Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-28

are very large and well filed out. Mr..
Sullivan takes great pride in showing
his field o"ycorn to his friends. Such a
field Of corn this year. or patch OF
good potatoes is better than half in
terest in a big gold mine, says the Tele-
graph. Mr.. Sullivan took good care Of
his crop early In the season, and had it
well along before the dry weather set in.
He thinks 1t will yield him seventy five
bushels to the acre, which at the pres
ent price would bring him about 81, 100.
Glenwood.
DIR. Powell arrived at home this week
from Chicago. The family will probably
return about September 1st. The doc
tor is busy preparing plans for the bid
ders on the new fire house at the State
Feeble Minded Institution grounds.
This new building will contain all the
fire extingulshing apparatus and also
have sleeping apartments for the boys
and officers on duty at night. The APP
preparation for the building and some
of the new apparatus is So, 900
Wilton.
w. L. Roick, residing three miles
north of Wilton. was the fortunate one
to get the pony given away at the Will
ton fair last week The little animal
was given away by Charles Stone, the
we'll known pony raiser and its exact
weight was 1923 pounds. Mr. Rock
guessed 1926 pounds, as did also the little
son of F. G. Shafnit of Moscow, while
Thomas Boot guessed 321 pounds. The
three gentlemen all being ali within two
pounds of the right weight another con-
test was pulled off between them and
Mr.. Roick won.
Carroll.
General Superintendent Ashton and
Division superintendent Slifer of the
Northwestern We're in town Thursday
learning the difficulties to be contended
with in building the new roundhouse. 1t
was found that, there Is nine feet of
quicksand where the roundhouse will be
erected, which is north and a little east
of the stone bridge over the creek. This
will only delay the building short
time, however, as the company's en-
gineers are repaired to cope with all such
emergencies and work on the long-ex-
pected roundhouse will begin ere long.
Mason City.
Saturday evening the track layers on
the Great Westerns extension from
Manley to this city We're mile. out of
Manley. With some good ticks which
they expected to put in this week they
should arrive in this city about Wednes-
day or Thursday of next week. They
are laying about 5000 feet of track a
day and the work will be pushed as
rapidly as possible. The track will be
laid over all contested right of way
without delay. The Great Western has
conformed with all the legal require
ments in these cases and altho the
courts may make them pay a little dear
err than the sheriff's jury assessed the
land. yet they Will not wait upon the
courts to put their track down.
Mt. Pleasant.
The city council has ordered a new
pump with capacity of throwing out
1000 gallons per minute, for use in
prosecuting the further search for suf-
ficient water supply at the city we'll. The
old pump would not throw out the water
rapidly enough to allow the workmen
to continue at the labor satisfactorily.
The water supply has been slowly in
creasing at the we'll. 1t is believed with
two or three wells there will be an
abundant supply obtained there. There
is some talk of making the additional
we'll or wells smaller in diameter. and
connecting them with siphons with the
main WE'LL so that when the water rises
to certain height in the new wells
they will empty their contents into the
main we'll thru the siphons. In that
way the one we'll will easily be supplied
by numbeMof smaller ones.
Osceola.
Mr.. Daniel Barry, of Ward township,
has already been bothered with pros
pective chicken thieves. He mas chased
two gangs away from his farm within
the last three weeks. A week ago Sun
day night three strangers. from a COW
cred wagon, were seen proving around
his poultry yards and he chased them a
mile or SO but did not get chance to
make them acquainted with the con-
tents of his shotgun. They We're evil
IDENTIFY professional chicken thieves
driving thru the country. Mr.. Barry
thinks every county ought to offer a
bounty to every one who successfully
lands load of shot in chicken thief.
This business says the Sentinel has be-
come nuisance and Is apparently the
easiest and most successful way for
thieves to make living, and it is no
small wonder that poultry raisers are
incensed.
What Tale IL Tells.