Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-08

i commissioners. He was committed and
Sheriff Lille and Clerk Stephen left
for Cherokee with the prisoner next
morning. They experienced consider
able difficulty getting their companion
started on the journey, he having de-
cided that the court house was a good
enough place for him to remain. 1t
took the combined effort of three per-
sons to put Hanson into the bus, as
he had to be carried bodily out of the
building
Waverly = ~ @a5 81
There is a scarcity of teachers in
Bremen county and on account of
which five country schools are closed.
The salary paid ranges from $40 to
$40 per month. but the money con-
slderatlon is not attractive during
these times of high cost of living.
there Is another reason for scarcity of
teachers in country schools and that is
these teachers are not in line for po-
sltionS i'll city schools, as was hereto
fore the custom. unless they are gradu-
ates from some college
Wesley.
The sale of the l. w. Lease farm just
outside of town, marks a record price
for land in this part of the county, the
price paid being 500 per acre and the
farm containing $50 acres. The inn
provements on this place are very or
binary, there being many farms in this
neighborhood with much better ones.
and besides the railroad cuts the farm
in two. Patsy Cruise, the purcha ser,
is an Illinois man who has looked over
the land bargains in many states and
then decided that Kossuth land at 500
per acre is a bargain.
Fl. Dodge.
The laymen's banquet given at the
First Methodist church Tuesday even
| ing was a fine success, and had its good
results. Fully 800 of the Fort Dodge
( churchmen enjoyed the affair of the
evening. E. II. Williams, president of
the local organization of laymen, pre-
sided at the meeting and following the
banquet few songs led by Charles p
Chapler were sung and the business of
the evening was started. A committee
on resolution was appointed and j. p.
Irimble gave an address upon the
meaning of the organizations
Algona.
There was a jolly birthday party
gathering at the Leroy Barton home
in honor Of the anniversary of Charles
cartons birth. Besides a number of
the younger friends of Mr. Barton
there We're present at the supper seven
guests whose combined ages reached
around $50 years. Charles Barton is 81
w. H. Campbell, 81: Hiram Matson. 81:
Capt. Dodge, 81; Mr.. Smawley, SO: A.
NJ. johnson. 80; and Mr.. Naudain, the
boy of the crowd, "A. OF these elderly
gentlemen four are veterans of the civil
war. Mr.. Campbell having also seen
service in the Mexican war, as we'll as
engineer in the later struggle NJ
Naudain. a. M. Johnson and Capt.
Dodge We're also participants in the
war of the rebellion.
EsthervilIs.
Mrs. Amelia Ahrens, mother of Mrs
Charles Rosenberger, residing with the
Rosenberger family in Ellsworth town
ship, met peculiar death the other
morning and the Rosenberger fam
fly are at "a loss to know just how
it occurred. She was found lying on
her back in about two feet OF water
in slough little overy eighty rods
from the house. No one in the house
heard her get up in the night and it
was not known until next morn
ing that she was missing. This
was when her husband. Paul Ahrens,
came down to breakfast and Mrs
Rosenberger inquired for her mother.
A search was at once instituted and
about two hours afterwards her body
was found as stated above. She had
been sick and respondent at her home
near Goose Lake. iowa, and two
months ago Mrs. Rosenberger went
there and brought her home with her
also Mr. lAhrens accompanied them
here. She was 60 years old