Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-22

Orange City.
A. Van Rocket has sold his 160-acre
farm to r. Lubbers for $29,40o or
s1s3.7O an acre.
DyersviiIe.
Miss Theresa Westemeyer principal
of the high school. has resigned her
position. No successor has been ap-
pointed to take her place.
Anamosa.
The number Of inmates at the state
reformatory is the largest that 1t has
been during the last ten years. The
Reformatory Press shows that the
number behind the walls of the insti-
tuition is os7
Corwith.
John Sloan has purchased the Al
Gaskill eighty at $3.50 per acre. This
gives the tS!oans q half section ira IT
with fine set of buildings on each
quarter. The purchaser of this Is a
local man, good farmer and one who
knows the value Of the land he is
purchasing.
Dubuque.
A big deal in Dubuque county real
estate was contaminated whereby
Peter ,Mergen and wife transferred to
Hugh MCGUIRE a fine tract Of land
consisting of ninety-three acres. the
consideration being $12,S25. Mr. Nc
CURE Is one of Dubuque county's en-
terprising and prosperous farmers and
with this latest purchase now pos
sesses one of the largest and finest
farms in this vicinity, comprising as 1t
does more than 600 acres Of choice
land.
annoaea
Free mail delivery was established
in Anamosa Feb. I, 1906 A. A. Bagley
and F.. b. Harrison were appointed
carriers. Mr. Harrison was transferred
to Chicago last year, leaving Mr.. Bag
ley the only one who has Travelled the
route for the whole five years. Mr..
Bagley estimates that in this time he
has travelled fifteen miles a day, 300
days in every year, making about 3d.
600 miles, which If travelled IN q
straight line would have taken him
more than three-f ourths of the dis
lance around the earth.
Ida Grove.
w. c. Forney, the principal bonds
man in the case of the appeal from the
action of the board Of supervisors in
placing on file and accepting the new
saloon petition as having sufficient
names to legalize it, withdrew his
name from the petition and Alex
Hartley and Milton Anspach, the two
sureties on the bond, also withdrew
their names. This places the contest
out Of the running for this term OF
court, and will no doubt end the mat
ter az far as the new petition Is con-
cerned
DEBORAH.
Veterinary Surgeon Barney Haroon
which developed short time ago in
Canoe township. All precautionary
measures have been employed. So far
four head Of cattle. one sheep
and twenty hogs succumbed to this
disease. These have been carted away
and burned and every dog in the
neighborhood has been killed. It was
q half-breed Siberian hound that was
brought here from st. Paul to be used
In hunting which caused all the
trouble. All the hogs that have died
were brood eows.
Dubuque.
The dead body Of Frank Chase, who
lived alone in shanty on the Mill
Vile road about four miles north OF
dubuque, was 1Oulb0 AyIh8 AL lAAo AOesN
a short distance from his home late
Friday afternoon by William OFT. Pau
Jecklen and Peter Majerus. farmers
living in that vicinity. Chase. who wal
about IS years old ana a bachelor, hat
lived alone in his shanty for the pas
seven years. On Friday afternoon III
had apparently set out from his shantI
to secure some groceries from thu
Yackier. fAryn and was stricken with al
attack OF heart failure.
\ Waterloo.
Thomas n. Greolis. who. as a DO!
helped to mould bullets In the Water
Vile arsenal at Troy, N. r. for thu
use Of the American soldiers in thu
Mexican war, 10 dead here. He or
i gsnisod the vviun;osr ire ,ieIs.s
at Vinton. to which place he removed
his family from New York in 1855, and
was chief of the daportment for years
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