Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-05
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

Review the coming year promises more
in their line. than any that have pre-
ceeded it. There promises to be 3
great influx of Indiana and Illinois
farmers, looking for land. and the pres
ent prices about this part of the state
are none too high to satisfy their de-
sire to make homes where all conven
fences of life are abundantly provided
Aurelia.
| e. l.. DeVore received trio OF Sill
yer Penciled Wyandottes from Mas
sachusetts last week which are some
thing entirely new in the west. They
are a very fine variety and the only
ones now known to be owned by any
chicken breeder west of Chicago, ac-
cording to the Sentinel
Cedar Rapids.
The mammoth hot air furnace, which
the First Baptist people had ordered
| from New York to add to their present
steam heating plant. har peen placed in
day was all that could be desired. This
lis now one of the best heated churches,
LII not the best, in the city.
Shenandoah.
| The Sentinel of Friday says: Prof.
ALEXANDER the evangelist, arrived here
"Wednesday evening from Newton,
Kan, where he and Williams have been
conducting meetings. with a result
of 600 converts. Prof. Alexander will
| be in town over Sunday. He is on his
way to Chicago, where he will join an
expedition to the holy land.
Dubuque.
The following is the platform on
which the knights of Fidelity pu-
buaue saloonkeepers' organization) in
tend to stand hereafter as decided re-
Gently: Saloons closed every night at
III o'clock. Saloons closed every Sun
day until o'clock p. m. Abolition
| of the wine room. No slot machines
or other gambling devices. No sell
ing of liquors to minors, intoxicated
lpersons or drunkards.
lClarinda.
| The board OF supervisors have en-
tered into a contract with the Pauly
Jail Building and Manufacturing Com
pany for the Improvement of the Page
county Jail in consideration of the sum
Iof s4,774.66. The contract provides
that the work is to be completed on OF
before the 18th day of April, 1902, I'M
less unavoidably detained. Modern
steel-lined cells and other improve
ments will be put in.
Garwin.
The Star says: On Wednesday a
grand hunt took place. Dick Miller
captain on one side and Jack Lassoi
~, h,,r OF
! in number on side. they bagged sc
cotton tails. The Miller party were
the losers getting only is, while Las
CONS party brought in 80, and won the
supper furnished by the losers, every
count was satisfactory except Captain
Lasson's who 1t was claimed took hi;
rabbit from a little boys figure four
trap, but no one will testify on OATH
to 1t so he must be duly credited with
one count. They all had jolly time
both at the hunt and the supper.
Oskaloosa.
Writing from the state of Oregon t.
the Herald James Cornwell says: q
advise the people of Iowa and your
city not to come to the coast, for this
country is being filled with eastern
people. Lots of them counting on max
ling money here have been disappoint-
led. No work, and what work there is
has been cut down to nothing. Farm.
ing has seen its day Farmers abou
live and that is all. There Is plenty OF
fruit but fruit is so cheap that it hardly
pays to pick it and factories are MOI
plenty. Factories pay 10 cents to s1.2t
a day. There will be lot of eastern
Ipeople that will be glad to get back
1t is shame that SO many people viii
read the pamphlets that the lant
agents of Oregon send east and make
the pc )ple be ieve their ttrits. 1 have
lived in Albany and around Albany fol
eleven years never could get enough
together to get east. 1t is fifteen be-
low zero here now"
Sioux City.
The John PIERCE mansion at Twenty
ninth and Jackson streets has beer
purchased by Mrs. William Gordon
The purchase price is withheld. The
house was built Mr.. PIERCE a few
years ago, and is one OF the mos
elaborate residences in the northwest
being built of Sioux Falls granite anG
finely finished in hard wood. The house
Originally cost $4,000. 1t was disposed
lof by him in lottery project about
a year ago, in which II was secured
by William Barbour, of New York, the
millionaire thread manufacturer, from
whom Mrs. Gordon purchased 1t.