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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25

| river. The fish was of the bullheat
| species and his head was about twent,
inches broad. On finding he had tbt
| fish on the line he called to his brother
who was short way off who helped
| him get the fish in the boat. Mr.. VIII
son was unable to get the fish out with
out help.
James.
During the storm last week three
grain stacks belonging to Phillip Julcr
We're struck by lightning. ignited and
destroyed by fire. The loss is partly
covered by insurance. James Litter
ick's house was also struck by light
ming at the same time but no material
loss occurred inasmuch as no fire re-
suited from the stroke.
Lanesboro.
Two business changes have taken
place in Lanesboro the past week. G,
H. McCready has sold his hardware
to Il. L. Cartensen. of Schleswig, Iowa
who will take possession soon, and
the John Gund Brewing Company have
sold their saloGa to Amy Cooper OF
this place, possession to be given We'd
nesday.
Keystone.
The school board has been installing
steam heating plant in the school
house the past week which will add
to the comfort and convience of the
building. = krombach & Hecht have
purchased the implement business Of
Ottsen & Nissen and will conduct it IN
the same business-like way in which
Iowa City.
The remodeling of the old medical
building for the use OF the engineering
department of the university is being
carried along rapidly. The old medical
;lmphitheater has been torn out of the
building leaving two big rooms which
will be converted into drawing rooms
for the engineers. These two rooms
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25
GILLETTE
TRANSFER
COMPANY
Storage for Household Goods
Merchandise, Etc. Pianos
and Safes Moved
116 WEST MAIN STREET
Strawberry and
Vegetable Dealers
No. i2 West Main Street.
R8rARllshEp IN 1875.

The Passenger Department of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company have
recently isued publication known as
Circular No. IL, in which is described
the
Best Territory in This Country
for the growing of early strawberries
and early vegetables. Every dealer in
such products should address d postal
card to the undersigned at Dubuque,
'owa. requesting copy of Circular
10. Il. J. F. MERRY,
Asst. GenI Pass'E Agent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25

| Marion.
The Old Settlers Association. Of
Washington, Otter Creek and Monros
| township. will hold their annual meet
ing on September s. 1904 in Lanning's
Grove.
Belle PLANE.
NJ. Burne has bought the Isaac
! Rourke farm of eighty seven acres In
north Howard township, Tama county,
| for s93 an acre, from w. Grienwauldt.
who will move to Jackson county.
GIenwood.
l.. S. Robinson's jewelry store was
burglarized Monday night and goods
to the value of about $500 We're taken.
Entrance was gained thru basement
window. There is no clue to the rob-
bers.
Sheffield.
l.. B. Carhart found quite u curiosity
in the potato line Monday morning.
1t was a potato top containing large
number of well developed potatoes.
The potatoes in the hill We're all good
and sound too.
Sidney.
At a meeting of the school board of
this place Saturday evening PROFESSOR
Charles S. Cobb of Sheldon, was cleo
tied superintendent to succeed Professor
A. c. Fuller, who resigned to accept
the superintendency of the schools at
Storm Lake.
MapIeton.
Grace Myers of Mapleton, has COM
menced suit in the Monona county dis
trict court against the Milwaukee road
for s16l.95. for alleged damages sus-
tanned in shipping household goods.
which arrived at their destination in a
damaged condition.
Muscatine.
James Wilson, Baker avenue, caught
a 50-pound catfish last Sunday morn
ing on a trout line below the second
dam above the city in the Mississippi,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25
Holiness Meeting Begun,

Oskaloosa, Aug. 25.-The eleventh
annual camp meeting Of the Osakloosa
Holiness Association Is now under fuii
Roadway just east of this city. me
novelty of the situation has worn away
TO the extent that the campers are now
coming under the influence OF tne
spiritual side OF the meeting. The
manifestations are as marked as at
any previous meeting and the eHorts
being put forth will result In great ana
permanent good to the people In at
tendance.
FIFTY tents are pitched upon the
grounds and everyone Of these has
from two to eight occupants The
meeting tent is pitched in the center OF
the grounds this season and the camp
ing outfits are near at hand IN every
direction.
Six meetings are held daily, begin
ming at 6 o'clock in the morning ana
closing at 9: 80 o'clock in the evening
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25

