Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-26
Northern Io1ua Items

the Masonic order in the state and is
prominent IN law and politics. Hon.
Dan Young, Judge E. M. Carr and
Howard Ram, the newspaper men Of
the city, all have state wide reputa
tions.
Leland.
The threslring machine factory ait
Leland rs a sure thing, and Mr.. Peter
son, the manager, has already COM
menced the construction of separa-
tors. 1t ds expected that the factory
VIII be worked to it's full capacity.
as there are orders enough IN siehi.
to take all the machines 1t can make
This years demand will serve to
show what may be expected next
year, and if necessary the plant will
be enlarged to meet any require.
ments.
Usage.
Arthur Evans, at the electric light
plant, has an ingenious machine which
he made himself and which furnishes
MIN great deal of entertainment.
In a small box he has two sixteen
candle power electric lights with a
lens an the side of the box BY put
ting a postal card in behind the
lights. the picture is thrown upon a
screen, with all the colors and as
large as you wish to make 1t. The
pictures are as clear and distinct as
any stereoptican machine.
Thompson.
A con1ical runaway occurred in
Thompson recently. A team belong.
ing TO Hans Paycr ,,,o,a
Bellman's store, when they were
frightened by something and broke
loose. With about fifty citizens try-
ing to stop them they ran down past
the water works, turned at the alley
near DR.. Lees residence, ran to the
next street turned and came toward
Main street, which they turned into
ana made the turn again at the First
National Bank corner. They made
same trip three whole times.
Just as If they We're going around a
race course, when, tired out, thew
trotted up to a fitching place and
were stopped by THE cable running
from one post to another. A slight
damage to the buggy was the total
loss.
Dubuque.
P. L. Annis recently completed a
well for the Dubuque Packing Com.
pany which gives evidence of being
one of the best If not the very best
we'll ever sunk Within the city limits
OF the city of Dubuque The we'll is
$40 feet deep and is cased with a two
and one-half inch pipe, a three dnch
pipe being used for the overflow. The
we'll was sunk with a modern drill and
consumed considerable time. Water
vas struck at various places DIN the
progress of the work, but never in
sufficient quantities to suit Mr.. Annis
until the 920-foot level was struck.
when a strong stream was tapped.
When the casing had been put into
position and all distractions removed
the water flowed out at the top and
shot more than twenty feet into the
air.
Forest City.
John Carson, of Forest City, has
sown this spring about an acre of
hemp dn quack grass, and the out
come will be watched with interest
by the farmers of Winpebago and
surrounding counties. 1t is thought
that this crop will completely kill
quack IL allowed to go to seed and
come up next year. In other words.
two years Of hemp will completely
Kill qnack. Besides being very prof
liable as a crop, hemp will be worth
IT'S weight In gold il it eliminates the
quack Hemp apparently grows well
and II Mr.. Carson's experiment. pans
out we'll there will very likely be a
large acreage soWn next year, Mr.
oliver Mokklestad has also sown a
small patch on good clean land and
between the two enterprising farmers
one demonstration will be worth a
great deal to the surrounding coun-