Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-26

successfully filled for many years.
Dubuque.
On his way home from the sheriff
convention at Kansas City Sheriff
Steiner says he met a commission MAI
from the latter city who was buyins
potatoes for is cents bushel. The ma,
told him that the yield of potatoes
would. on the average, be about 40'
bushels to the acre.
Sioux City.
A party of twelve Syrians left Siou.
City Tuesday evening for Beyroot
Syria. The party consists of two fam.
lilies, the heads of which have mad,
comparatively good-sized fortunes il
business in Sioux City. Now they ar,
taking their wives and children back t.
show them their boyhood homes.
Ottumwa.
Four new applicants We're received
| for the United States army Saturday
by Recruiting Sergeant kearney. This
swells the total number of enlstments
| in the past two weeks to fourteen. The
| four men will be assigned to the coast
1 defense service at Seattle, Wash. The
enlisted men are as follows: Charles r.
| Haurihan, Simon A. Summers. Ivy A
Summers and Samuel Il. Etheridge.
Charlton.
AS the north branch train was COM
ing into town Saturday night it ran in
| to bunch of cattle out by the county
| farm. killing seven head and injurng
two more that will probably die. En-
gineer Hardin saw them in time to put
| on the air and reverse his engine,
which probably saved the train from
| being ditched. The cattle We're. the
| property of Lucas county.
Davenport.
| The Davenport vinegar and picking
works is building five large tanks and
a salt house at Fulton, ILL.,. each tank
having capacity of 500 bushels each.
All the pickles cured at the Fulton
plant will be shipped to Davenport.
Five new recruits for the army
were entered at the local training office
last week. They are Neils H. Jensen
of Monmouth, Iowa: John Walton of
Fort Madison and Elmer Davis of this
city, who join the coast artillery: Ell
mer NJ. Connors and John E. Day both
of Davenport, to join the field artillery.
Malvern.
George Curtis. of Benton. got on the
warpath Monday evening with his fam
lily. He whipped one of his boys, or
dered him off of the place, and after
the boy left the house he followed him.
and, after catching him. kicked and
cuffed him around until he fell to the
ground. Mrs. Curtis began to scream
that he had killed her child, which
aroused Mr.. Sam Winger, and he armed
himself with a ball bat and hurried to
the scene. where he kept the parties in
order while his wife ran up town for
help. Several men went down and
marched Mr.. Curtis up before the court,
which fined him $40 and costs and sent
him to Glenwood to board in the coun-
ty Jail for a few days.
Sydney.
Several of our citizens have been
having the Kansas oil fever for some
time, and a number of our people have
gone to Kansas and looked the ground
over. Among those are Charles Magel.
and he purchased large amount of
land in that state. An oil company has
been formed in Sidney and ground
leased from Mr.. Magel and all arrange
ments practically made for sinking a
well. j. j. Cook, who is one of the
for Chanute, Kas., where the land is
that the test we'll is to be sunk. Mr.
Cook is to conduct the business at that
end of the line and to make the ar
rangements necessary to dig the test
we'll. There are fifteen of our leading
citizens in the movement.
keokuk.
Louis Wager, of the restaurant In
Rand park, found a man trying to pass
on him Sunday about the rankest coun-
terfeit coin ever seen here. Consider
ing his former connection with the po-
lice force. wager was mad, and notified
headquarters. The police found the
man with the fake silver to be an hon
est resident of Keokuk. He got the
dollars with some others in change for
a $40 bill at the Three States bar on the
levee. Down there the police had no
difficulty in tracing the counterfeits to
the people who are making them, but
the latter are perfectly safe and their
identity is not known. The silver coun-
terfeits are poorly moulded and the
milling is initiated somewhat by nick
ing with knife blade. They can be told
as counterfeits across the street and
are not dangerous.
Nevada.
The high school building and
grounds are undergoing material i'm
provements and renovation that will
contribute alike to beauty and utility.
A Clipped brick wall has been run
around from the boiler house to the
northeast corner of the school house,
and within the area thus enclosed the
col I'd ho pro 6a1 cd
and provided with new cement walks.
The steam heating plant is being over
hauled, both at the boiler house and
in the building, and put in better order
than ever before. The school rooms
are being cleaned and papered and pro-
vided with ventilators, and cupboards
have been supplied for the districts
supply of free text boks. Altogether
there are improvements to which Pro-
fessor Carlisle, as we'll as the board and
the workmen, base given considerable
attention, and the general results are
very obvious on inspection. says the
Representative.
Shenandoah.
The cornf1elds in this vicinity now
are just hustling. A great deal of the
corn is tasseled out and the ears are
pushing out at great rate. This re-
minds the Sentinel that one year ago
every farmer and the reporters We're
busy examining the corn fields, report
ing the great number of dead tassels
and predicting that without plenty of
live pollen to fertiliZe the ears there
could be no corn. Displays of cobs
with scattering gernels of corn We're
daily brought to town and farmers We're
offering to bet the corn would be a to-