Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-06
MARSHALL COUNTY
NEWS Of INTEREST
County Correspondents Cover a
Wide Area in Reporting News
Notes to T.-R.
IRA JEssup, OF BANGOR, DEAD
Little Son Of DR.. Clarence Steelsmith,
Formerly Of Conrad, Dies at Melvin
and Is Buried at Fathers Old Homo
st. Anthony Big Shipping Point
Death Near Laurel.

County correspondents Of the Tx
an enterprisng lot of men ana women
who are anxious to furnish the pupiie
with the happenings of their communi-
+ies haya covered a wide area again
this week in reporting their news. Inc
death of Ira Jessup, is reported from
Bangor, and the death Of the little
son of DR.. Clarence Steelsmith OF Mel
vim, is told from both Liscomb ana
North Star. DR.. Steelsmith formerly
lived at Conrad and this city, and his
wife was formerly Maude Rolston, of
Liscomb township. Interment was at
Conrad.
ST. Anthony is shown to be big
{ stock shipping point, thirty-one loads
having been loaded at that place dur
ing January. William N. MARYLAND,
son of Nat MARYLAND, living near Lau-
rel, died Of typhoid pneumonia. Social
happenings of the county, farm
changes. and other items OF general IN
terest to county readers and former
residents, are told in the following
classified letters:
BANGOR.
Feb. 6.-The infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Angus Arney, Of Union, was
buried in the Bangor cemetery Tues
day.
Mrs. &. Dillon is improving slowly
The death of Ira Jessup occurred
! Sunday night at 10 o'clock. The fu-
neral was held Wednesday at the Ban
COR Friends church at IL o'clock, IN
terment following in the Bangor Gem
etery.
ezra ndma" Belle is quite sick.
On Saturday Evalyne, the 6-year-
old daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. e. H.
Kirk. had the misfortune to cut her
forehead quite badly. The two little
girls were running and playing with
their little dog. Mrs. Kirk had gone
into all adjoining room to get a dish
Of sugar. Just as she came thru the
door, Evalyne ran with such force
/, against her mother as to knock the
dish from her hand, breaking it into
number Of pieces, cutting her forehead
and rendering her unconscious for a
short time. A doctor was called to
dress the wound, and the patient IS
getting; along nicely.
G. L. Skinner and family visited the
Quincy Dillon home Sunday.
Mrs James Kersey is visiting her
mother-in-law, who is quite sick, at
Illinois Grove, this week.
LISCOMB.
Feb. 6--Mrs. Ed Dillon was in I'm
ion Wednesday in attendance at the
funeral Of cousin.
w. West has moved his household
goods to Waterloo, where he will en-
gage in business and Mrs. Stouffer
will assume the duties of the tele-
phone Office here at once.
The Monday club met with Mrs.
SADIE Bueghly Monday evening. Fiji
teen members were present. The pro-
gram given was as follows: Responses
at roll call, "Our Soldiers" instru-
mental solo, Miss ida Bixby; paper,
"Problems Bequeathed by the Civil
War" Mrs. Dema Smith; paper, pres
emit Day Literature" Mrs. Inez McF'ee;
duet, Mrs Fay Dillon and Miss Ethel
Loucks; discussion, led by Mrs Buegh-
Il ly, bearing on conditions at the close
of the war Of the rebellion; poem, ION
the Shores of the Tennessee" Mrs.
4 Scott, The hostess served dainty re-
frestllnents, and a very enjoyable
h hour was passed in social way, after
& the evenings study.
Rev. Mr.. Shoemaker, of Alburnet,
preached in the Christian church Fri
day evening, also Sunday morning and
Z evening, as Rev. Frank Oviatt was I'M
able to fill the pulpit owing to an ex-
6 tended attack Of grippe.
Mrs, J. l.. Meade returned Saturday
4 from Iowa City.
James Scott moved to the Biersborn
farra, four miles east of town Tues
! day. He has rented for the year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Haggin and
Mrs. Charles Arnold of Union, were in
Liscomb Saturday visiting Mrs. Mary
Scott.
Mrs. Charles Gould. who lives with
her son, William Gould, near this viii
lage, is critically i'll of pneumonia.
Word was received here Monday
that the infant son Of DR.. and Mrs.
Clarence Steelsmith. Of Melvin, had
died of pneumonia, on Sunday. Mrs.
Ste elsmith was formerly Miss Maude
Rolston, and has many friends in this
community, who sympathize with her
and her husband in their sad bereave-
meat.
The many Liscomb friends of Mrs.
Frank Barber, Of MarshalltoWn. are
glad to learn that the operation at the
Methodist hospital in Des Moines.
which she underwent on Monday for
gall stones, was most successful one
and the attending physicians entertain
every hope for a speedy recovery.
Charles Marker and wife were sur
,prised on Saturday by a numbet of
friends and neighbors who assembled
at their home to remind them of tf5elf
twenty sixth wedding anniversary.
The. bad weather kept many at home
who were hidden, but those present
were fully repaid for their temerity in
facing the storm.
Harold Clark will move to the
Charles Lancaster property. in the
north part Of town soon. Mr.. Hart,
manager Of the Liscomb. creamery,
Will occupy the Claud Updike prop
erty which Mr.. Clark vacates.
MRS. L. L. Bixby is making arrange
in.,nts to build new kitchen to her
property at once. as she will move into
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