Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-04
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The D0ings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

The oil specn--tion craze has struck
Nest Branch ana an agent who IS max
ing that town reports sales OF 10000
shares. says the Times.
Fort Dodge.
The condition of John f. Duncombe
is reported to be about the same today.
He is still very seriously ill. Mr.. Dun
combe underwent an attack of apop-
lexy a few days ago, and since that
time has slept almost constantly.
Red Oak.
Work is being pushed rapidly on
Max Loeb's store and fiat on the south
west corner of the square. This build
ing will be of gray pressed brick, with
cut stone trimming. and will be one OF
the most expensive buildings on the
block. 1t will be 100 feet deep. full two
stories and basement.
Esthervile.
The Enterprise says: Estherville
never MAS as prosperous as she ID TO-
day. Buildings of all kinds are beng
nut up and a vast amount of improve
ments are being made all around town.
AN lines of trade are doing a good BIT
mess and every one Wiling 10 work can
find all he wants to do.
Carroll.
The location of the Great Western
lecture. The freight yards will be in
the east end of town. and from all ap-
pearances the passenger depot viii be
east of the Main street crossing At the
foot of Main would be an ideal place if
there is room enough, says the Herald.
Cedar Falls.
Ralph Christie and Roger Clay have
formed CO. partnership for the manu-
facture of gasoline engines and Will
Operations at once. They
have hired Harry l.. Thompson to be
their expert mechanic. Harry was
graduated last June from the mechan-
zeal DEPARTMENT of Cornell University
Ithaca, n. Y.
Fenton.
John Boon last Thursday sold his 800
acre farm two miles west of town to
some Illinois parties for $50 per acre
Mr.. Boen bought this farm from Robert
Pottage. about year ago for $a3.oo per
acre: it was at that time the highest
price paid for land in this vicinity. MI
Rnen receives an increase Of S11.o6 per
acre. or S369920 on the farm. From
this one can form an idea OF the In
crease in value of farm land in this
vicinity (kossuth county, in one years
time.
Grundy Center.
Messrs. j. NJ. and o. P. Strickler of
this city and some parties of Kansas
g.. 4 n
their mine in Mexico 1t is Very rich
in gold, silver and copper, and shoulG
the company conclude TO refuse the
offer and put in their time developing
the mine they would clean UP several
hundred thousand dollars. 1t is graft.
flying for the Republican to state that
the Strickl-r boys own one-third of the
mine and are bound to clean up snug
fortune in the enterprise.
Perry.
A. r. Jewell and son Earl, who are up
in the Heart river country in North
Dakota, forty miles southwest of Bis
have sent news to their Perry
friends of the finding of a fourteen-
foot vein of coal on their land. 1t was
found only within eight feet from the
surface of the ground. MIR. Jewell and
son had started to sink u we'll and We're
surprised to make SO big 4 coal discoN-
cry. There is a possibility that a town
will be located on the Jewell land as 1T
8 on the proposed new line of the Mill
yauliee to Bismarck.
Hampton.
Hal. Salisbury writes from the city
If Mexico, that he has a situation Will,
he street car company in that city al
1925 per month. which may look like
good wages, but when he has to pay 81
week for board, ten to twenty dollars
or pair of shoes, S45 for any kind of
suit of clothes, and everything else
n proportion, Hal. thinks that his job
s not such a munificent one, after all.
These prices are Mexican money of
curse, and are fair sample of the
we would be in if the silver
,eople had their way.
>resco.
The Times says: One evening last
week Will Tillson Went home to find his
hildren and two or three visitors Wild |
With excitement, and all trying to tell |
at once: after a short time |
e learned that the dog had chased
,ig rat up tree. He got a rifle and |
DON dispatched it. 1t is not often you
ear of a cat being SO hard pressed as |
o resort to climbing tree like squr-
el To save its life; so far as we can
earn but few people ever heard of a
at climbing a tree under any circum-
tances: therefore, it is very evident
hat the little shavers had q right to
re excited and all talk at once it WAS
n unusual thing they We're calling at
ention to.
darengo.
A call on Congressman Rumpla in
'hicago lately revealed the fact that so
ar the treatment given him has eN
eeded all expectation. and that by rea-
on of the splendid progress thus far
made, he is greatly encouraged as to
he outcome. Former Iowa county citi- |
ems in Chicago are daily callers on him
nd everything possible is being done
" them, to assist the captain in pass
ng away the time that otherwise
night prove tiresome TO HIM Mr.. |
sumple himself is greatly pleased With |
he results accomplished and with n |
of the same progress
opes in a few weeks that he may re-
urn home, and the genial captain shall |
e himself again.
,edar Rapids.
In response to letter written him
4 June by Mrs. c. u. Van Netchen, An