Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-22

a good sale" = /. At the D. L. Towne
sale twelve steers brought an average
| of S72.50: cows sold as high as SOL and
horses s142 Corn in the crib brought &C
cents. - George Monihan has invent
ed a dishwasher which is handy ap-
| pliance for the housewife. A patent has
been applied for. 1t will be manufac-
tured by Monihan & Letters, the lat
ter having secured an interest in the
article.
Lenox.
| Last "Wednesday night was a bad
night for wrecks in this locality.
James Cotrells horse became scared
| when near Kiigore's school house and
ran away. throwing him into the barb
| wire fence and tearing all his clothes
nearly off him. The same night Elmer
| Waters west bound and Art Bennett,
east bound collided on a straight track
going at high pressure. The result be-
] ing that Art not having the COW catcher
! along was telescoped. All came out very
well. but Arts buggy which had one
wheel that stood boldly out toward the
| fence.
| Red Oak.
| Among the numerous private individ-
uals who expended money literally dur
| ing 1901 for the Improvement of the city,
Mayor Thomas Griffith stands out
prominently, says the Republican. No
one takes a greater pride in his home
town than he, and none so freely back
their faith by their good works. His ex-
penditures for the past twelve months
include, charging and remodeling home
A fnt mr., n Ia ct
| Reed street, $1,000; brick block on Cool
baugh street $1,000; home in Griffith
willie. $500: minor improvements on other
property, $1,000; total. $4,000.
Keokuk.
The civics division of the women's
lclub met Saturday afternoon and in
augurated an important and novel idea
there. 1t is to foster home gardening
with the cooperation of the school chill
dren. A home gardening association VIII
be organized and a committee was APP
pointed to investigate the feasibility of
the cooperation of the schools-the
principals, teachers, superintendent
and others. If the thing works the civic
division will distribute flower seeds to
school children and encourage the work
as well as endeavor to beautify school
grounds, homes and public places.
Mt. Pleasant.
A new feature was introduced at the
hospital last week for the amusement of
the patients 1t was of a social nature.
in which inmates and employees played
games of all kinds and had a general
high old time . =. The inmates of the
Jail are being worked on the woodpile
by degrees and are doing fairly we'll.
One prisoner baked on working on the
! street, but the promise of a bread and
water diet brought him around nicely.
Nelson Cornick, of Center town
ship, was in the city recently. He has
purchased 200 acres in Des Moines
county The farm is the old William
johnson place, about two and one-hah
miles from West Burlington, for which
Mr.. Cornick paid s55 per acre.
Davenport.
| Emil Gudekunst of this city got out
from under the law Saturday by join
ing the United States army, the Dem
ocrat says. Emil hasn't been keeping
very busy, and had habit of making
trouble at home after having a good
time with his companions, and his
mother filed information against him in
| Justice Atmans court. Constable Hol-
| liday went down. to serve the warrant,
but Emil had skipped out. He came
| back Saturday evening and the officer
on that beat picked him up and took
him to Jail. But in the meantime Emil
had called at the recruiting station,
been examined for the army, and en-
listed. Monday morning the recruiting
lsofficer was on his trail. as we'll as Con-
stable Holiday, and the result was that
after a lecture by Justice Altman he
was turned over to Uncle Sans rep
resentative. and will go into the army
Fort Dodge.
A travelling man named Champion
came to the city on Sunday from Chero-
kee. suffering from a very severe attack
of smallpox. He had just got up from
a sick bed at Cherokee, where he claim
ed that the physicians told him that he
had typhoid. Az soon as he arrived here
he was quarantined and has been sent
to the isolation hospital. The Messen-
ger says considerable Indignation is felt
here that the man should have been
sent on from Cherokee in the condition
in which he was when he reached Fort
Dodge, as there is q feeling here that
he was unloaded upon this city when he
should really have been cared for in
Cherokee instead of being permitted to
menace the safety of passengers on the
train and others, by going abroad IN
such a condition. (" Articles of incor-
poration for the Iowa Land and Trust
Company, capital 100000, We're filed
with the county auditor Saturday.
|Muscatine.
From the present indications 1t seems
that Muscatine is to have regular
monthly horse market days. This mat
ter Is being agitated among the local
horse dealers, and from the present
trend of circumstances. it is possible
and quite probable that ere many weeks
Muscatine will have her first large
horse sale The Journal says the object
of this enterprise will be to advertise
athruout this state and several others
that on such day an exclusive horse
sale will be held; that on that date peo-
pie desiring to sch or purchase horses
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