Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-08
The NEWS FROM HOME
What Iowa People Are Doing in Iowa Towns
--Your Old Home.

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$4,000, and will live a retired life in the
future, Mr.. Daubenberger has made a
nice little sum in his deal and so Will
Messrs Brown and Lyman, for Cerro
Gordo real estate is safe property, says
the Photograph.
Creston.
The Biltgen estate property has been
sold to w. H. Lister, of Newton, Iowa.
The Biltgen property is chat located
Just east of the Congregational church
The consideration was close to $4,000. 1t
lis understood that the new owner will
Improve the property and possibly erect
La livery stable on the northeast corner
Fairfield.
F Treasurer Hopkirks tax collections
for January amounted to s1l,4s9.6O, and
are the heaviest on record for that
month. The Hoghton farm
three miles south of the city, has been
sold by Nj. S. Smith, of Barber county,
Kansas. to p. II. Fisher and o. W. Hos
|Irice paid for it was $4,000.
Newton.
j. II. Sanderson, superintendent of the
county home, states there are now fifty
inmates in the home, and their health is
good Two weeks ago no less than
twenty one of them We're down with the
grippe at one time Wilson Nj,
Robb expects to start up a saw mill on
his farm near Murphy by the first Of
May. The logs are being hauled for the
work now.
Davenport.
The case of smallpox reported to DR.
Preston Tuesday evening just before
the board of health meeting was that
of Louis Schroeder, of 1916 Marquee tie
street. He is 80 years Of age, married
and has a little girl 5 years Did and a
baby month old. The patient is a
stonecutter. He has not been away
from home much and does not know
how he contracted the disease.
Sac City.
The Sioux City Commercial Club has
eS6 members and will have an income
from dues of $4,000. : Louis Sill
Ncrman, the young Russian who com
mitted suicide last Saturday night at
GIL Park street had negotiated that day
for a steamship ticket for his wife and
child from their home in west Russia 10
Sioux q ty. He was To have called on
Monday and paid for the ticket.
Burlington.
There was a sound of revelry by
nigh" in a Main street resort recently.
The festivities We're Interrupted by a
terrific crash and a shower of falling
glass, One of the bar tenders ex-
claimed: Get boys, its Mrs and
they got. Soon after the bravest re-
turned and discovered that a huge pile
of ice and frozen snow from a neigh
boring roof had crashed thru the sky
light.
Mason City.
r. r.. King, erstwhile smallpox sus-
poet and sole occupant of the city hall
but at present recovering from a case
suf genuine measles of the good old
fashioned kind. will shortly be released
from quarantine and allowed to proceed
on his Journey to st. Paul. King was
taken from the Iowa Central train at
the junction a week ago and it looked
Very much al. the time as If he was suf-
sfering from smallpox.
Grundy Center.
Ex-Sheriff Freese recently refused SIS
an acre for his fine farnSn Colfax town
ship. The Republican AYERS that its old
sheriff knows when he has a good thing
and he will hang on to II With the te-
nacity of bull pup. That farm Will
be worth 800 per acre Mess than ten
Gears. The book fight which
time past has ended. The county board
of education met Monday and Tuesday
and adopted list Of books which will
be used in Grundy county for The next
five years.
Nevada.
The w. r. c. met with Mrs. Mcintosh
last Wednesday afternoon and made
four coNerlets and nine chair cushions
FOR the Soldiers Home at Marshalltown
Will Sheldon, who has for the
past few months been in an insurance
office at Oklahoma City, has just recov-
cred from a run of smallpox. lie had
a hard time in the pest house. when
was really a camp on the prairie. and
the doctor once reported him as not
likely to recover He has recovered,
however. and is out of quarantine and
is expected home soon.
Clarion.
The Monitor reports that a lightning
real estate deal Was consummated last
Thursday when Thomas Lund of La
Sale county, Illinois, purchased of c.
w. Young the Drew farm of $40 acres
in Lake township. Mr.. Lund arrived in
Clarion on the O'Clock train, went out
and looked the farm over and closed the
deal in time to return to his home on
the evening train. 1t was his first trip
to Iowa and he was very favorably in-
pressed with this part OF the state, as
his investment of over S1O,0 900 in so short
a time will prove. He paid $45 per acre
for the farm. possession to be given on
March /.
Algona.
Surveyor Lilly is arranging to have a
lot of county road meetings in the
county He is preparing thoroughly on
this question of how to make good
road hereabouts, and will cali the road
supervisors together in each township
and hold a conference as Superintendent
Slagle does with the teachers. His idea
is that little uniformity of work. and
a general plan, will greatly increase the
value of the work done The
Northern Grain Company has already
arranged 10 put in an elevator at the
new Plum Greek station on the North
western There is no doubt about the
pew town going in