Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-17
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Df. IL. thompson mas received I
Friedman automobile. 1t is of seven
horse power, was made in Belvidere
H., and cost $3.50.
Charles City.
Miss Florence Riley, a well-knowr
teacher in Floyd county, died suddenly
! Thursday at the Emergency hospital
Miss Riley has been ailing for the past
year.
Eingsted.
Corn planting is at present in full
swing in this section and large per-
centage of the corn will be planted this
week. The land is reported in fine con-
dition.
JoIley.
Homer Donaker sold his farm one
day last week to Nick Hammer, the pur-
chase price being s75 per acre. If land
keeps on advancing in price in this
county, those wanting land had better
| buy right away.
Sheridan.
II. A. Dee delivered TO Russell &
Spire thirtysiX head Of Aberdeen An
gus steers that averaged 1880 pounds
for Sc per hundred. They We're consid-
cred by experts as fine a bunch of fat
steers as was ever fed in the township.
Weldon.
Two boys broke into the residence of
Dell Leonard, near Weldon, last Sunday
and appropriated some jewelry and a
small sum of money. One of the boys
was discharged and the other is now
serving a thirty days sentence In jail.
Columbus Junction.
Junction lie showing mich
enterprise in preparing for a splendid
Chautauqua assembly this summer
Several attractions have already been
contracted for and other good ones are
in view. The assemly will be of
weeks duration.
Rockwell City.
The Calhoun County Sunday School
Association will hold it's annual con-
vention at the NJ. f. church at Rockwell
City on Monday and Tuesday, May 10
and 90. Nh. B. F. Mitchell, secretary
of the state association, will be present
as will also many other speakers OF
note from over the state.
Dubuque.
The change in the dispatchers at
Dubuque will do away with two of the
men. They will now work thru from
Freeport to Waterloo instead of from
Waterloo to Dubuque and then to Free
port as they did formerly. This change
will necessitate but three men to do the
work, whereas they formerly employed
five.
Shenandoah.
T. c. Boylan sold the ]. NJ. Stewart
farm, which he purchased last fall, to
~ a 10 re, ~ Ia
$4,000. The farm comprises 155 acres
and Mr.. Boylan received $4,000 more
than he paid for it. The new
city directory just issued shows Shen-
andoah with voting population of
over 1000 men. The population of the
town is approaching the $500 mark.
This section of the country has been
blessed with a fine rain this week. Rain
fell the greater part of the day Tuesday
and Wednesday and is still falling to-
Gay (Thursday). The ground is well
soaked. an the rain has fallen slowly,
sc that it has all gone into the ground.
Many farmers are thru planting corn
and others will soon complete the work.
Hay is expected to be a little short.
Bloomfield.
Paul Hockersn1ith, a 15-year-old
youth, impressed by the exploits of
Buffalo Bill and other Indian extermi-
donned cowboy suit, procured
a revolver and entered the school at
Savanna, village in this county. He
threatened to "clean OUT the school, |
and the pupils We're terrorized. The
youthful terror now laEguishes in the
Jail under sentence of twenty
days.
Keokuk.
Mrs. May Wilds appeared in the SUI
perior court Thursday and said that
her 14-year- old daughter, Lizzie Wilds,
Is an habitual vagrant, disorderly, dis
obedient and incorrigible. This is not
the first time that the girl became I'M
ruly but previously the mother gave
her another trial Judge Hughes SEN
fenced her to the reform SCHOOL for girls
at Mitchellville, and Chief Henneman
win take her there today.
Jefferson.
A checking committee, consisting of
D. F. Cavanaugh. +. M. Riley and e. A.
Milligan, went over the books and rec
ords of the electric light company last
week from the beginning to the time
Mr.. Cavanaugh took over the plant, and |
made report showing that the origi
nal company expended during that Pc
Rod $4,000 more than their receipts. In
,ther words the company invested &c.
300 over and above the $1,000 bonded
debt.
Garden Grove.
Last fall Fred Woolley had the mis-
fortune to break one of the bones in his
right arm above the wrist and the
fracture was reduced, but the bone did
cot knit Physicians recently per-
'ormed the operation of saving off the
ends of the fractured bones and wiring
hem together The reason the bone
lid not knit was because a part of one
If the muscles dropped down in the
fracture, separating the parts of the
bone that they could not knit together.
Cedar Rapids.
Wednesday Cedar Rapids was a rem
iezvous for Dunkards, who We're going
q Harrisburg, Pa, to attend the annual
meeting at that place. A spe-
,ial car had been placed on the b., c. r.
& N. at Waterloo and was well filed
When 1t reached this city. Here all the
members of the religious denomination
who had come over different roads,
rom surrounding towns. Joined the
oarty and the crowd of sixty-seven left
N their journey over the b., G. r. & N,
Rock Island, Wabash and Lehigh VAL
ey. Fred Western accompanied the
,arty.