Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-24
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Ogden.
Our one smallpox patient is getting
we'll and no indications of further
outbreak.
Alden.
The revival meetings at Vincent NJ
L church continue with interest. ur
te Saturday. the 18th, eleven had pro-
lfessed conversion.
Hartley.
There is scarcity of farm help this
season and it seems almost impossible
So and $25 per month. They are about
as hard to get as servant girls.
Maxwell.
Mrs. j. P. Shaffer, the smallpox patient
lis betting along all right and as yet
there has been no other case reported In
town and there is no fear of the case
spreading If everyone takes the prop
Ier precauuon.
Fort Dodge.
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new library building. which has been
dragging a little of late on account of
lack of material, has been resumed with
la larger force, and the indications are
that it will be rushed to completion.
Eagle Grove.
Eagle Grove is to have considerable
Influx of farmers this spring. who are
retiring to take the years remaining to
them In leisure. This is class of cit
liens that every town needs and we are
glad to welcome them, says the Eagle.
Waterloo.
County Recorder Knapp is authority
for the statement that there will be ten
per cent more business done in his office
than last year when the record was
broken by the same PERCENTAGE. AL
ready l1s more papers have been filed
than at this time year ago.
Coon Rapids.
A. c. Steele sold his cattle ranch Of
620 acres Wednesday for s3S an acre to
Emanuel Fehr. of Pottawattamie coun-
ty. This is one of the largest deals In
real estate that has been made in the
locality of Coon Rapids for some time,
If ever before, amounting to s25.560.
Indanola.
According to the Herald, j. e. Hime
had a little dug out on his premises,
made for the purpose of raising little
chickens during the cold season. but he
hasn't got it now. He had ten little
chicks In ii which he considered worth
S25, and an oil lamp to keep them warm.
1t caught fire last Saturday, and now
Jim will start over again.
Dubuque.
Major McCaleb, who has been in
charge of the local recruiting station
ever since II was established, has been
transferred to the active service in the
Philippines and he will be succeeded In
Dubuque by Major Robert F. Ames, of
the Sixteenth infantry. Major McCaleb
was formerly In the Ninth but has been
assigned to the Sixth infantry.
Clear Lake.
The Mirror says: In the district
court this week Paul barrow of Ven
tura pied guilty to the charge of deal
ing in intoxicants contrary to the laws
OF the state and was fined $3.50 and
costs. 1t is rumored that Paul will give
up his citizenship in the prohibition
state of Iowa. Tuesday night he went
to North Dakota on a land-seeking
trip.
Winterset.
Small tracts of land lying adjacent to
Winterset are selling st high prices.
Joseph Bisen sold last week his eight
acre place Just south of town at $500
per acre or S2.400 for the place. f. NJ.
Jordan bought the place. John
Parkins of jefferson township, has
purchased the residence and ten acre
lot just west of sWinterset, belonging to
+. A. Rohr, price $1,000.
Spirit Lake.
AT single dinner during the farm
ers' institute there We're five large hams
made into sandwiches and seventy-five
pies served, aside from over bushel of
baked beans and other things too nu
merous to mention. A conservative es-
innate places the number who took din
ner with the business men the second
day of the institute at 500, and all We're
urged to eat until they threw up their
hands in despair says the Beacon
Perry.
The lumbermen are figuring on
number OF large bills for city residences
and also d few farm houses and barns
There will be lots of building done IN
Perry and vicinity this season. j.
C. Seymore, a real estate man, of Ash
ton South Dakota, was in the city on
business. recently. MIR. Seymore was
feeling pretty good. as he had only a
few days before been released from the
pest house. He had the smallpox in
up to-date style. being covered with
over 900 blotches.
jefferson.
The chief topic of conversation in
local business circles this week has
been the Electric Light Company diff
culties, says the Bee. Mr.. Capanaugh,
who bought majority of the stock and
assumed the $4,000 first mortgage
bonded Indebtedness, and other obliga-
tons, upwards of a year ago, seeks to
have his purchase contract set aside,
alleging misrepresentation at the time
of said purchase, improper financial