy them. Incidentally they
visited the beaumont district, and saw
ane ot the sushe.s gush. They are sat-
| istied that the Beaumont boom is a
| fake. ON SpinGletop hill there is; a tract
| of some 40 acres that yields gushers,
| and there are eight now there, but there
is nothing to be got but dry wells OUT
| side of that little tract.
Centervills.
Sheriff G; Il Clinic and Constable w.
5. sier mads. a trip Sunday afternoon TO
South Centerville and searched the
| places of Dough Roberts at the old
stand on Eighteenth street and Jack
4 Brown at the X 4 w. viaduot, finding
| Il ease Of beer At each place. The stuff
~. u I,tSfice.