Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-17
SOUTHERN IOWA NEWS.
Horse Sale Attracts Many Buyers =
lncendiaries at Work at Creston.

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lncendiaries at Work at Creston.
| Special to Times Republican.
| Creston, Oct. 17.-At the new pa
vilion of East Montgomery street, the
horse sale of Ed Anspach was held
Friday and Saturday, attended by a
number OF horsemen from out Of town
Ralph Stream was the auctioneer, and
with the help of Mr. Anspach the
horses sold fast and at good prices.
An alarm Of fire was turned in to the
Creston fire department. but before the
department got out the fire was extln-
gutshed. Yesterday morning there
were evidences about the barn, which
was partially burned, that 1t had been
set on fire. The incendiaries that have
been at work in Creston before seem
to have started their Infamous prac-
| tice again.
Four of Creston's best families left
| today for California to make their
home They are Mr.. and Mrs. r. N.
Jones, who will reside at San Jose;
| Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Harper. who also
| have San Jose for their destination:
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Rinehart, who
will locate In Stockland; and Attorney
]. III. Coppenheffer and mother, who
! intend to locate at San Jose.
Mrs. Darlington Booth, woman who
has attracted worldwide attention by
her work in connection with the Vol
unteers Of America, will speak In Cres-
ton at the Temple Grand opera house
November 20. Her lecture will be
Lights and Shadows of Prison Life.
The preliminary hearing Of Joseph
M, ~ oh {Sn ~
Miss Rapp Rouse, was completed Fri
day evening In the court of Justice
Smith, and the defendant was held over
to the grand jury for the sum of $500.
The News Of SibIey.
Special to Times-Republican
Sibley, Oct. 17.-Sibley people had
the opportunity of q literary treat on
Wednesday evening, when Joseph G.
ECamp, the noted southern orator gave
Ia lecture in, the opera house. His sub
ject here was "True Americanism, -
and he handled the subject in a very
able manner. 1t is to be regretted
that small audience greeted him.
| The farmers in general are not over
| " pleased with the spell Of rainy
weather we have been having In this
vicinity for several days past. They
state one or two weeks Of dry weather
would be much preferable to put the
corn in proper condition to begin husk-
ing 1t Is thought that husking In
general can now hardly be started be-
fore November list.
| Miss Mary Reynolds took her depar-
ture Friday on her voyage to China
going first to Mortified, Mimi, for q
day or two and thence to Tacoma
Wash, and from there to San Francis
CO, where she will meet Miss Nellie
Russell, Of Wisconsin, and together
they will sail from that place October
25th, on the steamer, China fol
Pekin, China. Miss Russell goes as q
missionary while Miss Reynolds will
become a teacher Of English in the
home of the dawager empress OF China
| A socialistic spellbinder gave a lee
ture from dry goods box In the street
in Sibley Thursday afternoon to
small crowd Of listeners. Although
| the rain came down increasingly he
kept at his post for nearly three hour!
and discussed the situation from a so
cialist point of view.
Sibley people will have the oppor
tunity of hearing Hon. e. III. Hubbard
of Sioux City, candidate for congress
man from the Eleventh district on the
evening of Nov. 2. He will discuss po-
Ilitical issues from a republican stand
point here on that date. Mr.. Hubbard
is a gentleman whom 1t is pleasure
to meet or hear speak.
| Rev. w. Howard, pastor of the Con
gregational church, has been absent
attending meetings at Grinnell and De
! Moines. He is accompanied by hi
wife, and they will not return home
until about October 20.
J. c. Miller has shipped in about 6o
head of lambs to feed on his farm Thu
winter. He bought them at Pierre,
In. Sibley has a new town well. 1t Il
thirty feet deep and has twenty feet o
water.