Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-04

Carroll.
Jacob Luke, of Carroll county. has
sold The Messenger farm, which he
bought about SIX months ago. TO Harry
Fosdick. for $12l per acre. and Mr..
Luke has bought j. I. Claltant's farm
Of eighty acres for $40 per acre.
Ottumwa.
Ottumwa will be the mecca Of ali
the representative coiored club women
Of the state on May q, % and IS. when
the Iowa Federation OF Colored Won
ems Clubs holds its annual meeting in
this. The city which gave it birth
Abba.
Early Wednesday morning some de-
generates pried open window on the
stole about eighteen bottles OF beer
crash. and by the time he got to the
scene the thieves had made their es-
cape.
Fairfield.
The grand jury has indicted Belda
zovkov, the Russian laborer who as
saulced with criminal intent Miss An
ME Sappenfeld. a, Bernhart recently.
He VIII be tried during the next few
days and as he pleaded guilty, viii be
given not less than twenty years. TT
minimum penalty for the crime.
North English.
II is almost impossible TO rent a
house of any kind in North English
at present. There is no doubt that
quite a number of houses would be
erected this summer if lots could be
secured. North English needs a big
addition opened up in a desirable place
and lots put on sale at reasonab BILE
prices.
Des Moines.
Miss Grace Curtis, for the past five
years teacher in the kindergarten de-
partment of the Oak Park school. will
I spend the next fourteen months as a
enre. Wyo. Miss Curtis was compelled
/ 10 give up her work because of ILL
I health and takes up the claim for the
benefit Of the outdoor life.
/ Madrid.
During the recent hailstorm a stone
was picked up near the G.. E. Huttor
hardware and carried into the store
which measured a fraction less thar
seven inches n circumference aa6
weighed an even fourth of a pound
The storm lasted but minute or two
but the stones were among the larges,
that has fallen in the community fol
years.
Charlton.
While hunting wolves Lewis Bon.
nett, the 15-year-oid son of Mrs. Johr
V. Bonnet, nearly lost his right hand
thru the accidental discharge of hi!
shotgun. In climbing over a fence HI
first set his gun over, then in getting
over himself he placed his hand owe,
the muzzle of the gun. 1t went off, III,
shot mangling the hand SO that 1T wa!
necessary to amputate the first twt
fingers. 1t was first thought that h,
would lose his hand entirely.
Sidney.
Several citizens living in the north
west part of town were very mucl
amused recently to observe one o
their neighbors marking off his potat.
ground with a plow drawn by his COW
This valuable member of the bovin4
species supplies the Mr.. famil,
with milk. On this morning in par
ticular, after having quietly submitted
10 this operation, she was hitched t.
the pillow. and, while the son led tn
animal, the father guided the imple
ment.
Upton.
A big deal in Upton realty was eff
fected when Kingsbury & Hamiel sol
their feed yard to c. S. aTcCiung an
Arthur Tracht, and L j. HamieI bough
from AIcClung the latter's bushes
block known as the Filson building
The feed yard went into the deal a
s7,7t10 and the Ellison building at s9,s0f
1t is understood that AIR. Tracht wi
return here from Cedar Rapids. wher
he Is now living, and take charge {
that property, when the present leas
expires, which is Jan. /, 1910.
Monticello.
4 stray bullet crashed thru the traI
SOM of the window of the sleepin
, room of Mr.. and Mrs Walter 4Allel
near the hour of o'clock one morn
ang recently. For a few minutes thing
tiwere exciting. Mr. Allen, who was
bed, naturally thought some perso
was sending him summons, altho h