Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-02

Fonda.
The northwestern Iowa high school
athletic meet will be held at Fonda
this year on May 10.
harrisburg.
Blairsburg is experiencing a BUSH
ness boom. Among the new improve
ments is a large implement house, a
branch of the Pringle implement Com
pany, of Webster City.
Webster City.
The assessable value of all the prop
erty of Hamilton county is s26,S2S. 46S.
according to the report of County Audi
tor J. A. Peterson. just filed. The
actual value is estimated at $50 100000.
Cedar Falls.
II. G. Vinall has purchased the Will
liam Carter farm of $50 acres two miles
south Of Cedar Falls for $135 per acre.
This farm is best known to the older
residents of this city as the Frank Cot
ton farm.
Rockwell City.
An epidemic of humps is raging in
among whom are many of the leading
business men. The Tenant store
building on the north side of the square
pital for the accommodation of the af-
have no home here.
Mason City.
At the tests that have been made,
here it was discovered that corn is
damaged considerably for seed pur-
poses. many of the best corn testing
as low as so per cent The best tested
,,,1., .;0-t,- tod
For that reason some of the corn ex-
hibited at the short course did not sell
as we'll as it usually does of this class.
Little Sioux.
A letter from John Adoph Murray
to the folks at home contains the news
that his attorneys have advised him OF
the issuance of his patent on copy
holder for any make of typewriter. The
holder is so arranged that it will sup
port quite !, heavy book in plain view
of the operator just above the carriage
of the machine. The contrivance can
be put on the market for about 81.
Fort Dodge.
Sunday afternoon one train of nearly
100 empty cars was sent east from
Fort Dodge, being hauled by two. en-
gines as far as Gypsum by
the local switch engine. Empty coal
cars are also being sent east on every
freight train, evidencing the fact that
a large amount of coal has been dis
trihuted along the lines of the Illinois
Central during the past month
Boone.
Word has been received from Cedar
RAPIDS of an honor conferred upon a
Boone girl, Miss Elizabeth Holmes, the
daughter of Alr. and Mrs. T. B. Holmes.
Miss Holmes has just been elected
critic of the Carleton Literary Society
of Coe College, an honor which came
to the Boone girl thru her literary abil-
ity. Her friends here are glad to learn
of her steadied advancement along this
line.
Waterloo.
A petition bearing the signatures of
nearly all the old soldiers in Black
Hawk county has been presented the
board of supervisors asking that they
submit to the voters of Black Hawk
county at the coming election in No
vember a proposition to levy a 1 mill
tax for period of years the proceeds
to be used in the erection OF a memoir
ial hall as a place where the old SOL
diers might congregate and spend their
declining years.
Stanley.
Secretary Sumner of the state board
of health sent vigorous letter to the
clerk OF the board of health OF Stanley.
"Unless you at once take action I shall
deem 1t my duty to call the state board
together and deal with you according
TO the laws or iowa, ne says. Tne ac-
ton was taken as result OF COMPLAINS