Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-25
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Storm Lake.
Judge Coyle has ordered the mayor
of Storm Lake to sign the contracts
for a $4,000 sewer in the city.
Spirit Lake.
Four hundred thousand wall-eyed
pike were put in Spirit Lake, and the
same number in Lake Okoboji recently.
The fish came from the United States
hatchery at Manchester.
Alta.
| The Alta Advertiser has been sold to
r. P. Willis, of, Ireton, who will take
possession Of the property next Mon
day morning. The retiring publisher,
c. A. Van Bushkirk, has owned the pa
per since Dec. of last year.
Sioux City.
J. w. Bennett and o. L. Larson. en-
gineers for the Northwestern railroad.
were robbed by masked men on Ne
braska street. Sunday night about 10
o'clock. The robbers got gold watch
and 65 cents from Larson and $685.
from Bennett.
Sioux City.
| A committee from the leading stock
holders of the Sioux City & Spirit Lake
| interurban railroad will begin immed.
lately the work of soliciting subscrip-
tons in Sioux City and elsewhere along
the route so that the preliminaries Incl
dent to building the road can be dis
posed of and the heavy financial deal
can be closed.
Dubuque.
l.. r. Crane, the man who stole a
quantity of goods from several local
stores last week, was arraigned before
Judge Glab Saturday. There were three
counts against him-one by the Palais
Royal. one by Doarmann, the tailor. and
one by James Levi. He waived prelimi-
nary examination, was placed under
| 81 900 bonds and in the absence of the
amount was sentenced to Jail. He made
no statement.
Charles City.
Hub Smith was the victim of a seri-
Gus accident at the Hart-Parr factory
recently when he was struck with lot
of hot tar in the face. The accident
came near resulting in the loss of his
eyes and as it was his, face will likely
| be a long time in getting back to a
normal condition. What seems queer
about the affair is just. a year ago he
was the victim of an accident almost
exactly similar.
| Onawa.
A fire Inf an upper room in the Reide-
man restaurant Monday afternoon will
probably result in the death of a col
ored woman She is member of a
negro troupe that gave a tent exhibit
ton here under the name of the Nash
vile Students. She was sick and en-
gagged a bed there and a small oil
stove which heated the room exploded
consuming the bedding and inflictins
terrible burns all over the body Of the
woman.
Sioux City.
Business men of Sioux City will re-
ceive an excellent training in the art
of raising money for public purposes
thru the campaign for 100000, which
will be started June 20 by the Y. NJ
c. A. c. S. Ward. of New York. who
has conducted campaigns during the
last five years in which total of SIP
600 900 was raised, will be here several
days before the campaign and instruct
the committees in the work to be done
in the ten day canvass.
Es.herville.
That improvements are being added
to Estherville is evidenced by the
DllluiiiS tildt IL III pio5IeSS mere. a
$4,000 Christian church is under con-
struction. Work was commenced this
week on the new government post
office building, which will cost $50 900,
and q number of residences are under
construction, aggregating about SEQ
900. The Commercial Club has for its
slogan, Watch Estherville Grow"
which is very appropriate just now
Cear Lake.
Clear Lake business men are spend
ing more money this year than ever be-
fore, and over $4,000 has been raised
or will be for concerns that include
music. religion, pleasure and business.