Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-12
IOWA NEWS ITEMS


Vinton.
The electric light proposition carried
by a large majority, there being for
some reason just thirty-three votes
against 1T.
Scranton.
Mr.. Jackson, who fell over some loose
boards which INSTRUCTED the walk, fall
ing in such a way as to break his nose
and injure his face in a frightful man
ner, is recovering. His suffering was
very severe.
Denison.
Nellie Thompson, the 1~5-year-old girl
who undertook to help herself to some
clothes hanging on the line in %. FInks
yard, was tried before Justice Gulick
on Tuesday afternoon. and on WedneS-
day was taken to the reform school.
Si%aourney.
Saturday afternoon Judge Clements
overruled a motion for a new trial and
rendered judgment in the case of state
VS.. Dagle, sentencing Joseph p. Dagle
to two years at hard labor in the peni-
tertiary at Fort Madison for bigamy.
Gait.
b. f. Gait. now living on a farm of
his own near Gait. was the heaviest
loser from the wind storm of last Sat-
urday, so far as heard from. His large
barn, large hen house and wind mill
were completely destroyed, and another
barn badly wrecked.
Stanton.
- tL~ ,.a 1,1cinhcS
men and citizens of Stanton nave
joined in the organization of a new
national bank with a capital stock OF
$4,000. The officers selected are c.. w.
Swanson, president; c.. G.. Lind, vice
president; J.. S. Anderson, cashier.
LeMars.
p. A. Boland has resigned as one Of
the directors of the German American
Savings Bank and E. c. Pfaffle has
purchased his interest in the bank. Mr..
Pfaffle paid $125 a share for the stock
by Mr.. Boland. The stock being
$10O a share Mr.. Pfaffle paid $25 per
share premium.
Toledo.
L. d. Shugart, of York township. pro-
duced the skins of seven wolf cubs at
the county auditors office Monday and
received a bounty of $14 for the same.
said thai his is the ninth yea that
he has robbed the am pair of wolves
of their cubs. The den is a mile and a
half south Of Elberon.
Fairfield.
One of the indictments returned by
the grand jury of the present term of
the district court was against Harry
Stephenson for obstructing a public
Locust Grove township and fenced off
q highway, claiming the land as his
cwn. He is now u on bond.
Shenandoah.
Parties from Nebraska City are in
Shenandoah his week trying to inter-
est local capitalists in a gas plant. They
claim that good gas can be manufac-
tured and sold at half the cost the cleo
trio light company charges for a poorer
light. 1t is thought that a local COM
pany will be formed and a gas works
built.
Dysart.
Last Friday z. E. Taylor sold two
farms southeast of Traer. Lewis Kost-
land disposed of his eighty to oliver
AFTER, who owns al unimproved eighty
adjoining. Consideration, $50 per acre.
Mr.. Kostlan then bought the Frank
S~charfenberg farm of 100 acres at lS30
per acre. Both farms are highly i'm
proved.
Nashua.
Some immense timbers passed thru
Nashua recently over the Illinois Cen
trail. They were 12O feet long and ne
cessitated three fiat cars to transport
them. They were en- route from Wash
ington to some point in Maine, proba-
bly, to be used in shipbuilding. The
freight on the consignment-five or six
tfmbers-was between $500 and $500.
Glidden.
This town is enjoying a building
boom. Among the most important I'M
provements under way at this time Is
the new M. e. church, which will cost
$50, 900, and S. G. Dunkles' e resi-
hence, $4,000. A great many small
buildings are going up. 1t seems that
every body is repairing and painting
and identifying the lawns, laying new
sidewalks, etc.
Rinested.
During a storm last week lightning
struck about the center of the large
new barn of John Bosold, Of Jack Greek
township, doing some damage to the
building and killing seven head of cat
tie. Only one, however, was killed in
the barn and the other six We're out
side. There was at the time a large
number of cattle in the building and
the rest were in the yard.
Spirit Lake.
Deputy Game Warden Peterson sein-
ed the head of East Okoboji lake Mon
day afternoon for buffaloes. but only
succeeded in getting a few. In spite
of the rain a large and interested
crowd was on land to witness the op-
Grafton. The temptation was too great
for one of the spectators and he pock-
eted a mess of game fish, for which he
mulcted several dollars.
Massena.
Taylor Wagner of Union township is
in Des Moines, where he recently I'M
derwent a very serious surgical opera
Some time since an unnatural
growth made it's appearance on n or
his limbs and he wen to DR.. Croakley
at Mt. Etna, who pronounced 1T a cam