Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-05
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

| people to secure choice lots at MOD
crate price. Vacant building lots in
Clarinda are very scarce and high
priced, selling from $500 to $1,000, ac-
cordng to location. This will be the
first auction sale of lots ever held In
| Clarinda.
| OskaIoosa.
Mrs. Duf1in, who has recently re-
moved to this city from Grinnell, has
made arrangements to begin the erec-
ton of her new house on the site Of the
old Quaker church Immediately. The
house will be large one and will cost
| in the neighborhood of $4,000. 1t will
contain sixteen rooms and will be an
apartment house.
Carroll.
Charles Hermann hands the Sentinel
q clipping from the Holstein Advance.
sent by Fred Jatho, regarding the death
of Charles Schmidt of that place. He
was a remarkable man in size, being
but five feet six inches tall and weigh
ing 435 pounds. His chest measure
was seventy five inches and around the
waist he measured seventy eight inch
es, so that his circumference was
twelve inches greater than his height.
Davenport.
Monday was another busy one at all
of the abstract offices in the city. Dur
ing Saturdays rush much unfinished
business was left over to be completed
Monday. The cash that has changed
hands as natural consequence of
these many deals has been good indi-
cation of the tendency of the times.
Ninety-three documents We're Satur-
day filed with the county recorder and
the transfers footed up total value of
S179,270.
Napoleon.
c. Steinman writes the Press: my
experience SO far this winter with fruit
trees has been very favorable, no ma
terial damage having been caused. In
looking over my most tender fruit trees,
which are the Wickson plums. peaches.
etc. find that they are not injured to
speak of yet. The Ilirfen pear sprouts
of late growth have suffered to some
extent, but the early and more matured
shoots are in good condition, but there
is yet time between now and late frost |
Those who have trees to prune better
do it now in March, but do not trim
them While frozen"
Charlton.
The largest movement of real estate
ever recorded In Lucas county is shown
by the county recorders office this |
month. Fifty-five papers were filed for
record in one day, including forty war
ranty deeds, representing a total valu-
alton of $165,000; ten real estate mort
cages, three releases and two original |
government patents. County Recorder
Maxwell has employed two extra as
sistants in expectation of the rush of /
business which has just begun, as it is
known that over half million dollars
worth of real estate transfers have been
made this season.
Boone.
Saturday was a busy day In the of
fee of County Recorder Olson, that day
breaking all records of any previous
single days business in the history OF |
that Office. Charles and his efficient
corps of deputies and clerks were kept
on the keen Jump from early morn
ing till late at night. The date being
the first of March many changes in
realty We're made, and on that day, ex-
elusive of mortgages, releases of mort |
cages and instruments of other nature
there were thirty-one deeds or trans
fers of real estate filed, aggregating /
between 100000 and 100000.
keokuk.
James Conner died on Saturday I
night at the home of his sister, Mrs
John Harrington, of this city. He was
q member of Company A. Fiftieth |
Iowa volunteers, in the Spanish war; |
and good soldier. He came back from
camp Cuba Libre full of the miasma
which left number of the soldiers in
poor health. He is the fourth member |
of the company from Keokuk to linger
III Ill health for a time and then die
The cause of his death Is given as heart |
failure. A week ago he became very |
weak and his life gradually faded out
He was born in Keokuk, Aug. Is, 1856, |
and was reared here, where he had
many friends.
Upton.
Milton Weston, the railroad builder
and promoter, who few years ago was
engaged in AN effort to promote the
Upton & Northern railway,
died at his home in Chicago recently.
While interested in the enterprise
named Mr.. Weston was a frequent
visitor here. His failing health had
much to do with the failure of the pro-
ject. He was once a heavy railroad
builder In Florida and was the prime
mover in the South Chicago Belt Line.
He is remembered in connection with
the Murraysville case, and as the out
come of that he served Il term OF two
and one half years in the penitentiary
for Involuntary manslaughter." His
friends always regarded his punish
ment in that case as unjust says the
His death resulted from
paresis.
0es Moline.
Chief Mathis of the police depart
nent has filed with the city council his
report OF arrests, which shows
hat $40 people We're arrested by the
police in Des Moines during the month ,
VI February for the following causes: .
Assault with intent to commit great ,
bodily injury. assault with intent to ,
commit murder, L; carrying concealed
6; disturbing the public quiet,
I: fugitiyes from justice, 2. found In
lisorderly rooms. 20; found in disorder Ia
Y house, 800 held for investigation Fl
IS; larceny. 4 larceny from the build q
ng, /: lodging. Al; malicious mischief, {
!: resisting an officer, L; vagrancy 4;
city ordinance, 2; on warrant j
rom q justice of the peace, L. The a
month has been an unusually quiet one a
nut few burglaries or public disturb +