Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-03-29
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Waverly.
Waverly paid a bonus of $500 "a On.
tablish condensed milk plant In thai
place. 1t has been running there some
two years ard its weekly nav roll ~,
labor is 1900. AT this time it has thirty.
six girls who range: from 31.10 to s1.5t
per day.
Villbes.
Steps We're taken at recent meeting
towards the organization of the Villisca
Commercial Club. About thirty repre-
sentative citizens were present and a
committee was appointed TO draw up a
constitution and bylaws. The object Is
to push Villisca to the front.
Denison.
he Review learns that the civil en-
Gineers OF the Illinois Central were in
Dentson early this week drawing plans
TOT the new interlocking switch, which
ls 10 De placed at the crossing of the
Illinois Central and the Boyer Valley.
ihis means quite a large expenditure
Tor labor this summer and also means
me permanent employment Of two
switchmen.
Dubuque.
The we'll known railroad man. Cant
j. +. Merry, who has been laid IN VIII,
rheumatism for about three weeks. II
now able to be out and visits his office
daily. A man named James Me-
Cracken appeared at the police head
quarters Wednesday, and reported that
he had been bitten by mad dog. His
trousers We're badly torn and his knee
was lacerated.
Aleona.
County Attorney Coheneur and the
5 American Express Company patched
up compromise in the m.ttterasf the
( whisky seized last week Tie condem-
nation was stopped and the company
\ se,,ds the whisky back to the shippers
/; and does not deliver 1t. The Upper pss
Moines says It is close question
whether the whisky could have been
held by the authorities.
Grundy Center.
Mr.. Wrage, prominent German
= farmer near Fifteen Mile Grove, was ON
the Chicago market last week With. a
fine bunch of cattle and a lot OF hogs.
The cattle brought him s75 per head
and the hogs went at almost cents a
pound. Four years ago Mr. Wrage was
strong democrat, but today he is an
ardent republican. He knows a good
thing when he sees ii, says the Repub-
lican.
Bloomfield.
me divorce case which was begun
mere Tuesday morning before Judge
Frank w. Eichelberge. is being con-
stinued today, with an Increasing inter-
est. Mrs. Hockersmith was on the stand
this morning and said that during her
entire married life with the plaintiff she
had been an object OF brutal abuse. He
compelled her to work outdoors con-
tinualiy-plant corn. harrow. pillow the
corn with cultivator. rake, shock and
stack hay and to do all the milking.
Davenport.
new home for the sisters will be
erected during the summer by Rev. J..
Z. Ryan for the sisters who will con-
duct the parochial school OF st. Mary's
parish, The building will be located on
the property on Sixth and Fillmore
streets. on which the school is also sit
uated, and will cost $4,000. The school
has been conducted heretofore by the
Sisters of Mercy. who reside In the novi-
tiate. After the new home Ii complet-
led another sisterhood will be chosen to
conduct the school,
Aekley.
The World says: Daniel Bolender
who was doing extra police dufy for
Marshal Behrens. had quite an expert
ence the other night. He undertook TO
arrest drunk. but was resisted. and
calling to his aid John Michnels. he was
being taken to the lookup when part
nor e ~ prisoner appeared on the