Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-19

claim against the collection of the note
1t is set up that in 1895 Mentzer Bros
sold to Jake hard cider that made him
drunk and resutevd in breaking up the
home, and claiming damage therefor
in the sum of $4,000. Jennings & Crosse
are defendants attorneys. The verdict
will be worth watching for.
Clear Lake.
A desirable piece of property
changed hands last week when Mrs A.
d. Frost sold the corner opposite the l..
G.. HOLSTER warehouse for $1,000 to q.
Nj. Prince, general agent of the Will
mington Coal Company at Mason City.
Mr. Prince expects to build next year
and may make Clear Lake his home all
the year round.
GIenWood.
Sam Cory, proprietor of the Alpine
hotel, was last week arrested, charged
with conducting a gambling house. At
his preliminary hearing before Justice
Frank Day he waived examination and
was bound over to the September
grand jury under bonds of $3.50. Cory
now languishes In the Glenwood Jail,
bein gunable as yet to furnish bond.
Harlan.
The city council has granted a lease
of lao feet of land in the block belong
ing to the city. east of the power house.
to ID. t. Ladwick. to be used for new
lumber yard. The lease was granted for
a term of five years. the compensation
being s140 per annum. 1t is said that
'NaHWip1y re !, fir,
having line of yards, but full partic
ulars are not yet known.
Lehieh.
The city council has increased the
saloon license 5000 per year. The license
was formerly $500 but has been raised
to $1,000. All above and half of 5000
goes into the city treasury. The ac-
ton of the city council in raising the
saloon license is commendable, for ii
certainly was too low. With the IL
cense that will be secured from the
bowling alley, the city's income Will
be greatly increased.
Sidney.
John Birkley, boy of this town, was
arrested in Pacific Junction for stealing
a team and buggy. Last Saturday he
was in Farragut and hired team from
j. III. Miller to go to Shenandoah as he
said. Instead of going there he went to
Glenwood. He tried to sell the team in
told that he could probably sell it at
Pacific Junction. He then drove to
that town and traded the team for a
pony and SIS.
Red Oak.
The postoffice department this weel.
a REIMBURSEMENT of salaries
of postmaster and clerks and in the re-
adjustment the Red Oak postoftice
fares very we'll Postmaster Platter's
salary has been raised from $4,000 to
$1,000; Assistant Postmaster F. P.
Rathbone gets raise from $1,000 to
$1,100; Joe Bishop. distributing clerk
gets raise from $500 to $500, and Miss
Minnie Platter delivery clerk, gets an
advance from s40O to $500.
Sac City.
Winthrop F. circuit a carpenter from
Odebolt, was before the commissioners
of insanity last Thursday and was adj
judged a fit subject for treatment in
the hospital at Clarinda. His trouble
arises from an injury to his head re-
ceived in November. 1900. He has ra-
tional periods. but the trouble was said
to be increasing. He was in the hos
pital last year from March 2S to July,
when he was discharged. Sheriff Teep-
ell promptly took the unfortunate mar
to Clarinda.
Walnut.
County Attorney Killpack visited
Walnut Friday to prosecute a case
against ]. p Gunther, who is charged
with enticing two girls to Omaha for
purposes. Gunther stopped
with the girls at the Metropolitan, cor
ner Douglas and Eleventh streets, in
Council Bluffs, where they We're cap
tured by parents of the girls, who fol-
lowed by the next train. Walnut citi-
zens have taken up the case and re-
and prosecute.
Pacific junction.
A gambling den down at Pacific
Junction was likewise raided this week
by Sheriff Morgan and as result
Curly McBee, an erstwhile Glenwood
is now at the county Jail await
ing the grand jury's action. Before
Squire Lincoln at Pacific Junction he
waived examination and was bound
over under 500 bonds which he is I'M
able to furnish. McBee is charged with
running decidedly tough joint
gambling being only one of the bad
features it is alleged.
SibIey.
The board of supervisors was in ses-
sion Tuesday to open bids for the
building of the new Jail and sheriff's
residence. C. E. Atkinson, who has
the contract for the court house, en-
tered bid of $4,000 and w. Y. Par
sons, of Jackson, Minnesota, entered a
bid of $1,000. Neither bid was ac-
copied, but the plans We're slightly
altered and Mr.. Atkinson was awarded
the contract for building the sheriff's
residence and the boiler room for the
heating plant for 5000. A separate
contract was made with him to build
the Jail for $4,000.
Farraeut.
A travelling salesman named Nc
for the Lisk Manufacturing
Company of New York, was arrested