Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-01
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Allison.
There are seven steam shovels work
ing between Allison and Oelwein on the
Great Western improvements.
Hartley.
Potatoes are rotting in the grouns
very badly, owing to the wet weather
and many are digging their crop nov
in order to save it
Buffalo Center.
c. Il. Mallory received $50 black bass
from the United States fishery to place
in the pond III his park. He intends t.
have a good fishing place of his owl
some day.
Colo.
A new gas lighting plant is being
installed in the Evangelical church. Il
is the same kind of plant as the
one in T.. j. Caiver's drug store, the gas
being generated from gasoline.
Rockwell City.
After more than a weeks delay, be-
cause the weather prevented bringing
in the corn, the canning factory started
again Wednesday afternoon, and corr
came In so fast a night run was made
that evening. Prospects are that from
this time on the run will be steady.
Spirit Lake.
Mrs. f. C. Smith landed a fifteen and
one-half pound pickerel at Brownells
Beach, Saturday, which was served te
Mr.. Smiths Grinnell College chums al
the DR.. Brownell home Sunday. She
had the good fortune the first of the
week to pull in another pickerel weigh
ing eight pounds.
Diagonal.
Several farms tributary to our city
Ringgold county, have changed
hands in the past few days. ID. c. Felt
sold his farm of $50 acres at $50 pei
acre to Charles Graham and Mr.
Wright Of Taylor county, and A. f
Ruby sold his 1O4 acre farm near town
to Ward Talley for $50 an acre.
Perry.
A Perry boy has the distinction OF
having shot and killed a mountain
lion. Phil Dodson is the lad, and he
got his big game while out in the
mountains of Idaho this summer. One
day in July Phil was out hunting when
he came upon the young lion. perhaps
six months old. He took good aim with
his rifle and killed the animal instantly
Phil brought it with him as far as Min
neapolis, where he left it in the hands
of q taxidermist to be mounted. II
will be shipped to Perry as soon as
finished. The young lion, called kit
ten, is five feet in length, and is sale
to be a beauty.
keosauqua.
Alvey Duf1ield, who lives out from
Pittsburg couple of miles, picked anC
brought in sixty bushels of pickles las
week to the factory here, and he ex-
poets to bring in considerably more
than that this week. He has a patch o.
two acres.
Winterset.
A little child of Mr.. and Mrs. III. N
Foster, of Douglas township, last Sat
urday by some blunder took a swallow
of kerosene 1t was thought that il
the choking that followed, some was
drawn into the windpipe. The chile
was very sick for couple of days, but
factorily.
Clarion.
Not all the oats is poor this year
James Sturgeon shipped out severa
cars of oats from this place short
time ago that he says was sold to the
ioat meal mills, showing the excellent
quality of the grain. j. w. Shafer in
forms the Democrat that he threshe(
HOO bushels of equally good quality
which he will save for seed.
Cambridge.
A comical occurrence took place las,
week in the house occupied by Smiths
and Richardson's. Cries OF help, murder
and burglary We're heard and many
people, rushing to the scene, began q
search thru closets for the supposed
burglar. Some one looking in the par
lor saw the real cause of the disturb
ance to be large rat. A rat can make
himself very important when he
chooses, remarks the Dispatch.
Trser.
Charles Stoalles was elected princi-
pal of the public schools at Randolph
Fremont county, and left this week FOL
This field Of labor. He gets s65 pei
month as a starter Fred Nichols
and John Head settled with the North
western company for their cattle killed
by the cars. They got little over hall
what they claimed--sS2.5 for the eigh1
head = Will Farmhouse has rented
his farm of 200 acres, south of Traer
to David Dalziel, living in town, at s3.5t
per acre, for a period of five years
Mr.. Farmhouse and family will move
to Traer in November.
Hubbard.
Friday, Miss Daisey Boylan asked thu
school board to relieve her of the prom.
Use to act as assistant principal, as SHIT
H., "a ,.nooi,al an offer tn accent q like