Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-18
Public Opinion on Iowa Subjects
as Reflected in the Iowa
Newspapers.
The News of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Different Towns
and Communities.

A gun burst in the hands Of Free
Lane, living near here. Saturday. Hi
left hand was torn off.
Cedar Falls.
w. j. Wood has resigned his position
with the Monarch Feeder and Stacke
Company and left for O'Neill, Neb.
where he has taken the management o
q hotel which his father has been run
ming.
Ruthven.
/ The farmers here have formed (
company to buy grain and intend t
build an elevator at once. The capita
is $500 and is to be divided into shares
of $40 each. The farmers have beer
receiving smaller prices for grain here
than at any neighboring town.
/ Waterloo.
Hon. S. III. Bashor, who has beer
mentioned as q possible democratic
candidate for congress, has entered ar
emphatic denial to the report that he
will accept the honor if rendered He is
travelling from this city Yor home
concern. and says his political ambi-
lions are not troubling him in the least
Alden.
The new Alden roller mills are run
ming, with frequent stops to see that
everything is in order this week. AS
the water wheels are not geared quite
right the power at present is steam
/ We hope to be able to present an ex-
! tended description of this now first
class mill property within short time
Richland.
AS she entered the house of Mrs. T.
Ward. her neighbor, Mrs. Elizabeth
Pringle, aged rs years, stumbled upon
the cellar steps and fell to the bottom,
breaking her skull. She was uncon-
tscious when picked up and breathed
her last within few moments. She
was well known in this vicinity, having
lived in Richland over fifty years.
Rockford.
/ William Mode, living just north of the
Fisher bridge, met with what might
have proved a fatal accident last Sun
day. He was on a shed in his back
ward and in some way slipped, falling
ten feet to the ground, his abdomen
| striking across the sharp edge of a
chicken coop. Serious internal injuries
were feared at first, but he is doing
nicely at the present writing.
| LeMars.
j. P. Reiger, an aged citizen, while on
ladder trimming trees. slipped and
fell and sustained a fractured thigh
bone. Peter Hames was thrown
from a buggy and had his arm broken
the horses being frightened at a train
approaching the depot. John
Buehler, the 12-year- old son of George
Buehler, was thrown from horse and
had his arm broken at the wrist.
Correctionville.
A deal has just been contaminated
whereby B. p. Mill. editor and publish
er, transfers the Sioux Valley News.
the local paper, together with the
printing business, to j. w. Roland, for
lnerly of the Nicola Reporter. Mr. Will
bought the paper four years ago from
". Jenness. now county auditor, and
leaves the business In a flourishing
condition. Mr.. Roland will take pos
session at once.
Laurens.
Mr.. V. A. Noble, who owns the Com
mercial Hotel, has had the same va
Gated and is now preparing to have the
same removed onto other lots to be re-
modelled and used for a residence. on
the lots where the hotel now stands Mr..
Noble will erect modern double store
building, of brick, the upper story TO
be used for lodge rooms or an opera
house Mr.. Noble has not fully decided
for which purpose the second story will
be used.
Manchester.
w. B. Duncan. of this place, now of
the school for the blind at Vinton, is a
remarkable character. He lost his sight
eleven years ago while blasting rock.
He has been an inmate of the school for
nine years and has mastered several
trades. His fayorite occupation is
weaving minnow nets and making
horsetly nets. He finds a ready sale for
them and travels during vacations and
from the school next year.
Dubuque.
Archbishop Keane's ordinance re-
curing the all-day Sunday closing of
the saloons and the abolition of the
wine rooms was received and filed Sat
urday night by the city council to act
on it. The committee consisted of
Mayor Berg, Aldermen Mclaughlin,
KintZinger. Firth, Marshal Morgan and
the city attorney. Alderman Knitting
er was the only member of the commit
tee who voted in favor of adopting the
archbishop's regulations.
Grundy Center.
James Gardiner sold his farm a short
distance east of town last Friday to
Mr. p. c. Weibens of Dysart, for s9157
an acre. The farm contains 236 acres
and is one of the best, location and all
considered, that there is in this section,
altho there are others doubtless just
as good. The price for this farm is the
highest by nearly SIS an acre that has
been paid for farm lands in this locali-
ty and will doubtless have an incen-
tive to increase the price of lands here
abouts.
Wall Lake.
AS Mr. and Mrs. Joel johnson and
Miss Jennie Brown were driving into
town about o'clock, Thursday, their
team became frightened at a moving
wagon and became unmanageable and
ran away, throwing the occupants off a
high embankment into the ditch. Mr.
and Mrs. Johnson were not much hurt,
hut Miss Brown received some severe
bruises about her head, and is also
hurt about the body. She was taken
10 the Hotel Swan and is resting quite
Carroll.
The Windsor Hotel has been sold to