Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-05
The NEWS FROM HOME
What Iowa People Are Doing in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

10 Home.
cause he believes in employing home
people to do the work and he desired to
he put in a position to carry out that
idea. The Republican endorses the po-
sition he took and we believe hat 50 per.
cent of the PEOPLE of Grundy county
will back us up in this endorsement.
We believe in employing home people
at all times. Without Mr.. Mootys vote
the board Was a tie on the proposition.
Iowa City.
The board of regents have been con-!
sulting with architects in regard to-
lplans and specifications for n new med
ical building and have asked for plans
| to be submitted at the June meeting.
! They seem TO feel assured that the new
lcollcgiate building will be completed
and ready for occupancy by September
| next. An appropriation of $500 for the
completion of the track in athletic park
was granted and also $3.50 for the paint
ling the fence enclosing the ground.
| Carroll.
4 The receipts OF the Carroll post office
flor the fiscal year just closed entitle it
Ito be raised to a second class office, af-
1.-The first of next July. 1T was a second
/ class office for two years, while j. L.
4 Powers was pos tmaster but when the
wholesale grocery house left and a
number of wholesale liquor houses went
out OF business, the receipts dropped
4 down till the office was reduced TO third
lclass. But the general revival of bust
| ness has brought he office back 10 its
4 highest notch, as stated by the Herald.
Marion
1 The directors of the Marion Inter
/ State Fair Association held meeting
4 Wednesday evening and transacted a
j great deal of important business. and
A among other things appointed the
working committees for the coming
l.season. who will have charge of all the
ii work. These committees will get to
work at once and plan the specifications
for the buildings, fence ard track, and
4 as soon as the ground is in condition
Il everything will be in readiness to push
4 the work for the coming fair.
! Salix.
Louis Millette. a prosperous farmer OF
4 Salix, is the head of a rather remark
able family. He is man under mid
die age and his wife is not yet 81 years
old, yet there have been born to then
seventeen children. all of whom ars
). alive and we'll today. The last addition
to the family came several days ago, q
Ipair If baby girls. A year and a hal
lago Mrs. Mi,lette gave birth to twin
( boys Nearly all of the seventeen chill
u dren are boys. The mother is a hand
GONE woman and mas always beer
q strong and Well. Today she looks more
like a 20-year-old girl than matron o
La family of seventeen children all he
> own.
:, Denison.
Review: Judge ]. p. Conner ha
scored a victory over about 300 othe
congressman who are clalnorlng for III
e establishment of free rural deliver.
routes in their districts and has secure,
: the assignment of Mr. Thomas % Boy
liam, of Eidora, one of the special agents
of the postotiicc department to give TIL,
. Tenth district of Iowa his undivided at
q tention for the next three months. Mr.
ii Boylan was brought back from Colo.
RADIO TO begin this work for the Tenth
district and after short conference
with Judge Conner he has already gon,
to work beginning in Carroll ans
J Greene counties. In a few weeks tn,
special agent Will visit Crawford count,
land the real work of establishing TIL,
Iroutes will begin. The fact that Judg,
Conner. one Of the newest of the con
gresham, has been able TO secure thi
for his district is notable victory.
Onawa.
At meeting Of the Onawa fire de
/ rartment the old officers We're al re
!, elected as follows. President. II. i
Morrison; vice president. S. A. Howard
chief engineer. Henry Harland. secre
tary. Louis f. Paine. treasurer. Will
liam L. Holmes; foreman engine Y
Jividen; foreman hose. L. E. Paine
! foreman hook and ladder. Tenn Whit
more About sixteen members wei,
dropped from the rolls, most of then
having been removals The OnaWa fir,
department is volunteer organization
and has now been in existence nearl,
thirty years. ii has a first class recort
as fire fighters and its hose team hold.
the championship of the Maple Vale,
Tournament Association. which com
| lprises about twenty good towns ii
!, northwestern Iowa. : Mrs. Flstche
Howard, formerly of Onawa has beer
chosen president of the Des Moline.
Womens Press Club. She is also dele
gate TO the Federation of Women.
| Clubs. which meets in Council Bluff.
early in May.