Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-25
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

ond it will not surprise us if some da!
| they strike oil. There are now three o
them, having been drilled the past 81!
months, the first one on the JOSEPH
Hartley farm and the next on the j. w
Hartley. The last one was completed OF
the 10th inst. on the James Kibby place
$50 feet deep, and flows about sixty gal
Ions per minute.
Williams.
Miss Cleo Hanlen, deputy postmis-
tress, who has been quite i'll the past ter
days with what was supposed to bs
nervous prostration, was taken worse
last Sunday and DR.. Tedrow, the attend,
ling physician, pronounced II well.
developed case Of smallpox. 1t is mo-
known where she contracted the disease
but it is supposed from handling the
mails.
Estherville.
AS reported by the Enterprise. County
superintendent Miss Pingrey has insti.
ltuted plan by which she expects to
arouse an interest in writing turnout the
county. Paper is to be sent to each
teacher in the county and sample OF
the writing of each scholar is to be for
warded to the county seat. In about q
lyear another sample of the writing will
be sent In and the improvement noticed
ledyard.
In place Of the wooden buildings
burned last summer Ledyard now has 9
brick block of five one-story buildings
furnishing quarters for the Ledyard
state Bank, the drug store of H. r
Bleich, the general store of N. Tilmony
the hardware store of e. j. Skinner and
P. f. Ketman's general store. The Lead
Ter says 1.-The entire block would do credit
to a town many times larger than Led
yard"
Algona.
Archie Hutchinson and Thad Vincent
were down in southern Iowa few days
since buying Hereford cattle. They
bought twenty-eight head in all and pu!
them on the Slyfleld farm in Irvington
township, of which Mr.. Vincent has
charge. Some OF these were purchased
at between 5000 and $500, and it is under
stood that all are fullbloods. The Here
fords took the sweepstakes at the recent
live stock show in Chicago for beef quail
titles.
Oelwein.
The pay roll OF the Chicago Great
Western in this city reached the high
water mark Monday when the men in
its employ In the shops, at the round
house. in the yards and on the road drew
100000 in coin of the realm. That is a
pretty good sized sum to be dumped
into 5000 town the first day of the
hat I,of c
|exactly what happened. That sum paid
out monthly means that nearly three
|quarters of a million dollars will be paid
'out during the next twelve months.
Fort Dodge.
Another discovery has been made
which brings TO light relics of pre-
historic days. While sinking a pit for q
pedestal of one of the towers of the Des
Moines river viaduct, trunks of three
tamarack trees in well-preseryed state
were found at the depth of thirty feet
below the surface. The pit in which the
wood was found is on the side of the hill
on the west side OF the river and the
most surprising feature of the discovery
IS the fact that the wood is OF charac-
Ter found in swamps. 1t was found at
of the river.
Perry.
The state and Perry boards of health
are very emphatic upon the subject of
Vaccination as preventative against
smallpox. 1t makes 1t obligatory that all
children over one year of age, and all
persons who come in contact with the
public at all, shall be vaccinated. The
state board says that the local boards
shall enforce this rule, and take all pre-
caut!onary methods against the spread
OF smallpox. There is an epidemic of IT
turnout the country this winter, and
there is scarcely community that is
rot affected, so much so in fact that
there is no use to try to run away from
it. The only alternative is to get vacci-
mated The city council met as board
cf health recently. They have requested
the school board to carry out the rule re-
sarding the vaccination of all school
children; that they must show satisfac-
tory proofs of vaccination, or be ex-
cluded from school after Feb. /. This
also applies to the Normal College.
Jefferson.
Dr. S. C. Kirby, of Grand Junction.
who was last week convicted OF violating
n smallpox quarantine by a jury who
had listened to the evidence for nearly
four days. has made a motion thru his
attorneys for a new trial or discharge.
The Bee says: 1T seems that the legal
status of the quarantine so far as the
courts are concerned is rather indefinite,
very few If any cases similar to this one
ever having been passed upon by the
supreme court. 1t Is said that the state
proved quite conclusively that DR.. Kir-
by violated the quarantine regulations
as generally accepted and understood,
but the defense relied mainly upon tech
meal interpretations of a law whose
standing is not very we'll defined in the
courts. Judge Church will rule on the
motion this week. The maximum PEN
atty for the offense of which DIR. Kirby
was convicted is a fine of $500. and the
states attorneys are confident that NJ
will get pretty we'll on toward the limit
if the new trial motion is overruled."