Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-23
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A well sunk in the center of pond
which covered fifteen acres of Wright
county farm land near Latimer has en-
tirely drained the pond which in some
places was five feet deep. The we'll cost
s175.
Corwith is making large preparations
for street fair and carnival. The car
nival business is gradually working in
to the smaller towns. where circus COM
panes put on three lays or weeks
performance at stipulated price not
too high for the business men of minor
towns and villages to expend. 1t is
self protective movement on the part
of these towns to keep The crowd and
its money at home and will have Sc
rious effect on the carnivals and street
fairs of the larger cities.
The board of supervisors of Clayton
county have got into hot water by eX-
ceeding their legal powers in the pur-
chase of $4,000 tract cf land for the
use of their county asylum, proceedings
having been commenced against them
for maladministration of office.
There are thoroughbreds in the news
paper field as well as on the race track,
and the American derby annually at
fords test in both cases. Readers OF
the Evening Times Republican vii.
have hard work to remember when the
T.-R. failed to bring the results of the
great turf event to their supper tables.
Last Saturday was no exception to the
rule. The T.-R. had the derby results
while Chicago evening Papers like the
Journal failed. Iowa evening papers
but comparisons are always odious.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette remarks
that nearly everybody IN indianapolis
| is carrying an axe lately" 1t might
odd to this information that a number
of Woodmen, not at Indianapolis, are
carrying knives.
An insurance lawsuit from the Cedar
district that bids fair to rival the cele-
brated calf case from Jones county rs
reported to be definitely settled by
recent decision of the supreme court.
Henry Borne brought suit on an insur-
ance policy for the loss sustained by
the burning of his barn against the
Home Insurance Company and was
awarded S3,566.6o in the district court.
The defendant claimed that the policy
had lapsed The plaintiff claimed pay
ment to w II. Smith. The company's
agent It Mechanicsville, and it appears
that the agent received the money. but
applied it toward the payment of an
ether account owed by Borne. The SUI
preme court holds that application of
the money was determined by Borne
and that payment to the agent was In
effect payment TO the company.
According to THE Chautauquan. the
oldest civil building in the United
States is the quaint old adobe palace of
the governors in Santa Fei \. NJ. This
long, low structure in the second Oldest
CITY of the United States has been the
seat of government under the Spanish,
Mexican and American regimes Tor
nearly 500 years. Ii nov contains the
museum of the New Mexico Historical
Society. of which L.. Bradford Prince,
a native New Yorker arC former gov
ernor of New Mexico, is president. Gov
ernor Prince considers this the most
historic building in the United States.
The Burlington HawlIeye, noting the
sale of the Montezurna Republican,
saws of its former editor: MT Jarns-
| sin has been editor of The Republican
for long time. His republicanism is
of the true stripe, and ii has been re-
fected in no uncertain manner from
the Republicans editorial columns. me
brethren will be sorry to miss Mr.. Jar
nagin from the newspaper neid. Inc