Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-23
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

more than any single railway station in
Island in this city. WORK was begun
Monday tearing away the old station.
Montezuma.
The Democrat states that the pro-
tracted meetings at this place are still
in progress in all the churches. Sew
eral have been converted and much in
terest has been shown in the meeting.
Avery.
As reported by the Abba Union an ep-
idemic of smallpox has broken out
round about Avery, which is keeping
the doctors busy attending. Several
cases are reported from Smoky Hollow
been closed for an indefinite period to
prevent the spreading of the disease.
Waterloo.
The board OF supervisors say posi-
lively there will be no clock in the new
court house unless the city Of Waterloo
buys it. The members say they have
spent all the money at their disposal
and have no intention of placing clock
in the tower. If Waterloo wants the
clock she will have to get out and hustle
for 1t.
Collins.
The Liberator says that during the
year 1901 two hundred and twenty-five
cars of live stock We're shipped from
Collins. This a greater number OF cars
than were shipped from any other sta
ton on the main line the same time,
with the single exception of Nicola,
which shipped an equal number of cars
with Collins The grain shipments were
S34 cars.
Dubuque.
The big coal chutes which the Illinois
Central constructed in their yards in
this city, are now about finished and
ready for use. The chutes cost about
sos GOO ard will be a great convenience
to the company in filling tenders with
coal s'' The snow storm that visited
Dubuque Monday and last night was
general turnout the northwest. In Du-
buque three and half inches fell-sufs
ficient to make good sleighing.
Northwood.
Anchor: George Hanson, who Is said
to have conducted a blind piggery' for
three years past at Fertile. with being
three years past at Fertile, with being
He was indicted for maintining null
50 nee, and on plea of guilty Judge
Clyde assessed fine of $3.50, $25 attor-
rey's fees and the costs of the case; or
to Imprisonment in the county Jail for
112 days. There were no pleas for LEM
iency in this case. nor have we heard
any expressions of sympathy. Behind
the bars and at work on stone pile Is
where all boot-leggers should be plac-
ed
Boone.
On Monday real estate firm here
sold three OF the best farms in Boone
county and one on Tuesday The Hoist
farm north of Boone consisting Of 300
acres was sold to Mr.. w. c. Sparks for
over $4,000. Thomas Pritchard bought
q farm two miles south of Beaver for
SIS, 900. The farm consisted of 160 acres
of well improved land. The so acres be-
longing to Mr.. II. O. Ahrens We're sold
to Adolph Ahrens for $3.50 per acre
and the j. U. Johnson farm northeast
of Boone was sold Tuesday to Mr.. II. o.
Ahrens for SOL per acre. This was 120
acre farm.
In reporting district court news the
press says: It's bad enough to "break
into our JAIL" but Bladder" to break
out, as Sam Williams, OF Kalona, finds
out He gets a fine Of $1,000, l. e., a
years stay in that bastile. In
dictments were returned against Her
man Jacoby. adultery: Cora Miller:
leading lewd life at Washington House;
Joe Warner and Joe Wright, stealing
hides from Gerot & Ford's slaughter
house and selling them in Cedar Rap
ids: Dick Flanagan, of Ainsworth,
perjury in denying he was at ganbl-
ing house, bond $4,000.
Council Bluffs.
The health authorities took a fresh
grip on the smallpox situation Monday
when they discharged about a dozen
more patients than were quarantined
on that day. Those who We're discharg-
ed We're the Usher families, JEFF Perkins
the Burke families and the Quade fam
lily at Cut Off. With the exception of
JEFF Perkins and the Quade family, all
of the other families had at least two
cases of the disease, while in Ed
Burke's family every member was sick
Of the disease. The new cases reported
yesterday We're o. H. Anton; four
child of Mr.. and Mrs George
Gretzer and John McSorley.
Sioux City.
Two men have been recruited in
Sioux City for the hospital corps of the
United States, the first that have been
recruited here in two or three years.
They are both from Detroit and their
names are Jacob M. Stevens and An
thony r. Elmer. The former Is nurse
by profession and the latter wood
Special communication must
be had with the surgeon general of the
army before such recruits may be TAX
en-. 1t is likely that Captain Scott will
be in Sioux City to swear in the six
men enlisted as he has been placed
temporarily in charge since the sickness
of Captain Ely. newly appointed. Cap
tain Ely is now in hospital.
LeMars.
John Willenborg and Ben Diers while
shingling new barn west of town were
to the frozen ground a
distance of only eight feet, by the
breaking of a scaffold and received in
juries which will lay them up for re-
pairs for a number of weeks. Wiilen-
borg sustained a fracture of the right