Burroughs mansion at 5126 Washing-
ton avenue We're notified about the de-
parture of their masters son. and
when the mother arrived signfian.
silence told all
Frustrated with the grief to which
she was specially disposed after her
miles of travel the mother was left in
silence until Mr., Burroughs and his
two daughters arrived from the hos,
pital. The Misses Burroughs are III
Chicago receiving an academic educa>
ton
Roy Burroughs was 81 years old ana
the remains will be sent to CheralSes
Iowa, and laid BY the side of his
younger brother. Roy Burroughs was
interested In a large Elgin automobile
and bicycle manufacturing concern.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25

a tidy sum with which to embark up
on matrimonial venture. Rev. DR..
Joseph Calhoun, of the United Presby-
terrain church, the sole exception to the
ministerial rule Of harvest work, is so
impressed With the reports of big re-
turns in health and wealth as related
by his fellow pastors that he is look-
ing around for fall job ut corn husk-
ing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25
OMAHA EDITOR AT ELDoRA.
w. D. Percival Recalls an Experience
He Had With Judge Scott.

Special To Times Republican.
Eldora Aug. 25.-Mr. w. d. Percival
city editor OF the Omaha World-Her-
aid, is in Eldora for short visit with
his brother law, DR.. G. f. Diehl
MIR. Percival had quite an experience
several years since when he was city
editor of The Bee in Omaha. For writ
ing an article taking exceptions to the
sentencin, OF several prisoners. Judge
Scott had the newspaper man jailed
in contempt of court. PerciVal now
ever, was released the same day py the
supreme court. At the time the story
was sent all over the country.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25
put. m End 10 II All.

A grievous wall oftimes comes as
a result OF unbearable pain from over
taxed organs. Dizziness, backache,
liver complaint and constipation. But
thanks to DR.. Kings New Life Pills
they put an end to 1t all. They are
gentle but thorough. Try them. Only
35c. Guaranteed by Mcdonald u
Manhood, drug store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25
RUN DOWN BY THE CARS.
Joseph Falino Fatally injured in Great
Western Yards at Fort Dodge.

Joseph Faiino Fatally injured in Great
Western Yards at Fort Dodge.
SPECIAL to Times Republican.
Fort Dodge. August 25.--Joseph Fa-
limo, a laborer. employed by the Barber
Asphalt Company of this city. was
struck by box car in the Great West
ern yards last evening and both his
legs were severed. The switch engine
was engaged In making flying switch
and Falino escaped the engine. but was
caught by the box car both trucks
passing over him. His cries of agony
were heard for several squares. When
he was taken to the hospital physicians
discovered bad fracture of the skull.
He can not live.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25

7. C. Young. Observation-Disclosures
Rocky Mountain Tea cured me of In
digestion and constipation. Gained
twenty-five pounds in six months. Am
entirely well. 35 cents, tea or tablets.
Mcbride & VIII Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25

81 had diabetes in its worst form"
writes Marion Lee Of Dunreath, Ind.
II tried eight physicians without relief.
ONLY three bottles Of Foley's Kidney
Cure made me a well MANI. A.
Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25
MoToRMAN BADLY HURT.
Wabash Switch Engine Crashes Into
Street Car in Ottumwa.

wabash SWitcn Engine NfaSncS INTO
Street Car in Ottumwa.
Ottumwa, Aug. 25.--Charles Morton.
motorman on the Sheridan avenue
line, had leg broken late yesterday
afternoon as the result OF a Wabash
switch engine crashing into his car.
The accident occurred on Sheridan
Avenue where the street car tracks
cross the railroad. Several persons in
the car were badly shaken UP. but Nor
ton was only one badly injured The
car was badly wrecked. Just who Is
to blame for the accident has not yet
been ascertained.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25

Total - $4,000
The foregoing is probably what the
tax PAYERS OF Waterloo will have to
nav on the dollar next year according
70 the levies already made by the city
and the state and the estimated levy
by the county which will probably no.
differ greatly, If at all, from that ievieo
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-25
wATERLoo's TAX LEVY.
Figures Show Il Will Exceed Eighty
Mills in West Waterloo.

