Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-01
Northern Io1ua Items

I loosened suddenly alIda the pent up
steam fairlyG exploded in his face. filling
his eyes with hot icDffees grounds and
burning hinKa bout the face quite badly.
When MIR. Putbaugh who is helping
him. came to the wagon he found Mr..
Chesley in considerable misery. He
went at once to Il phone and sum
moned a physician and DR. Willcutt
responded. One eye is severely burned
and may cause him some trouble
Webster City.
The large number Of telegra phi poles
that We're shipped into Webster City
last summer and piled up in an inn
mense pne near the Crooked creek
bridge depot. giving rise to the thought
on the part of the public that they
were to be used in connection with the
.electritication Of the Crooked Creek
road. have finally disappeared as mys-
teriously as they came. Why the poles
We're left in Webster City for so long,
still renla ins q mystery
Manson.
On Friday. April !. the Farmers
Savings bank took over the bank of
.Manson's business and that of the
Griswold Land and Credit Company
and the new institution will be known
as the Farmers Savings bank The
capital stock is $4,000 bank and $50
600 land company, making the total
capital 100000. The officers Of the
new bank are M W. 1rit@. president:
Mrs. NJ. f.. Griswold, vice president; b.
Il. Sebern. cashier.
Sioux City.
John S. Goodwin. of Chicago. was in
Stony NJ .;,r,
local bondholders of the Riverside Park
Improvement Company in regard to
eXperdng large sum of money to
protect from the Missouri river the
park. Mr. Goodwin represents eastern
bond owners, who have commenced to
realize the seriousness of the present
conditions. A large force of men have
started to work in an effort to temper
arily stem the tide of the greedy river.
Bocne.S
| A couple of curious old records have
been brought to light from the obscure
corners of County Treasurer Eender-
sons office. One is a tax list and the
| other is all old map of the county The
tax list bears the date 1853, on it's first
pages and a note bearing the informa-
ton that County Judge Samuel Mccall
ed within. The entire county con-
tanned 314 tax payers and the county
itself was divided into five townships.
Waterloo.
Arrangements are being completed
for the laying of the corner stone of
the new Presbyterian church, corner of
Ninth and Main streets. The principal
speaker for the event will be DIR.
George E. Mclean. president of the
state university at Iowa City, and
Tuesday, April viii be the day and
date. A large crowd is expected to at
tend the interesting exercises and
should the weather be unfavorable for
holding the services out of doors they
will be held at the Presbyterian church.
Rockwell.
Since the burning of the Iowa Cen
trail depot here. Ticket Agent Joe Ran
kin, has been having his office in the
Farmers building, and it is there that
all tickets are being sold His brother,
Sam Rankin, who has been living in
California for the past few months, is
now en- route home. being summoned
at the time the depot burned. Rail-
road inspectors have been here look
ing after the business interests con-
nected with the building of new depot
and they say 1t will not be long before
Ia large. new station will be started.
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