Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-21


Cobs for sale. Glucose Sugar Refining
company.
Salt and smoked fish, all kinds. Whole
Goldfish 8 cents a pound at Culley's.
Have your laundry work done at Fit
tons. Packages called for and delivered
Simmons book store is the best place
in central Iowa to buy everything in the
book and stationery line.
Your clothes will be properly cleaned
and dyed if you take them to Fiitton &
Cgan's. "a West Church street.
Representative F. b. Cummings. who
has been in the city for few days,
returned this morning to Des Moines.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Halsey, of Eagle
Grove, have come to Marshailtown to
reside, Mr.. Halsey having accepted a
position with the Mineah Lumber Com
pany.
The selection of lots in the new pottery
olant addition, under the plans approved
by the government in Oklahoma, will be
made Wednesday evening at o'clock In
the east court room.
The winter is not over yet and we
may expect severe weather soon. Bet
ter replensh your coal supply in time
by ordering load or two from the j.
F. Irwin Lumber Company.
Engineer Robert McMains, Of the Gen.
trail, who has been quite i'll with an at
tack OF the grippe, is considerably inn
proved. Mrs McMains is also ill., hav-
in gtaken to her bed on Sunday.
DR. 1. H. Fry, the eye, ear, nose and
throat specialist, performed delicate
operation successfully Monday on Cliff
ford Adams, of New Providence, for the
removal Of a growth in the naso-
pharynX.
Mr.. Jay Newcomer, of Eldora, auditor
of Hardin county, accompanied by his
father, Mr.. j. d. Newcomer, was in
the city this morning, en- route to Des
Moines, where he will attend the an
nual convention of the State Auditors
Association.
Beginning next Monday the Chicago
Great Western way freights Nos. so and
81, east, and So and So, west, will be
run thru between Oelwein and Des
Moines. instead of stopping in this city.
as has been the custom. The change
is made for the betterment of the local
service.
Mr. Arthur Laughlin. of Clinton, son
of Division Roadmaster John Laughlin,
CT the Central, and Mrs. j. j. Harkins. OF
Dewitt, were In the city this morning,
being en- route to Scranton, where on
Wednesday morning they will be present
at the marriage of the latter's nephew,
Mr.. James Harkins, of Fort Dodge. to
Miss Lena Kane. Mr.. Harkins is clerk
TO Superintendent G.. A. Clark, OF the
Illinois Central, at Fort Dodge.
r. P. Horton, an Iowa Central bag
gageman on passenger trains Nos and
6, between Marshalltown and Peoria,
who has been off duty for the past
three weeks on account Of his quaran-
tine with others of the Cottage Hotel
for exposure to smallpox, resumed his
work this morning. Mr.. Horton is
father of Vernon Horton, the Iowa Cen
trail caller. who was taken i'll with the
disease at the hotel and was at once
removed to the detention hospital where
now he is about ready to be discharged.
Young Horton is the last of the four
patients who have had the disease in
this city this season, and after his dis
charge the hospital will be empty. RI
Mr.. F. E. Northup, whose announce
ment as candidate for the nomination
IS county attorney was made in Mon
Gays issue of the Times Republican, is
q well-known lawyer of recognized abil-
ity, was born in Marshall county. and
his people We're among the first settlers
of the county. He has been resident of
Marshall county except during the time
be was acquiring his education and the
first few years of his practice. For the
EAST six years he has been resident OF
Marshalltown, and has been an active
republican, a member of the county CEN
trail committee for three years, and has
contributed and used his best efforts for
the success Of the party ticket in several
He has had an active prac
t.ce and gained good standing at the
Marshall county bar, and If elected feels
that he has the requisite qualifications
to conduct the office successfully.
John A. Seager. who resides two and
one half miles southeast of Ferguson,
brought to the city Monday fine speci-
men of red fox, which proved quite a
curiosity to many, because of the fact
that the variety Is now nearly extinct
in this part of the country. The capture
OF the fox reads like fairy tale, and
is such as to make an old hunter green
with envy, especially when he thinks
that he has tramped over the better part
CT the county in the past few years and
las never seen anything that resembled
a fox. Saturday Mr.. Seager's children
were down to the creek for an after
moons skating. They had with them the
family dog. which was amusing him
self with smelling about and nosing
into rabbit burrows and holes. Suddenly
the dog commenced a sharp barking and
great deal The noise attracted Mr..
Seager's 13-year-old son, who left the
creek to see what the dog had found.
He had no more than gained sight of the
dog when he was surprised to find him
in hot pursuit of fox, and no sooner
had he realized the situation than the
fox, to evade capture, climbed into a
tangle of grapevines clinging to a large
oak. Strange to say the animal managed
to get up the tree about twenty five feet
where he sat and eyed his pursuers.
a bombardment of the ami
NAL, with clubs and stones. The fox
finally concluded to risk himself in flight
again, Jumped from the tree. only to fall
into mortal combat with the dog, which