Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-29
The D0ingS of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

The surfacing gang on the Grea1
Western is now working west out OF
this city. and the track is being placed
III elegant shape.
kanawha.
1 The cement sidewalk fad. which has
had its run in surrounding towns, is
fairly started in Kanawha and a $40 10.
with a $50 sidewalk can NOW be haG
j with or without the asking, according
10 the Record.
Marengo.
The Republican says: Growing corn
lin most places presents picture OF the
ideal. Many fields are as high as q
mans head. perfect in color and Won
eerfully vigorous. 1t has reached the
tasseling stage
Parkersburg.
A large quantity of hay was spoiled
last week by Fridays and Saturdays
rain. A large amount had been cut on
| Thursday and after lying in the wet foi'
| three days was of very little account
for feeding purposes.
Ocheyedan.
| j. l.. Timmons lost a valuable farm
horse last week from spinal meningitis.
and at this writing he has five head of
horses which are off their feed and
threatened With the same malady. The
;sease seems to battle veterinary skill.
Denison.
The fine weather the past few days
has caused the grain to ripen very
rapidly and the farmers are now put
ting in sixteen to eighteen hours day
cutting it. The grain and hay Oh the
rplands never looked as good as this
Year.
Pocahontas.
Farmers have been busy in this Sec
ton during the late dry weather getting
lin their crop of tame hay. The oats
harvest is on in earnest. and tho some
what down in places is said to be n
good one and the crop will be above the
average
Humboldt.
The movement that has been on foot
for some time to establish Catholic
church in Humboldt has been conf
pleted, and the vacant lots by the Nj. j.
Myles residence will probably be Sc
lected as building site. 1t is expected
to put up a $4,000 structure.
Germana.
The Record declares that about
iine-tenths of the sidewalks in Ger
mania are fit for nothing but the kind
ling pile. 1t is a disgrace to the town
to have such old toppleddown walks
as we have here. and we are happy to
know that the town council took steps
a; the meeting Monday night TO have
all defective walks repaired at once.'
jefferson.
"A Souvenir item last weekin regard to
Mr. John Gallup having corn taller than
himself brought forth Ham Kaufman
from his cornfield. on Monday last. with
4 stalk ten feet two inches in height. 1t
is of the sweet corn variety. Ham says
the corn was slow in coming and he
thought the field would save to be re-
PLANTED. Now he is wondering when it
will stop growing.
Sioux City.
The watermelon crop of Walkers
Island. which usually ranks along with
the Muscatine and Rocky Ford melon
crops. will be short this year, according
to Atlee Hart, of Dakota City, who was
in Sioux City recently. Mr.. Hart said
the melon vines on Walkers Island
We're generally sickly, on account of the
ravages which have been made by a
bug of the beetle variety.
OdeboIt.
A close observer tells the Chronicle
that oats are we'll filled and that care
full cutting will probably result in an
average yield of fifty bushels to the
acre. The corn around Ode
holt and as far east as Lake View is
better than any between Ida Grove and
Sioux City. We are practically sure of
a big crop, and it will be worth not less
than so cents per bushel.
Eldora.
The Eldora Herald can not help
that the people of Iowa have !
become land crazy TO a certain extent. |,
1t fears that the time may come, and
that too before many more years, when
some of those who have been placing
on their farms and investing
i'll more land at inflated prices will find
that they have overstepped the bounds |
of reason in their desire for gain.
Britt.
The Inter State Drainage Company
finished burning their first kiln of brick
md have taken the product from the
kiln and find it good in every particu-
ar and even beyond their expectation.
The work is now no longer an expert
ment and they will go to work at once
building more lilns and will soon be
ready to put both brick and tile on the
market.
cIarinda.
Mr.. Berry, of the Clarinda Elevator
Company. says hard coal can not b.
bought. The docks of Chicago are all
imply. and until the strike of the an
hracite fields of PENNSYLVANIA is settled
md the men go to work there will be
10 show of getting our hard coal for
his season from the east Should they
pen up and so to work at once there is
)Cund to be Il shortage, as they have
ost the last three months in producing
heir coal. And the eastern dealers will
viii come west.
Rockwell City.
There is something doing in the line
II improvements in Rockwell City this
ear. In some directions greater prog
ess has been made than in any previ-
us year, according to the Advocate.
The number of new residences is not so
arge as in 1900 or 1901, but the secur-
ng of business bringing factories has
the record of either of those
ears. In the line of general improve
nents great deal has been done and
he close of the year will show Very