Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-18
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

obtained, a gift from Marshall Field, OF
lChicago consisting OF samples of gen
crous proportions of lace curtains In
| fine and valuable sorts, tapestries and
|drapery goods, table damasks and
|lnany nice things with which to illus
|irate the work. This Is a line which has
never been taught in the school and Is
flor second term seniors.
Alden.
4 The Times says: THE leading real
world since the Hazel Boldly sale, sew
leral years ago, was made recently by
lC. C. Whipple. who parted with 4S0
acres of weli-improved Hardin county
land at the average price of $6s.76 per
acre, realizing in the whole transaction
the comfortable sum of $4,000. Mrs.
lAlice Warn, of Douglas county, ILL.,
nois. is the purchaser and pays $4,000
down in cash, the balance to be paid
within a short time. Mrs. Warn and
her three sons will take possession OF
the property on March 1.
Des Moines.
| Major Turner. of the quartermasters
department of the regular army, who
is in this city in charge Of construction
of the Des Moines army post, announ-
ced that he been authorised by the war
department to expend $2S,250 for
rifle range. Major Turner has practic-
| ally completed arrangements for the
purchase of $40 acres OF land which lies
two miles south of the post site. The
money which Major Turner has been
authorized to expend for rifle range
does not come out of moneys appropri-
ated for the construction OF the post,
but is from fund In the hands of the
war department for that purpose.
Tama.
The Free Press reports that the In
dams are unouestionably becoming
restless under the quarantine, but there
seems to be no way to give them relief
| at present. The appropriation, in the
emergency bill. to provide funds to
clean up and fumigate the camps and
replace destroyed property. is not yet
available, and even if ii was not much
actual cleaning up could be done while
the snow is on the ground. However,
as soon as the funds are available the
preparations for the work will be COM
Imenced at once. The Indians have GER
tainly behaved admirably under the
quarantine. tho they could not, with
safety to themselves, have taken any
other course.
Audubon.
c. Il. Mccoy, of Melville township
had a horse that unfortunately fell into
La we'll a week ago, and Mr.. McCoy's
Ineighbors. following the injunction OF
scripture to help the animal out tho 1T
was the Sabbath day, turned out and
assisted in getting the house out, which
they did without much injury to the
animal. Then last Sunday Mr. and Mrs.
Mccoy had all these neiXhbors and
their families, numbering in all about
thirty persons, come in and take dinner
with them. as reported by the Repub-
Ilican. The w. A. Sunday re-
vivai meetings have been continued
with unaagging interest. On recent
night there were twenty-five who went
forward. making 3&6 since the meetings
commenced.
Manson.
Water was struck in the town we'll at
G depth of 1.0S0 feet last Saturday
afternoon. The flow was strong enough
to raise the water to over a thousand
feet within five hours. To say that all |
Manson was jubilant when the news
became known would not express II at |
all, says the Democrat The drill was
working in sand rock when the water |
was struck and the drillers will keep on [
drilling into the rock until they are |
satisfied that the well will come up to |
the requirements specified In the con-
tract. There is little doubt that 1t will I
When the we'll is accepted the work of !
building new tower will have to be /
taken up. The present tower is at least /
twenty feet too short to give SUFFICIENT I
pressure for fire protection in the high /
err portions and among the higher /
buildings of the town. Then there is a
new pump to buy and that will cost at |
least $500. After all the expense is
over. however, the water works will
soon pay for themselves, as there will |
be great demand for city water as
soon as the work is finished
Burlington.
The tax ferrets employed here have
been authorized by resolution OF the
board of supervisors to sue In the name
OF the county treasurer as provided in
section 1874 of the code, or to defend
In any and all cases growing out of the
assessments and collections Of taxes on
omitted property under their contracts
with the county. There seems to be
little danger that the Healy bill will
pass" said a court house habitue yes
terday; 1.-The more the people see OF the
working of the system, the better they
like 1T. If the new law Is to be wiped
out, then strengthen the old law and
give the assessors the power to do what
the ferrets are doing now. In this coun-
ty the settlements now exceed 100000,
a fine raise, and that is not one-half of
what we may expect. No one seems to I
be hurt, and the people who do not have
to pay surely will not object To pass
the law now would be doubly unjust to
those who have come In promptly and
settled; it would be unfair to the coun-
ties which have made contracts, as we'll
as the firms with which they have con-
tracted'
keosauqua.
On the 9Th Judge Vermilion came
to Keosauqua and held few hours
session of court during which time he
signed decree confirming the report
Of the referees. ]. A. Ferguson. w. III. (.
Roberts and c. r. Norton, on the divis-
ion of the real estate of the late Edwin .
This report gives to Mrs. ;
Mamie B. Manning, widow of the de-
ceased, all of the real estate in Van
Duran county, which was appraised at