Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-08

OtumWa.
Among the arrivals of new patients
at the hospital here Wednesday, was
an Indian, Frank Shane of the Green's
Nebraska Indians. Mr. Shane was TAX
en- i'll at Abba and brought to Ottum-
wa on Burlington No. 10 for medical
treatment.
Belle PLANE.
The Iowa river is doing a stunt all
its own in this section. For years it
has been flowing thru Benton county
but by degrees it has changed its
course and now flows thru Iowa county.
leaving the other locality high ana
dry with a big steel bridge as a mem
orv of days gone by.
Wapelo.
The German NJ. E. Sunday school
celebrated their fifty-fourth anniver-
sary Sunday morning. An appropriate
program was rendered. one of the
numbers being a speech by Ernest
Winter, who was the first superintend-
ent Of the Sunday school and who is
the only one of the officers elected at
the organization of the school. that is
still one of its members.
keokuk
AS the result of an accident which
happened over twenty-seven years
ago, George j. Neyens, a well known
citizen, died at the hospital at Mt.
Pleasant The accident which was the
result of his death happened on Nov.
Is. 1881, during the building of ST.
Peters church on the corner of Ninth
and Bank streets. when a brick fell
from the top of the well as it was be-
/ ing erected and struck Mr.. Neyens
upon the head.
| Maysville.
Maysville will be an incorporated
town in the near future If the plans
of some of the citizens do not fail. 4
petition is in circulation at the pres
ent time among<the residents of the
village and it is expected that the
necessary twenty-fv FIVE signatures will
be secured within short time AS
soon as the names are secured the re-
tition will be fled with the distric;
court and the election called. This
makes the sixth town that has filed
papers of incorporation since the frsl
of the year.
Mt. Pleasant.
Formal announcement will soon be
made of the organization of the Mt
Pleasant Gravity Lock Company, with
capital stock of $4,000. The stock
has all been sold, but the company has
not been organized as yet, but will BIZ
; soon. when directors will be selected
and officers chosen. The company will
, as soon as organized, rent factory
.. rooms temporarily, and at once pro
coed to manufacture a new and pat
ented door lock and latch which, fo
several years, has been under TIL
scrutiny of architects and contractors
. and declared by them to be good.
9 Iowa City.
i Twenty-six thousand five hundre
4 dollars is the amount asked by al
i eastern firm of bidders for the con
;. tract of putting in a sanitary and eff
: Gent water filter system at the low
d City water conpany's plant. Super
= intendent Jay Chatham received tina
bid not long ago. This is for tn
gravity filter 1t will be seen that n
d small amount is involved in the trans
+ action This does not include all tn
= incidentals such as foundation flo
IS the reception of the filter apparatus
" a house or the machinery or buildin
1t in which to house the whole.
q, Burlington.
ID Rev. Mr.. Naboth Osborne, pastor {
II the Congregational church, is plannir
lie to make a tour OF. the world, accom-
n panied by Mrs. Osborne. They expo
is to leave in August, taking a steam
y at San Francisco for Honolulu. IL
50 rea. China and the Philippines wi
n, be visited. India will be included
r the journey, and then Egypt and t!
m Nile. The Holy Land will be covere