Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-22
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of the best improved farms on Bank
ers Avenue by any means. The barn
is Il Sood one, but the house is not equal
To other hodses in that neighborhood
Mr.. Bates bought this farm about
eighteen months ago of A. J. Gray at
$lS per acre, and the general opinion
WAS then that the price I.slid was too
hish
New Sharon.
Two accidents suggestive Of caution
reported by the Star: j. W. Irwin
had the misfortune to get his foot toe
near his horse while he Was stamping
flies. and he is walking With a cane
A. j. Stevens strangled While
eating. Il few days ago. and during
a severe spell of coughing. broke a
blood vessel and blcd profuses. He has
kept pretty quiet since then and has
steadily improved.
/ Clarion.
W. G. Tyrrell was in town Monday.
4 having arrived from Beaumont, Texas.
that morning. He is looking as tho
/ the southern climate agreed With him.
and also reported the oil business good.
The wells at Beaumont have stopped
| flowing and it is necessary to pump the
oil TO the surface, but there is no di-
minution in the supply Mr.. Tyrreli
is also interested in oil wells at Jen-
| nings, La. and these, he says, continue
:. steady flow.
Jefferson.
The Bee says: The records show that
three out of the five churches in this
lefty nave been struck by lightning
during the past four years. and Il good
Baptist brother told our reporter the
other day that he Just expected their
! turn would come next. How shall we
Eexplain this drive of electricity at the
sauctuaricS? Are the steeplcs too st
tractive. or shall it be placed on the
/ broad ground that whom the Lord
loNeth He chasteneth.' OF course
what is. is right.
! Woodward.
John Flanagan was the only man
' from Woodward who was in the
wreck near Rhodes. Mr. f'lannagan's
injuries are painful but he is quite
happy that they We're no worse. He
says that when he got up and looked
around him. he wondered If he really
WAS alive. He says he does not see
how so many escaped and believed that
had they been in box cars instead of
fat ones, many more would have
been Killed if not all II is his belief
that before the cars could be broken.
the force threw the men clear of the
wreck
/ Carroll.
| ON information received from the au
thorities at Ames last Friday Marshal
Chambers took into camp two youthful
rupaways as they alighted from the
train. The marshal asked them whore
they We're from and the young ladies
replied that they We're from Marshall
town. After the marshal had tho
oughly impressed upon their minds
| that they We're wanted at Anes they
concluded that they would return with
him. Marshal Chambers accompanied
them home on No. Friday evening.
returning home the next morning
Nearly every freight train that comes
INTO the yards unloads a half dozen or
more buns. and fully as many take
their departure from the city.
Newton.
Last Saturday, man who has rented
the old Frank Harvey bakery room
WIS receiving tDlleS nc MS contracted
for, and nearly all day wagons loaded
with apples We're backed up TO the
pavement and a dozen men We're busily
engaged in taking care of the fruit. II
WAS a sight We have never before seen
in Newton. and shows how big the
apple crop i'll Jasper county is this
year. Fruit men tell us that as soon
as the people of Iowa are convinced
that apples can be successfully raised
in Iowa the crop Will be immense as
there is no question that this fruit can
be raised aere us we'll as anywhere else.
Mr. William Brown thinks this is true
of summer and early fall apples but
that only Janetins can be successfully
raised as winter variety, and the trees
of this kind are short-liNed because oS
the immense crop they bear and hence
are not profitable.