Waterloo, Aug. 25.-Waterloo is fac
ing a large tax levy. something over
eighty mills. for next year. The figures
given out are as follows, the county be-
ing estimated
East Waterloo,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29

was very prevalent in most of the
large cities of the United States for
long while, many gentlemen making
as many as forty and fifty calls on
that day. This custom has been gen.
orally discontinued except in Wash
ington city. Here the presindent and
wife, assisted by the wives of the
cabinet members, hold reception at
the White House, all the morning. 1t
is a most brilliant spectacle, as all
the Diplomatic Corps and the army
and navy are in full uniform. Both
houses of Congress also pay their re-
spects to the chief of the nation, and
then the general public are admitted
Charles Lamb, one of The tenderest
of English -essayists, says: "Of all
sounds. of all bells, the most solemn
and touching is the peal which rings
out the old year. They take a per-
sonal color. Not childhood alone, but
the young man, till thirty, never feels
practically that he is mortal He tells
us that every man hath two birth
days. two days in every year which
set him upon revolving the lapse of
time as it affects mis- mortal duration;
his own birthday and the birthday of
the New Year
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
SMOOT CASE EVIDENCE IN.
All Hearings Have Been Adjourned
Until January 10.

Washington, Dec. %. - The Reed
Smoot hearing reached that period
where counsel for the protestants
have concluded the examination of
all persons who could be reached by
subpoena issued by the senate COM
mittee. Senator Taylor announced
that he was ready to rest the case,
except for the introduction of docu-
mentary evidence and the examina-
ton later of some persons on whom
it has been impossible to get service.
The case of the respondent will be
hearings have been adjourned.
Just before adjournment of the
committee, opposing counsel engaged
in a controversy over the admissible
ity of certain references wanted as
evidence of the doctrines of the Nor
mon faith. No agreement could be
reached, and after heated arguments
Mr.. Tayler recalled Apostle Penrose
to identify certain reference books.
Says Son Was Murdered.
Paris, Dec. 23.-M. Syveton, father
of the late Deputy Syveton, today
made a formal complaint to the GRIM
inal court that his son had been the
victim of an assassination. The &C
cused person was not specifically
named as the examining magistrate is
to make specific charge after an in
vestigation of the complaint.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29

New Years day was a great day in
New York with the early Dutch set
tiers. 1t was ushered in by the ring
ing of bells and firing of guns. Wash
ington Irving, in his humorous "Knick-
erbocker's History of New York.
gives delightfully."- amusing account
of the observance of New Year among
these Netherlanders. The whole COM
munity," he tells us, was deluged'
with cherry brandy, pure Holland
and mulled cider; every house was
a temple of the merry god, and many
q provident vagabond was intoxicated
out of pure economy, drinking liquor
enough to serve him the remainder of
the year"
Irving dwells especially upon the
great ball given at the Governors, old
Peter Stuyvesant, New Years night.
when the good Peter was devoutly
observant of the pious rite of kissing
all the womenkind for Happy New
Year"
On this day the governor also dis,
tributed fiddles to the old negroes.
who fiddIed all night while the young
people danced. Under Peter was in
stituted quilting bees" "husking
bees" and other rural assembIages,
where, under the inspiring influence
of the fiddles, toll was enlivened by
eayety and followed by a dance
The governor did not approve of
the short skirts worn by the ladies
and ordered a ruff1e put at the bottom
of them. He likewise disapproved of
some of their steps in dancing, and
ordered that no other step should be
taken but the shuttle and turn" and
the double trouble"
The custom of New Years calling
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
ON LAND and SEA
Near Mukden Heavy Artillery Firing Is
Heard.
SEVERE COLD AND SICKNESS.
Japanese Fleet Said to Be Scouting
to Gain Information About Russians
MANY Soldiers Die From Expos
ure on the Field.

