Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-08
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Sidney.
Rev. Conn. the evangelist, who con-
Quoted meetings here a year ago, will
be in Sidney. April 8. and begin meet
IiEgs in the Presbyterian church.
Missouri Valley.
During the month of March the car
rier on rural route No. 1, running out
of this city, handled s,S45 pieces of
mail OF this amount 1852 pieces were
delivered and 1913 collected.
Loasn.
On Wednesday evening, April 9, Lo-
gan lodge No. 100, X. of p, will have as
their guest the grand chancellor Of
Iowa, and they have invited the Wiota
and Atlantic lodges to be with them.
California Junction.
The farmers in the vicinity of Cali
fornia Junction are making arrange
ments to put in a large crop of sugar
beets this year Contracts are now be-
ing let with laborers to tend the beets.
keosauqua.
Ernest Miller, an old resident of Keo-
kuk county. was found dead in his bed
last Tuesday morning at his home. five
miles northeast of Fremont. Heart
trouble was supposedly the immediate
cause of his death.
Bows.
After July next, the salary of the
Bows postofIice will be increased from
$1,000 to s1,400 per year. The receipts
the past year We're nearly $500 more
than for the preceding year. The pres
ent salaries of the Clarion and Belmond
offices are $1,000 and s1,40O respective
~.
Waterloo.
The much talked Of Fredsville- Wa
terloo road is assured The amount of
money necessary to pay the damages
awarded by the commissioners to farm
passes, has been secured and was
placed in the hands of the county audi
tor last week.
Tabor.
The Herring Homeopathic college Of
Chicago has offered scholarship val
l ed at 5000 to Tabor college students.
The test for the successful student will
be one of scholarship. DR.. e. e. Harris
of the executive committee of the Ia
Dor college trustee board, believes that
he will secure similar offers from other
medical schools
Shenandoah.
The fiscal postal year just ended for
the local office shows it to have been a
gain of % per cent over the business of
the year ending March 81, 1901. The
total volume of business for the year
ending March 81 this year was $3.50
the largest of any postoffice in the
Eighth district except Creston, and
that has not yet reported
cIarinda.
w. P. Ferguson, of Shenandoah has
been in the city for the past few days
preparing his appeal for the j. w. Sale
murder case. He says he is confident
that he will get reversal in the SUI
preme court The principal point which
he relies on is the speech of the county
attorney and the fact that Judge w. r.
Greene submitted the question of MUIR
der in the first degree to the jury
Missouri Valley.
The Northwestern will shortly put on
I. new passenger train, which will fill a
long felt want for the citizens on the
west side of the county. The train will
stop at all stations on the west side and
Il: will then be possible for residents of
that part of the county to come here or
go to the county seat and return home
the same day. 1t will also be convent
ent for those who wish to go to Council
Bluffs and Omaha in the latter part of
the forenoon.
Muscatine.
Another hold-up took place Tuesday
night about il o'clock in the alley near
the brewery on Sixth and Mulberry
streets, in which William Mcneil, a
stranger in the city, was touched for
$50. He was going to the brewery and
when he and his two companions
reached the alley, they they turned into
tn Galley, claiming that they would
have to go In by the back way, AS
soon as they were In the alley one Of