Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-12-20

Lake City.
A deal has been made whereby B. E.
iStonebreaker becomes sole proprietor
of the east side furniture store. trad
ing farm of $50 acres near Soners to
Ellis Harding for his interest in the
business.
Rockwell City.
The residence of David Engleman, in
the northeast part of town. caught fire
in some unaccountable manner and
was destroyed with all the contents ex-
cept a few articles of furniture. The
family was absent from home at the
time. There was 5000 insurance on
the furniture.
Audubon.
L. NJ. Estes and wife We're in town
yesterday bringing some relatives ,r
their way home. They also brought
two crates of those fine White <, YAH
dotte chickens raised b. Mrs. :. ties
which she was shipping 10 a gsntle-
man at Cartilage III. to ,.llc.n she >ha
sold al her stock. except few dozen.
for the sum CT $40
clar:cn.
Judge c. E. AlbroolS. of -ldora, pre-
s:tin- at the district court i.e-c. SEN
te7ced Rex S.ayie an. = 43eIi ve~aar
to FIVE years at hard Labor in the pen
itr.tiary for bcealirr an. entering the
store of II. G. Tillingquist, where they
secured an eyerccat. some gum and
tobacco and etc IN the asnel goods.
E1S tool = Cess remaining in the
casl register.
Garner.
Five indictments We're returned by
the srand jury against Gus Grimes OF
Britt, two for burglary and three for
breaking and entering Grimes was
present in court ut the time and en-
tered rica of guilty to one Indictment
for burglary, after which the remaining
indictments We're dismissed by the
county attorney. Judge Clark imme-
diatelE SENTENCED Grimes, under the in
determnate sentence law. to not more
than twenty years in the peniten;iary
at Fort Madison
Fenton.
j. ID Zeigler who refused 800 an
marked the othe,f day that his land
was paying fair income on that price.
He husked enough of his corn to make
a correct estimate Of its yield. and that
he knows it will exceed seventy bushels
an acre. His tllrty-five acres of corn
is on clover sod and was MANFRED be-
sides. and hence the yield. Estimating
corn at 50 cents a bushel, which 1t will
bring his corn land This year will pay
him S57.991, ,,Il acre
Forest City.
A. n. Branstad met with a very pain
full accident recently. While lighting
a gasoline lamp in the meat mar
ket the gasoline had run down into the
lamp where the flame still burned. Mr.
Branstad thinking the same was extin-
quished reached up to empty the tube
into which it had run. dumping the en-
tire contents over his shoulders and
around his neck. There was still a
small flame there unseen which quickly
spread over Mr.. Branstads shoulders.
burning his neck quite badly. He made
q dive for q fur coat and smotllered
badly burned.
jefferson.
Most all the Jefferson boys who go
forth into the world make good One
Of them: Jerry Harrison, has made bad
in several different branches of Grim
inology. Jerry's latest escapade was the
attempted killing of a policeman in
Minneapolis, for which he was sem
fenced to ten years in the states prison
at Saltwater. He and another crook
were trying to rolf man. meaning
In the criminal language to hold him up
for his roll The police got to the
scene, Jerry fired twice at the officer
missed him, and was caught The
weakest thing about Jerry's criminal