Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-07
FROM ALL OVER low
The D0inqs of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
n Your Old Home.

ID Home.
yet guess work. With that the Bur-
lington men are not concerning them
selves at present. They consider 1t work
enough and glory enough IL they sue
cee1ed in getting the new road built
from Muscatine to Burlington. Prac-
teal evidence of real progress is found
in the filing of large number Of right
of-way deeds here.
oskaloosa.
The city Of Oskaloosa has been sued
for $4,000 by j. H. Hersom. father and
next friend of Rex Tracey Hersom.
The petition states that the child,
four years of age, was permanently
and seriously injured by being thrown
down by defective alley crossing on
North G street, near D avenue. There
was q rupture and other injury caused
by the accident. The suit Is for $4,000
and the amount of the Doctors charges
for treatment, which will amount to
$500 more.
Belle PLANE.
Mrs. Novak. wife of Frank Novak,
who is serving a life sentence in the
lpenitentiary at Anamosa for the muir
der of Edward Murphy. is said to be
preparing a petition for divorce in or
der that she may marry another. The
man who Is said to have recently won
her fond affections came to Walford
with a car load of western cattle and
put up at the only hotel in the village,
conducted by Mrs. Novak. Their ac
quaintance ripening into love, has
reached the blissful stage at which the
date is set.
Mason City.
C. d. Wilson has had drawings made
of his proposed new opera house, and
1t is a contamination to be devoutly
wished that the plans may succeed. The
drawings show that the opera house
will have a front to match the Wilson
hotel and will be a very handsome
structure, sixty nine feet front and ex-
tending to the alley in the rear, dis
lance of 1865 feet. The building will be
four stories to match the Wilson, the
opera house in the rear and front of
the building being utilized for rooms
and offices.
Des Moines.
Lena Owen, of Altoona, has brought
suit in the district court against Chas
Elliott, a wealthy farmer living two
miles from Berwick, claiming $4,000
damages for alleged seduction. The
case will come on for trail in one OF
the law divisions at this term of the
court and promises to be sensational
J. in the extreme. Miss Owen has not
commenced any criminal action against
Elliott, preferring to bring him into
court on a civil action and recover from
him financially for the support of her
self and child.
J, Nevada.
Farmers in this county are beginning
| to cut and shock their corn, and thi:
j, process of handling the crop will prob
/ ably be extensively followed. An i'm
5 mense amount of fodder will thus b.
, saved which in ordinary years has BEEF
; allowed to go to waste. That the ne
cessity for such work. however. ha
brought the proper facilities was illus
trated by the exhibition at the stat,
fair of a corn husker, which takes thu
, corn from the shock and delivers tn
ear on one pile, the husk on anothe
i and the stalk on a third.
, Sioux City.
The monthly report of Chief of Pc
lice Nelson shows that 2S2 arrests wer
\ lmade during August and s2,23S collect
ed in fines. Out of the total numbe
} of arrests los We're for disturbing tn
peace, 101 for intoxication and % 70
tramp vagrancy. The report o
the city meat inspector for the montl
J Iof August shows that he condemne'
!. as unfit for consumption lao pound
: of beef and 80 pounds of veal.
Probably before October / the work o
tearing down the club house of tn
: Riverside Boat club will begin. and no
r long afterwards the work of buildin
I the new house, to cost between $500
and $4,000, will be started.
J, Dubuque.
: A sight that astonished some pepolt
9 but which did not harrow UP the feel
ings of others. was seen on the Sage
: vile road Sunday evening between tn
= City limits and the shooting park.
e was that presented by girl IL year
of age who was sitting on the stree
car tracks and so drunk that she coul
n not hold her head up. 1t was case {
q complete collapse An officer VIII
y CHANGED to see her, arrested her and sh
" ldNCA w SAS poaaSS SSetsAOAA 40 "a
: patrol wagon. She was arraigned be
U fore Justice Carney and the first thin
l. she said was that she wanted to g
home. She said that her home was
Creston, Iowa, where she was borl
: and that, since coming to Dubuque, sh
u had been working in restaurant. Sh
I. complained that she was sick and thf
she got drunk quicker this time tina
o ever before in her life. All she dram
at the shooting park was wine and {
y this she had only taken two glasse
i She presented such a wretched appear
ance that 1t was the opinion of tt
officers that she had been drugged, bs
e cause two glasses of red wine wou
y not break her up as badly as she az
If peared to be.s She was rather GOO
ID looking, but had a saucy appearance
h. 1t is only few nights since coup
Is OF young men came near having figl
" because of her on prominent tho
ID oughfare. The Justice sentenced her
1T five days with the matron, telling HI
e that, at the expiration of her senten,
8, she would be in better shape to {
% home.
Stood Death OF.
l. E. B. Munday, lawyer OF Henriett
D. Tex. once fooled grave digger. +
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