Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-21
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Abba.
officer Reasby. OF Buxton brough.
Reed Hunt before the insane COM
mission last Saturday. He was sehs
to Mt. Pleasan, for treatment
Conrad.
The work on the town we'll is pro-
crossing nicely. The workman have
drilled to II depth of about eighty feet
so far with fair prospects of water.
Nevada.
Miss Cora Thompson is in Boone
where she has been engaged to deliver
lectures on art before the Boone County
Normal Institute in session this week
and next.
Rockwell.
The busy bee seems to have Well
improved the summer months amid the
blossoms and flowers and as result
thair hives are already loaded With
honey. says the monograph.
sieourney.
on the 10th of this month Samuel
Keiser will sail from Europe with a
large shipment of horses for the keiser
stables. This firm ships every year
from seventy-five to 100 fine horses.
ElIston.
j. Stubelfeld and wife. Of Bloom
ngton, Ill.,, We're in town this Week
looking for farm. Mr.. Stubelfielo
has "a fine Illinois farm that is worth
S125 per acre but he says man can
make no money farming land at that
high price as reported by the Register.
Eldora.
The Herald reports that some OF the
ladies of Eldora 'bowl'-that is they
bowl the great balls down the bowling
alleys The alleys are turned over TO
them for free use on Mondays. THOSE
who are over heshy hope the siren
uous exercises may reduce their avolr-
dupois.
Corning.
The officers raided the Adams eX-
press office at Corning recently and got
enough c. O. ID. shipments of liquor to
start a saloon. There were 14S boxes
of whiskey, forty-three cases and nine
kegs of beer. 1t is claimed that in
many cases the alleged conslgnees did
not order the stuff.
Iowa City.
CONTINUOUS rains IidNC put siiS
ground in such condition that WORK
on the new medical building was not
begun as was planned. oscar LUZ,
the foreman of the men who are to do
the foundation work, has been IN town
several days. and is READY to COM
mence work as soon as the ground dries
off.
LeMars.
Threshers in the northwest are pull
ing up prices to the high Point of las
wear This schedule is 9 cents a bushel
for oats, 3 for barley and 4 cents for
wheat A Plymouth county man said
recently, prices are going to remain
high all season. The threshers have
an understanding that . cents, cents
and cents will be charged this year
to everybody"
Carroll.
John O'Boyle, a workman on the new
Culbertson elevator. fell from the roof
of the office building to the ground, a
distance of eighteen feet. Tuesday af-
telnoon. Fortunately his fall was
broken by the scaffoding and his in
juries were not serious. He was taken
home and altho unconscious for some
time and considerably bruised, he will
soon be as We'll as ever.
Perry.
During the storm Thursday night
lightning killed three cattle for Henry
John Flynn, south of the city, T.. A.
Haley living east. lost a fine horse by
lightning. The barns on the farms of
j. c. Bryan and Amos Wright We're
struck. tho not badly damaged. 1t was
a severe electrical storm, lots of hail fel'
and the rainfall was over three inches.
Cedar Falls.
The Cedar Falls Canning Factory is
now open for the season, and 1T is /;
busy place. Last Week the supply of
corn was not large enough to permit
them to run only half time. The crop
is good and as soon as the farmers are
ready to haul the corn the factory will
be run at full force. One hundred and
twenty five helpers are there and they
turn out about forty thousand cans per
day.
Washington.
The Press makes this wet weather
report: Nearly everybody on the
Heights is raising carp in the cellars,
five TO six feet of water. John Jays
pup howlcd in the cellar all night, and
when j. j. Went down 10 kill it, foun',
lit on the top step of the stairs water
tapping it's feet, and ii was hollering
for Noah Three cases of typhoid
IN town up to Friday night. The Nj.
DIS expect quite Il deal of it. owing
TO wet weather and soggy conditions.
Centervile.
A caucus was held at Nrma Saturday
might and Il large number OF farmers in
that place and near it We're in at
tendance Matters of county mpoi-
tance We're BROUGHT Up and at the end
of the meeting II resolution Was passed
| that those present We're in favor OF
building a new court house in Center
| lille, to occupy the same site now held
nv the old one. at a cost of not over
| $4,000 The above resolution was.
nothing official being merely an opinion
of those who We're present.
| Nevada.
The Watchman says: Now that
threshing grain is at hand it may
| not be amiss TO state that there is We