Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-21
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

Mystic.
| This town is considerably worked UP
over the prospect of getting the Iowa
rs st. Louis railroad now building from
Novinger, Mo-, to Centerville.
GriswoId.
Banker Wilcox is going to start a
| branch bank at Grant. He has pur-
chased the vault fixtures and bank fix
lures of the defunct Brown bank at
Griswold and will use them at Grant.
Gilmore City.
| The handsome new residence of DR..
Gripsby, valued at several thousand
dollars, was totally destroyed by fire.
None of the contents was saved. In
surance only $4,000 on house and fur
niture.
West Side.
The several rooms of the high school
are getting their yearly outing which
| consists merely of q days vacation. A
ride out into the country. a day in the
woods, an outdoor dinner, and frolic and
run without end.
Marengo.
Mr.. Mcclure. of Marengo has been
looking over the situation at! Iowa City
with a view of having fishways put in
the dams. The Marengo people think
| the dams stop the fish from visiting the
| waters of this section.
Clinton.
Both Of Lambs lumber mills are now
running The lower mill started Thurs
day morning, while the upper mill has
been running about two weeks. Both
are running to their full capacity, with
prospects Of continuing turnout the
summer.
Des Moines.
Robert Maize was sentenced to twen-
tY years in the penitentiary at Fort
Madison at hard labor yesterday. Judge
Prouty imposed the sentence. Maize
entered a plea of guilty to charge of
highway robbery and the sentence i'm
posed is the limit prescribed by law.
jefferson.
The patrons of the Mutual Telephone
Company held meeting last Wednes-
day evening to suppress the interrupt
ton of messages along the line. They
passed some stringent measures. Here
after some people will find it to their
interests to observe the golden rule. F"
Gienwood.
There will be between fifty and sixty
high school graduates in the various
towns turnout Mills county this year,
the number being rather smaller than
usual. Glenwood leads the list with
twenty-one graduates, fifteen girls and
six boys. This is the largest class ever
graduated from the Glenwood schools,
the next largest being in 1896, when the
class numbered nineteen.
Allison.
Fred Hageman, who is employed with
Henry Dralle, can consider himself
Monday he was thrown from an oper
buggy over a wire fence onto stone
pile. His head was badly cut in several
places and bruises cover his arms and
legs. Twenty-Five stitches We're taken
to close the ugly. wounds. How he es-
capped with no broken bones is puz-
zler.
Oakland.
True Cleveland and Lew Haines.
young men who live at Taylor Sta
ton, got into a quarrel last Friday
about saddle, and Cleveland struck
Haines a blow OH the nose with his fist.
Haines retaliated with his pocket knife
and made cut thru CleveIand's nose
and both lips. The wounds We're so Sc
rious as to require half dozen stitches
which were placed there by an Oakland
surgeon.
Cedar Rapids.
The dilapidated old frame structure
known as the Brown wooden mill, stu
ated near the B avenue bridge, COL
lapsed Monday morning and is COM
pete wreck The building was erected
in the late '40's for wooden mill and
came into the possession of N. b.
Brown short time thereafter. 1t
rested on wooden piers or piling sunk