Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-07
IOWA NEWS ITEMS.


Greene.
Last Friday evening occurred the an
Eual graduating exercises of the public
schools at the opera house. The class
:'sis yes numbered sx-three boys and
three girls.
Creston.
T. +. Carter was bound over to the
grand jury in the sum of $500 Friday.
He was arraigned before Justice Max
we'll for wife desertion and took a
change of venue to Justice Lanes court
at Cromwell, with the above result.
Waterloo.
The Reporter states that solid train
of twenty-eight cars of beer passed THU
Waterloo Tuesday on its way from ST.
Louis to Manila, where 1t will be used
to promote the civilization of the Taga-
logs. Matabeles and other savages of
those islands.
Toledo.
Review: The new Fee Hotel is now
Under cover and the work of lathing the
interior is we'll under WAY. and hardly
before we can realize 1t a handsome new
hotel will be ready for business in To-
ledo. Those who have not seen the new
building have no idea of its magnitude
or its beauty of location.
Red Oak.
Red Oaks smallpox hospital is closed
and the city is free from all contagious
diseases This is the report made by DR..
Thomas. the health officer. The last
smallpox patient was released from
quarantine last Saturday. This patient
was the hobo and he left at once for the
cast over the c., B. & @. tracks.
Clear Lake.
Work has been commenced on the adj
dition to the high school building The
contract for this addition was let to
Findlay Mcdonald for 900 and he will
have 1t completed and ready for school
when 1t opens next September. The
work on the heating plant will be com
menced as soon as practicable and this
will bring the cost OF the building up to
about $4,000.
Shenandoah.
j. r. Ratekln & Son are having plans
drawn for a big brick seed corn house
which will be erected on the site of their
old building which was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 10th of February
H.
feet in size, with basement and tive
stories. In addition to the brick build
Ing there will be number of big cribs
and granaries.
Fairfield.
Two Fairfield men, John NJ. Speer and
Z Joseph Oriez. have recently purchased d
grocery store at Centervllle and will re.
move to that place. Nearly /
month ago Michael Baum. an aged resi-
dent OF this city. fell from carpenter.
caffold while working about his HON,
and sustained injuries from the effect o
which he died Thursday Mr.. Baum hat
resided In Jefferson county since 1851, hi.
home being on a farm in Round Prairie
township before his removal to this city
Mason City.
Ii is probable that the work of paving
Washington avenue will be commene q
early in July, at which time nine block.
will be thus improved. Spenc,
Anderson and Ernest Winters, OF tni:
city, have to their credit one of the larg
est catches of fish made at Clear LAX,
this season. They went out Tuesday anc
dozen hours of perseverance nettee
them grand total of fifty-six pounds
mostly of the better variety, pike ant
pickerel. and striking nice average o
two pounds to every fish in the bunch.
Musca tine.
Work is progressing with all possible
CELEBRITY on the new power plant at thu
foot OF Oak street and the large dyna
mos are now being set In place by ex
pert mRchinists. The strong founda
lions for these massive engines hay
been completed and are regarded al
the most solid ever put in powe
house in Iowa. 1t having taken. beside
eeveral carloads of stone, over 500 bar
rels OF cement in their construction
The building proper is entirely com
pleted and the furnaces are in. Tire
large upright boilers are the first thin
to catch the eye OF the visitor as b
-nters the station and as they are On