Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-16
Those Who Did Not Move Away
Are Doing Something
Every Day.
The News Of Iowa From Hun.
dreds Of Different Towns
end Communities.

Thor.
/ Threshing has been going on livel.
for the past week but the recent rail
put 4 stop 10 it. Grain yields fairl.
Well
oskaloosa.
The city council at its recent meet
ing voted to advertise for bids for tn
laying of seventeen blocks of brio
paving.
Esthervile.
The committee having in charge tn
street carnival have Indefinitely post
poned the same because of lack of in
terest of the people in general
Graettenger.
Senator Dolliver sold his 500 acres o
land in Twelve Mile Lake township L
L. c. Kent. c. S. George. Nj. Romsdah
and John Bondhus. The considera
ton was about S35 per acre.
Bonaparte.
A forty foot steamer assembled tn
Des Moines river as far as Bonapart
the LIST inst 1t was the Helen from
| Nlontrose. and had been in use recent
ly as Il ferry boat between Croton ant
Athens.
Somers.
Last Saturday evening a car load o
| beer was placed on the sidetrack of thu
C.. & n. w. and Monday morning wher
| they went down to unload it they founC
that the seal had been broken and {
lease OF beer stolen out.
Ames.
Superintendent G. l. Miller, of the
city schols. released the board from
their contract with him for this yeal
and the board is now looking for a neY
| superintendent. Schools commence the
| first week in September.
Forest City.
President Wheeler of the fair asso-
citation has had II force of men and
teams at work the past week on The
dition. Everything possible is being
cess.
GoodeII.
A. ID. White, formerly of Goodell. but
now residing at Tonkawa, oklahoma
recently lost his grain elevator at that
place by fire--caused from the eXi,lod-
ing of the gasoline engine. Mr. White
Will be quite a heavy loser altho the
property was partly insured.
Grundy Center.
l.. l.. Henningsen, of Fairfield town
ship, within the past week suffered the
loss of twelve head of sheep, which
We're killed during the night by dogs
There are about many others in his
flock whose legs are badly bitten. Mr.
Henningsen does not know whose dogs
have been doing the mischi1t
Waterloo.
The restaurant walters of this city
will hold meeting in Central Labor
hall at o'clock this evening to fur
Their arrangements for the forming of a
union here. All walters who are inter-
ested in the movement are asked to he
present if possible, as an organizer will
be in attendance to address the assem-
blage.
Perry.
Monday morning Anthony Capp
Went out to NOW ON his farm north
east of town. At noon his team came
to the barn alone. A search was in
stigated and 1t WAS after two o'clock
when his mangled body was found. 1t
is supposed that the team ran away
or MIR. Capp was somehow thrown out
in front of the sickle and thus came
to his sad death.
Reinbeck.
The Pilgrim Hotel has changed
hands. j. l.. Reynolds, of Dixie, who
has had eighteen years experience in
the hotel business, is the buyer. He is
a brother of Charley Reynolds, of
Grundy Center. Possession is TO be
given on the 9th of this month, at
which time the present landlord and
his family expect TO move to Texas,
says the Standard.
Hampton.
When returning from South Dakota
last Friday, l.. b. Raymond stepped off
the train at Goldfield to get a drink at
the flowing Well on the opposite side of
the track from the depot and in climb
ing onto the high step of the car
sprained his knee in some unaccount-
able manner so that he has not only
been on crutches ever since, but has
been confined to the house most of the
time.
Newton.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. A. Long had a scare
on a recent morning that they will re-
member for some time. Mrs. Long got
up first, about six o'clock and lit the
gasoline but something was wrong with
it for all the oil in the tank was soon
on fire; she screamed and Frank came
down and with the assistance of some
neighbors succeeded in putting out the
fire with flour. The damage to the
curtains, paper, floor and cupboard will
be about $40.
Maxwell.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Mckay, of Meadow
Grove, Nebraska, who have travelled
thru Colorado, California and a num-
Der of other western states this sum-
mer and have also travelled in the east
have written to their nephew, S. T..
Cooper, to secure a house in Maxwell
for them as they wished TO make this
their future home. They have visited
the best of any town they have ever
seen. This is quite a compliment for
the town as we'll as for the state
Toledo.
Not long ago the deputy fish commits
sloner Went SEEMING for fish and his
PARTY managed TO get several fish not
worth noticing. Now the law seems to
require permit to seine and the pres
ence of the fish commissioner or his
deputy, but there We're fishing parties
that took no notice of the law
and a law unnoticed is worse than no
law. These latest fishing parties We're
eminently successful in catching fish
by the shoal and as successful in put
ting game fish back into the rivers. 1t