Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-04
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The DOingS of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

ItAPSbuituie u 9ot,iVU, the auultlOildi Gus
having come principally in furnishing
the building with all the necessary i'm
i rrovements of Il thoroughly up-to-dat
high school. 1t is provided with gym
Iasium, science laboratories and audi
tGrium.
Anamosa.
Last Tuesday lead ore was strucl
on Mr.. Andrew Nelson's place about
two miles up the Wapsie, on the south
side. MIR. A. H. Mcbride is sinking al
arteisan We'll there. and when dowI
2OI feet vein of lead ore, perhaps
to inches thick, was encountered. Nc
attention will be paid to the find, but
the drilling is going right on.
Cresco.
| Potato digging shows there is a much
better crop of the tubers in the count,
| than anticipated. 1t is claimed
that pink eye is attacking horses in thi.
vicinity. The Times says tbs
farmers are beginning to post notices
to hunters. On most farms hunters viii
have to get permission to shoot. or gel
iEto trouble If they hunt without consen
Of the owner.
EstherviIle.
The Republican prints view of the
handsome new Henry Coon block, a
three story structure that would be an
ornament to any Iowa city. 1t is the
best Building in Baskerville, and repre-
! sents an outlay of $4,000. The build
ing, which Will be completed December
| /. will be steam heated, electric-lighted
provided with city water and connected
with sewer.
MAXWELL.
peculiar thing happened the other
morning when the mail sack for this
place thrown from the flyer was ground
Under the wheels. A certain young lady
received an enovelope perfectly intact,
unsoiled and the seal unbroken, and yet
the contents were missing. 1t is mys-
terry to her how the letter could have
been ground out without the envelope
being damaged.
Hampton.
Chronicle: Several of our local nim-
rods have been sitting on the banks OF
Feeds lake during the past few days
together in nice mess Of fish before
the season closes. Last Thursday u. E.
Mckee landed fine pickerel that
weighed five and half pounds and l.
A. Myers caught one that tipped the
beam at two and half pounds and H..
Is. Phelps landed one Monday that
weighed six pounds.
Ottumwa.
Shortly after retiring one evening re
Gently Mrs. d. I. Cloudas heard noise
in her chicken house. Upon getting up
from bed and making an investigation
che found big burly negro in the house
busily engaged in packing her chickens.
into sack which he carried. When the
negro found out he was discovered he
struck the woman terrible blow in the
head, knocking her nearly senseless, and
ran, making good his escape.
Perry.
The fact has just been made public
that first cousin of our late president.
William Mckinley, is residing here Ia
Perry, opposite the school house on Sec
end street. Her name Is Mrs. Katherine
Roush, and she is now SO years of age.
She has been very Ill Of late, in fact her
illness was brought on by the death of
the president, whom Mrs. Roush dearly
loved. She was born in Brown county,
In, afterwards the president.
Ames.
The Times says: Excitement ran riot
in this burg Friday night when small
boy found two life-sized sticks of dyna-
mite with some fuse under the stairway
at the opera house, done up in news
paper. The boy took the dynamite to
Mayor Thompson, who in company with
Ricketts, went about to find the
owner of the same. 1t was finally found
to be the property of Warren Connett. |
who bought it for blasting purposes to
be used in his well-drilling operations,
and was laid there for safe keeping until
he should go home. And thus another
big sensation died a-bornin.
Council Bluffs.
Ernest Shellhorn, a young man about |
IL years, of this city, was shot under the |
left armrit and seriously and perhaps
fatally wounded while duck hunting on
Thursday afternoon at Lake Manawa |
The shooting was accidental and oc-
Cured about 2 o'clock. Shellhorn was
Lunting alone, and as 1t was some time
before assistance reached him he lost a |
great amount of blood. Owing to this
fact the information was given OUT
Thursday evening at the W. C. A. hos
oital. where he was taken, that 1t could
,ot be foretold with any degree of GER
ainty whether or not he would recover.
Indications are favorable to his recoy-
Try, however.
Davenport.
The incorporation of the Davenport
Spring Vehicle company, capitalized
or $4,000, seems to promise another
edition to the list of Davenport in
ustries The company has been quiet
working UP here, and has made it's
Preparations for going into business
Without asking for help or fayors of
onuses of any kind, and next month,
is stated, will see it actively at work
n the quarters vacated by the Emer-
on Fisher company some time ago.
he new company expects to engage in
he making of spring vehicles to an ex-
ent that after a few months will make
IS factory the center of a good deal of
ctivity. All parts of the buggies that
turns out are to be made right here.
has an option on 3-acre tract in
Vest Davenport, and will probably
uild there in the spring. Eighteen or
xenty hands will be worked during the
inter, at the temporary plant up town,
nd If the business grows as it is ex-
ected to the west end factory Will en-
10y a hundred or more men, n
edar Falls.
The Waterloo & Cedar Falls Rapid
transit Company has in contemplation