Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-11

ir keeping with the occasion. The din
ing table was laden with the viands
which are particularly attractive to the
negro appetites each guest filling the
plate prepared and going into the other
rooms to partake of the chickens. ginger
bread, watermelons, etc. When the roll
was called and the responses made to
the fancy names, 1t was found that @.
II. Dayton claimed to have made way
With twenty-five pieces of watermelon,
the next highest being fourteen. Harry
Williams carried the palm for being the
best niger, and Prof. Fitzgerald and
Miss Mabel Dayton have the prize for
the best accomplishments in the cake
walk.
CenterviIIe.
A belated marriage announcement
that occasions great surprise among the
many friends of the young couple in
this city, is that of Miss Kate Edwards,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan Ed
wards of Sharon township. and Charles
Pewthers, son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. G..
Pewthers, of East State avenue. this
city. The marriage took place at Bloom
field on Tuesday November Is, 1900, al
most year ago. Until very recently
no one knew of the affair outside of
the persons Immediately connected with
the event except one intimate friend
who resides in this city. Mr.. Pewthers,
the groom. has been in Oklahoma and
Indian Territories for several months
and is now nicely located at Mounds,
I. r., in the drug business. His wife
leaves Tuesday for Mounds, where a
home already furnished for occupancy
is awaiting her. The marriage was kept
a secret on account of the objections
of the groom's parents who thought
their son was too young to marry.
Sioux City.
A deed was filed Monday transferring
461 acres of land northeast of the city
for $4,000, almost 500 per acre. John
Mulhall sold the big farm. and w. H.
Anderson, of Mclean county, H.,
bought it. The 500 mark is about the
highest that has been reached for strict
ly farm lands in this vicinity during
the boom. However, the property sold
lies within a quarter of a mile Of the
extreme limits of the city. Part of it
is in section /, of this township, and
the remainder lies In section 36, of Perry
township. in Plymouth county. - An
average price of about s65 per acre was
paid Monday in four big deals in bottom
lands between Salix and Sergeant
Bluffs. Menard brothers who contem-
plate removing here from Illinois. We're
the purchasers. and they expect to pick
up nearly as much more land before
they stop buying. Alfred Menard bought
two far,ns-the Cowan farm of $40
acres. four miles east of Sergeant Bluffs.
at SO an acre, and the Lambert farm
of 800 acres, four miles north of Salix,
for $50 an acre. George Menard bought
the big Ladd farm of 500 acres at $50
per acre. A. B. Menard bought the
Webster farm of 260 acres at S65 an acre.
The three brothers We're in the city this
morning to close the deals We have
much confidence in Woodbury. county
bottom lands said Alfred Menard,
land two other brothers now in Illinois
expect to come here and buy lands near
ours II possible. We figure that this
soil here is much more valuable and
productive than any Illinois soil at high
er prices, and 1t is we'll situated at two
markets. Sioux City will make all this
section more valuable still some day.