Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-03
Southern Io1un Items

set his wits to work to raise them. He
built a trough with four openings in
which We're placed bottles provided
with rubber nipples The bottles were
filled with milk and the piglets sool
became wise to the artificial source OF
supplies and are maintaining very
thrifty existence. They lay to the
trough industriously and probably only
miss the warmth OF the mother hog.
williamsburg.
Preparatory to the building of new
modern residence for Henry Rusbult
workmen commenced to tear down one
of the Oldest buildings in town. II
was built by Homer Paige in 1855 from
lumber except shingles, obtained from
oak trees along Old Mans creek. and
sawed at an old-fashioned saw mill
run by water power from said creek
and owned by Roland and Williams
two Of the earliest settlers of the
town. The shingles were hauled from
Muscatine with an OK team.
Fairfield
hospital Of Jefferson county to be built
at Fairfield has been let to Cohen &
Conway. OF Davenport, for S19,9I0
Griffith & Pierson. of Fairfield get
the heating and plumbing contract for
$3.50 and other Fairfield firms minor
contracts. The building will be 42N9a
feet. two stories and basement and Will
have twenty five beds, the accredited
number for a hospital. There will ne
two public wards. and thirteen private
rooms The building will be of pressed
brick with Bedford stone trimmings
lndianola.
Despite Unprecedented dry weather
the fall wheat crop in the vicinity of
Indianoa is up to normal or better. On
northeast of town. the threshing
Thursday yielded 1900 bushels of fall
wheat from twenty-five measured
acres of ground, or an average OF lit
tie more than fifty four and one ha If
bushels per acre. This is one of the
best yields reported here in late years
The quality is first-class. the wheat
weighing sixtyflve pounds to the
measured bushel.
Cedar Rapids.
The wonder Of wonders of the 1911
crops in the vicinity of Cedar Rapids
is the report of yield of timothy seed
on a farm northeast Of the city. On
harvested and threshed out 100 bushels
Of timothy seed. The good average OF
timothy seed to the acre is five and six
bushels. and usually only four bushels
make the yield to the acre. a yield of
100 bushels from eight acres makes
exactly twelve and one-half bushels to
the acre which is more than double
the average yield. At tho present time,
&c of
pounds. and the price very likely will
not drop. There is no doubt that the
owner of the farm northeast of Cedar
Rapids will receive about $500 for the
timothy seed raised on eight acres OF
ground.
Nj. Pleasant.
In 1909 Thomas G. Rock died, leav-
ling behind him a large estate worth
over 500, 900, and twelve heirs in addi-
ton to the widow. Two Of the heirs
had been missing for several years and
the estate Of one OF them-Ralph Rock,
is now being administered. Shortly be-
fore noon one morning few days ago
a stranger walked into the clerks Of
flee and astonished Ed DeGarmoe by
claiming to be the other missing heir
Thomas Lincoln Rock. and asking for
his share Of the Rock estate amount
ing to several thousand dollars. The
claimant says that he has been In the
vicinity OF Omaha since last heard Of,
eight years ago, and was accompanied
to the clerks Office by his sister. Mrs.
Eva May Field. OF course several for
malities will have to be gone thru.
There seems but little doubt that the
man is what he claims 60 be.