Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-10
MARSHALL COUNTY
NEWS 0F INTEREST
T.-R. Correspondents Tell OF
Happenings In the Towns
and Country
LAUREL FARM SELLS WELL
Crops in the Vicinity Of Gilman Are
Generally Good = Oats Crop Of Elk
ceptional Quality Deaths Of
Rhodes = Gilman Baby is Hurt.
A. Jessup Of Bangor injured.
LAUREL FARM SELLS WELL

near Laure. has been sold for $135 an
acre. Tie crops in the vicinity OF Gil
man, are unusually good. especially the
oats. which is of an excellent quality.
The apple crop is reported above
the average.
A number of Rhodes former residents
have died in distant states and been
brough. to thai town for burial. j. A.
sJessup Ct Bangor, was painfully In
iured with fork while ,naying.
The news grouped BY communities,
townships and towns, follows:
LAUREL.
Sept. 10-W. H Paul has sold his
160-acre farm, one-half mile east of
Laurel for consideration of s135 per
acre. Eibs brothers are the purchasers
and F. NJ. Dowden will be in charge Of
the farm during the coming season.
Mr.. Paul will purchase, farm near
Marshalltown.
Abe Ingraham and wife, Of Colorado
are visiting with their many relatives
in Laurel and It's vicinity
Mrs. F. l.. Dehmann, and children.
Of MeclSling. s. D., are visiting with
the formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Albers and other relatives here
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ingra-
ham on Sept. son.
w. j. Clifford, rural mail carrier on
route No. 3, is taking his annual vaca-
ton, a part of which, with his family.
he is spending with relatives at kis-'
wick.
Alexander 1ngraham and wife. and
son, Alexander, spent Sunday and
Monday with the family of S. G. Ingra-
ham at Montezuma.
Barney Benson, of Stanhope, arrived
Saturday for a short stay with his pa
rents; Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Benson.
The fall term of school in the differ
ert sub districts Of Jefferson township
is now in session with teachers as
follows:
No. i, Helen MACEDONIAN; No. q Mar
garet Dunn; No. 8, NO school on ac-
count Of small number OF pupils to at
tend; No. 4, no school for same rea-
son; No S, Inez Putnam; No. 6. s. III.
Reilly; No Z, Margaret Paul; No. 8,
Maria Spence primary and Egael
Woolston, grammar.
Miss Cora Paul, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. l. Paul, and Miss Lilly Paul,
daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. G. e. Paul
who are in the hospital at Iowa City,,
where each recently submitted to an
operation, are both making satisfac-
tory Improvement and are expected
T. L., r,1,n
Mrs. "A. J. Bloom and sons, who have
been with the formers parents at
Madison, Ind, for some time past, are
expected home this week.
GILMAN.
Sept. 10.-Mr. John Wylie. Of Grin
nell, was business visitor on Mon
day
Mrs. C. j. Hesson, of Newburg, VS.
tied relatives here on Monday.
This ideal weather is making glad
the hearts of the farmers are it In
the hearts of the farmers as it IN
sures them a bumper corn crop. The
yield of oats in this section was good
thirty to sixty bushels per acre
and the quality was superb, overrun-
ming in weight in almost every in
stance. Apples are abundant verify
ing the old saying that it is every al
ternate year that the apple crop is
good. Peaches are quite plenty but
plums are scarce Potatoes are, think,
as a rule a lighter crop than usual,
but plenty for home consumption and
some to spare. On the whole the good
year 1908 has used us we'll in this part
of the state.
p. ]. jacobson and family spent Sun
day at Nevada.
Mesdames. Nellie Ward and Emma
johnson, of Grinnell, visited with Mrs.
T.. w. Seager over Sunday.
The annual missionary tea of the
CONGREGATIONAL Ladies' Missionary So
ciety will be held at the home Of Mrs.
H. Sutherland next Wednesday after
noon.
Harry Stewart has on his lot on Elm
street, peaches grown there, a sample
Of which was shown your correspond
.ent, measuring ten inches in circum-
ference either way. Yet some will con-
tend that peaches cannot be raised in
Iowa.
An informal reception by the teach
ers of the public school will be held in
room No. 3 next Friday evening, to
which all the patrons and all interested
in the school are invited A program
will be given, followed by refresh
ments and a social hour. The enter
tainment is to commence at s o'clock.
j. W. Harper Of Barnes City, spent
Tuesday and Wednesday here on bust
ness.
Mrs. r.. L. Parker and daughters.
Winifred and Muriel arrived Wednes-
day for visit with her father, j. M.
Carney and family.
Mr.. Parker has assumed the con-
tract to construct e. telephone line to
connect with Prairie City, Mitchellville
and other points in Jasper county.
The 2-year-Sld daughter of Earl Will
cults and wife had the misfortune to
fall from high chair last Saturday
and fractured one of the bones of her
arm near the elbow. The nature of the
accident was not discovered until some
time afterwards, when the fracture was
reduced and the little sufferer relieved.
j.. w. Speas and wife welcomed the
advent of a new gifs baby last Mon
day morning.
A. l.. Condow OF iilbion has pur-
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