Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-28
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
--Your Old Home.

house when suddenly one of the horses
fell to the ground and expired without
"a struggle.
Sioux City.
William Gordon will soon turn his
attention to the beet sugar plant for
which. as has already been announced,
easterners are wiling to invest $35O,00O
IL s150,0o0 of stock be taken in Sioux
City and vicinity.
Ogden.
John Dixson is busy with his sor-
ghum and syrup business again this
fall. He says that while the drouth
somewhat shortened the crop or yield
of cane, the cane yields stronger juice
and that it requires less boiling than
usual,
HAMPTON.
sixteen cars Of steel have arrived for
THE Great Western and II Is expected
that work on the track will commence
very soon. The grading contractor says
he expects to have the grade finished to
the big cut about six miles out about
the first Of the week.
Grundy Center.
The Mutual Telephone company is
pushing the work of construction on
its new lire right along. Mr.. Odelf,
who was foreman for the Cedar Val-
ley Company, when their line was put
IN, has been engaged in the same ca
Epacity for the Mutual line. &,
Odsbot.
over 800 corn binders have been sold
|in Sac county this season. and many
more would have been purchased had
the manufacturers been able to fill or
ders It Is estimated that corn fodder
has feeding value of $13 per ton. and
the problem is to cut and cure 1t with
the least possible expense. says the
Chronicle.
Amss.
w. II. stevens this week sold his
farm, or two hundred and eighty seven
acres Of 1t, to Mr.. f. p. Smith. an 1lli-
nois man. This leaves Mr.. Stevens
|forty-flye acres which he may possibly
build upon and remain there. The con-
sideration was seventy dollars per acre.
and the farm Is located four miles east
OF town. MIR. Stevens has lived on this
farm for thirty-two years.
Jefferson.
John ]. Pooley's pacing mare. May
ola, made a great record last week at
Aberdeen, South Dakota, winning a
first and second money, amounting to
$500. in the 2:23 and 2:1S classes This
brings Mayola's winnings for the seas
on up to $1,000 or more, and places her
lin the front rank Of all the horses which
have ever gone out from Jefferson to
make a name In the turf world. ac-
cording to the Bee.
Iowa City.
At the Commercial club meeting
sTNesdsX night the subject Of park park
land discussed. In this matter. as it
was originally offered the acceptance
lof the proposition carries with II an
Expenditure Of many thousand dollars,
something like thirty thousand. AT
1.-THE present time the consensus of opin-
ion OF the citizens Of the city seems
Ito be that Iowa City should not. IL II
could. contract debts to that amount.
Under the present circumstances the
|city could not raise this money IL the
council and citizens were 30 inclined.
Alsona.
Howard Wilson had to have his ring
finger amputated on account of the SER
|ious accident he suffered. He went to
jump on a dray wagon and got up 30
that his finger ring caught on nail,
Then his foot slipped and he fell back.
the ring cutting the inside OF the finger
out. and breaking the bone An effort
was made to get 1t to grow on, but It
would not heal. : /. In the district
court the case OF Biging Va, Biging was
. curious one. The daughter sued her
mother to compel her to provide her
with shelter and keep. It Ia a Luverne
case. On account of not observing
some form prescribed In the code the
plaintiff was not granted relief
Waterloo.
Mrs. Marie Hanson. wife Of Peter.
an aged lady. has brought suit against
the city of Waterloo for $1,000. as dam
ages to her person from falling ON q
sidewalk on Commercial street. The
petition states that while she was
walking on the above named street
August 8. 1901. with another person.
the second Individual stepped upon the
end Of q plank in such manner that II
raised up and tripped her. This was
about eighty-five feet from the inter-
section Of Eighth and Commercial
streets. She fell In such manner as
to seriously. as Is alleged. injure her
head. side. back. right arm and right
leg, causing permanent injury.
rama.
julius Backen, OF Columbia towns
ship sold a single hog to Spire & Rus
sci. of this city, Monday, whichsweighed
525 pounds, and for which he received
q check for $32.SO. - : Thomas Me-
Coy. south OF town, brought to town
Tuesday and sold to Russell & Spire a
wagon load of hogs that tipped the
beam at 2,47O pounds and. at 1925 per
hundred weight, brought Mr.. Mccoy
$154.37. There were six hogs IN the
load their average weight being slight
lly in excess of 40 pounds. 1t Is prob
able that no load of hogs ever brought
to Tama was sold for much money.
1t is very questionable II as much was
ever paid for wagon load Of hogs in
the state.
Cedar Falls.
Four lads from this city, aged from
IL to 16 years, were at Waterloo Friday
spending money SO freely that it raised
the suspicious of the authorities of that
city, and they telephoned Mayor Rob-
inson for information in regard to
them. In the meantime the boys be-
coming frightened, came home Satur
day morning they were brought before
the mayor and claimed one of the num-
Der. found a pocketbok the day the cir
Gus was here and had kept 1t until this