Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-14
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

ordeal than did the boys. The at
tendance at school has been cut dowr
presumably on account of the smallpox
scare. Some 200 youngsters can not Dc
accounted for by their teachers.
Grundy Center.
During the past two years Mr. S. u
Druck has erected several houses and
barns on Governor Boies ranch near
town at cost of $4,000. 49, Revival
meetings are in progress at the Method
st church with good results.
Nevada.
Waterman: Next Wednesday r. A.
Ely and wife, who are now In Mar
|shalltown, expect to start on trip OF
some three months thru the west and
south, portion of the itinerary being
thru New Mexico and California.
Mt. Pleasant.
DR.. Hancher has received check for
81. 900 from Mr. Musser, of Muscatine.
for the benefit of the college. This is
the donation DR.. Stafford referred to
last commencement which member of
his church in Muscatine had agreed to
give.
|Clarinda.
Enos Young, of Braddyville, and Ma
than Gipson, the latter an inmate OF the
poor house, were brought before the
commissioners of insanity during the
past week and adjudged insane. They
have been committed to the state hos
pital.
cresco.
The board of supervisors engaged Nc
Coy and Schlicher as tax ferrets to look
up that business in Howard county.
They have been engaged in this bust
ness for the past two years and come
highly recommended as fair men. They
will begin work soon.
Alta.
Shall the town of Alta erect and
maintain heating plant to furnish
steam heat to all the houses that may
desire it, is question that may be sub
mitted to Alta voters coon. The matter
ia being discussed now and will proba-
bly, be formally presented at public
meeting soon to be called.
Reinbeck.
According to the Standard, the Unit
ed Presbyterians are rejoicing that they
are no longer to be regarded as mis-
SION church, but will henceforth be al
together self-supporting. Their gifts
this year will amount in all to nearly
s.. 000 In three years their membership
has grown from twenty EIGHT to 100.
Waterloo.
A pair Of Missouri mules, animals az
wide as a wagon" were sold to Mark
Cat Jnpy af ta~
noon by Auctioneer Holland for $3.50,
without the harness! These were no or
binary critters, more ears than body,
but monsters man-high, weighing $500
pounds. The mules we're the king bees"
of bunch of big ones fresh from Mis-
souri,. The price of the others was al
titudinous, but not more than their
worth.
M axwelI.
The Tribune says: THE hog market
is on the bo6m just now and there does
not seem 10 be any probability that the
boom will abate any ways soon, as some
of the big stock men and even Chicago
commission men are predicting cent
hogs. AS an example of what an inn
mensc value there is in hogs just now,
T. V. Starr marketed wagon load of
hogs the other day that brought him
over $140. A pretty good load Of prod
uce, sure"
Wall Lake.
The Blade says: THE citizens of this
town were surprised when they learned
that Mrs George Swan, landlady at the
Swan hotel, had applied for a divorce.
1t was supposed by all that there was
IL hot
loved and respected each other more
than Mr.. and Mrs. Swan. We under
stand divorce was granted at the
present term of court at Sac City this
week on the ground Of cruel and jnhu
man treatment.
Eldora.
Word has just been received here that
D. S. Dewitt. the young Providence
township farmer who went to the peni
Tertiary for forgery, had been pardoned
by Governor Shaw and will receive his
freedom about the 23d Of February. The
plea was made to the governor that the
young man was farmer who had pre-
viously borne good reputation and
that he would undoubtedly lead bet
ter life II he were allowed to have his
sentence committed.
Oskaloosa.
Mics Lizzie Hutchinson, of near Indi-
annapolis. who walked out into the cold
winter night with only her night cloth
ing for protection, supposedly In her
sleep, has been examined by the COM
missloners for the insane and has been
taken to Mt. Pleasant for treatment. 1t
is thought that the condition was
caused by the shock of awakening from
her somnambulistic state and finding
her condition and being In strange
place. Her mind is completely unbal-
Rockwell City.
Rockwell City is to have sewerage.
The council at its Monday night meet
ing, appointed Mayor Hunter as COM
mittee to secure competent engineer
to make surveys and find a proper out
let for a sewerage system for Rockwell
City, one that will be large enough for
the future as well as the present needs
of the town. This is the first step in the
direction of a movement that has long
been talked about in the town, and one
of the most important ever made as af-