Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-07
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The DOingS of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
--Your Old Home.

| ing the cement blocks has been received
and the work of making the cement
| blocks will begin Immediately The
completed building will have the APP
pearance of finished stone. This is the
first building of this sort to be done in
this city and will be regarded as some
thing of novelty.
Cedar Rapids.
In the district court Mary Spohn has
| filed a number of suits against liquor
dealers for the benefit of the school
fund of the state. Liquor is alleged to
have been sold to one Frank A. Spohn,
a person alleged to be in the habit of
becoming intoxicated. Among the de-
PENDANTS in these actions brought by
this informer are three parties in Cedar
| Rapids.
Armstrong.
on a recent Afternoon Henry kaufman
had a narrow escape from death and as
| it is he is quite severely injured. While
riding his pony and When two blocks
from home the saddle turned and che OF
his feet being caught in the stirrup he
was dragged the two blocks, the pony
going to the barn before stopping. He
has number of very bad bruises about
| the head and back.
Williams.
Miss Blanch johnson, youngest
daughter of the late II. II. johnson,
formerly of this city, died at Hays,
Kas., OF quick consumption, where she
had gone some time ago with her moth
| err in hopes of benefiting her health.
Deceased was young lady of much
| ability and had taught school in this
Vicinity, Where she will be favcrabls
remembered, and was a 1iiece Of Mrs.
John Bennette, Of this city.
IDavenport.
| A Islander suit in which damages to
reputation and peace Of mind to the
extent of $1,000 are alleged was COM
menced in the district court Saturday
| by Carrie j. Ritter against w. ]. Hell
mel The petition states that on the
last day of November Mr. Helmet false
ly and maliciously stated in the pres
ence of the plaintiffs father and others
that she had beaten him out $1,000 and
had stolen that sum Of money from
him.
Burlington.
The Hawkeye says that Burlington
products go to all the hooks and corners
of the inhabited globe The Burlington
Basket Company is just filing large
order of "Hawkeye Hamper Baskets"
which are destined for Hamilton, the
principal city of the Bermuda islands.
=. The smallpox situation remains
unchanged, with twenty-one cases in
hand. - Articles Of Incorporation
Of the Starker Brothers Company have
been filed at the recorders office. The
members are Des Moines county men,
who enjoy splendid reputation as fine
business men. The company's business
will be the manufacture ard sale of
novelties. Capital stock, $4,000.
dubuque.
The re-establishing of the eastern di-
vision of the Chicago Great Western
road at Dubuque means much to this
city. From a prospectus given out by
one in authority the improvements con-
templated this year will call for an out
lay Of over 100000. According to state
ments that are made the round house
will be considerably enlarged to enable
lit to house eighteen engines; new 66-
foot turn table will be put in; the yards
will be extended; new coal sheds and
chutes will be erected; the present ma
chine and boiler plants will be increased
and set of dispatchers, ten in number,
will be put in at the fair ground sta
ton, running in three shifts OF eight
hours each. All this means more ma
chinists, coal handlers and store keep
ers. The new force added to the sixty
five to seventy-five men now at this
point will increase the force to 125 or
100 men.
Perry.
The Chief Reporter says new city
hall is IN sight. The probable plan will
call for handsome three story build
ing in the center OF the triangle The
first floor would be used for a Jail and
for the fire department. The second
floor could be used for city offices and
for public library. The third floor
would be needed for the city councils
assembly room and for court room
After the project is certainty. there
Will be opportunity for discussing the
details. Ten thousand dollars would
certainly erect a very creditable, mod
ern structure, and the Indications are
that that amount can be raised $50
Recently the two year-old child Of Mr..
and Mrs. l.. v. Andrews, who live in the
Slly pace u loNAip ain q
quantity of tincture of iodine AS soon
as the mother discovered what the child
had done, she gave it an emetic and
caused it to vomit, thus saving its life.
Spirit Lake.
A citizen who drives good deal says
he has been impressed by the general
evidence of Improvement on the farms
of Dickinson county. In some commune
tiles, particularly that out east Of the
lakes, he says on almost every farm
there is a new house or barn or addi-
tons and marked betterment. - Mrs.
Brandon and her son Will each had
Christmas present of eighty acres OF
land in Howard county from the faith
er of the former, Jeremiah Perrin, of
Butler county. = The Sioux City
Tribune is authority for the statement
that E. e. Carpenter has floated twelve
millions in bonds for the contamination
of his old Gulf & Manitoba railway en-
terprise Nine or ten years ago large
amount of grading was done across this
country by way of Terrll and crossing
the Burlington a mile west of Superior
the grade was largely made, but work
was suspended on account of slip In
negotiations for money and contractors
and others lost heavily Developments
will be awaited with interest IN this
county.
Thousands Sent Into Exile.
Every year large number of poor