Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-30
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

this people the past two Sundays an
is we'll pleased with the congregation
and the field. The action of the officia
board will be submitted to the con
gregation Sunday morning and if ap
proved by them an engagement will
be made at once.
Mason City.
Mrs Helen Dillon. who had mar
row escape from death a week ago b.
taking tartar emetic in place of wha
she supposed was Dovers Powders, II
now recovering and is able to be UP ;
: little each day. Her escape from
U death was truly miraculous and cam,
entirely thru the fact that she took ;
o heavy overdose of the drug. the guam
+ tity she took being sufficient to xii
Q three or four persons.
d keokuk.
Keokuk is to have a sewing schoo
which will begin at the beginning t.
teach children sewing as other sub
ijects are taught. The Gate City says
: tuition will be free and very thorough
The school will be in charge of one OF
the most skillful teachers of sewing
in the country. Mrs. Mary Miller, as
r sisted by one of the Keokuk girls who
: have made the needle an instrument OF
: fine art, Miss Hutchinson.
Iowa Falls.
Lester Boldly has been suffering for
Iseveral days with blood poisoning, re-
isulting from stepping on a rusty nail
that penetrated his heel to consider
able depth. :. A. j. Morgan re-
lmained at the bedside of his sick wife
for eighteen days, continuously, not
even coming down town once. That
woman we expect feels proud of her
husband. The town plat of Sher-
man was filed with the county auditor
last week. says the Sentinel.
Cedar Falls.
Lieut.. L. A. l. Chapman has been
Iordered to take the troupe, of which
he has been in command the past year,
at Fort Keogh to the Philippines, where
they will join the balance of the regi-
ment. They will probably sail about
March 15 from San Francisco. Mrs.
chapman will accompany him. They
would like to visit their Cedar Falls
friends before they leave. but think
lit doubtful, as the second lieutenant is
away from the Fort. doing duty fur
lther out on the frontier. where he was
call by the late threatened Indian up
rising.
/ Boone.
The Boone county board of supervi-
Sors has been canvassing the question
of erecting a new building on the poor
farm. and may submit the question to
n vote this fall. The poor farm con-
sists of 1913 acres of as good land as
there is in Boone county. The build
ings were erected nearlJ thirty-five
Years ago and We're used as q farm
house until 1868 when on April 10 the
first patient was admitted. The build
ling has been in continual use ever
since. The farm has good barns and
cribs and two good wells.
Waterloo.
| Nearly all the boilermakers at the
Illinois Central shops quit work about,
10 o'clock Tuesday morning. They
claim that their rights were being in
fringed on by the foreman giving work
that should properly be done by boil
Iermakers to machinists and helpers.
During the recent cold weather, an abb
normally large amount of work has
to be done on the engines in order to
handle the work. The shop foreman
has been crowding the work and has
had more than the force of boilermak-
ers were able to handle in the amount
OF time that could be taken.
Cedar Rapids.
Alexander Charles, who is connected
with the rural mail delivery service
and is now In Washington, d. c.,
writes the Gazette that Iowa heads the
list OF all the states as to the number
or rural routes established. Including
those ordered to be established on the
first of the coming month there is a
total of s62. Illinois is a close second
with total of ia. There are about
1,400 other routes asked for in Iowa
and petitions are on file for them. In
most instances they will be favorably
acted upon as soon as the department
can reach them for consideration
There is almost tie between the Fifth
and Third congressional districts OF
Iowa in the number of rural routes. |
either of which has a greater number
than any other district in the state,
The Fifth district, it is computed. leads
the Third by the slender majority OF
two.
creston.
We'll, this is the same old charge. !
Sheehan, you and Moran are both ac-
cused of being drunk, and / hardly |
know what to do with YOU" said May
or Skinner Monday morning as Tom
Sheehan and I. j. Moran appeared be-
fore him. Sheehan, or as he is better |
known, The Alligator" numbered
his local organs and pleaded to be al
lowed to leave the city for good. "Oh. |
but we can use you to good advantage
this morning" said the mayor, the |
streets are almost blockaded with
snow. and you and Moran can swing
a shovel for ten days, or else feast on |
bread and water. Mr.. Street Com
missioner you put shackles on these
fellows and see that they earn their
grub" But the mayor apparently re-
Tented as the men were being led out /
of the door, and calling the marshal |
said: Captain, you take this war
rant, and if these fellows don't leave
town inside of ten minutes, you get the
shackles and slap them right on.
Don't bring them back here at all"
The fellows We're profuse in their
promises to walk right out of town.
and the marshal went with them to
see that they did. About $50 the coat
tails of both We're seen flying to tho
breezes down the track.
Fort Dodge.
William WEIGH, of this city, pas