Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-16

I finally gotten out. Fortunately the matl
pouch floated and nothing was spoiled
| but a dozen or more postage stamps
Sutherland.
Hannibal House Waterman was
born in Cataraugus county, New York,
March Is, 1921; married to Hannah
Pitcher In Bremen county, Iowa, In
June, 1854; moved to O'Brien county
(then Woodbury. in 1856, being the
| first white people to locate In the
county. Departed this life Wednesday,
Sept. 2, 1908, at his late home In
Sutherland, Iowa.
keswick.
Earl Churchill, son of Frank
Churchill, met with an accident last
week which will probably cause him
to lose two fingers. Earl and Johnnie
Hummer were cutting weeds with
Ratchet and in some unaccountable
manner, two Of Earl's fingers were cu..
Effort is being made to save the fling
ers, but there is not much hope of do
| ing so.
pes Moines.
A total Of 1886 was collected by Lii
cense Collector Burnett for licenses to
operate stands and to peddle on the
streets during the state fair this year.
The receipts this year were largely in
, excess of those Of last, due, 1T is
thought, to the more rigid enforcement
of the city ordinances on the matter of
| licenses. Last year the receipts were
only s152, and a circus paid a good per-
centage Of that.
Emmetsburg.
Last week Fred WHITE sold his so
acre farm in Fairfield township to Her
man Bass who resided few miles
southeast of Whittemore. Mr.. White
had one of the finest farms in Palo
Alto county or for that matter in
northwest Iowa. 1t was always kept
in a high state of cultivation, free from
weeds and we'll fortified. He always
raised big crops on it and could not be
expected that it would go for a small
price The consideration for the farm
was $S5 per acre.
Nevada.
Justin Short, aged 81, was arrested
Saturday afternoon by Sheriff Rickets
at the home of an uncle, John Burnett,
southwest of ,Ames. The arrest was
made on a request from the sheriff
at Bloomington, ILL.,, and the charge
in the case is technically rape, there
being involved girl only IA years
of age and under the age of consent.
The Illinois sheriff is expected here
with a requisition Tuesday or We'd
nesday.
Rockwell City.
Active operations on the new library
building have begun. On Monday
morning men were put to work harv-
esting the magnificent crop of weeds
on the site of the building at the south
west corner Of the square and the same
afternoon the work of excavating was
begun. Several Of the. library board
were present to see that the work was
started off right, and it is the under
standing that the building will be
pushed to completion as rapidly as
possible.
WaverIy.
The Keu corn canning factory is
hummr. 1t is the busiest place IN
the Cedar valley. The, machinery runs
perfectly They have plenty of good
help. About $50 people are kept busy
besides the farmers who haul in the
sweet corn. The sweet corn the farm
ers bring in is nearer perfect than any
that was ever hauled to this factory
since it was built. The corn is per-
fectly clean and there are no worms
as has often been the case in former
seasons. On Tuesday they weighed in
1870 loads; on Wednesday. l2O loads,
in all, since the factory commenced the
campaign this season, they have taken
in 500 loads. The loads average about
200 pounds of corn. The growers get
IS ton. Alonzo Stacy. of Jackson