Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-06
Northern Io1ua Items

the Philippines. They have had sew
eral preliminary meetings and a strong
organization is assured as soon as they
receive authority to proceed with the
organization and instructions as to how
to proceed.
Nora Springs.
Nora Springs is In the throes of a
milk famine. The. regular dairyman,
Joe Hefner, who has almost the entire
milk trade of the city, has stopped
delivering the Tactical fluid The mayor,
L. o. Rue, has ordered that all cows be
given the tuberculine test. and as Mr..
Hefners dairy herd had been tested a
| comparatively short time ago, he re-
! fused to again undergo the expense of
| the test.
Greene.
o. L. Crandan, of Greene, who has
Springs day or SO last week to visit
who, If she lives until next Jan. 2,
1910, will have lived 100 years Her
husband died in 1873, tiirty-six years
ago. and at that time Mrs. Crandalrs
health was so poor that the physicians
thought she could no survive him long.
Her health at that time soon improved
and her life has been spared.
Mapleton.
| Last Thursday afternoon W. H Kraf!
sold forty acres of Maple bottom LAND
belonging to w. n. Ertle to j. E. PUT
nam, living near Smithland. for $4,000
or $3.50 per acre. This is by consider
able the highest price ever paid for g
| tract of land of this size in this sec.
tion of the country, burt is admitted by
all who are familiar with the place te
be well worth the money. 1t is a splen-
did piece Of land and the building:
are f1rst-class.
Marion.
| A delegation of farmers living abou
Kelsey's Bend We're in 'Manion consult
ing with the county board of super
vtsors in regard to a bridge across tn,
Cedar at that place. A bridge can no
he placed there without the vote of th,
people of the county for the bridg,
would cost upwards Of 345 900. and tn
limit Of expenditures which the boar,
could make is $4,000. There is also
great demand for a bridge at Bertran
across the river and it is probable tina
4 whenever a vote is taken on will ais
be taken on the other proposition.
Cedar Falls.
Rev. H. O. Lorenz and family will
leave the last of the week for tn,
Joe Wild cottage up the Cedar wher,
!, they will spend several weeks leading
The simple life. During their absenc,
there will be no preaching services a
the church. While the church is closes
1.-The new pipe organ recently given 4h,
church by Andrew Carnegie will b.
Installed and 1t is expected that th,
Inew instrument will be dedicated earl.
in September. The organ will b.
ishipped from Fekin, ILL.,, some tim,
within the next few days and work
men will come next week to install 1t
GAINESVILLE.
| Charles Webster fell from a bari
on the Henry Briden place near James
willie and is so badly hurt that 1t L
Ikeared he may not recover He Is ,
carpenter and was putting on new
shingle root upon the barn OF his faith
er.in-faw. The scaffolding gave wa,
ana he fell to, the ground in such
Imaner as to strike upon the back o
his head. doubling his neck and rem
|dering him unconscious and PARTIAL
lparalyzed. He was at once placed un
der the care Of physician and hi
family and friends are fearful lest in
ljurieS b3Me been sustained that ma
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