Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-28
ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Gldofd.
The farmers tell the Herald that a
great deal of hay that was cut was
greatly damaged by the recent rains.
Grundy Center.
.Souire .Alberts, of Lincoln township,
had three parties arrested for working
Sunday. He fined one So and the
others 81 each.
Coon Rapids.
The laying of the water mains was
finished sunday and the water turned
on about noon. About six blocks We're
laid costing slap.
Aleona.
r. Nj. Gardner, of Plum Creek. is GO
to have one of the biggest barns in
the country. 1t will be ga by so and Will
take $1,000 feet of lumber mo 5000
shingles.
Bows.
Secretary Nicholson paid out So
sas.47 to the patrons of the Dows
last Saturday morning. This
is the largest amount ever paid out
in one month by the creamery.
New Sharon.
Grandma Marsh fell down stairs Sun
CAV morning at the Charles Blaneheon
home. breaking her arm. She is in hel
S9th wear and it will be hard for her 10
endure the suffering.
Lake City.
1t was calculated to have Hon. Will
liam j. Bryan here one afternoon dur
ing the carnival next September. but
as his dates are full, some other at
49, It'll 1o rrp,iIpl in lien here
of.
lama.
1t is thought there are not more than
a dozen old settlers of Tama county
who have lived in the country for fifty
wears or more. The number will be re-
ported at the old settlers meeting next
month.
Williams.
Contractor Zittrell has had more thar
his share of bad luck. Aside from los
ing about $500 worth of stuccor during
the recent rains. the front basement
wall of the Odd l'ellows-Hurd block
caved in last week and had to be re-
laid.
Graettinaer.
While removing the old coal sheds
near Osher's elevator this week, work
men found a full set of burglars tools
including dynamite. The tools evil
IDENTIFY was left there by the fellows
who attempted to burglariae the
Graettinger Savings Bank, severa,
years ago.
.CIarksviile.
John j. Wood, of Jackson township
reports having cut thirty-three large
loads OF hay from a piece of ground es-
timated as containing from eight to
ten acres. MI. Wood says there is a
vast difference between the farming OF
this year and that of the year 1901
Crops are going to be better.
Diagonal.
The Presbyterian church at this place
have completed all arrangements fo1
the erection of a new parsonage and
the material is now on the ground
The new building will be 24X2S II and
.one-half stories with three rooms be
low and -four above. The location is
one of the finest in our city.
.Des Moines.
Hon. John A. Kasson is Just recover
ing 1t his home in Washington from q
severe surgical operation, and that in
recent letters to friends in Des Moines
he writes that his recovery will be very
slow, if indeed he ever fully RECEIVERS
Mr.. Kasson is in his S1st year, and
otherwise is quite vigorous in health.
|OeIwein.
Sunday night a large dog bit a little
girl in South Oelwein. The parent OF
the child requested the owner of the
dog to kill the animal, but instead OF
doing this the dog was shipped to Elma
An alteration ensued Monday night,
and mix-up followed between the own
er of the dog and the father of the
child.
|Estherville.
Reports of splendid catches of fish at
the small lakes in Emmett county about
here still keep coming in. Large fish
have been caught whose size and age
indicate their inhabiting the waters in
which they were caught since 1896 and
|'9S. Since these dates there has beer
no way for fish to get into these lakes,
says the Republican.
Fairfield.
O.. III. COfDlll, county auultoi, mas
scEd his farm of forty acres IL half mile
west of the city limits. The purchaser
lis j. Is. George. of Mt. Pleasant, re
Gently of Corning. The consideration
was $4,000. or $125 per acre. . ' Ans
drew Ryman, the Polk township arme
has cleaned up his corn cribs-7.OOt
bushels of grain at tifty-fiye cents 8
.FontaneIle.
John Ford and his son John, of Rich
land township, We're both injured by
lightning Thursday evening. They Were
standing in the Darn back of the horses
when the lightning struck it at the east
end and killed n horse, then ran to the
west end where it killed another horse
one animal in the middle was stunned
but several others We're not injured
The elder Mr.. Ford was struck on his
left arm and the muscles of that mem
Der We're somewhat numbed and the