Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-29
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The DOingS of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

! ton OF the lumber firm of r. u. Middle
ton G. Co., were also filed with the re
corder Monday. They onange the pac
of business of the company from
Springville, Linn county, to Waterloo.
Humboldt.
I. Morris has invented an iron cut
ting machine that bids fair to max,
him a snug fortune. He already ha
on file an application for patent.
is light. upright machine that will
weight not more than 200 pounds, blu
has an extraordinary power and viii
cut off buggy ex with no difficulty
Further, the operator can hold the e,
and work the machine at the sam,
time, an advantage possessed by few
if any other machines of like nature
Alden.
The Times says George Foster me-
with a series of misfortunes at Iowa
Falls last week which leaves his fee
in badly crippled condition. His frs
misfortune consisted in finding some
body there who furnished him prodi-
lgious quantity of raw alcohol. His
tsecond misfortune consisted in getting
Ioutside of more of the stuff than he
lcould walk around with, and his third
misfortune consisted in going to sleeI
in an out-of- the-way place on the c.
/. s. D., where he remained all of Fri
day night and had his feet badly froz-
en-. He was brought home Saturday
moon in most deplorable condition
and will be unable to work for several
weeks.
Davenport.
| The per cent dividend declared by
the Grant Law Library Association at
its annual meeting a week or so ago
meant a dividend of $50 to Hon. John F.
Dillon of New York. who had taken
several shares of stock in helping the
| formation of the association that is
keeping intact and down to date the
great law library founded by Judge
Grant Treasurer w. II. Wilson for
warded a check for the amount named
| to Judge Dillon, and 1t came back to
him with mornings mail. accom-
panied by a request from Mr.. Dillon
that the amount be applied to the law
library fund. 1t was simply one more
of the many evidences of Judge Dillon's
kindly interest In Davenport and its in
situations.
Sioux City.
Capt. A. D. Bassett OF Sioux City,
who with his wife Is sojourning in Gu
ba. is not very favorably Impressed
with many phases of Cuban life, nor
with the character of the average Gu
ban In letter addressed to Col. A. d.
Collier, of Sioux City, dated at Havana.
January 10, Capt. Bassett declares that
the Cubans are veritable robbers in the
matter of overcharging Americans. II
have been around some and have been
robbed frequently as tenderfoot,
writes the captain, but / neve. saw
the swindler that could begin to imi
tate Cuban. Everyone believes an
American has one million at least. and
they do their best to dip into It, There
is no longer, honesty, virtue or courage
In the average Cuban. You can't take
their promise or trust them out of your
reach with ten cents. 1t seems that
the average Cuban would rather swim
die an American out of SIS than to es-
establish certain income for himself
of $40 day for the rest of his natural
life"
Council Bluffs.
Electric railroad promoters are again
locking over southwestern Iowa as
field for such investments and
have once more announced Council
bluffs as the terminus of several engine
les lines. One Of the proposed electric
roads would run almost directly south
from this city to Hamburg near the Mis-
souri, state line. This line passes thru
Glenwood, Tabor and Sidney TO Ham
burg. Another electric line, which is less
discussed. however, runs nearly directly
east from this city thru the southern
part OF Pottawattamie, Cars, Adair and
Madison counties to Winterset, where 1t
could connect with the Winterset-
creston and the Winterset-D es Moines
electric lines that are now being con-
Either one of the lines sug-
yested passes thru excellent territory
that now has inadequate railroad facili-
lies and could probably be made to pay |
fair returns on the investments. The |
Council Bluffs Hamburg electric line, |
,owever, seems to be the more certain of |
of the two, according to the
Nonpareil.
Dubuque.
An old soldier who makes his head
quarters about the court house went to
sleep on pile of snow in an alleyway
night. An officer who was
making his rounds came upon the yeter-
III who was almost frozen but so full of |
Whisky that he did not realize the plight
he was in. He was sent to the police
station and locked up in a cell over Sun
lay. Monday morning, when he was
up for trial. Justice Carney or
Tered the prisoner taken to the porch
eading to the station where the fresh
,ir could reach him. The veterans body |
Nreaked with filth and insects, his face
md hands were covered with a coating
Il dirt and his general appearance led
} the belief that the man had not in
'uiged in the luxury of bath for many
nonths. The prisoner was sentenced to
hirty days in jail and upon his arrival
4 the county bastile his clothing was
emoved and consigned to the flames,
While the veteran was immersed In
,ath tub and scrubbed with Sapolio.
fter being thoroughly renovated, he
vas given clean suit of clothing and
ssigned to quarters in the jail. The
-eteran is well-known character about
he court house. He has no visible
aeans of support, other than a small
enslon which he squanders for liquor
S soon as 1t comes into his possession.
lie make his home in q horse shed and
INSISTS upon what ever victuals he
REQUIRES by begging from people re-
iding in the neighborhood.
illinois Central Thru to Florida.
RecinninQ Monday January 1902 the | ;