Mukden, Dec. 24.-There was more
artillery firing from Poutiloff hill on
December 81, which resulted in dis
persing party of Japanese who were
trying to entrench in front of that
position.
Chinese report that Field Marshal
Oyama and his staff have established
headquarters at Lao Yang, and that
the Japanese are constructing new
forts around the city.
The Japanese are reported to be
suffering severely from cold and sick
ness in the vicinity of Palaszandzi and
Shilikhe, where, it is said, they lost
1000 men in single week.
The Orenburg Cossacks captured
six japanese scouts on December 81,
four of whom were badly frozen, two
having to have their feet amputated.
The same Cossacks recently captured
several Japanese who were unable to
fire a single shot when they found
themselves surrounded.
The port of Yinkow is closed by
ice
All Japanese reinforcements land
ing at Dalny are going in the direc-
ton of Port Arthur.
ST. Petersburg.-Thea announcement
that four Japanese cruisers and
twelve torpedo boats are proceeding
west from Singapore is received here
with much interest. 1t is not believ-
ed, however, that such small squad
ron can have been sent out by Japan
with any idea of engaging in offensive
operations, but it is regarded as more
probable that it is the purpose of this
squadron to keep surveillance over
the two detachments of the Russian
fleet which are expected to soon unite
in the neighborhood of Madagascar.
1t is generally believed that Vice Ad-
miral Rojestvensky intends to estab-
lish a naval coa1ing base on some
small island between Madagascar and
the Philippines and that the Japanese
cruiser squadron is to mark the rem
devious for Vice Admiral Togo's in
formation The belief is expressed
that Vice Admiral Rojestvensky will
be able to catch up with the Japanese
scouts, which, it is believed, he could
easily destroy, thereby weakening the
japanese in the final naval engage
ment
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
NEW YEAR CUSTOMS
Old Time Rites and the Origin of Some That
Are Still Practced.

Among the Saxons the New Year
was ushered in by friendly gifts.
Later, this custom of making gifts
was carried to a ruinous excess.
Henry III. of England extorted costly
gifts from his court Queen Bess car
ried it to such an extreme, says DR..
Drake, that her costly wardrobe and
jewelry was supplied in this way.
When Henry VIII. was receiving
costly presents from his courtiers, we
read that honest old Latimer handed
him Bible, with some pertinent
chapters marked, much to the burly
kings disgust.
DR.. Drake tells us that, in the six.
teenth century, prince and peasant
alike celebrated the New Year with
regularity and parade.
Much was made of the wassai1 howl
at this season. 1t was carried from
door to door with loud singing and
merriment. The word is derived from
was halle, the Saxon for Here's to
you'll" an expression still in use bv
men in pledging each other at SUD.
pers. The present loving cup takes
the place of the ancient wassail bowl
In some of the country districts of
England old customs are still observ
ed. On New Years eve, at midnight
the last of the Christmas carols is
sung. outside of the house, by the
young people. then there is a rush for
the nearest spring, and the first one
who fills his or her glass gets what
they call the "cream of the WELL" and
will be the most fortunate during the
coming year.
In the early hours of the morning.
funeral is held. at some public houses.
over "old Tom" las the old year is
called, when the boys parade the
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29

pine. Virgil compares the golden
bough in these regions 10 this mistle-
toe.
An old Druidical tradition was that
the maiden not kissed under the mis-
tletoe would go husbandless all the
year. at is under this pagan mistle-
toe," says George William Curtis
that the Christian youth of to-day
kisses the Christian maiden"
The Romans had two New Years,
the sacred one, which was the 1st of
March, and the civil one of which we
have just spoken, the LIST of January.
The Jews had a sacred and a. civil
year; the former began in March or
April, the latter in September or Oc-
tober, varying with the lunar period.
The early Greeks had no settled year;
when one was finally adopted, they
commenced it at the vernal equinox.
The early Christians also consid
cred the vernal equinox the proper
time to commence the New Year. The
Chinese and most Indian nations com.
mence the New Year with the first
new moon in March, the Persians in
June and the Egyptians early in the
autumn, or the first day coinciding
with the rising of the Dog Star.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29

New Years Day has been a day of
ceremony and rejoicing for a great
many centuries in the worlds history.
Its origin is traced back to the Roman
festival of Janus, after the establish
ment of the empire. The old Romans
divided the year into ten months only.
Numa Pompilius added January ana
February, and dedicated the former to
Janus, 713 B. c.
"'Tis he! The two-faced Janus comes in
view
Wild hyacihths his robe adorn.
And sundrops, rivals of the morn.
He spurns the goal aside.
But smiles upon the new-emerging year
with pride,
And now unlocks. with agate key,
The ruby gates of orient day.
On this day the Roman consuis, fol
lowed by the court, went to the cap
ital, all gorgeously appareled, where
they sacrificed two white bulls, never
yoked, to Jupiter Capitolinus.
The Druids observed New Year with
great pomp and ceremony. One fea-
ture of their ceremonies was the dis
tribution of the mistletoe among The
people on New Years eve. The
priests went in annual procession. On
the sixth day of the moon nearest the
New Year, wearing white robes and
bearing a golden sickle with which to
detach the sacred parasite from the
tree. So much did they esteem it that
it was carried in a white cloth. 1t
must be cut from the divine oak. in
the forest dedicated to the gods. The
apple tree mistletoe. used in England
is a different thing altogether. We
all remember the NEUROLOGICAL story
of Eneas, who, when descending to
Avernus. was compelled to take with
him a branch of this plant to Proser-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
TRIAL RESULTS IN HUNG JURY
Upon Hearing Announcement Nan PAT.
terson Fainis In her Fathers arms.

