Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-16

ing hogs in southwestern Iowa is illus
trdtcel by the success that has attend
ed T.. j. Buntz. living south of Shenan-
doah, who July 1901, commenced With
Il herd of 140 PIGS. He butchcred his
years supply of meat, and sold hogs
amounting TO $25oo during the year,
and now has more than lao. the number
he originally started with.
Monticello.
Polxins a strange horse in the ribs is
not always safe or profitable. Frank
Sutherland Il farmer living northwest
of Monticello a few miles, sustained a
broken leg at the stock yards last Sat
urday as result OF ii. He Was attend-
ing the Abel horse sale where he pur-
chased fourteen OF the horses sold.
! While among the horses one of them
stood in his WAY and he gave it a poke
| in the ribs to make 1T stand over. The
horse was startled and jumped against
Sutherland breaking both bones of the
right leg midway between the knee and
ankle The physician reports the frac-
ture of such Il character that Mr.. Suth-
crland must not expect TO get out of
the house for a considerable period of
time.
Fontane!le.
The apple crop around these parts is
prolific and many curly ones have gone
to waste. Several have driven down to
Ghanman's south of town and bought
"windfalls' at ten cents q grain sack
full. The school board met at
the office of President Bennett Friday
evening and for the third time consid-
fny. St 1,.i of he
new school building. There We're two
bids, one by Geo Mason. AT $500, and
one BY Chas ~ Wagner at $4415 Both
bidders are from Greenfield. The con
tract WAS awarded to Wagner and on
Saturday he furnished his bond for
$4,000 and entered into contract. He
Will commence the work Immediately
and have the building completed, il
possible, by the list of December.
Cresco.
The Times thinks this is a good time
to lay down the law prohibiting your
sons and daughters roaming the streets
and picking up associates you would
not allow To visit them in their homes.
only a few nights ago after nine
O'clock we saw nine young misses file
into a business house and commence
to jolly a couple of clerks employed
there. Every one of those young
misses, for none of them are more than
fifteen, ought to have been at home,
and their parents should see i'm future
that they are there. That same night
we met u number of young lads II to
10. who were not gaining any useful in
formation roaming the streets, and if
they are not literally ruined for any
good and honorable purpose i'm life it
Will be a miracle. Keep your boys
and girls off the streets at night"
Clear Lake.
The fine barn of c. NJ. Grimm. one of
the largest, most convenient and most
substantial in the state, has seemed to
lack something since 1t was completed
two winters ago. That want has been
supplied in the past week or two by
the erection of n cupola, which is four
teen feet square at the base and thirty
seven feet high. We get a still better
idea Of the magnitude of the barn when
we know that it is ninety-siX feet from
the ground to the roof of the new Gu
po!a and l07 feet to the top of the flag
pole. There is n fine view from the
four windows of the cupola-splendid
View of the lake. the town and the sur
rounding country. From the lake, and
coming on the railroad from the west,
the new cupola. towering above the
trees, has attracted much attention. 1t
gives the finishing touch to this mod
ern barn.