Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-07

thru Lincoln and Greenfield town
ships to Cedar creek, just east of
Knierim The petition is being lib
orally signed by land owners along the
proposed route of the canal, who
claim that the ditch will cost more
THAN it is worth.
Ogden.
A car load of horses were shipped
lConnecticut These horses We're
bought, mostly, of farmers near Ogden,
and at a price ranging from $3.50 down
to SIS owing to age, blemishes and
style. Notwithstanding the bicycles
and automobiles, raising of horses con-
Itinues to be a very good business.
There appears to be more than
the usual amount OF spring sickness, at
present every doctor in town is fully
lemployed, day and night.
| Newton.
| Max McColloms writes his parents
from Cornell University, at Ithaca,
New York, that he is progressing
finely with his studies, and is in per-
feet health. Mr.. and Mrs. McCol-
lions and all of Max's friends have
been considerably worried over the
| published reports of an epidemic OF
ltyphoid fever which is said to have
been raging in Ithaca for several weeks
-several OF the University students
being among the victims. Max assures
| his parents that the reports are greatly
| exaggerated, altho the facts are bad
enough.
Hampton.
| Alpha W., the pacing mare owned by
Judge Norval, was recently sold at auc-
| ton in Chicago for $1,000 to the propri-
etors of the Spring Grove stock farm at
Elliston, Montana. This mare was bred
and raised by e. M. Wescott of this city
who sold her about five years ago to a
Des Moines man who campaigned her
/! for two or three years and then sold her
| to Allen Bros. of Marion. She has a
race record of EOS and has paced ex-
| hibition heats much faster and had it
| not been for her erratic disposition
would undoubtedly have won vast
amount of money on the race track for
| her owners.
Oskaloosa.
| The board of supervisors of Mahaska
county on Tuesday made their annual
official inspection and inventory of the
county farm and report everything in
| good shape. There are at present 26
Inmates, whose physical condition is
healthful. All the sheep on the farm
have been sold and the cattle and hogs
retained are nearly all young. The land,
$40 acres, is valued at $12,320, and the
buildings and other improvements. ST.
600. The value of the live stock and
supplies on hand figures up $3.91306.
| t1,,> ia "a al
| of $1,67990 was disposed of. A new
stock shed costing 5000 was built and
600 feet of thing put in during 1902.
Fl. Dodge.
Bridge Engineer n. c. Keith, in
charge of the work on the Great West
ern's new bridge in this city, says:
"One week more of good working
weather will see our last girders in,
| barring accidents or anything unfore-
SEEN" After the last girders are put
| in. little remains for the riveters and
painters to do, and then one OF the
| finest bridges in the United States VIII
| stand ready to bear the weight of any
| train which is placed upon it.
Realty value in Fort Dodge will be
| fixed at Il considerably higher figure
| than ever before as the result of the
assessment campaign, which is now be-
| ing conducted by City Assessor Newton
and his assistants.
Clinton.
| Hundreds of new grain cars are be-
II ing shipped to the west over the c. &
N. w. railwa thru Clinton from the
Northwestern car shops in Chicago
to relieve the great grain congestion in
| the western elevators. From noon
Tuesday till that hour Wednesday five