Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-14
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The D0ings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

will be impossible to get into the har-
vest fields. Corn is two or three weeks
behind and many fields being badly
washed by the rains it has been inpos-
sible to do the usual cultiNating. Surely
jthe farmers have had troubles of their
own this spring. but we shall all hope
for good crops and better weather for
the ne At few weeks.
Algona.
a Very important document to the
tax payers of kossuth county is the
semi annual statements of the county S
finaneia l condition. The amount of
cash ON hand has run up from $56,s9L94
on the first Of January to SS0.14l.S0 on
the first of June, exclusive of the per-
nanent and temporary school funds,
which contain between $4,000 and $4,000
each.
Hampton.
A. II. Bicllford expects to have plenty
of honey this fall. Recently a swarm
of bees decided to locate on a tree in his
door yard and a cracker box was imme-
diately brought into use and the bees
are now busy making honey. A few
days afterward another swarm took up
their abode in the roof of Mr.. Bickford's
house. so he feels that he is pretty
we'll fixed in the bee business. Last
Sunday a swarm came down and de-
cided TO enter hole just under the sec
ond story window of Mrs. Dow's brick
building and are now domiciled in the
wall there. Now Will Webb, who lives
there, thinks he will have honey, TOO.
Ames.
Even the office of mayor in city the
size of Ames is not without it's amusing
features. says the Times. Tuesday night
as Mayor Sheldon was working in his
office the telephone bell rang with Il
crash. The mayor answered the call
and it proved to be Il female voice at
the other end of the line who shouted,
rs this the mayors office" The an
swer was II have the distinguished
honor of holding that responsible posi-
ton" well, say, Mr.. Mayor, there's
water in my cellar "Oh is tina, so"
answered the mayor. "how much?
"Oh, Il foot. anyway The mayor an
swered back. That's easy. there's three
feet of it in my cellar" That settled it,
the receiver was hung up with crash.
Forest City.
Monday the genial and rotund dry
goods merchant, c. T.. Prescott discov-
cred a life-s sized weasel. prowling
around his premises and Immediately
gave the alarm. whereat some forty
denizens and dogs and one town cat
gave chase and followed his weaselship
all over town and finally correlled him
in the public square where he was dis
patched and pop went the weasel The
town cat approached to closely to the
weasel at one stage of the chase and
was nipped on the nose for his pains.
The mayor and marshal and several al
derlnen and bankers and lawyers and
played some good qualities as sprinters.
After the weasel had been laid out and
his heart had ceased beating it was a
debatable question whether the Narmint
was weasel or a pole cat or an over
grown gopher. but the Republican af-
ter consulting DIR. Jones concludes that
the animal was real weasel.
Tama.
Tama county's acreage of wheat this
year is quite large and in spite of the
wet weather thousands of bushels will
be harvested. IS The Free Press
says: Charles Bloom, a young man
living south Tama, after spending the
Fourth on the carnival grounds at Mar
shalltown, and after seeing the fire.
works which cost $4,000, and tramping
around on the straw at the German viii
lage, reached the Northwestern depot
rather tired to find that he had about
two hours of waiting before his train
would arrive, and lay down upon one of
the baggage trucks he was soon
dreaming of swimming girls. dancing
girls, weinies and sourkraut, 1.-The lucky
red" ETC., when he heard some one call
out call aboard" and awoke just in time
to see a passenger train leaving the de-
pot. Well, hemade the run and cap
tured the best seat in the car and when
the conductor got around to Charlie he
nearly exploded, for the train was
south bound Iowa Central train and it
long enough at Dillon. some-
thing like eight miles below MARSHALL
town, to let Charlie off and then he had
TO walk back, way back in order TO get