Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-25
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

lished the herd two years ago there and
Friday sold off $4,000 worth of cattle
and at the conclusion of the sale found
that he had as many cattle left as was
the nucleus of his herd of two years
Iago, showing rather handsome profit
in the live stock business.
Waterloo.
Lucinda Johnson, thru her attorneys.
has brought suit against the Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids g. Northern railway,
asking damages in the sum of $1,000 al
LEGGED to be due because of the loss of
shade trees in fire started from a
spark.
Hartley.
Matthew Bush, travelling insur-
ance agent, has sued the town of Hart
ley for $4,000 .amages received in fall
ling over water works ditch and main
left in the street at a crossing in Hart
LEY last /. I. He alleges he was severe
Ily injured, including the breaking of
three ribs.
IMapleton.
j. NJ. clearinghouse has this week sold
his 120-acre farm just west of town to
Mrs. Ed Seitsinger. of Whiting. for a
consideration amounting to nearly $40
per acre. This is considered pretty
fancy price, but is in keeping with fig
tcinity recently.
keokuk.
The Women's Club has asked for the
use of the high school building for the
sewing school on Saturdays. Mrs.
George ID. Rand, president of the club,
presented the request of the Women's
Club, saying that there are 275 pupils
in the sewing school, which are 800
many for the hall now in use. She
asked for the use of recitation rooms
in the high school building. The board
has not yet acted on the request.
Fort Dodge.
4 Will Nichols was taken to the asy-
ium for the insane at Independence on
| Friday night. His many friends here
hope that it will not be long until he is
sufficiently recovered to be released.
says the Messenger. Even now he is in
full possession of his faculties the
greater part of the time. but is liable to
an attack of mental alteration. and It
is thought that the treatment that he
Will receive at the asylum will be bene-
fetal to him.
Council Bluffs.
The Union Pacific fast mail train
from the west, No. 102, brought in a
special car Friday loaded with 275
sacks of "black-strap" foreign mail.
The greater part of the mail was from
New Zealand, and the remainder from
Australia and other English colonies In
the orient. The mail was transferred
in this city to the Burlington, on which
road it was taken to Chicago and there
transferred to the Lake Shore line for
New York The mail was destined for
London and other English cities.
Wesley.
The World says: There is farm
Isale in this vicinity nearly every day
for the month of February. The pro-
iprietors of these sales In most Instances
have sold their farms to people from
eastern Iowa and Illinois and are NOV
ing farther west. This is the general
report all over the county and leads
one of our exchanges to remark that
next spring a great many of the farm
ers of the county Will not know their
ineighbors. so numerous will be the
changes"
Spencer.
IA. Aisquith, the Red Rosiene oil
lagent. met with quite a severe and
painful accident at Greenville Monday
iof last week. While stepping from a
dray to a car he fell between the two. |
a distance of five feet, striking on his
hip and shoulder In such way as to
render him helpless. He was brought |
to the Commercial Hotel, where his
physician labored several hours in re-
ducing the badly swollen shoulder to its |
normal condition, which was q very |
painful operation.
Davenport.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. It. Dittoe have pre-
scented to st. Vincents home beauti-
full new statue of ST. Joseph. The
statue was ordered at the same time
that the four statues We're purchased 7
for the Sacred Heart cathedral, but as
it had to be imported from Europe it I
took much longer time to get here. 1t
is made of white material trimmed in
gilt. II has already been placed in the I
chapel at the orphanage. but will not /
be blessed and unveiled until March 10,
the feast day of st. Joseph.
Shenandoah.
Last week young girl OF a respecta
BILE family, only IA years of age. gave
birth to child, the father of which is
not known or not divulged. For the
sake of other girls in danger from such
human vampires, the Sentinel demands
that this case be probed to the bottom.
Girls, too, need to be taught lesson,
that paper says Nearly every night
young girls can be seen running the
Shenandoah in company with
boys or men who have no respect for
womanly virtue or childish innocence.
Clarinda.
j. l.. Ingraham has sold his coal mine
to n. A. Boston the owner of the land
on which the mine is located. Mr.. In
graham will remain long enough to
the new shaft now down
about twenty-five feet, and the man ]
agement of the mine will then be
turned over to Jack Brewer. of Elmer ,
son. an experienced miner. Mr.. Ingra-
ham first began hosting coal from this
mine in September, 1900, and he has !
averaged about a car or 500 bushels
q day. The biggest days output was
993 bushels.
Clinton.
The city health physician thinks that I
the smallpox scare in Clinton Is over
for the present at least. if there ever I
was a scare. There have been seven /
cases in the city the past few weeks,