New York, Dec. 24.-Fainting in her
fathers arms, her frame quivering
with the accumulated suffering of
months of anxious waiting, Nan Pat
terson heard the announcement that
the jurymen trying her for the MUIR
der of Caesar Young had disagreed.
The jury stood six for acquittal and
six for conviction, but so far as can
be learned there was no juryman in
favor of first degree verdict.
New York, Dec 24.-The Patterson
jury was locked up for the night at
1880, it being found impossible to ar
not convene until 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
The delay in reaching verdict
greatly unnerved Nan Patterson, who
waited with her father in "the pen"
She was said to be on the verge of
collapse when it was found at 1880
O'Clock that an agreement had not
been arrived at up to that hour.
Nan Patterson, former show girl,
spent an anxious evening in the GRIM
inal courts building awaiting the re-
suit of the. deliberations of the twelve
men, who, shortly after noon today,
were sent to a jury room to decide
whether she should be branded as the
woman who fired the shot that killed
Caesar Young, or liberated to join her
family.
She had expected speedy verdict
and had even packed her belongings
and left them in cell which has been
her home for several months, but
evening came and the jury went to
dinner, and turned to it's deliberations
with no sign of what the verdict would
be-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
Says Son Was Murdered.
CAUSED HEAVY LOSS.
Fire Destroys Property Valued At
100000,

Columbus, Dec. 23.-Fire in High
street, in the business district, caused
loss of s225,000. destroying the Nit
hoff building and the stores of Krauss,
Butler G. Co., one of the largest car
pet rug firms in Ohio, and the Wheel
er grocery. Krauss, Butler & Ben
ham suffered the heaviest loss, $780,
600. Five firemen were injured, none
seriously, by the explosion of gas in
the Mithoff building. The three upper
floors of the Mithoff building con-
tanned fifteen families, but all were
rescued.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
streets, asking for presents, and sing

streets, asking for presents, and sing
ing:
II wish you a happy New Year,
A pocket full of money
And a cellar full of beer,
And great fat pig
To serve you all the year.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Sitting by the fire,
Pity we poor boys
Out in the mire-"
The French make a great deal of
New Year. In 1854 Charles TX. of
France decreed that in accordance
with the Roman calendar, the year
should begin on the first day of Janu-
airy.
Christmas with them is a religious
festival, but the New Year is domes-
tic festival and holiday. The day com
mences at an early hour, with an ex-
change of bonbons and visits among
friends and relatives. l somewhere
saw an estimate that one hundred
thousand dollars was spent upon bon
bons alone every New Years in Paris.
The French revolution brought New
Years day to this great prominence.
With the first empire it was one Of
the most brilliant festivals of the
court, as it was also of the second en-
pire.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
Car Keeps Close Watch.

st. Petersburg, Dec. %. - Emperor
Nicholas is holding councils daily at
Tsarskoe-Selo, at which, it is undeT-
stood the internal situation in Rus
STA is being thoroughly discussed.
Among those who are attending the
council are Grand Duke Michael,
brother of the emperor, ministers and
members of the council of the en-
nj
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
Vessels Sighted.

Cape Town. Dec. 21.-Sixteen YES
sells, presumably of the Russian Bal
tic squadron, have been sighted 25
miles out, steering south. 1t is sup
posed they will call at Delagoa Bay,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-12-29
Ten Pupils Drowned.

New York, Dec. PA tornado has
caused serious damage in the city
and, harbor of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, &C.
cording to Herald dispatch from
that city. A wall of the college of
San Vincente de Paula collapsed.
One Sister of Charity and one pupil
were killed and ten pupils were
drowned